One gains at least two to three times more experience grabbing the tiger by the tail than reading about it in a book.

Whiskey is for drinking; water is for fighting over.

Modesty died when clothes were born.

After my marriage she edited everything I wrote. And what is more, she not only edited my works, she edited me.

It is human to exaggerate the merits of the dead.

Don't wrestle with pigs. You both get dirty and the pig likes it.

There is no security in life, only opportunity.