That's just the way: a person does a low-down thing, and then he don't want to take no consequences of it. Thinks as long as he can hide it, it ain't no disgrace.

I take my only exercise acting as a pallbearer at the funerals of my friends who exercise regularly.

The best of us would rather be popular than right.

God rewards gamblers and fools. The crucial thing, when you win, is knowing which you were.

They say that you can't live by bread alone, but I can live on compliments.

Laws are sand, customs are rock. Laws can be evaded and punishment escaped, but an openly transgressed custom brings sure punishment.

I have seen slower people than I am and more deliberate... and even quieter, and more listless, and lazier people than I am. But they were dead.