You need not expect to get your book right the first time. Go to work and revamp or rewrite it. God only exhibits his thunder and lightning at intervals, and so they always command attention. These are God's adjectives. You thunder and lightning too much; the reader ceases to get under the bed, by and by.

Why waste your money looking up your family tree? Just go into politics and your opponent will do it for you.

Never knew before what eternity was made for. It is to give some of us a chance to learn German.

It is at our mother's knee that we acquire our noblest and truest and highest ideals.

Honesty is the best policy - when there is money in it.

I have a religion-but you will call it blasphemy. It is that there is a God for the rich man but none for the poor.....Perhaps your religion will sustain you,will feed you-I place no dependence in mine. Our religions are alike, though, in one respect-neither can make a man happy when he is out of luck.

That cat will write her autograph all over your leg if you let her.