In the first place, God made idiots. That was for practice. Then he made school boards.

The old Irish when immersing a babe at baptism left out the right arm so that it would remain pagan for good fighting

Great things can happen when you don't care who gets the credit.

Written things are not for speech; their form is literary; they are stiff, inflexible, and will not lend themselves to happy and effective delivery with the tongue-where their purpose is to merely entertain, not instruct; they have to be limbered up, broken up, colloquialized and turned into common forms of premeditated talk-otherwise they will bore the house and not entertain it.

The smallest minds and the selfishest souls and the cowardliest hearts that God makes.

It ain't what you don't know that gets you into trouble. It's what you know for sure that just ain't so.

Few things are harder to put up with than the annoyance of a good example.