Old habits cannot be thrown out the upstairs window. They have to be coaxed downstairs one step at a time.

How easy it is to make people believe a lie, and [how] hard it is to undo that work again!

If the world ends, I'll just head on down to Kentucky because they're always 20 years behind.

If your only tool is a hammer, everything starts to look like a nail.

A classic is something that everybody wants to have read and nobody wants to read.

But that's always the way; it don't make no difference whether you do right or wrong, a person's conscience ain't got no sense, and just goes for him anyway. If I had a yaller dog that didn't know no more than a person's conscience does I would pison him. It takes up more room than all the rest of a person's insides, and yet ain't no good, nohow.

An honest politician is an oxymoron.