Good decisions come from experience. Experience comes from making bad decisions.

True irreverence is disrespect for another man's god.

An occultation of Venus is not half so difficult as an eclipse of the sun, but because it comes seldom the world thinks it's a grand thing.

Behind every successful man, there is a woman - And behind every unsuccessful man, there are two.

Time and tide wait for no man. A pompous and self-satisfied proverb, and was true for a billion years; but in our day of electric wires and water-ballast we turn it around: Man waits not for time nor tide.

It is the will of God that we must have critics and missionaries and congressmen and humorists, and we must bear the burden

Only laughter can blow [a colossal humbug] to rags and atoms at a blast. Against the assault of laughter nothing can stand.