Whatever you say, say it with conviction

An adventure is something that while it's happening you wish it wasn't.

Sometimes I lifted a chicken that warn't roosting comfortable, and took him along. Pap always said, take a chicken when you get achance, because if you don't want him yourself you can easy find somebody that does, and a good deed ain't ever forgot. I never see papa when he didn't want the chicken himself, but that is what he used to say, anyway.

Half of the results of a good intentions are evil; half the results of an evil intention are good.

Noise proves nothing. Often a hen who has merely laid an egg cackles as if she laid an asteroid.

Education that consists in learning things and not the meaning of them is feeding upon the husks and not the corn

A man is accepted into a church for what he believes and he is turned out for what he knows.