Steal a chicken if you get a chance, Huck, because if you don't want it, someone else does and a good deed ain't never forgotten.

What, then, is the true Gospel of consistency? Change. Who is the really consistent man? The man who changes. Since change is the law of his being, he cannot be consistent if he stick in a rut.

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

God rewards gamblers and fools. The crucial thing, when you win, is knowing which you were.

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

Baseball is the very symbol, the outward and visible expression of the drive and push and rush and struggle of the raging, tearing, booming nineteenth century.

The worst thing you can do to a man is to tell him he can have what he wants.