Between believing a thing and thinking you KNOW is only a small step and quickly taken.

Experience teaches us only one thing at a time - and hardly that, in my case.

He wa'n't no common dog, he wa'n't no mongrel; he was a composite. A composite dog is a dog that is made up of all the valuable qualities that's in the dog breed-kind of a syndicate; and a mongrel is made up of all riffraff that's left over.

If Christ were here now there is one thing he would not be — a Christian.

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

Humor, to be comprehensible to anybody, must be built upon a foundation with which he is familiar. If he can't see the foundation the superstructure is to him merely a freak -- like the Flatiron building without any visible means of support -- something that ought to be arrested.

One is apt to overestimate beauty when it is rare