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

Wilson stopped and stood silent. Inattention dies a quick and sure death when a speaker does that.

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.

If you pick up a starving dog and make him prosperous he will not bite you. This is the principal difference between a dog and man.

If there was two birds sitting on a fence, he would bet you which one would fly first.

As an example to others, and not that I care for moderation myself, it has always been my rule never to smoke when asleep, and never to refrain from smoking when awake.

And I urge upon you this - which I think is wisdom - if you find you can't make seventy by any but an uncomfortable road, don't you go.