When you got to the table you couldn't go right to eating, but you had to wait for the widow to tuck down her head and grumble a little over the victuals, though there warn't really anything the matter with them. That is, nothing only everything was cooked by itself. In a barrel of odds and ends it is different; things get mixed up, and the juice kind of swaps around, and the things go better.

Laws control the lesser man... Right conduct controls the greater one.

Golden rule: Made of hard metal so it could stand severe wear, it not being known at that time that butter would answer.

Every one knew he could foretell wars and famines, though that was not so hard, for there was always a war, and generally a famine somewhere.

Never run after you own hat - others will be delighted to do it; why spoil their fun?

great people are those who make others feel that they, too, can become great.

Give an Irishman lager for a month and he's a dead man. An Irishman's stomach is lined with copper, and the beer corrodes it. But whiskey polishes the copper and is the saving of him.