Few things are harder to put up with than the annoyance of a good example.

Wrinkles should merely indicate where smiles have been.

Let us make a special effort to stop communicating with each other, so we can have some conversation.

It is often the case that a man who can't tell a lie thinks he is the best judge of one.

There are basically two types of people. People who accomplish things, and people who claim to have accomplished things. The first group is less crowded.

This is a Christian country. Why, so is hell. Inasmuch as Strait is the way and narrow is the gate, and few - few - are they that enter in thereat has had the natural effect of making hell the only really prominent Christian community in any of the worlds; but we don't brag of this and certainly it is not proper to brag and boast that America is a Christian country when we all know that certainly five-sixths of our population could not enter in at the narrow gate.

I have damaged my intellect trying to imagine why a man should want to invent a repeating clock, and how another man could be found to lust after it and buy it. The man who can guess these riddles is far on the way to guess why the human race was invented - which is another riddle which tires me.