When in doubt tell the truth. It will confound your enemies and astound your friends.

If you don't read the newspaper, you're uninformed. If you read the newspaper, you're mis-informed.

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.

We had the sky up there, all speckled with stars, and we used to lay on our backs and look up at them, and discuss about whether they was made, or only just happened - Jim he allowed they was made, but I allowed they happened; I judged it would have took too long to make so many. Jim said the moon could a laid them; well that looked kind of reasonable, so I didn't say nothing against it, because I've seen a frog lay most as many, so of course It could be done.

I am able to say that while I am not ruggedly well, I am not ill enough to excite an undertaker.

I do not wish any reward but to know I have done the right thing.

She was not quite what you would call refined. She was not quite what you would call unrefined. She was the kind of person that keeps a parrot.