If your only tool is a hammer, everything starts to look like a nail.

The trouble ain't that there is too many fools, but that the lightning ain't distributed right.

An honest politician is an oxymoron.

Anger is an acid that can do more harm to the vessel in which it is stored than to anything on which it is poured.

I asked Tom if countries always apologized when they had done wrong, and he says - "Yes; the little ones does".

An inglorious peace is better than a dishonorable war.

I have never taken any exercise, except sleeping and resting, and I never intend to take any. Exercise is loathsome. And it cannot be any benefit when you are tired; and I was always tired.