You take the lies out of him, and he'll shrink to the size of your hat; you take the malice out of him, and he'll disappear.

To refuse awards is another way of accepting them with more noise than is normal.

That's just the way: a person does a low-down thing, and then he don't want to take no consequences of it. Thinks as long as he can hide it, it ain't no disgrace.

I was young and foolish then; now I am old and foolisher.

Often the surest way to convey misinformation is to tell the strict truth.

Always do what's right. That will gratify some and surprise the rest.

It's a good thing for a dog to have fleas; keeps his mind off being a dog.