The only certainties in life are death and taxes.

If the desire to kill and the opportunity to kill came always together, who would escape hanging?

Every man has a secret ambition: To outsmart horses, fish and women.

A dollar picked up in the road is more satisfaction to you than the ninety-and -nine which you had to work for, and money won at faro or in stock snuggles into your heart in the same way.

There isn't anything you can't stand if you are only born and bred to it.

There are many humorous things in the world; among them, the white man's notion that he is less savage than the other savages.

We called him Barney for short. We couldn't use his real name, there wasn't time.