I smoke in moderation. Only one cigar at a time.

The exquisitely bad is as satisfying to the soul as the exquisitely good. Only the mediocre is unendurable.

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.

Truth is stranger than fiction-to some people, but I am measurably familiar with it.

If you don't know how to pronounce a word, say it loudly. Do not compound mispronunciation with inaudibility

Look at the mother of Washington! She raised a boy that could not tell a lie--could not tell a lie! But he never had any chance. It might have been different if he had belonged to the Washington Newspaper Correspondents' Club

I was born modest, but it didn't last.