It takes a good many years and some pretty hard knocks to make people tolerant.

Used to move so much, every time the chickens saw the team put in the wagon, they'd lie down on their backs and hold their legs up to be tied!

my family, although it keeps its hair, turns gray early - a business asset but a social handicap.

Women are like dogs really. They love like dogs, a little insistently. And they like to fetch and carry and come back wistfully after hard words, and learn rather easily to carry a basket.

Every crucial experience can be regarded either as a setback, or the start of a wonderful new adventure, it depends on your perspective!

The world doesn't come to the clever folks, it comes to the stubborn, obstinate, one-idea-at-a-time people.

It's the safety valve of middle life, and the solace of age.