Another good reducing exercise consists in placing both hands against the table edge and pushing back.

The secret of a happy marriage is simple: Just keep on being as polite to one another as you are to your friends.

Another difference between death and taxes is that you don't have to work like fury to pay for the dying you did last year.

God give me the wisdom to see the truth however contrary to my established beliefs.

The tragedy of ignorance is its complacency.

If there be anything that can be called genius, it consists chiefly in ability to give that attention to a subject which keeps it steadily in the mind, till we have surveyed it accurately on all sides.

As we grow older, our bodies get shorter and our anecdotes longer.