Hope is a pleasant acquaintance, but an unsafe friend, not the man for your banker, though he may do for a traveling companion.

Women will sometimes confess their sins, but I never knew one to confess her faults.

No one is rich whose expenditures exceed his means, and no one is poor whose incomings exceed his outgoings.

Fact is stranger than fiction.

Mules and human jackasses are proverbially stubborn.

There is nothing like fun, is there? I haven't any myself, but I do like it in others.

A brave man is sometimes a desperado: a bully is always a coward.