There is one thing about Englishmen, they won't fix anything till it's just about totally ruined. You couldn't get the English to fix anything at the start. No! They like to sit and watch it grow worse. Then, when it just looks like the whole thing has gone up Salt Creek, why, the English jump in and rescue it.

When you're through learning, you're through.

The good old horse-and-buggy days: then you lived until you died and not until you were run over.

Our country has plenty of five-cent cigars, but the trouble is they charge fifteen cents for them.

I never expected to see the day when girls would get sunburned in the places they now do.

My father was one-eighth Cherokee indian and my mother was quarter-blood Cherokee. I never got far enough in arithmetic to figure out how much injun that made me, but there's nothing of which I am more proud than my Cherokee blood.

Too many people spend money they haven't earned to buy things they don't want to impress people they don't like.