Fishing is a delusion entirely surrounded by liars in old clothes.
Blood will tell, but often it tells too much.
Honesty is a good thing, but it is not profitable to its possessor unless it is kept under control.
Pity the meek, for they shall inherit the earth.
If you want to get rich from writing, write the sort of thing that's read by persons who move their lips when they're reading to themselves.
A sequel is an admission that you've been reduced to imitating yourself.
I have often noticed that ancestors never boast of the descendants who boast of ancestors. I would rather start a family than finish one. Blood will tell, but often it tells too much.
There is luxury in self-reproach. When we blame ourselves, we feel no one else has a right to blame us.
A demagogue is a person with whom we disagree as to which gang should mismanage the country.
The trouble with the public is that there is too much of it; what we need in public is less quantity and more quality.
Bores bore each other too; but it never seems to teach them anything.
Of middle age the best that can be said is that a middle-aged person has likely learned how to have a little fun in spite of his troubles.
In all systems of theology the devil figures as a male person. Yes, it is women who keep the church going.
Middle age is the time when a man is always thinking that in a week or two he will feel as good as ever.
There is nothing so habit-forming as money.
One of the most important things to remember about infant care is: don't change diapers in midstream.
Man cannot be uplifted; he must be seduced into virtue.
Did you ever notice that when a politician does get an idea he usually gets it all wrong.
It takes all sorts of people to make the underworld.
Poetry is what Milton saw when he went blind.
