A dog is the only thing on earth that loves you more than you love yourself.
Be like a postage stamp. Stick to one thing until you get there.
Silence is one of the hardest arguments to refute.
There are two things in life for which we are never truly prepared: twins.
Life consists not in holding good cards but in playing those you hold well.
There is no revenge so complete as forgiveness.
The best way to convince a fool that he is wrong is to let him have his own way.
Love looks through a telescope; envy, through a microscope.
Marrying for love may be a bit risky, but it is so honest that God can't help but smile on it.
There's a lot of people in this world who spend so much time watching their health that they haven't the time to enjoy it.
There are two kinds of fools: those who can't change their opinions and those who won't.
There are lots of people who mistake their imagination for their memory.
The trouble with people is not that they don't know but that they know so much that ain't so.
The wheel that squeaks the loudest is the one that gets the grease.
Flattery is like cologne water, to be smelt, not swallowed.
If you ever find happiness by hunting for it, you will find it, as the old woman did her lost spectacles, safe on her own nose all the time.
One of the greatest victories you can gain over someone is to beat him at politeness.
It is better to know nothing than to know what ain't so.
Learning sleeps and snores in libraries, but wisdom is everywhere, wide awake, on tiptoe.
Laughter is the sensation of feeling good all over and showing it principally in one place.
