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I will say this for adversity: people seem to be able to stand it, and that is more than I can say for prosperity.
No woman can be handsome by the force of features alone, any more that she can be witty by only the help of speech.
Don't knock the weather; nine-tenths of the people couldn't start a conversation if it didn't change once in a while.
If the government was as afraid of disturbing the consumer as it is of disturbing business, this would be some democracy.
Hon Editor Cale Fluhart was a power politically fer years, but he never got prominent enough t' have his speeches garbled.
It used to be that a fellow went on the police force when everything else failed, but today he goes in the advertising game.
One of the simple but genuine pleasures in life is getting up in the morning and hurrying to a mousetrap you set the night before.
Don't say yes until I've finished talking. - Attributed to many Hollywood executives Lots of folks confuse bad management with destiny.
Gittin' talked about is one o' th' penalties for bein' purty, while bein' above suspicion is about th' only compensation fer bein' homely.
Getting talked about is one of the penalties for being pretty, while being above suspicion is about the only compensation for being homely.
There is no failure except in no longer trying. There is no defeat except from within, no really insurmountable barrier save our own inherent weakness of purpose.
All I kin git out o' the Wickersham position on prohibition is that the distinguished jurist seems to feel that if we'd let 'em have it the problem o' keepin' 'em from gitten;' it would be greatly simplified
I'm sorry to inform you that your 50 year warranty has expired on your back, knees, and memory. Luckily your lifetime warranty on your heart is still in effect. Of course, that becomes void and expires when you do.
As to those who hoard gold and silver and spend it not in God's path, give them, then, the tidings of a painful agony: on a day when these things shall be heated in hell-fire, and their foreheads, and their sides, and their backs shall be branded therewith.