Quotes of All Topics . Occasions . Authors
I don't give a damn for a man that can only spell a word one way.
Irreverence is the champion of liberty and its only sure defense.
Change is the handmaiden Nature requires to do her miracles with.
I've dealt with many crises in my life, but few will ever happen.
Pessimism is only the name that men of weak nerve give to wisdom.
If you're looking for friends when you need them...it's too late.
I do not wish any reward but to know I have done the right thing.
Writing is easy. All you have to do is cross out the wrong words.
There is no distinctly American criminal class - except Congress.
All of us contain Music & Truth, but most of us can't get it out.
Don't say the old lady screamed. Bring her on and let her scream.
It is better to be a young June-bug than an old bird of paradise.
Everything has its limit - iron ore cannot be educated into gold.
Senator: Person who makes laws in Washington when not doing time.
Prediction is difficult- particularly when it involves the future.
I cannot keep from talking, even at the risk of being instructive.
Optimist: Person who travels on nothing from nowhere to happiness.
In the South the war is what A.D. is elsewhere; they date from it.
If God had meant for us to be naked, we'd have been born that way.
Don't explain your author, read him right and he explains himself.
My father was an amazing man. The older I got, the smarter he got.
How charmed I am when I overhear a German word which I understand!
To succeed in life, you need two things: ignorance and confidence.
Education: the path from cocky ignorance to miserable uncertainty.
A wise man does not waste so good a commodity as lying for naught.
for business reasons, I must preserve the outward signs of sanity.
When you ascend the hill of prosperity, may you not meet a friend.
You should never trust a man who has only one way to spell a word.
A sense of humor is the one thing no one will admit to not having.
It is my custom to keep on talking until I get the audience cowed.
Ignorance is not not knowin' - Ignorance is knowin' what ain't so.
Where every man in a state has a vote, brutal laws are impossible.
It may be called the Master Passion, the hunger for self-approval.
You can't make a life over. Society wouldn't let you if you would.
There was things which he stretched, but mainly he told the truth.
It is no use to keep private information which you can't show off.
I was born with Halley's Comet and I expect to die upon its return
If men bore children, there would only be one born in each family.
I've had a lot of worries in my life, most of which never happened.
I have made it a rule never to smoke more than one cigar at a time.
Never put off till tomorrow what you can do the day after tomorrow.
I would have written a shorter letter, but I did not have the time.
Truth is such a precious article - let us all economize in its use.
That cat will write her autograph all over your leg if you let her.
Self-approval is acquired mainly from the approval of other people.
Do good when you can, and charge when you think they will stand it.
Conservatism is the blind and fear-filled worship of dead radicals.
Those who do not read have no advantage over those who cannot read.
A gentleman is someone who knows how to play the banjo and doesn't.
Forget and forgive. This is not difficult when properly understood.