Half the time men think they are talking business, they are wasting time.
If you don't learn to laugh at troubles, you won't have anything to laugh at when you grow old.
To be an ideal guest, stay at home.
A boy doesn't have to go to war to be a hero; he can say he doesn't like pie when he sees there isn't enough to go around.
There is only one thing people like that is good for them; a good night's sleep.
The modest person is usually admired, if people ever hear of them.
The man who can keep a secret may be wise, but he is not half as wise as the man with no secrets to keep.
Many people would be more truthful were it not for their uncontrollable desire to talk.
A woman is as old as she looks before breakfast.
Every successful person I have heard of has done the best he could with the conditions as he found them, and not waited until next year for better.
For every quarrel a man and wife have before others, they have a hundred when alone.
Virtue must be valuable, if men and women of all degrees pretend to have it.
Families with babies and families without babies are sorry for each other.
If there were no schools to take the children away from home part of the time, the insane asylums would be filled with mothers.
It may be a cold, clammy thing to say, but those that treat friendship the same as any other selfishness seem to get the most out of it.
One of the surprising things in this world is the respect a worthless man has for himself.
The worst feeling in the world is the homesickness that comes over a man occasionally when he is at home.
Instead of loving your enemies - treat your friends a little better.
All of the troubles that some people have in life is that which they married into.
Many a man is saved from being a thief by finding everything locked up.
People are always neglecting something they can do in trying to do something they can't do.
The sounder your argument, the more satisfaction you get out of it.
