Patriotism is supporting your country all the time, and your government when it deserves it.
It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world and moral courage so rare.
Why is it that we rejoice at a birth and grieve at a funeral? It is because we are not the person involved.
It's good sportsmanship to not pick up lost golf balls while they are still rolling.
Laws control the lesser man... Right conduct controls the greater one.
Never put off till tomorrow what you can do the day after tomorrow.
Why shouldn't truth be stranger than fiction? Fiction, after all, has to make sense.
Wrinkles should merely indicate where smiles have been.
A person with a new idea is a crank until the idea succeeds.
He is now rising from affluence to poverty.
I can live for two months on a good compliment.
We have the best government that money can buy.
You can't depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus.
It were not best that we should all think alike; it is difference of opinion that makes horse races.
The right word may be effective, but no word was ever as effective as a rightly timed pause.
Prosperity is the best protector of principle.
A person who won't read has no advantage over one who can't read.
It is just like man's vanity and impertinence to call an animal dumb because it is dumb to his dull perceptions.
The secret of getting ahead is getting started.
The Public is merely a multiplied 'me.'
The very ink with which history is written is merely fluid prejudice.
It is by the goodness of God that in our country we have those three unspeakably precious things: freedom of speech, freedom of conscience, and the prudence never to practice either of them.
It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.
As an example to others, and not that I care for moderation myself, it has always been my rule never to smoke when asleep, and never to refrain from smoking when awake.
Work consists of whatever a body is obliged to do. Play consists of whatever a body is not obliged to do.
Martyrdom covers a multitude of sins.
Sometimes too much to drink is barely enough.
In the first place, God made idiots. That was for practice. Then he made school boards.
Water, taken in moderation, cannot hurt anybody.
Humor is mankind's greatest blessing.
In 'Huckleberry Finn,' I have drawn Tom Blankenship exactly as he was. He was ignorant, unwashed, insufficiently fed; but he had as good a heart as ever any boy had.
When angry, count to four; when very angry, swear.
The man who is a pessimist before 48 knows too much; if he is an optimist after it, he knows too little.
Don't go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first.
It is better to deserve honors and not have them than to have them and not deserve them.
Few of us can stand prosperity. Another man's, I mean.