(149 quotes found)
“Reason often makes mistakes but conscience never does.”
Josh Billings
“Keep a cow, and the milk won't have to be watered but once”
“One of rarest things that a man ever does is to do the best he can.”
“It is the little bits of things that fret and worry us, we can dodge an elephant, but we can't a fly”
“The best time for you to hold your tongue is the time you feel you must say something or bust”
“It is a statistical fact that the wicked work harder to reach hell than the righteous do to enter heaven”
“I think when the full horror of being fifty hits you, you should stay home and have a good cry.”
“To bring up a child in the way he should go - travel that way yourself.”
“Adversity has the same effect on a man that severe training has on the pugilist: it reduces him to his fighting weight.”
“There is a sort of charm in ugliness, if the person has some redeeming qualities and is only ugly enough”