Diets are for people who are thick and tired of it.
To improve your memory, lend people money.
Sorrow is a fruit. God does not allow it to grow on a branch that is too weak to bear it.
Success has always been easy to measure. It is the distance between one's origins and one's final achievement.
Football linemen are motivated by a more complicated, self-determining series of factors than the simple fear of humiliation in the public gaze, which is the emotion that galvanizes the backs and receivers.
The foremost art of kings is the power to endure hatred.
What a man sows, that shall he and his relations reap.
A variety of nothing is superior to a monotony of something.
Pounds are the sons, not of pounds, but of pence.
Happiness: a good bank account, a good cook and a good digestion.
He is a man of sense who does not grieve for what he has not, but rejoices in what he has.
Once a woman has forgiven a man, she must not reheat his sins for breakfast.
I would often be a coward, but for the shame of it.
Hope is necessary in every condition. The miseries of poverty, sickness and captivity would, without this comfort, be insupportable.
There is nothing like staying at home for real comfort.
Everybody undertakes what he sees another successful in, whether he has the aptitude for it or not.
Times of general calamity and confusion have ever been productive of the greatest minds. The purest ore is produced from the hottest furnace, and the brightest thunderbolt is elicited from the darkest storms.
Man loves little and often, woman much and rarely.
My mother used to say, "He who angers you conquers you."
Never reach out your hand unless you're willing to extend an arm.