I find the more I drink the more interesting others become.
The reason why men enter into society is the preservation of their property.
O Life! thou art a galling load, Along a rough, a weary road, to wretches such as I.
The louder he talked of his honour, the faster we counted our spoons.
Why, a four-year-old child could understand this report. Run out and find me a four-year-old child.
In creating, the only hard thing's to begin; A grass-blade's no easier to make than an oak.
If Jesus Christ were to come today, people would not even crucify him. They would ask him to dinner, and hear what he had to say, and make fun of him.
Do as we say, and not as we do.
Indifference and inaction must always pay a penalty.
Fortune favors the audacious.
One's mind has a way of making itself up in the background, and it suddenly becomes clear what one means to do.
Failure sometimes enlarges the spirit. You have to fall back upon humanity and God.
Far from the madding crowd's ignoble strife.
Defensive strategy never has produced ultimate victory.
For God's sake give me the young man who has brains enough to make a fool of himself.
Lord, if any have to die this day, let it be me, for I am ready.
One can live in this world on soothsaying but not on truth saying.
Do not wish to be anything but what you are.
The Englishman is under no constitutional obligation to believe that all men are created equal. The American agony is therefore scarcely intelligible, like a saint's self-flagellation viewed by an atheist.
Of puns it has been said that those most dislike who are least able to utter them.