TuesdaySep 01, 2026
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The best way to convince a fool he is wrong is to let him have his way.
Silence is one of the hardest arguments to refute.
It's not only the most difficult thing to know one's self, but the most inconvenient.
The best time to hold your tongue is the time you feel you must say something or bust.
It is better to know nothing than to know what ain't so.
Reason often makes mistakes, but conscience never does.
Every man has his follies and often they are the most interesting thing he had got.
Love looks through a telescope; envy, through a microscope.
Life consists not in holding good cards but in playing those you hold well.
Flattery is like cologne water, to be smelt of, not swallowed.
Common sense is the knack of seeing things as they are, and doing things as they ought to be done.
The time to pray is not when we are in a tight spot but just as soon as we get out of it.
Don't take the bull by the horns, take him by the tail; then you can let go when you want to.
Solitude: A good place to visit, but a poor place to stay.
I have lived in this world just long enough to look carefully the second time into things that I am the most certain of the first time.
Theres a great power in words, if you dont hitch too many of them together.
Poverty is the step-mother of genius.
One of the greatest victories you can gain over someone is to beat him at politeness.
Don't mistake pleasure for happiness. They are a different breed of dogs.
Consider the postage stamp, my son. It secures success through its ability to stick to one thing till it gets there.
The hardest thing any man can do is to fall down on the ice when it's slippery, and get up and praise the Lord.
A dog is the only thing on earth that loves you more than he loves himself.
There is one kind of laugh that I always did recommend; it looks out of the eye first with a merry twinkle, then it creeps down on its hands and knees and plays around the mouth like a pretty moth around the blaze of a candle, then it steals over into the dimples of the cheeks and rides around in those whirlpools for a while, then it lights up the whole face like the mellow bloom on a damask rose, then it swims up on the air, with a peal as clear and as happy as a dinner-bell, then it goes back again on gold tiptoes like an angel out for an airing, and it lies down on its little bed of violets in the heart where it came from.
The worst sin towards our fellow creature is not to hate them, but to be indifferent to them: thats the essence of inhumanity.
There are lots of people who mistake their imagination for their memory.
There is no revenge so complete as forgiveness.
If it wasnt for faith there would be no living in this world; we couldnt even eat hash with any safety.
There is nothing so easy to learn as experience and nothing so hard to apply.
There are only two qualities in the world: efficiency and inefficiency; and only two sorts of people: the efficient and the inefficient.
The trouble with people is not that they dont know but that they know so much that aint so.
Money will buy you a pretty good dog, but it wont buy the wag of his tail.
One of the rarest things that a man ever does is to do the best he can.
Always live within your income, even if you have to borrow money to do so.
One-half the troubles of this life can be traced to saying yes too quickly and not saying no soon enough.
Advice is like castor oil, easy enough to give but dreadful uneasy to take.
Economy is a savings-bank, into which men drop pennies, And get dollars in return
To bring up a child in the way he should go, travel that way yourself once in a while.
The very thing that men think they have got the most of, they have got the least of; and that is judgment.
The truly innocent are those who not only are guiltless themselves, but who think others are.
The more humble a man is before God, the more he will be exalted; the more humble he is before man, the more he will get rode roughshod.
Laughter is the sensation of feeling good all over, and showing it principally on one spot.
I've never known a person to live to be one hundred and be remarkable for anything else.
As scarce as truth is, the supply has always been in excess of the demand.
If a man should happen to reach perfection in this world, he would have to die immediately to enjoy himself.
About the most originality that any writer can hope to achieve honestly is to steal with good judgment.
Words are often seen hunting for an idea, but ideas are never seen hunting for words.
If it wasn't for faith, there would be no living in this world; we couldn't even eat hash with any safety.
The wheel that squeaks the loudest is the one that gets the grease.
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