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A boy doesn't have to go to war to be a hero; he can say he doesn't like pie when he sees there isn't enough to go around. - [Heroes] A good scare is worth more to a man than good advice. - [Advice] A man is usually more careful of his money than he is of his principles. - [Money] A man will do more for his stubbornness than for his religion or his country. - [Stubbornness] A really busy person never knows how much he weighs. - [Busy] A religion that never suffices to govern a man will never suffice to save him; that which does not sufficiently distinguish one from a wicked world will never distinguish him from a perishing world. - [Religion] A theory is no more like a fact than a photograph is like a person. - [Theories] A thief believes everybody steals. - [Crime] A woman does not spend all her time in buying things; she spends part of it in taking them back. - [Women] A woman is as old as she looks before breakfast. - [Age] A woman who can't forgive should never have more than a nodding acquaintance with a man. - [Forgiveness] A young boy is a theory, an old man is a fact. - [Theories] Abuse a man unjustly and you will make friends for him. - [Abuse] Americans detest all lies except lies spoken in public or printed lies. - [Lies] Don't abuse your friends and expect them to consider it criticism. - [Abuse] Don't take up a man's time talking about the smartness of your children; he wants to talk to you about the smartness of his children. - [Children] Even if a farmer intends to loaf, he gets up in time to have an early start. - [Laziness] Everyone has something ancestral, even if it is nothing more than a disease. - [Ancestry] Financial sense is knowing that certain men will promise to do certain things, and fail. - [Finance] For every quarrel a man and wife have before others, they have a hundred when alone. - [Quarrels] Half the promises people say were never kept, were never made. - [Promises] Half the time men think they are talking business, they are wasting time. - [Talk] I believe in grumbling it is the politest form of fighting known. - [Grumbling] I take him to be the only rich man that lives upon what he has, owes nothing, and is contented; for there is no determinate sum of money, nor quantity of estate, that can denote a man rich, since no man is truly rich that has not so much as perfectly satiates his desire of having more; for the desire of more is want, and want is poverty. - [Riches] If the fools do not control the world, it isn't because they are not in the majority. - [Fools] Displaying page 1 of 2 for this author: Next >> [1] 2
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