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It's no credit to anyone to work too hard. - [Work] Many people would be more truthful were it not for their uncontrollable desire to talk. - [Talking] Men are virtuous because women are; women are virtuous from necessity. - [Virtue] Most people have seen worse things in private than they pretend to be shocked at in public. - [Hypocrisy] No man can smile in the face of adversity and mean it. - [Adversity] No man's credit is as good as his money. - [Credit] Nothing is wonderful when you get used to it. - [Familiarity] Nothing tires a man more than to be grateful all the time. - [Gratitude] People have discovered that they can fool the devil; but they can't fool the neighbors. - [Deception] Reading is like permitting a man to talk a long time, and refusing you the right to answer. - [Reading] So long as we do not blow our brains out, we have decided life is worth living. - [Life] Some men are alive simply because it is against the law to kill them. - [Murder] The average man's judgment is so poor, he runs a risk every time he uses it. - [Judgment] The feeling of sleepiness when you are not in bed, and can't get there, is the meanest feeling in the world. - [Sleep] The little trouble in the world that is not due to love is due to friendship. - [Trouble] The sounder your argument, the more satisfaction you get out of it. - [Argument] The worst feeling in the world is the homesickness that comes over a man occasionally when he is at home. - [Home] Those cherries fairly do enclose Of orient pearl a double row, Which, when her lovely laughter shows, They look like rosebuds fill'd with snow. - [Dentistry] Virtue must be valuable, if men and women of all degrees pretend to have it. - [Virtue] What people say behind your back is your standing in the community in which you live. - [Gossip] When people hear good music, it makes them homesick for something they never had and never will have. - [Music] When you are in trouble, people who call to sympathize are really looking for the particulars. - [Sympathy] You needn't love your enemy, but if you refrain from telling lies about him, you are doing well enough. - [Enemies] Displaying page 2 of 2 for this author: << Prev 1 [2]
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