It is to be observed that 'angling' is the name given to fishing by people who can't fish.

Many a man in love with a dimple makes the mistake of marrying the whole girl.

The landlady of a boarding-house is a parallelogram - that is, an oblong angular figure, which cannot be described, but which is equal to anything

Now, the essence, the very spirit of Christmas is that we first make believe a thing is so, and lo, it presently turns out to be so.

It may be those who do most, dream most.

I am a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work the more I have of it.

A half truth, like half a brick, is always more forcible as an argument than a whole one. It carries better.

Advertising: the science of arresting the human intelligence long enough to get money from it.

There are two things in ordinary conversation which ordinary people dislike - information and wit

I detest life-insurance agents: they always argue that I shall some day die, which is not so.

It takes a good deal of physical courage to ride a horse. This, however, I have. I get it at about forty cents a flask, and take it as required.

If a flower can flourish in the desert, you can flourish anywhere.

Money has always been in politics. And I'm not sure you'd want money to be completely out of politics.

I like to play around with mixing high-end with more affordable pieces.

The epidemic is truly black-on-black crime. The greatest danger to the lives of young black men are young black men.

Your proudest moment is to watch your egg not just function, but to achieve on her own.

In adolescence she thought it was too early to choose, now in youth she was convinced it was too late to change.

My Jesus, if you uphold me, I shall not fall.

I had a good-talking candle last night in my bedroom. I was very tired but I wanted somebody to be with me, so I lit a candle and listened to its comfortable voice of light until I was asleep.

It's always easy to judge from afar

I was struggling man. I had a stomach ache. I was throwing up, I was just feeling bad. I couldn't sleep.