It seems that nothing ever gets to going good till there's a few resignations

Of all the home remedies, a good wife is best.

Next to a circus there ain't nothing that packs up and tears out faster than the Christmas spirit.

Nobody can be as agreeable as an uninvited guest.

The fellow that owns his own home is always just coming out of a hardware store.

The safe way to double your money is to fold it over once and put it in your pocket.

Nobody ever forgets where he buried the hatchet.

If you haven't seen your wife smile at a traffic cop, you haven't seen her smile her prettiest.

The fellow that agrees with everything you say is either a fool or he is getting ready to skin you.

The hardest thing is to take less when you can get more.

It is pretty hard to tell what does bring happiness; poverty and wealth have both failed.

Last year nothing happenedThe year before nothing happenedAnd the year before that nothinghappened.

Cowards shrink from challenges, weaklings flee from them, and warriors wink at them.

What are memories but photo images from the mind? Isn't the human mind so much like a camera, saving pictures every now and then?

Backs dialogue for solving disputes and not military power and threats.

I will try to cram these paragraphs full of facts and give them a weight and shape no greater than that of a cloud of blue butterflies.

If you woo the company of the angels in your waking hours, they will be sure to come to you in your sleep.

The American people, North and South, went into the [Civil] war as citizens of their respective states, they came out as subjects ... what they thus lost they have never got back.

When Love gives, it gives all; when it takes, it takes all. It's very taking is giving.

As a citizen, you need to know how to be a part of it, how to express yourself - and not just by voting.

The best piece of advice that I have ever received is from my mom. And she said, "Do you, boo boo." That is forever going to be the best advice.