Where there is a choice of two evils, most men take both.

Those who think it is permissible to tell white lies soon grow color-blind.

Patience is the analogue of God's serenity.

Some folks never handle the truth without scratching it.

If you sit by the wayside waiting for Success, your knees will be too stiff to follow her when she passes.

Love is a boomerang that returns to the thrower's hand.

The bigger the dam of patience, the worse the flood when the dam breaks.

We use religion like a trolley-car--we ride on it only while it is going our way.

Reason clears and plants the wilderness of the imagination to harvest the wheat of art.

Show me a genuine case of platonic friendship, and I shall show you two old or homely faces.

A home-made friend wears longer than one you buy in the market.

Well, I am happy, and I won't fret, but it does seem as if the more one gets the more one wants…

It was love, the real thing, nothing less or different.

Has fortune dealt you some bad cards. Then let wisdom make you a good gamester.

Learn to live, and live to learn, Ignorance like a fire doth burn, Little tasks make large return.

The mind has grown to its present state of consciousness as an acorn grows into an oak, or as saurians developed into mammals.

Do something: You can always correct something but you can never correct nothing.

You do not have to be an economist to know that putting up the cost of employing someone is a pretty barking thing to do when you're trying to get out of a recession.

Among human beings there is no greater banality than death. Second in order, because it is possible to die without being born, comes birth, and next comes marriage.

There is no one on earth more disgusting and repulsive than he who gives alms. Even as there is no one so miserable as he who accepts them.

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