“Virtue must be valuable, if men and women of all degrees pretend to have it.”
“The little trouble in the world that is not due to love is due to friendship.”
“Most of us are either too think to enjoy eating, or too fat to enjoy walking.”
“Farmers only worry during the growing season, but towns people worry all the time.”
“All of the troubles that some people have in life is that which they married into.”
“The underdog often starts the fight, and occasionally the upper dog deserves to win.”
“Never tell a secret to a bride or a groom; wait until they have been married longer.”
“Youth is about the only thing worth having, and that is about the only thing youth has.”
“Many people would be more truthful were it not for their uncontrollable desire to talk.”
“A woman who can't forgive should never have more than a nodding acquaintance with a man.”
“When men are not regretting that life is so short, they are doing something to kill time.”
“One of the surprising things in this world is the respect a worthless man has for himself.”
“People are always neglecting something they can do in trying to do something they can't do.”
“If you don't learn to laugh at trouble, you won't have anything to laugh at when you grow old.”
“Every successful man I have heard of has done the best he could with conditions as he found them...”
“As a man handles his troubles during the day, so he goes to bed at night a General, Captain, or Private.”
“The worst feeling in the world is the homesickness that comes over a man occasionally when he is at home.”
“None of us can boast about the morality of our ancestors. The record does not show that Adam and Eve were ever married.”
“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.”
“When a friend is in trouble, don't annoy him by asking if there is anything you can do. Think up something appropriate and do it.”
“It may be a cold, clammy thing to say, but those that treat friendship the same as any other selfishness seem to get the most out of it.”