Don't tell me how hard you work. Tell me how much you get done.

Why does a hearse horse snicker, hauling a lawyer away?

Nothing is so firmly believed as that which we least know.

Doctors and lawyers must go to school for years and years, often with little sleep and with great sacrifice to their first wives.

Generally speaking, the Way of the warrior is resolute acceptance of death.

The cart has no place where a fifth wheel could be used.

He who knows others is wise. He who knows himself is enlightened.

Two can Live as Cheaply as One for Half as Long.

If you know the answer to a question, don't ask.

It is not doing the thing we like to do, but liking the thing we have to do, that makes life blessed.

About the time we think we can make ends meet, somebody moves the ends.

Men are superior to women.

Sho' they got to have it against the law. Shoot, ever'body git high, they wouldn't be nobody git up and feed the chickens. Hee-hee.

There is no comfort without pain; thus we define salvation through suffering.

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It is a lesson which all history teaches wise men, to put trust in ideas, and not in circumstances.

If a man stay away from his wife for seven years, the law presumes the separation to have killed him; yet according to our daily experience, it might well prolong his life.

Events are not affected, they develop.

Nothing succeeds like success.

The pollution's at that awkward stage. Too thick to navigate and too thin to cultivate.

No bird soars too high if he soars with his own wings.

"Necessity is the mother of invention" is a silly proverb. "Necessity is the mother of futile dodges" is much nearer the truth.

Those who do things in a noble spirit of self-sacrifice are to be avoided at all costs.

Ah, but a man's grasp should exceed his reach, Or what's a heaven for ?

With Congress, every time they make a joke it's a law; and every time they make a law it's a joke.

You knew the job was dangerous when you took it, Fred.

No excellent soul is exempt from a mixture of madness.

Mankind is poised midway between the gods and the beasts.