Most people repent their sins by thanking God they ain't so wicked as their neighbors.
~ Josh Billings
There is nothing so easy to learn as experience and nothing so hard to apply.
The thinner the ice, the more anxious is everyone to see whether it will bear.
There are some people so addicted to exaggeration that they can't tell the truth without lying.
As scarce as truth is, the supply has always been in excess of the demand.
There's a lot of people in this world who spend so much time watching their health that they haven't the time to enjoy it.
There is no revenge so complete as forgiveness.
There are lots of people who mistake their imagination for their memory.
Every man has his follies - and often they are the most interesting thing he has got.
Flattery is like cologne water, to be smelt, not swallowed.
Money will buy a pretty good dog, but it won't buy the wag of his tail.
The wheel that squeaks the loudest is the one that gets the grease.
Honesty is the rarest wealth anyone can possess, and yet all the honesty in the world ain't lawful tender for a loaf of bread.
Learning sleeps and snores in libraries, but wisdom is everywhere, wide awake, on tiptoe.
Silence is one of the hardest arguments to refute.
There are two kinds of fools: those who can't change their opinions and those who won't.
