“Washing your car and polishing it all up is a never failing sign of rain.”

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

Some people are so sensitive that they feel snubbed if an epidemic overlooks them.

Some folks pay a compliment like they went down in their pocket for it.

Every father expects his boy to do the things he wouldn’t do when he was young.

The election is not very far off when a candidate can recognize you across the street.

When you consider what a chance women have to poison their husbands, it’s a wonder there isn’t more of it done

Litigation: A form of hell whereby money is transferred from the pockets of the proletariat to that of lawyers.

No one can feel as helpless as the owner of a sick goldfish.

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

Executive: a man who makes quick decisions and is sometimes right.

Bargain… anything a customer thinks a store is losing money on.

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

On a day when these things shall be heated in hell-fire, and their foreheads, and their sides, and their backs shall be branded therewith.

One of the commonest mistakes is thinking your worries are over when your children get married.

Peace has its victories no less than war, but it doesn’t have as many monuments to unveil.

I don’t look for much to come out of government ownership as long as we have Democrats and Republicans.

The more you fail to experience your life fully, the more you will fear death.

If I don’t cry while writing a key emotional scene, my gut feeling is it’s failed.

I wanted to go to drama school, but when I got the part in ‘Falling,’ I got an agent, so it seemed a good idea to work.

Every dog is allowed one bite, but a different view is taken of a dog that goes on biting all the time. He may not get his licence returned when it falls due.

History fails to record a single precedent in which nations subject to moral decay have not passed into political and economic decline. There has been either a spiritual awakening to overcome the moral lapse or a progressive deterioration leading to ultimate national disaster.

I run great risk of failing. It may be that I shall encounter ruin where I look for reputation and a career of honor.

All of us failed to match our dreams of perfection. So I rate us on the base of our splendid failure to do the impossible.

Don’t begin with proportion. Only prigs do that. Let proportion come in as a last resource, when the better things have failed.