Training is everything. The peach was once a bitter almond; cauliflower is nothing but cabbage with a college education.
From Mark Twain
The most interesting information comes from children, for they tell all they know and then stop.
Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear, not absence of fear.
Thunder is good, thunder is impressive; but it is lightning that does the work.
As an example to others, and not that I care for moderation myself, it has always been my rule never to smoke when asleep, and never to refrain from smoking when awake.
The human race has one really effective weapon, and that is laughter.
A man is never more truthful than when he acknowledges himself a liar.
She was not quite what you would call refined. She was not quite what you would call unrefined. She was the kind of person that keeps a parrot.
To refuse awards is another way of accepting them with more noise than is normal.
What a wee little part of a person's life are his acts and his words! His real life is led in his head, and is known to none but himself.
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