1. “There are lots of people who mistake their imagination for their memory.”
2. “A dog is the only thing on earth that loves you more than he loves himself.”
3. “Be like a postage stamp Stick to one thing until you get there.”
4. “Better make a weak man your eney than your friend.”
5. “Common sense is instinct and enough of it is genius.”
6. “The best time for you to hold your tongue is the time you feel you must say something or bust.”
7. “Silence is one of the hardest arguments to refute.”
8. “Half of the troubles of this life an be traced to saying yes too quickly and not saying no soon enough.”
9. “Love looks through a telescope; envy, through a microscope.”
10. “One of the greatest victories you can gain over someone is to beat him at politeness.”
11. “It’s not only the most difficult thing to know one’s self, but the most inconvenient.”
12. “Genius after all ain’t anything more then elegant common sense.”
13. “Reason often makes mistakes, but conscience never does.”
14. “There is no revenge so complete as forgiveness.”
15. “Every man has his follies and often they are the most interesting thing he has got.”
16. “Life consists not in holding good cards but in playing those you hold well.”
17. “I honestly believe it is better to know nothing than to know what ain’t so.”
18. “There’s a great power in words, if you don’t hitch too many of them together.”
19. “Flattery is like cologne water, to be smelt, not swallowed.”
20. “In youth we run into difficulties. In old age difficulties run into us.”
21. “There are two kinds of fools: those who can’t change their opinions and those who won’t.”
22. “There is nothing so easy to learn as experience and nothing so hard to apply.”
23. “Common sense is the knack of seeing things as they are and doing things as they ought to be done.”
24. “Men mourn for what they have lost; women for what they ain’t got.”
25. “Life is short, but it’s long enough to ruin any man who wants to be ruined.”
26. “Knowledge is like money: the more he gets, the more he craves.”
27. “The thinner the ice, the more anxious is everyone to see whether it will bear.”
28. “There are some people so addicted to exaggeration that they can’t tell the truth without lying.”
29. “One of the rarest things that a man ever does, is to do the best he can.”
30. “Advice is like castor oil easy enough to give but dreadful uneasy to take.”
