Familiarity breeds contempt. How accurate that is. The reason we hold truth in such respect is because we have so little opportunity to get familiar with it.
Few things are harder to put up with than the annoyance of a good example.
Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities. Truth isn’t.
Forgiveness is the fragrance that the violet [...]
Don’t say the old lady screamed. Bring her on and let her scream.
Don’t tell fish stories where the people know you; but particularly, don’t tell them where they know the fish.
‘Don’t you worry, and don’t you hurry.’ I know that phrase by heart, and if all other music should perish out of the world it [...]
But who prays for Satan? Who, in eighteen centuries, has had the common humanity to pray for the one sinner that needed it most?
By trying we can easily endure adversity. Another man’s, I mean.
Cauliflower is nothing but cabbage with a college education.
Civilization is the limitless multiplication of unnecessary necessities.
‘Classic.’ A book which people praise and [...]
Advertisements contain the only truths to be relied on in a newspaper.
Against the assault of laughter nothing can stand.
Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don’t mind, it doesn’t matter.
All generalizations are false, including this one.
All say, “How hard it is that we have to die” – a strange complaint to come [...]
A banker is a fellow who lends you his umbrella when the sun is shining, but wants it back the minute it begins to rain.
A lie can travel half way around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.
A man cannot be comfortable without his own approval.
A man is never more truthful than [...]