Too much sanity may be madness. And maddest of all, to see life as it is and not as it should be.
There is no book so bad...that it does not have something good in it.
Destiny guides our fortunes more favorably than we could have expected.
Hunger is the best sauce in the world.
The truth may be stretched thin, but it never breaks, and it always surfaces above lies, as oil floats on water.
In order to attain the impossible, you must attempt the absurd.
If you play with cats, you must expect to be scratched.
To be prepared is half the victory.
The gratification of wealth is not found in possession or in lavish expenditure, but in its wise application.
Laziness never arrived at the attainment of a good wish.
Never stand begging for that which you have the power to earn.
We are the sons of our deeds.
Eyes, the silent tongue of love.
That's the nature of women, not to love when we love them, and to love when we love them not.
That which costs little is less valued.
There are only two families in the world, my old grandmother used to say, the Haves and the Have-nots.
Well, there's a remedy for all things but death, which will be sure to lay us flat one time or other.
Man appoints, God disappoints.
A proverb is a short sentence based on long experience.
Every man is as heaven made him, and sometimes a great deal worse.