It takes a good deal of physical courage to ride a horse. This, however, I have. I get it at about forty cents a flask, and take it as required.
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A half truth, like half a brick, is always more forcible as an argument than a whole one. It carries better.
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I detest life-insurance agents they always argue that I shall some day die, which is not so.
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Astronomy teaches the correct use of the sun and the planets.
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The general idea, of course, in any first-class laundry is to see that no shirt or collar ever comes back twice.
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Newspapermen learn to call a murderer 'an alleged murderer' and the King of England 'the alleged King of England' to avoid libel suits.
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I detest life-insurance agents; they always argue that I shall some day die, which is not so.
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I detest life-insurance agents: they always argue that I shall some day die, which is not so.
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Lord Ronald said nothing he flung himself from the room, flung himself upon his horse and rode madly off in all directions.
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The sorrows and disasters of Europe always brought fortune to America.
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Lord Ronald said nothing; he flung himself from the room, flung himself upon his horse and rode madly off in all directions.
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Anybody who has listened to certain kinds of music, or read certain kinds of poetry, or heard certain kinds of performances on the concertina, will admit that even suicide has its brighter aspects.
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Advertising may be described as the science of arresting human intelligence long enough to get money from it.
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A sportsman is a man who, every now and then, simply has to go out and kill something.
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Golf may be played on Sunday, not being a game within the view of the law, but being a form of moral effort.
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It may be that those who do most, dream most.
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It may be those who do most, dream most.
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It's called political economy because it is has nothing to do with either politics or economy.
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It's a lie, but Heaven will forgive you for it
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I am a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work the more I have of it.
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