Work like you don't need the money. Love like you've never been hurt. Dance like nobody is watching.
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Protestant parents still keep a Bible handy in the house, so that the children can study it, and one of the first things the little boys and g...
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The election makes me think of a story of a man who was dying. He had only two minutes to live, so he sent for a clergyman and asked him, "Whe...
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We are chameleons, and our partialities and prejudices change place with an easy and blessed facility, and we are soon wonted to the change and happy in it.
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The ordinary reverence, the reverence defined and explained by the dictionary, costs nothing. Reverence for one's own sacred things--parents, religion, flag, laws and respect for one's own beliefs--these are feelings which we cannot even help. They come natural to us; they are involuntary, like breathing. There is no personal merit in breathing. But the reverence which is difficult, and which has personal merit in it, is the respect which you pay, without compulsion, to the political or religious attitude of a man whose beliefs are not yours. You can't revere his gods or his politics, and no one expects you to do that, but you could respect his belief in them if you tried hard enough; and you could respect him, too, if you tried hard enough. But it is very, very difficult; it is next to impossible, and so we hardly ever try. If the man doesn't believe as we do, we say he is a crank, and that settles it. I mean it does nowadays, because we can't burn him.
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If you pick up a starving dog and make him prosperous, he will not bite you. This is the principal difference between a dog and a man.
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It is by the goodness of God that in our country we have those three unspeakably precious things: freedom of speech, freedom of conscience, and the prudence never to practice either of them.
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It's good sportsmanship to not pick up lost golf balls while they are still rolling.
Sports
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Reader, suppose you were an idiot. And suppose you were a member of Congress. But I repeat myself.
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It is better to keep your mouth closed and let people think you are a fool than to open it and remove all doubt.
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Kindness is the language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see.
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The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.
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My mother had a great deal of trouble with me, but I think she enjoyed it.
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There is no sadder sight than a young pessimist.
Funny
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Be careful about reading health books. You may die of a misprint.
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Of all the creatures ever made, Man is the most detestable. He is the only creature that inflicts pain for sport, knowing it to be pain.
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The right word may be effective, but no word was ever as effective as a rightly timed pause.
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October. This is one of the peculiarly dangerous months to speculate in stocks in. The others are July, January, September, April, November, May, March, June, December, August, and February.
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It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world and moral courage so rare.
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I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.
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Familiarity breeds contempt - and children.
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The first of April is the day we remember what we are the other 364 days of the year.
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Humor must not professedly teach and it must not professedly preach, but it must do both if it would live forever.
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It is easier to stay out than get out.
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Against the assault of laughter nothing can stand.
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The rule is perfect: in all matters of opinion our adversaries are insane.
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Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear--not absence of fear. Except a creature be part coward, it is not a compliment to say it is brave; it is merely a loose misapplication of the word. Consider the flea!--incomparably the bravest of all the creatures of God, if ignorance of fear were courage. Whether you are asleep or awake he will attack you, caring nothing for the fact that in bulk and strength you are to him as are the massed armies of the earth to a sucking child; he lives both day and night and all days and nights in the very lap of peril and the immediate presence of death, and yet is no more afraid than is the man who walks the streets of a city that was threatened by an earthquake ten centuries before. When we speak of Clive, Nelson, and Putnam as men who didn't know what fear was, we ought always to add the flea--and put him at the head of the procession.
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Such is the human race, often it seems a pity that Noah... didn't miss the boat.
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Many a small thing has been made large by the right kind of advertising.
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What a good thing Adam had. When he said a good thing he knew nobody had said it before.
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