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Never get married in college; it's hard to get a start if a prospective employer finds you've already made one mistake.

To subjugate another is to subjugate yourself.

There is more sophistication and less sense in New York than anywhere else on the globe.

The goal of evolution is self - conquest

Habit: The great economizer of energy.

Impossible things are simply those which so far have never been done.

The more one knows, the more one simplifies.

Charity: a thing that begins at home, and usually stays there.

God is good, there is no devil but fear.

In these days, a man who says a thing cannot be done, quite apt to be interrupted by some idiot doing it.

The graveyards are full of people the world could not do without.

Don't lose faith in humanity; think of all the people in the United States who have never played you a single nasty trick.

I would rather be able to appreciate things I cannot have than to have things I am not able to appreciate.

The woman who cannot tell a lie in defense of her husband, is unworthy of the name of wife.

One thing is sure, there are just two respectable ways to die. One is of old age, and the other is by accident.

Gossip is vice enjoyed vicariously

Piety is the tinfoil of pretense.

Most diseases are the result of medication which has been prescribed to relieve and take away a beneficent and warning symptom on the part of Nature.

A goal without a plan is a dream.

Genius may have its limitations, but stupidity is not thus handicapped.

There is a joy in going without things, a fine tang in eliminating the superfluous.

Logic: an instrument used for bolstering a prejudice.

Half the failures in life arise from pulling in one's horse as he is leaping.
Happiness is a habit. Cultivate it.

If put to the pinch, an ounce of loyalty is worth a pound of cleverness.
(Get Out or Get in Line, 1928)

We work to become, not to acquire.

The hands that help are far better than the lips that pray.

Pray that success will not come any faster than you are able to endure it.

Every tyrant who has lived has believed in freedom for himself.

When trouble comes, wise men take to their work; weak men take to the woods.

A committee is a thing which takes a week to do what one good man can do in an hour.

The mintage of wisdom is to know that rest is rust, and that real life is love, laughter, and work.

It is easy to get everything you want, provided you first learn to do without the things you cannot get.

Those who create beauty are also they who possess it.

Punishment - The justice that the guilty deal out to those that are caught.

The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing you will make one.

Tragedy and comedy are simply questions of value; a little misfit in life makes us laugh; a great one is tragedy and cause for expression of grief.

The friend is the man who knows all about you, and still likes you.

No one gets very far unless he accomplishes the impossible at least once a day.

When you grow suspicious of a person and begin a system of espionage upon him, your punishment will be that you will find your suspicions true.

Man creates both his god and his devil in his own image. His god is himself at his best, and his devil himself at his worst.

Enthusiasm is the great hill-climber.

To avoid criticism, do nothing, say nothing, be nothing.

Self-control is the ability to restrain a laugh at the wrong place.

The stronger a man is, the more gentle he can afford to be

Every spirit makes its house, but as after wards the house confines the spirit, you had better build well.

There are three sides to every question-where a divorce is involved.

Many a man's reputation would not know his character if they met on the street.

I believe in salvation through economic, social, and spiritual freedom.

Be pleasant until ten o'clock in the morning and the rest of the day will take care of itself.

Genius is the capacity of avoiding hard work.

Why not be a top-notcher? A top-notcher is simply an individual who works for the institution of which he is a part, not against it.

Many people fail in life, not for lack of ability or brains or even courage but simply because they have never organized their energies around a goal.

Allow motion to equal emotion.

Football: A sport that bears the same relation to education that bullfighting does to agriculture.

In God's great vaudeville, Mother is the headliner.

The recipe for perpetual ignorance is: Be satisfied with your opinions and content with your knowledge.

Self-discipline is the ability to make yourself do what you should do, when you should do it, whether you feel like it or not.

Prosperity: that condition which attracts the lively interest of lawyers, and warrants your being sued for damages, or indicted, or both.

We never ask God to forgive anybody except when we haven't.

Lovers are fools, but Nature makes them so.

Friendship, like credit, is highest when it is not used.

Man is Creation's masterpiece. But who says so?

The man who is so run down that he needs a vacation can never adjust or reform himself in two weeks. What he really needs is to re-transform his life.

The best preparation for good work tomorrow is to do good work today.

Prison is a Socialist paradise where equality prevails, everything is supplied, and competition is eliminated.

A legal or religious ceremony by which two persons of the opposite sex solemnly agree to harass and spy on each other ... until death do them join.

Success - To rise from the illusion of pursuit to the disillusion of possession.

As a career, the business of an orthodox preacher is about as successful as that of a celluloid dog chasing an asbestos cat through hell.

If men will not act for themselves, what will they do when the benefit of their effort is for all?

The product of the head, heart and hand is a thing to be loved.

The world is moving so fast these days that the man who says it can't be done is generally interrupted by someone doing it.

Of all blessings, no gift equals the gentle, trusting love and companionship of a good woman.

Give us a religion that will help us to live - we can die without assistance.

Destruction, violence, ravages, murder, are perpetrated by statute law.

Responsibility is the price of freedom.

Our admiration is so given to dead martyrs that we have little time for living heroes.

Most reformers wore rubber boots and stood on glass when God sent a current of Commonsense through the Universe.

The past is one evil less and one memory more.

It may happen sometimes that a long debate becomes the cause of a longer friendship. Commonly, those who dispute with one another at last agree.

I rather like the World. The Flesh is pleasing and the Devil does not trouble me.

The brain is a commodity used to fertilize ideas.

When we really live truth, we will cease to talk about it.

One can play comedy, two are required for melodrama, but a tragedy demands three.

Lawyers are the jackals of commerce.

Every quarrel begins in nothing and ends in a struggle for supremacy.

Some men succeed by what they know; some by what they do; and a few by what they are.

Men are punished by their sins, not for them.

The thing we fear we bring to pass.

Orthodoxy is a corpse that doesn't know it's dead.

Do not dump your woes upon people - keep the sad story of your life to yourself. Troubles grow by recounting them.

The object of teaching a child is to enable him to get along without a teacher.

God looked upon His work and saw that it was good. That is where the clergy take issue with him.

The only man who makes money following the races is one who does it with a broom and shovel.

Laughter is higher than all pain.

Theology is Classified Superstition.

God will not look you over for medals, degrees or diplomas but for scars.

A creed is an ossified metaphor.

Religions are many and diverse, but reason and goodness are one.

Let a man once see himself as others see him, and all enthusiasm vanishes from his heart.

Life is a compromise between fate and free will.