Quotes to inspire and reflect

What is the difference between a taxidermist and a tax collector? The taxidermist takes only your skin.

Rise early. It is the early bird that catches the worm. Don't be fooled by this absurd law; I once knew a man who tried it. He got up at sunrise and a horse bit him.

I have never seen what to me seemed an atom of proof that there is a future life. And yet-I am inclined to expect one .

Do the thing you fear most and the death of fear is certain.

High and fine literature is wine, and mine is only water; but everybody likes water.

I have carried a revolver; lots of us do, but they are the most innocent things in the world.

Ah, that shows you the power of music, that magician of magician, who lifts his wand and says his mysterious word and all things real pass away and the phantoms of your mind walk before you clothed in flesh.

A successful book is not made of what is in it, but what is left out of it .

Death is the starlit strip between the companionship of yesterday and the reunion of tomorrow.

There are only two forces that can carry light to all the corners of the globe... the sun in the heavens and the Associated Press down here.

The principle of give and take is the principle of diplomacy - give one and take ten

Plain question and plain answer make the shortest road out of most perplexities.

The offspring of riches: Pride, vanity, ostentation, arrogance, tyranny

Concerning the difference between man and the jackass: some observers hold that there isn't any. But this wrongs the jackass.

You may say organize, organize, organize; but there may be so much organization that it will interfere with the work to be done .

I don't believe there is anything in the whole earth that you can't learn in Berlin except the German language.

A home without a cat — and a well-fed, well-petted and properly revered cat — may be a perfect home, perhaps, but how can it prove title?

And what is a man without energy? Nothing - nothing at all.

It is just like man's vanity and impertinence to call an animal dumb because it is dumb to his dull perceptions.

One mustn't criticize other people on grounds where he can't stand perpendicular himself

It takes me a long time to lose my temper, but once lost I could not find it with a dog .

Synergy - the bonus that is achieved when things work together harmoniously.

I've dealt with many crises in my life, but few will ever happen.

It is not worth while to try to keep history from repeating itself, for man's character will always make the preventing of the repetitions impossible.

Often it does seem a pity that Noah and his party did not miss the boat.

If we only had some God in the country's laws, instead of being in such a sweat to get him into the Constitution, it would be better all around .

Books are the liberated spirits of men.

The truth is a precious commodity. That's why I use it so sparingly.

You try to tell me anything about the newspaper business! Sir, I have been through it from Alpha to Omaha, and I tell you that the less a man knows the bigger the noise he makes and the higher the salary he commands.

It shames the average man to be valued below his own estimate of his worth.

Modesty antedates clothes and will be resumed when clothes are no more.

I do see that there is an argument against suicide: the grief of the worshipers left behind, the awful famine in their hearts, these are too costly terms for the release.

I could be an idiot, or I can serve in Congress, but I repeat myself .

There is nothing like instances to grow hair on a bald-headed argument.

We can secure other people's approval, if we do right and try hard; but our own is worth a hundred of it, and no way has been found out of securing that.

It's an epitome of life. The first half of it consists of the capacity to enjoy without the chance; the last half consists of the chance without the capacity.

I am not the editor of a newspaper and shall always try to do right and be good so that God will not make me one.

I've had a lot of worries in my life, most of which never happened.

A crime persevered in a thousand centuries ceases to be a crime, and becomes a virtue. This is the law of custom, and custom supersedes all other forms of law.

When ill luck begins, it does not come in sprinkles, but in showers.

Don't live in the past, don't ponder about the future, stay at the PRESENT moment NOW...always.

If work were so pleasant, the rich would keep it for themselves.

I know all those people. I have friendly, social, and criminal relations with the whole lot of them.

A dozen direct censures are easier to bear than one morganatic compliment.

You can't no more teach what you ain't learned than you can come from where you ain't been.

An occasional compliment is necessary to keep up one's self-respect.

We have a criminal jury system which is superior to any in the world and it's efficiency is only marred by the difficulty of finding twelve men every day who don't know anything and can't read-

Peace by persuasion has a pleasant sound, but I think we should not be able to work it. We should have to tame the human race first, and history seems to show that that cannot be done.