Quotes to inspire and reflect

It is a mistake that there is no bath that will cure people's manners, but drowning would help.

The trouble ain't that there is too many fools, but that the lightning ain't distributed right.

There is something fascinating about science. One gets such wholesale returns of conjecture out of such a trifling investment of fact .

How little a thing can make us happy when we feel that we have earned it.

A conspiracy is nothing but a secret agreement of a number of men for the pursuance of policies which they dare not admit in public

I have found out that there ain't no surer way to find out whether you like people or hate them than to travel with them.

You are about as happy as you make up your mind to be.

It takes your enemy and your friend, working together, to hurt you to the heart: the one to slander you and the other to get the news to you.

All men are ignorant, just on different subjects .

I've lived through some terrible things in my life, some of which actually happened.

The easy confidence with which I know another man's religion is folly teaches me to suspect that my own is also.

I've never let my school interfere with my education.

I could never learn to like her, except on a raft at sea with no other provisions in sight.

When in doubt tell the truth .

The modern patriotism, the true patriotism, the only rational patriotism is loyalty to the Nation all the time, loyalty to the Government when it deserves it.

I am quite sure now that often, very often, in matters concerning religion and politics a man's reasoning powers are not above the monkey's.

The proper office of a friend is to side with you when you are in the wrong. Nearly anybody will side with you when you are in the right.

Life does not consist mainly, or even largely, of facts and happenings. It consists mainly of the storm of thought that is forever flowing through one's head.

People who love sausage and respect the law should never watch either being made.

I always take Scotch whiskey at night as a preventive of toothache. I have never had the toothache; and what is more, I never intend to have it .

Part of the secret of a success in life is to eat what you like and let the food fight it out inside.

While the rest of the species is descended from apes, redheads are descended from cats.

Honesty is the best policy - when there is money in it.

Let us be thankful for the fools. But for them the rest of us could not succeed.

Fame is a vapor, popularity an accident; the only earthly certainty is oblivion.

It is noble to teach oneself; it is still nobler to teach others.

Choosing not to read is like closing an open door to paradise

All of us contain Music & Truth, but most of us can't get it out .

Use the right word, not its second cousin.

Grief can take care if itself, but to get the full value of a joy you must have somebody to divide it with.

Buy land, they're not making it anymore.

The more you explain it, the more I don't understand it.

Unused talents gives you no advantage over someone who has no talent at all.

Wrinkles should merely indicate where smiles have been .

We consider that any man who can fiddle all through one of those Virginia Reels without losing his grip may be depended upon in any kind of musical emergency.

Why do you sit there looking like an envelope without any address on it?

Only kings, presidents, editors, and people with tapeworms have the right to use the editorial 'we.'

Patriot: the person who can holler the loudest without knowing what he is hollering about.

It is better to give than receive- especially advice.

You can't depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus.

I'm in favor of progress; it's change I don't like .

I am a great and sublime fool. But then I am God's fool, and all His works must be contemplated with respect.

We regret the things we don't do more than the things we do.

The ability to find solutions to life's challenges is what makes us grow as a person.

The worst loneliness is not to be comfortable with yourself.

One may make their house a palace of sham, or they can make it a home, a refuge.

Education consists mainly of what we have unlearned.

Courage is not the absence of fear, but the mastery of it .