Quotes to inspire and reflect

Nature knows no indecencies; man invents them .

If you can't stand solitude, perhaps others find you boring as well.

There are lies, damned lies and statistics.

Honesty: The best of all the lost arts.

If you want love and abundance in your life, give it away.

The lack of money is the root of all evil.

If you have to swallow a frog, don't stare at it too long.

One learns peoples through the heart, not the eyes or the intellect .

The right word may be effective, but no word was ever as effective as a rightly timed pause.

Never tell the truth to people who are not worthy of it.

Cold! If the thermometer had been an inch longer we'd all have frozen to death!

It is better to deserve honors and not have them than to have them and not deserve them.

Explaining humor is a lot like dissecting a frog, you learn a lot in the process, but in the end you kill it.

Truth is stranger than fiction, but it is because Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities; Truth isn't.

There is a charm about the forbidden that makes it unspeakably desirable .

The secret to success: find out where people are going and get there first

Work and play are words used to describe the same thing under differing conditions.

The less a man knows the bigger the noise he makes and the higher the salary he commands.

We are strange beings, we seem to go free, but we go in chains - chains of training, custom, convention, association, environment - in a word, Circumstance, and against these bonds the strongest of us struggle in vain.

Adam was not alone in the Garden of Eden, however, and does not deserve all the credit; much is due to Eve, the first woman, and Satan, the first consultant.

What is Man? Man is a noisome bacillus whom Our Heavenly Father created because he was disappointed in the monkey .

If there is a God, he is a malign thug.

If you want me to give you a two-hour presentation, I am ready today. If you want only a five-minute speech, it will take me two weeks to prepare.

The conviction of the rich that the poor are happier is no more foolish than the conviction of the poor that the rich are.

Reality can be beaten with enough imagination.

Courage is not the lack of fear. It is acting in spite of it .

The difference between those that succeed and those that fail is, those that succeeded tried.

When we remember we are all mad, the mysteries disappear and life stands explained.

Man was made at the end of the week's work when God was tired.

Heaven goes by favor. If it went by merit, you would stay out and your dog would go in.

There are only two types of speakers in the world. 1. The nervous and 2. Liars.

There's always something about your success that displeases even your best friends.

Be careful about reading health books. You may die of a misprint .

In religion and politics, people's belief's and convictions are in almost every case gotten at second hand, and without examination

Begin with the determination to succeed and the work is half done already.

I do not wish any reward but to know I have done the right thing.

There are many humorous things in the world; among them, the white man's notion that he is less savage than the other savages.

Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness.

When your friends begin to flatter you on how young you look, it's a sure sign you're getting old .

Writing is easy. All you have to do is cross out the wrong words.

Loyalty to the country always. Loyalty to the government when it deserves it.

A half-truth is the most cowardly of lies.

Imagine, if you will, that I am an idiot. Then, imagine that I am also a Congressman. But, alas, I repeat myself.

I am always on the side of the revolutionists, because there never was a revolution unless there were some oppressive and intolerable conditions against which to revolute .

The past does not repeat itself, but it rhymes.

He is useless on top of the ground; he ought to be under it, inspiring the cabbages.

A tax is a fine for doing well, a fine is a tax for doing wrong.

Some of the worst things in my life never even happened.