Quotes to inspire and reflect

When in doubt tell the truth. It will confound your enemies and astound your friends.

We are all ignorant; just about different things.

Some people give their problems swimming lessons instead of drowning them .

Education is what you must acquire without any interference from your schooling.

A good lawyer knows the law; a clever one takes the judge to lunch.

The trouble is not in dying for a friend, but in finding a friend worth dying for.

Comparison is the death of joy.

Additional problems are the offspring of poor solutions.

Never let the truth get in the way of a good story .

Data is like garbage. You'd better know what you are going to do with it before you collect it.

Worrying is paying interest on a debt you might not even owe.

Most men die at 27, we just bury them at 72.

There are basically two types of people. People who accomplish things, and people who claim to have accomplished things. The first group is less crowded.

It's no wonder that truth is stranger than fiction. Fiction has to make sense .

A Patriot is someone who stands for his country always, and for his government when it is deserved.

If Christ were here now there is one thing he would not be — a Christian.

Few things are more irritating than when someone who is wrong is also very effective in making his point.

The best way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer somebody else up.

When the end of the world comes, I want to be in Kentucky, because everything there happens 20 years after it happens anywhere else.

I didn't attend the funeral, but I sent a nice letter saying I approved of it.

Make your vocation your vacation. That is the secret to success .

The inability to forget is far more devastating than the inability to remember.

Most people can't bear to sit in church for an hour on Sundays. How are they supposed to live somewhere very similar to it for eternity?

A gentleman is someone who knows how to play the banjo and doesn't.

Behind every successful man, there is a woman - And behind every unsuccessful man, there are two.

A little lie can travel half way 'round the world while Truth is still lacing up her boots .

There is no security in life, only opportunity.

An open mind leaves a chance for someone to drop a worthwhile thought in it.

The nation is divided, half patriots and half traitors, and no man can tell which from which.

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 man.

Censorship is telling a man he can't have a steak just because a baby can't chew it.

Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.

Eat a live frog first thing in the morning and nothing worse will happen to you the rest of the day.

A man's character may be learned from the adjectives which he habitually uses in conversation.

A pessimist is a well-informed optimist.

Do the right thing. It will gratify some people and astonish the rest.

If we would learn what the human race really is at bottom, we need only observe it in election times.

Good judgement is the result of experience and experience the result of bad judgement .

If your only tool is a hammer, everything starts to look like a nail.

There is nothing to be learned from the second kick of a mule.

They did not know it was impossible so they did it

God created war so that Americans would learn geography.

Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear, not absence of fear.

Of all God's creatures, there is only one that cannot be made slave of the leash. That one is the cat. If man could be crossed with the cat it would improve the man, but it would deteriorate the cat.

Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter .

Great things can happen when you don't care who gets the credit.

Suppose you were an idiot, and suppose you were a member of Congress; but I repeat myself.

Don't dream your life, but live your dream