Emotions and Feelings

The intelligent man who is proud of his intelligence is like the condemned man who is proud of his large cell.

Men often mistake notoriety for fame, and would rather be remarked for their vices and follies than not be noticed at all.

I am patient with stupidity but not with those who are proud of it.

I am patient with stupidity but not with those who are proud of it.

Nothing in the world is so rare as a person one can always put up with.

Speak when you are angry and you will make the best speech you will ever regret.

Anger is a symptom, a way of cloaking and expressing feelings too awful to experience directly—hurt, bitterness, grief and, most of all, fear.

Anger is a symptom, a way of cloaking and expressing feelings too awful to experience directly—hurt, bitterness, grief and, most of all, fear.

I will permit no man to narrow and degrade my soul by making me hate him.

Grow angry slowly—there’s plenty of time.

A bore is a fellow talker who can change the subject to his topic of conversation faster than you can change it back to yours.

People who insist on telling their dreams are among the terrors of the breakfast table.

People who insist on telling their dreams are among the terrors of the breakfast table.

A fanatic is someone who can’t change his mind and won’t change the subject.

A fanatic is someone who can’t change his mind and won’t change the subject.

Bores bore each other, too, but it never seems to teach them anything.

Everybody has the right to express what he thinks. That, of course, lets the crackpots in. But if you cannot tell a crackpot when you see one, then you ought to be taken in.

I’m not denyin’ the women are foolish: God Almighty made ’em to match the men.

You will do foolish things, but do them with enthusiasm.

You will do foolish things, but do them with enthusiasm.

You will do foolish things, but do them with enthusiasm.

Only a fool argues with a skunk, a mule or the cook.

Only a fool argues with a skunk, a mule or the cook.

Great works are performed, not by strength, but by perseverance.