Emotions and Feelings

It is sound judgment to put on a bold face and play your hand for a hundred times what it is worth; forty-nine times out of fifty nobody dares to call it, and you roll in the chips.

The secret source of humor is not joy but sorrow.

The secret source of humor is not joy but sorrow.

I was young and foolish then; now I am old and foolisher .

I have made it a rule never to smoke more than one cigar at a time.

Ignorant people think it is the noise which fighting cats make that is so aggravating, but it ain't so; it is the sickening grammar that they use.

Always do what is right. It will gratify half of mankind and astound the other.

Good friends, good books and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.

I have a higher and grander standard of principle than George Washington. He could not lie; I can, but I won't.

The human race has one really effective weapon, and that is laughter.

A few fly bites cannot stop a spirited horse .

It is not best that we should all think alike; it is a difference of opinion that makes horse races.

A sense of humor is the one thing no one will admit to not having.

When I'm playful I use the meridians of longitude and parallels of latitude for a seine, and drag the Atlantic Ocean for whales. I scratch my head with the lightning and purr myself to sleep with the thunder.

When I'm playful I use the meridians of longitude and parallels of latitude for a seine, and drag the Atlantic Ocean for whales. I scratch my head with the lightning and purr myself to sleep with the thunder.

A friend is someone who stays in when the rest of the world has gone out.

Carlyle said 'a lie cannot live.' It shows that he did not know how to tell them.

I deal with temptation by yielding to it.

Many public-school children seem to know only two dates—1492 and 4th of July; and as a rule they don't know what happened on either occasion.

A man cannot be comfortable without his own approval.

There are no grades of vanity; there are only grades of ability in concealing it .

Between us, we cover all knowledge; he knows all that can be known and I know the rest.

Necessity is the mother of taking chances.

Wagner’s music is better than it sounds.