Emotions and Feelings

I would have written a shorter letter, but I did not have the time.

Humor is the good natured side of a truth.

It usually takes me more than three weeks to prepare a good impromptu speech.

Familiarity breeds contempt - and children.

The political and commercial morals of the United States are not merely food for laughter, they are an entire banquet.

We are always more anxious to be distinguished for a talent which we do not possess, than to be praised for the fifteen which we do possess.

Words are only painted fire; a look is the fire itself.

Do something everyday that you don't want to do.

If you're looking for friends when you need them...it's too late .

There is probably no pleasure equal to the pleasure of climbing a dangerous Alp; but it is a pleasure which is confined strictly to people who can find pleasure in it.

There is probably no pleasure equal to the pleasure of climbing a dangerous Alp; but it is a pleasure which is confined strictly to people who can find pleasure in it.

Sometimes my feelings are so hot that I have to take the pen and put them out on paper to keep them from setting me afire inside; then all that ink and labor are wasted because I can't print the results

There are several good protections against temptation, but the surest is cowardice.

One of life's most over-valued pleasures is sexual intercourse; of one of life's least appreciated pleasures in defecation .

There comes a time in every rightly constructed boy's life when he has a raging desire to go somewhere and dig for hidden treasure.

All Congresses and Parliaments have a kindly feeling for idiots, and a compassion for them, on account of personal experience and heredity.

To trust the God of the Bible is to trust an irascible, vindictive, fierce and ever fickle and changeful master.

Fleas can be taught nearly anything a congressman can.

The man who isn't a pessimist is a damned fool.

Men and women -- even man and wife are foreigners. Each has reserves that the other cannot enter into, nor understand. These have the effect of frontiers.

It could probably be shown by facts and figures that there is no distinctly native criminal class except Congress.

To believe yourself brave is to be brave; it is the one only essential thing.

To believe yourself brave is to be brave; it is the one only essential thing.

There ought to be a room in every house to swear in. It's dangerous to have to repress an emotion like that.