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I have lived a long life and had many troubles, most of which never happened

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Let us so live that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry.

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If a cat sits on a hot stove, that cat won't sit on a hot stove again. That cat won't sit on a cold stove either. That cat just don't like stoves.

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The easy confidence with which I know another man's religion is folly teaches me to suspect that my own is also.

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Find a job you enjoy doing, and you will never have to work a day in your life.

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That's just the way: a person does a low-down thing, and then he don't want to take no consequences of it. Thinks as long as he can hide it, it ain't ...more

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Don't part with your illusions. When they are gone you may still exist, but you have ceased to live.

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The two most important days in your life are the day you are born and the day you find out why.

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Darwin abolished special creations, contributed the Origin of Species and hitched all life together in one unbroken procession.

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The poorest paid architect, engineer, general, author, sculptor, painter, lecturer, advocate, legislator, actor, preacher, singer is constructively in...more

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

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Part of the secret of a success in life is to eat what you like and let the food fight it out inside.

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The fear of death follows from the fear of life. A man who lives fully is prepared to die at any time.

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

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Now and then we had a hope that if we lived and were good, God would permit us to be pirates.