If you sit by the wayside waiting for Success, your knees will be too stiff to follow her when she passes.Collection: Waiting
If you have forgotten how to be a child you cannot teach children.Collection: Children
You can't change the world But you can change the facts And when you change the facts You change points of view If you change points of view You may change a vote And when you change a vote You may change the worldCollection: Views
Sorrow, like rain makes roses and mud.Collection: Gratitude
Learned men fall into error oftenest by mistaking knowledge for wisdom.Collection: Fall
The only original part in a work of art is the infusion of the artist's own character, if he has one.Collection: Art
Those who think it is permissible to tell white lies soon grow color-blind.Collection: Truth
It is twice as hard to crush a half-truth as a whole lie.Collection: Crush
If you keep your mouth shut you will never put your foot in it.Collection: Feet
It is as easy to give advice to yourself as to others, and as useless.Collection: Giving
Those who listen to lies lose the ability to hear the truth.Collection: Lying
If you handle truth carelessly, it will cut your fingers.Collection: Truth
No matter who you are, you will be put abed at last with a shovel.Collection: Matter
Man and the earth move in orbits: what they did before, they will do again.Collection: Moving
Those who have suffered are best able to help those who are suffering.Collection: Suffering
Memory is a crazy woman who hoards colored rags and throws away food.Collection: Funny
The most evident quality of human life is its loneliness.Collection: Loneliness
Some men, like a wet dog, sprinkle a shower of advice over you when you are least prepared for a bath.Collection: Dog
Wisdom grows in quiet places.Collection: Wisdom
An Englishmen thinks seated; a Frenchmen standing; an American pacing, an Irishman, afterwards.Collection: Thinking
Delay is a bitter tonic, but it increases appetite.Collection: Waiting
After thirty-five a man begins to have thoughts about women; before that he has feelings.Collection: Sex
Art is awkward until technique has become an unconscious habit.Collection: Art
Persecution is as necessary to religion as pruning to an orchard.Collection: Pruning
If you snub Conscience a few times she will cut your acquaintance.Collection: Cutting
If you are ignorant enough, you can walk like a cat on the slippery roof-ridge of danger.Collection: Cat
Patience has tender feet.Collection: Patience
A hole is nothing at all, but you can break your neck in it.Collection: Necks
Childhood has no necessary connection with age.Collection: Childhood
That a mouse of scandal whisks its foolish tail across the church's floor is not sufficient cause for clamorous leaping out of its windows.Collection: Church
There are more gluttons than drunkards in hell.Collection: Hell
There are ten church-members by inheritance for one by conviction.Collection: Church
Every wheatfield of human thought after a while becomes filled with cockle; then the husbandmen destroy the grain with the cockle and plant anew.Collection: Plant
Nations die first in the big cities.Collection: Cities
Practical prayer is harder on the soles of your shoes than on the knees of your trousers.Collection: Prayer
Religion often gets credit for curing rascals when old age is the real medicine.Collection: Real
The smaller the head, the bigger the dream.Collection: Dream
You cannot knock a man down who will not stand up, nor argue with a skeptic.Collection: Men
The statesman shears the sheep; the politician skins them.Collection: Funny
A habit of debt is very injurious to the memory.Collection: Memories
The half-baked sermon causes spiritual indigestionCollection: Spiritual
An essential quality of beauty is aloofness.Collection: Beauty
A worship of truth can be idolatry if the truth is small enough.Collection: Truth
Some men pray only when the world is dark, as owls hoot at night.Collection: Prayer
Power should answer by action, not by speech.Collection: Power
The monk that invented gunpowder did as much to stop war as did all the sermons of his brethren.Collection: War
Sermons are like pie-crust, the shorter the better.Collection: Pie
Life is a charity ball given by the leaders of society. A few dance, get their charity's worth to the last penny; and the poor stand outside the gate and watch with hungry eyes the glint of jewels in the warm air. Then comes the lackey Death, and he says: "Madam and my Master, your carriage waits." So they go away into the dark in the carriage of the black plumes, and the dancing continues.Collection: Life
Art knows, life applies knowledge; art feels, life acts.Collection: Art
Laws are made by the old, exceptions by the young.Collection: Law