Great Throughts Treasury

"To be absolutely certain about something, one must know everything or nothing about it."

"What a pity human beings can't exchange problems. Everyone knows exactly how to solve the other fellow's."

"It's far easier to forgive an enemy after you've got even with him."

"A man who will not lie to a woman has very little consideration for her feelings."

"If you realize you aren't so wise today as you thought you were yesterday, you're wiser today."

"Conscience is the inner voice which warns us that someone may be looking."

"You probably wouldn't worry about what people think of you if you could know how seldom they do."

"One of the best things people could do for their descendants would be to sharply limit the number of them."

"Writing is the hardest way of earning a living, with the possible exception of wrestling alligators."

"If you want to make an easy job seem mighty hard, just keep putting off doing it."

"We probably wouldn't worry about what people think of us if we could know how seldom they do."

"Inheritance taxes are so high that the happiest mourner at a rich man's funeral is usually Uncle Sam."