10000+ Motivational and Inspiring Quotes About Life, Love & Success

Familiarity breeds contempt and children.

Repartee is something we think of twenty

four hours too late.

What a wee little part of a person's life are his acts and his words!

His real life is led in his head,

and is known to none but himself.

I was gratified to be able to answer promptly,

and I did.

I said I didn't know.

To refuse awards is another way of

accepting them with more noise than is normal.

Civilization is the limitless multiplication of unnecessary necessities.

The wit knows that his place is at the tail of a procession.

What sir,

would the people of the earth be without woman?

They would be scarce, sir,

almighty scarce.

A person with a new idea

is a crank until the idea succeeds.

I was seldom able to see an opportunity

until it had ceased to be one.

The main difference between a cat and a lie

is that a cat only has nine lives.

Thousands of geniuses live and die undiscovered

either by themselves or by others.

Only kings,

presidents,

editors,

and people with tapeworms have the right to use the editorial 'we.'

Nothing so needs reforming as other people's habits.

I never smoke to excess that is,

I smoke in moderation,

only one cigar at a time.

I must have a prodigious quantity of mind;

it takes me as much as a week sometimes to make it up.

When a person cannot deceive himself

the chances are against his being able to deceive other people.

The public is the only critic whose opinion is worth anything at all.

It is better to take what does not belong to you

than to let it lie around neglected.

Why is it that we rejoice at a birth and grieve at a funeral?

It is because we are not the person involved.