The public is the only critic whose opinion is worth anything at all |
The radical of one century is the conservative of the next. The radical invents the views. When he has worn them out, the conservative adopts them. |
The rain is famous for falling on the just and unjust alike, but if I had the management of such affairs I would rain softly and sweetly on the just, but if I caught a sample of the unjust out doors I would drown him |
The real yellow peril: Gold |
The report of my death was an exaggeration After reading his own obituary, June 2 1897 |
The reports of my death are greatly exaggerated |
The right word may be effective, but no word was ever as effective as a rightly timed pause. |
The rule is perfect: in all matters of opinion our adversaries are insane. |
the rumors of the White Sox demise are greatly exaggerated. |
The secret of getting ahead is getting started. The secret of getting started is breaking your complex overwhelming tasks into small manageable tasks, and then starting on the first one. |
The secret source of humor is not joy but sorrow; there is no humor in Heaven. |
The self taught man seldom knows anything accurately, and he does not know a tenth as much as he could have known if he had worked under teachers, and besides, he brags, and is the means of fooling other thoughtless people into going and doing as he |
The slowness of one section of the world about adopting the valuable ideas of another section of it is a curious thing and unaccountable |
The so-called Christian nations are the most enlightened and progressive, but in spite of their religion, not because of it |
The so-called human race |