A youth with his first cigar makes himself sick; a youth with his first girl makes other people sick. |
He who devotes sixteen hours a day to hard study may become at sixty as wise as he thought himself at twenty. |
If man is only a little lower than the angels, the angels should reform. |
In some parts of Ireland the sleep which knows no waking is always followed by a wake which knows no sleeping. |
It is difficult to see why lace should be so expensive; it is mostly holes. |
Politeness is half good manners and half good lying. |
Politeness is only one half good manners and the other half good lying. |
The penalty of success is to be bored by the attentions of people who formerly snubbed you. |
The tombstone is about the only thing that can stand upright and lie on its face at the same time. |
There is no pleasure in having nothing to do; the fun is having lots to do and not doing it. |