A joke, even if it be a lame one, is nowhere so keenly relished or quickly applauded as in a murder trial. |
A lie can run around the world six times while the truth is still trying to put on its pants. |
A lie can travel halfway around the world while the truth is still putting on its shoes |
A man can seldom -- very, very, seldom -- fight a winning fight against his training; the odds are too heavy. |
A man cannot be comfortable without his own approval. |
A man cannot be uncomfortable without his own approval |
A man is accepted into a church for what he believes and he is turned out for what he knows |
A man is never more truthful than when he acknowledges himself as a liar |
A man may have no bad habits and have worse |
A man never reaches that dizzy height of wisdom that he can no longer be led by the nose |
A man who carries a cat by the tail learns something he can learn by no other way |
A man who carries a cat by the tail learns something he can learn in no other way. |
A man with a hump-backed uncle mustn't make fun of another man's cross-eyed aunt |
A man's character may be learned from the adjectives which he habitually uses in conversation |
A man's first duty is to his own conscience and honor; the party and country come second to that, and never first |