All the talk used to be about doing people good, now it is about doing people |
All war must be just the killing of strangers against whom you feel no personal animosity; strangers whom, in other circumstances, you would help if you found them in trouble, and who would help you if you needed it |
All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence, and then success is sure. |
All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence, and then success is sure. |
All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence, and then success is sure. |
All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence; then success is sure. |
Almost any man worthy of his salt would fight to defend his home, but no one ever heard of a man going to war for his boarding house |
Always acknowledge a fault. This will throw those in authority off their guard and give you an opportunity to commit more. |
Always do right. This will gratify some people and astonish the rest. |
Always obey your parents - when they are present. |
America is built on a tilt, and everything loose slides towards California. |
Americans have more food to eat than any other people and more diets to keep them from eating it |
An author values a compliment even when it comes from a source of doubtful competency |
An average English word is four letters and a half. By hard, honest labor I've dug all the large words out of my vocabulary and shaved it down till the average is three and a half... I never write ''metropolis'' for seven cents, because I can get the same money for ''city'.' I never write ''policeman',' because I can get the same price for ''cop'.'... I never write ''valetudinarian'' at all, for not even hunger and wretchedness can humble me to the point where I will do a word like that for seven cents; I wouldn't do it for fifteen. |
an educator in a costume. |