In levying taxes and in shearing sheep it is well to stop when you get down to the skin. |
Most public speakers talk so badly that a sudden quotation from a poet appears in their babble like a lady in a slum |
Practical prayer is harder on the soles of your shoes than on the knees of your trousers. |
Reason clears and plants the wilderness of the imagination to harvest the wheat of art. |
Religion is a process of turning your skull into a tabernacle, not of going up to Jerusalem once a year |
Religion often gets credit for curing rascals when old age is the real medicine |
Revenge is often like biting a dog because the dog bit you. |
Sermons are like piecrust, the shorter the better |
Sermons are like piecrust, the shorter the better |
Show me a genuine case of platonic friendship, and I shall show you two old or homely faces |
Some folks never handle the truth without scratching it |
Some lives are like an ebbing tide in a harbor; the farther they go out, the more mud they expose |
Some that will hold a creed unto martyrdom will not hold the truth against a sneering laugh |
Surgery is by far the worst snob among the handicrafts |
The best blood will sometimes get into a fool or a mosquito |