| Quotes |
Topic |
| Advice | Advice: the smallest current coin. |
| Age | Age--that period of life in which we compound for the vices that we still cherish by reviling those that we no longer have the enterprise to commit. |
| Anger | Speak when you are angry and you will make the best speech you will ever regret. |
| Babies | Birth: The first and direst of all disasters. |
| Boys | The fact that boys are allowed to exist at all is evidence of a remarkable Christian forbearance among men. |
| Business | The gambling known as business looks with austere disfavor upon the business known as gambling. |
| Calamity | Calamities are of two kinds: misfortune to ourselves, and good fortune to others. |
| Certainty | To be positive: to be mistaken at the top of one's voice. |
| Christianity | Christian: one who believes that the New Testament is a divinely inspired book admirably suited to the spiritual needs of his neighbors. |
| Compromise | Compromise. Such an adjustment of conflicting interests as gives each adversary the satisfaction of thinking he has got what he ought not to have, and is deprived of nothing except what was justly his due. |
| Science | Telephone: An invention of the devil which abrogates some of the advantages of making a disagreeable person keep his distance. |
| Cowardice | One who is in a perilous emergency thinks with his legs. |
| Cynic | A cynic is a blackguard whose faulty vision sees things as they are, and not as they ought to be. |
| Debt | Forgetfulness. A gift of God bestowed upon debtors in compensation for their destitution of conscience. |
| Destiny | Destiny. A tyrant's authority for crime and a fool's excuse for failure. |
| Diplomacy | International arbitration may be defined as the substitution of many burning questions for a smouldering one. |
| Diplomacy | ... the patriotic art of lying for one's country. |
| Education | Education is that which discloses to the wise and disguises from the foolish their lack of understanding. |
| Enemy | When you are ill make haste to forgive your enemies, for you may recover. |
| Errors | Experience is a revelation in the light of which we renounce our errors of youth for those of age. |
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