The immature mind hops from one thing to another; the mature mind seeks to follow through.

Cauliflower is nothing but cabbage with a college education.

Mark Twain

The only place you find success before work is in the dictionary.

May V. Smith

Where one person shapes their life by precept and example, there are a thousand who have shaped it by impulse and circumstances.

James Russell Lowell

Age is not a particularly interesting subject. Anyone can get old. All you have to do is live long enough.

Don Marquis

The most winning woman I ever knew was hanged for poisoning three little children for their insurance-money, and the most repellent man of my acquaintance is a philanthropist who has spent nearly a quarter of a million upon the London poor.

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

And if you're not going to have a clear health threat, you don't want to panic people.

William Scranton

The sea -- this truth must be confessed -- has no generosity. No display of manly qualities -- courage, hardihood, endurance, faithfulness -- has ever been known to touch its irresponsible consciousness of power.

Joseph Conrad

There are seventy million books in American libraries, but the one you want is always out.

Thomas L. Masson

Somewhere along the line of development we discover what we really are, and then we make our real decision for which we are responsible. Make that decision primarily for yourself because you can never really live anyone else's life, not even your own child's.

Eleanor Roosevelt

The devil helps his servants for a season; but when they get into a pinch; he leaves them in the lurch.

Sir Roger L'Estrange

For us to regard others as worthy, we have to begin by regarding ourselves as worthy.

Stephen Richards

I challenge you to show me where the saloon has ever helped business, education, church, morals or anything we hold dear.

Billy Sunday