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A bee is never as busy as it seems; it's just that it can't buzz any s...  
A good listener is usually thinking about something else.  
A loafer always has the correct time.  
About the only thing we have left that actually discriminates in favor...  
All the world loves a good loser.  
An optimist is a fellow who believes what's going to be will be postpo...  
As to those who hoard gold and silver and spend it not in God's path, ...  
Bargain... anything a customer thinks a store is losing money on.  
Being an optimist after you've got everything you want doesn't count.  
Classical music is the kind we keep thinking will turn into a tune.   Music
Don't knock the weather; nine-tenths of the people couldn't start a co...   Nature
Every once in a while someone without a single bad habit gets caught.  
Getting talked about is one of the penalties for being pretty, while b...  
If some people didn't tell you, you'd never know they'd been away on a...  
If there's anything a public servant hates to do it's something for th...  
If you haven't seen your wife smile at a traffic cop, you haven't seen...  
It ain't a bad plan to keep still occasionally even when you know what...  
It is pretty hard to tell what does bring happiness; poverty and wealt...  
It isn't enough for you to love money - it's also necessary that money...  
It's going to be fun to watch and see how long the meek can keep the e...  
It's the good loser who finally loses out.  
Kindness goes a long ways lots of times when it ought to stay at home.  
Live so that you can at least get the benefit of the doubt.  
Men are not punished for their for sins, but by them.  
Next to a circus there ain't nothing that packs up and tears out faste...  
No one can feel as helpless as the owner of a sick goldfish.  
No woman can be handsome by the force of features alone, any more that...  
Nobody can be as agreeable as an uninvited guest.  
Nobody ever forgets where he buried the hatchet.  
Nobody ever grew despondent looking for trouble.  
Nobody kicks on being interrupted if it's by applause.  
Nothing is as irritating as the fellow who chats pleasantly while he's...  
Now and then an innocent man is sent to the legislature.  
Some fellows get credit for being conservative when they are only stup...  
Some folks can look so busy doing nothing that they seem indispensable...  
The fellow that agrees with everything you say is either a fool or he ...  
The fellow that owns his own home is always just coming out of a hardw...  
The hardest thing is to take less when you can get more.  
The height of ability consists in a thorough knowledge of the real val...  
The only way to entertain some folks is to listen to them.  
The safest way to double your money is to fold it over once and put it...  
The world gels better every day - then worse again in the evening.  
There is no failure except in no longer trying. There is no defeat exc...  
There's no secret about success. Did you ever know a successful man wh...  
We become actors without realizing it, and actors without wanting to.  
We'd all like to vote for the best man but he's never a candidate.  
When a fellow says, "It ain't the money but the principle of the thing...  
Why doesn't the fellow who says "I'm no speechmaker" let it go at that...  
You won't skid if you stay in a rut.