The tombstone is about the only thing that can stand upright and lie on its face at the same time.
He who devotes sixteen hours a day to hard study may become at sixty as wise as he thought himself at twenty.
Politeness is half good manners and half good lying.
Politeness is only one half good manners and the other half good lying.
A youth with his first cigar makes himself sick; a youth with his first girl makes other people sick.
There is no pleasure in having nothing to do; the fun is in having lots to do and not doing it.
