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A book on cheap paper does not convince. It is not prized, it is like a wheezy doctor with pigtail tobacco breath, who needs a manicure.

Academic education is the act of memorizing things read in books, and things told by college professors who got their education mostly by memorizing things read in books.

A college degree does not lessen the length of your ears; it only conceals it.

A committee is a thing which takes a week to do what one good man can do in an hour.

A conservative is a man who is too cowardly to fight and too fat to run.

A creed is an ossified metaphor.

Action is thought tempered by illusion.

A failure is a man who has blundered, but is not able to cash in the experience.

A form of self-delusion.

A friend is one who knows you and loves you just the same.

A good front is half the battle in love or war.

A legal or religious ceremony by which two persons of the opposite sex solemnly agree to harass and spy on each other... until death do them join.

A little more patience, a little more charity for all, a little more devotion, a little more love; with less bowing down to the past, and a silent ignoring of pretended authority; brave looking forward to the future with more faith in our fellows, and the race will be ripe for a great burst of light and life.

A little more persistence, a little more effort, and what seemed hopeless failure may turn to glorious success.

A little more persistence, a little more effort, and what seemed hopeless failure may turn to glorious success. There is no failure except in no longer trying. There is no defeat except from within, no really insurmountable barrier save our own inherent weakness of purpose.

All good men are anarchists. All cultured, kindly men; all gentlemen; all just men are anarchists. Jesus was an anarchist.

All noise is waste. So cultivate quietness in your speech, in your thoughts, in your emotions. Speak habitually low. Wait for attention and then you low words will be charged with dynamite.

Allow motion to equal emotion.

A man is as good as he has to be, and a woman is as bad as she dares

All wages are based primarily on productive power. Anything else would be charity.

A man who marries a woman to educate her falls victim to the same fallacy as the woman who marries a man to reform him.

An American religion: Work, play, breathe, bathe, study, live, laugh, and love.

An enemy is anyone who tells the truth about you.

An executive is one who makes an immediate decision and is sometimes right

An imitator is a man who succeeds in being an imitation.

An ounce of performance is worth more than a pound of preachment.

Anyone who idolizes you is going to hate you when he discovers that you are fallible. He never forgives. He has deceived himself, and he blames you for it.

A person born with an instinct for poverty.

A person may be very secretive and yet have no secrets.

A pessimist is a man who has been compelled to live with an optimist.

A poor man who eats too much, as contradistinguished from a gourmand, who is a rich man who ''lives well.''

A retentive memory may be a good thing, but the ability to forget is the true token of greatness.

Art is not a thing; it is a way.

Art is the beautiful way of doing things. Science is the effective way of doing things. Business is the economic way of doing things.

As a career, the business of an orthodox preacher is about as successful as that of a celluloid dog chasing an asbestos cat through hell.

As a rule, the man who can do all things equally well is a very mediocre individual.

A school should not be a preparation for life. A school should be life.

A woman will doubt everything you say except it be compliments to herself.

Be patient with the boys - you are dealing with soul-stuff.

Be pleasant until ten o'clock in the morning and the rest of the day will take care of itself.

Be yourself and think for yourself, and while your conclusions may not be infallible they will be nearer right than the inclusions forced upon you by those who have a personal interest in keeping you in ignorance.

Blessed is the man who has found someone to do his work.

Business is a fight, a continual struggle, just as life is

Charity: a thing that begins at home, and usually stays there.

Character is the result of two things: mental attitude and the way we spend our time.

Christianity supplies a Hell for the people who disagree with you and a Heaven for your friends.

Conformists die, but heretics live forever.

Cultivate only the habits that you are willing should master you

Destruction, violence, ravages, murder, are perpetrated by statute law.

Die, v.: To stop sinning suddenly.