No one lies so boldly as the man who is indignant.

What is a cynic? A man who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing.

The excessive increase of anything causes a reaction in the opposite direction.

Fortune befriends the bold.

Swearing is industry language. For as long as we’re alive it’s not going to change. You’ve got to be boisterous to get results.

If a man does his best, what else is there?

The robbed that smiles, steals something from the thief.

Love is blind; friendship closes its eyes.

You and I, the people of God, have permission to come before the throne of Heaven at any time we will, and we are encouraged to come there with great boldness.

One has to secrete a jelly in which to slip quotations down people’s throats – and one always secretes too much jelly.

Sometimes I wish my first word was ‚quote,‘ so that on my death bed, my last words could be ‚end quote.‘

Questions are never indiscreet, answers sometimes are.

Great thoughts speak only to the thoughtful mind, but great actions speak to all mankind.

When good Americans die they go to Paris.

If all the economists were laid end to end, they’d never reach a conclusion.

When all is said and done, more is said than done.

Stay hungry, stay foolish.

A friend may well be reckoned the masterpiece of nature.

If one way be better than another, that you may be sure is nature’s way.

A witty saying proves nothing.

Words without thoughts never to heaven go.

He who loves 50 people has 50 woes; he who loves no one has no woes.

France has more need of me than I have need of France.

People see me on the street, and they point to me, and they’re like, ‚Hey! All right, all right, all right!‘

The ideas I stand for are not mine. I borrowed them from Socrates. I swiped them from Chesterfield. I stole them from Jesus. And I put them in a book. If you don’t like their rules, whose would you use?

The essence of lying is in deception, not in words.

Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind, And therefore is winged Cupid painted blind.

Age appears to be best in four things; old wood best to burn, old wine to drink, old friends to trust, and old authors to read.

The single biggest problem in communication is the illusion that it has taken place.

Find enough clever things to say, and you’re a Prime Minister; write them down and you’re a Shakespeare.

I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears and sweat.

Husbands never become good; they merely become proficient.

There is no wealth but life.

As we must account for every idle word, so must we account for every idle silence.

The absent are never without fault, nor the present without excuse.

He who does not trust enough, Will not be trusted.

Your manuscript is both good and original; but the part that is good is not original, and the part that is original is not good.

I only wish that ordinary people had an unlimited capacity for doing harm; then they might have an unlimited power for doing good.

Men always want to be a woman’s first love – women like to be a man’s last romance.

He who has health, has hope; and he who has hope, has everything.

We can approach God’s throne with boldness because we are confident in the power of what Jesus accomplished for us at the cross.

Books that you carry to the fire, and hold readily in your hand, are most useful after all.

Quote me as saying I was mis-quoted.

The happiest women, like the happiest nations, have no history.

Eating words has never given me indigestion.

Lord, Lord, how subject we old men are to this vice of lying!

No man was ever wise by chance.

A good indignation brings out all one’s powers.

I can resist everything except temptation.

I’m a bold Christian, not a scaredy-cat Christian.

A minute of thought is greater than an hour of talk.

They say marriages are made in Heaven. But so is thunder and lightning.

Give thy thoughts no tongue.

I was bold in the pursuit of knowledge, never fearing to follow truth and reason to whatever results they led, and bearding every authority which stood in their way.

Marriage is a wonderful institution, but who would want to live in an institution?

Lying in bed would be an altogether perfect and supreme experience if only one had a colored pencil long enough to draw on the ceiling.

Sir, my concern is not whether God is on our side; my greatest concern is to be on God’s side, for God is always right.

Nixon is one of the few in the history of this country to run for high office talking out of both sides of his mouth at the same time and lying out of both sides.

A fool thinks himself to be wise, but a wise man knows himself to be a fool.

A loving heart is the truest wisdom.

Very often, say what you will, a knave is only a fool.