Elections are won by men and women chiefly because most people vote against somebody rather than for somebody.

Having imagination it takes you an hour to write a paragraph that if you were unimaginative would take you only a minute.

The best part of the fiction in many novels is the notice that the characters are imaginary.

Health is the thing that makes you feel that now is the best time of the year

You can learn many things from children. How much patience you have, for instance.

Nothing is more responsible for the good old days than a bad memory.

There must be a day or two in a man’s life when he is the precise age for something important.

Christmas is over and Business is Business

The trouble with this country is that there are too many politicians who believe, with a conviction based on experience, that you can fool all of the people all of the time

Since I am used to speaking in public, I know that it is useless

We have nothing in our history or position to invite aggression; we have everything to beckon us to the cultivation of relations of peace and amity with all nations.

You do not know what you can miss before you try.

Middle age occurs when you are too young to take up golf and too old to rush up to the net

Yet though my lamp burns low and dim, / Though I must slave for livelihood – / Think you that I would change with him? / You bet I would!

I find that a great part of the information I have, was acquired by looking up something and finding something else on the way.

Ninety-two percent of the stuff told you in confidence you couldn’t get anyone else to listen to.

Too much truth is uncouth.

There are plenty of good five cent cigars in the country. The trouble is they cost a quarter.

While the work or play is on, it is a lot of fun if while you are doing one you don’t constantly feel that you ought to be doing the other

In a body [like Congress] where there are more than one hundred talking lawyers, you can make no calculation upon the termination of any debate.