The one-legged never stumble.

A reputation for a thousand years may depend upon the conduct of a single moment.

One learns to itch where one can scratch.

Do not adjust your sandals while passing through a melon-field, nor yet arrange your hat beneath an orange-tree.

Eat in the dark the bargain that you purchased in the dusk.

The province of philosophy is not so much to prevent calamities befalling as to demonstrate that they are blessings when they have taken place.

One may ride upon a tiger's back but it is fatal to dismount.

He who thinks he is raising a mound may only in Reality be digging a pit.

When struck by a thunderbolt it is unnecessary to consult the Book of Dates as to the precise meaning of the omen.

Although there exist many thousand subjects for elegant conversation, there are persons who cannot meet a cripple without talking about feet.

The wise duck keeps his mouth shut when he smells frogs.

Anyone without a sense of humor is too pretentious to be a good magician.

The finer natures were those that shone at the larger times.

Success is not money, cars, fame or material possessions but the lives you touched positively.

This very act of planting a seed in the earth has in it to me something beautiful. I always do it with a joy that is largely mixed with awe.

If you have sense enough to realize why flies gather around a restaurant, you should be able to appreciate why men run for office.

For let us not underestimate the Christian: the Christian, false to the point of innocence, is far above the ape-regarding Christians, a well known theory of descent becomes a mere compliment.

Misfortune is never invited. And it comes and sits at the table without permission and it eats, leaving nothing but bones.

I reach for funny books all the time to help me get through life.

Love! The poor word. How it has suffered up and down the streets of the world.

Men are pigs. Too bad we own everything.