The man with a new idea is a crank until the idea succeeds.

There is nothing in the world like a persuasive speech to fuddle the mental apparatus.

In certain trying circumstances, urgent circumstances, desperate circumstances, profanity furnishes a relief denied even to prayer.

Work consists of whatever a body is obliged to do, and play consists of whatever a body is not obliged to do.

The person who has had a bull by the tail once has learned 60 or 70 times as much as a person who hasn’t.

Patriotism is supporting your country all the time, and your government when it deserves it.

That is just the way with some people. They get down on a thing when they don’t know nothing about it.

No prejudice has even been able to prove its case in the court of reason.

We should be careful to get out of an experience only the wisdom that is in it—and stop there; lest we be like the cat that sits down on a hot stove-lid. She will never sit down on a hot-stove lid again—and that is well; but also she will never sit down on a cold one any more.

There is no such thing as “the Queen’s English.” The property has gone into the hands of a joint stock company and we own the bulk of the shares!