351 quotes
Folks are usually about as happy as they make their minds up to be.
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It will not do to investigate the subject of religion too closely, as it is apt to lead to Infidelity.
Misattributed
To sin by silence when they should protest makes cowards of men.
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Any nation that does not honor its heroes will not long endure.
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Congressmen who willfully take actions during wartime that damage morale and undermine the military are saboteurs and should be arrested, exiled, or hanged.
Misattributed
Marriage is neither heaven nor hell, it is simply purgatory.
Misattributed Henry Louis Mencken (1942)
The best way to get a bad law repealed is to enforce it.
Misattributed A Dictionary of Thoughts (1908)
How many legs does a dog have, if you call a tail a leg?
Misattributed
I walk slowly, but I never walk backward.
Attributed
The people will save their government, if the government itself will allow them.
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And in the end, it’s not the years in your life that count. It’s the life in your years.
Misattributed
I hope to have God on my side, but I must have Kentucky!
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To ease another's heartache is to forget one's own.
Misattributed a Edith A. Sawyer (1899)
If this is coffee, please bring me some tea; but if this is tea, please bring me some coffee.
Misattributed Evan Esar (1949)
I will study and get ready, and perhaps my chance will come.
Misattributed Laura Haddock (1931)
I am not concerned that you fall; I am concerned that you arise.
Misattributed Deborah Gillan Straub (1996)
If I had another face, do you think I would wear this one?
Misattributed Jean Dresden Grambs (1959)
You have to do your own growing no matter how tall your grandfather was.
Misattributed Herbert V. Prochnow (1955)
The only person who is a worse liar than a faith healer is his patient.
Misattributed Victor J. Stenger (1990)
We must not promise what we ought not, lest we be called on to perform what we cannot.
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