Bret Harte

A bird in hand is a certainty. But a bird in the bush may sing.

Never a tear bedims the eye that time and patience will not dry.

The only sure thing about luck is that it will change.

Dont be too quickTo break bad habits better stickLike the Mission folk to your arsenic.

Man has the possibility of existence after death. But possibility is one thing and the realization of the possibility is quite a different thing.

The dominant expression of a child is gravity.

Never a lip is curved with pain that can't be kissed into smiles again.

We begin to die as soon as we are born, and the end is linked to the beginning.