Mary Wilson Little

In some parts of Ireland the sleep which knows no waking is always followed by a wake which knows no sleeping.

The penalty of success is to be bored by the attentions of people who formerly snubbed you.

Politeness is half good manners and half good lying.

He who devotes sixteen hours a day to hard study may become at sixty as wise as he thought himself at twenty.

If man is only a little lower than the angels, the angels should reform.

It is difficult to see why lace should be so expensive; it is mostly holes.

A youth with his first cigar makes himself sick a youth with his first girl makes other people sick.

Almost anything can be preserved in alcohol, except health, happiness, and money.

The tombstone is about the only thing that can stand upright and lie on its face at the same time.

Politeness is only one half good manners and the other half good lying.

There is no pleasure in having nothing to do the fun is having lots to do and not doing it.

There is no pleasure in having nothing to do; the fun is in having lots to do and not doing it.

A youth with his first cigar makes himself sick; a youth with his first girl makes other people sick.