The first condition of understanding a foreign country is to smell it.

For the sin they do by two and two they must pay for one by one.

Heaven grant us patience with a man in love.

A man's mind is wont to tell him more than seven watchmen sitting in a tower.

Words are, of course, the most powerful drug used by mankind.

He travels the fastest who travels alone.

An ounce of mother is worth a pound of clergy.

Down to Gehenna, or up to the Throne, He travels the fastest who travels alone.

Borrow trouble for yourself, if that's your nature, but don't lend it to your neighbours.

Everyone is more or less mad on one point.

Gardens are not made by singing 'Oh, how beautiful,' and sitting in the shade.

Often and often afterwards, the beloved Aunt would ask me why I had never told anyone how I was being treated. Children tell little more than animals, for what comes to them they accept as eternally established.

San Francisco is a mad city - inhabited for the most part by perfectly insane people whose women are of a remarkable beauty.

And that is called paying the Dane-geld; but we've proved it again and again, that if once you have paid him the Dane-geld you never get rid of the Dane.

Asia is not going to be civilized after the methods of the West. There is too much Asia and she is too old.

If history were taught in the form of stories, it would never be forgotten.

Never look backwards or you'll fall down the stairs.

I always prefer to believe the best of everybody, it saves so much trouble.

All the people like us are we, and everyone else is They.

If I were dammed of body and soul, I know whose prayers would make me whole, mother o' mine o mother o' mine.

A people always ends by resembling its shadow.

It's clever, but is it Art?

If you can force your heart and nerve and sinew to serve your turn long after they are gone, and so hold on when there is nothing in you except the will which says to them: 'Hold on!'

We have forty million reasons for failure, but not a single excuse.

God could not be everywhere, and therefore he made mothers.

And the first rude sketch that the world had seen was joy to his mighty heart, till the Devil whispered behind the leaves "It's pretty, but is it Art?"

The first condition of understanding a foreign country is to smell it.

A woman's guess is much more accurate than a man's certainty.

The silliest woman can manage a clever man; but it needs a very clever woman to manage a fool.

For the female of the species is more deadly than the male.

When you're wounded and left on Afghanistan's plains, and the women come out to cut up what remains, jest roll to your rifle and blow out your brains and go to your gawd like a soldier.

He wrapped himself in quotations - as a beggar would enfold himself in the purple of Emperors.

Small miseries, like small debts, hit us in so many places, and meet us at so many turns and corners, that what they want in weight, they make up in number, and render it less hazardous to stand the fire of one cannon ball, than a volley composed of such a shower of bullets.

A woman is only a woman, but a good cigar is a smoke.

If I were hanged on the highest hill, Mother o' mine, O mother o' mine! I know whose love would follow me still Mother o' mine, O mother o' mine!

Fill the unforgiving minute with sixty seconds worth of distance run.

If you can keep your wits about you while all others are losing theirs, and blaming you. The world will be yours and everything in it, what's more, you'll be a man, my son.

I have struck a city - a real city - and they call it Chicago... I urgently desire never to see it again. It is inhabited by savages.

And the first rude sketch that the world had seen was joy to his mighty heart, till the Devil whispered behind the leaves 'It's pretty, but is it Art?'

God could not be everywhere and therefore he made mothers.

One cannot resist the lure of Africa.

Borrow trouble for yourself, if that's your nature, but don't lend it to your neighbors.

This is a brief life but in its brevity it offers us some splendid moments some meaningful adventures.

Who has smelled the woodsmoke at twilight who has seen the campfire burning who is quick to read the noises of the night

I always prefer to believe the best of everybody it saves so much trouble.

A woman is only a woman but a good cigar is a smoke.

When a crew and a captain understand each other to the core it takes a gale and more than a gale to put their ship ashore.

The elephants a gentleman.

The individual has always had to struggle to keep from being overwhelmed by the tribe. To be your own man is a hard business. If you try it you will be lonely often and sometimes frightened. But no price is too high to pay for the privilege of owning yourself.