To work hard, to live hard, to die hard, and then to go to hell after all would be too damned hard.

Hope is an echo, hope ties itself yonder, yonder.

Slang is a language that rolls up its sleeves, spits on its hands and goes to work.

A liar goes in fine clothes, A liar goes in rags. A liar is a liar, clothes or no clothes.

People lie because they don't remember clear what they saw. People lie because they can't help making a story better than it was the way it happened.

Arithmetic is where the answer is right and everything is nice and you can look out of the window and see the blue sky-or the answer is wrong and you have to start all over and try again and see how it comes out this time.

Money is power, freedom, a cushion, the root of all evil, the sum of blessings.

The moon is a friend for the lonesome to talk to.

Sometime they'll give a war and nobody will come.

I tell you the past is a bucket of ashes.