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About the only difference between the poor and the rich, is this, the poor suffer misery, while the rich have to enjoy it.

The happiest time in any man's life is when he is in red-hot pursuit of a dollar with a reasonable prospect of overtaking it.

I called my cat William because no shorter name fits the dignity of his character. Poor old man, he has fits now, so I call him Fitz-William.

Most people when they come to you for advice, come to have their own opinions strengthened, not corrected.

Music hath the charm to soothe a savage beast, but I'd try a revolver first.

You should always live within your income, even if you have to borrow to do so.

There is not a whole lot of fun in medicine but there is a whole lot of medicine in fun.

When I see a man of shallow understanding extravagantly clothed, I feel sorry - for the clothes.

Debt is like any other trap, easy enough to get into, but hard enough to get out of.

As long as we are lucky we attribute it to our smartness; our bad luck we give the gods credit for.

I am a poor man, but I have this consolation: I am poor by accident, not by design.

Poverty is the step-mother of genius.

Some folks as they grow older grow wise but most folks simply grow stubborner.

Pride seems tew be quite equally distributed; the man who owns the carriage and the man who drives it seem tew have it just alike.

Reason often makes mistakes, but conscience never does.

Ambition is like hunger; it obeys no law but its appetite

I don't care how much a man talks, if he only says it in a few words.

Suicide is cheating the doctor out of job.

It is a statistical fact that the wicked work harder to reach hell than the righteous do to enter heaven

The greatest thief this world has ever produced is procrastination, and he is still at large.

The more humble a man is before God the more he will be exalted; the more humble he is before man, the more he will get rode roughshod.