Experience is that marvelous thing that enables you to recognize a mistake when you make it again.
Nothing is so good for an ignorant man as silence; and if he was sensible of this he would not be ignorant.
I have always felt that a politician is to be judged by the animosities he excites among his opponents.
I gathered we were headed over Nob Hill, and from the angle, it seemed we were taking one of the steeper routes.
We owe something to extravagance, for thrift and adventure seldom go hand in hand.
Sometime they'll give a war and nobody will come.
I hope that when I die, people say about me, 'Boy, that guy sure owed me a lot of money.'