Wise or Otherwise Part 15

He who would pluck contentment must abandon force.

To console a widow is more agreeable than to court a maid.

The man who stains the purity of a woman tarnishes his own soul.

It is difficult to distinguish the fleshy lie from the ghostly truth.

The private ownership of land is crystalized in the question "Is the unborn child an heir or a b.a.s.t.a.r.d?"

Love of the artistic does not account for the crookedness of men, though the curve is the only true line of beauty.

Sly women walk where blunt men fall.

The stench of corruption is fragrant to the lobbyist.

A shrivelled soul may hide in a bishop's paunch.

A slippery friend is more dangerous than thin ice.

The kangaroo and the miser carry all they love in a pouch.

You cannot staunch a bleeding wound with a memory or a promise.

Marriage is a covenant which few women refuse and many revoke.

Emotion in woman is the locomotive--wisdom, the cow-catcher.

A misfit policy is as dangerous to a statesman as a misfit dress to a woman.

The sting of a bee is not the less to be dreaded because the bee makes honey.

Creed is as akin to righteousness as a 'bucket shop' to the kingdom of heaven.

An act cannot die.

To exist is not to live.

Degeneracy is born of many parents.

The rich man gives advice, the poor man bread.

Happiness is now a theory, I would make it a fact.

The statute of limitation runs not against evil deeds.

The quickest cure for a pa.s.sionate longing is a cold woman.

Through lapse of time the few claim the inheritance of the many.