Wise Words — No Man Wants To Be A Saint

1896

No man wants to be a saint unless he knows what it means to be a sinner.

It is just as easy to predict a severe winter as any other kind.

People never mean it when they say they don't care how they look.

Widowers do not have half so much fun as they are supposed to have.

It is to live twice when you can enjoy the recollection of our former life.

There are several things worse than disappointment in love. Rheumatism is one.

Unfriended indeed is he who has no friend bold enough to point out his faults.

The only way some people ever prepare for a rainy day is by stealing an umbrella.

A man's conduct is only a picture-book of his creed. He acts after what he believes.

Waste of wealth is sometimes retrieved; waste of health seldom; waste of time never.

The man who sells ice in the summer and coal in the winter is about the only fellow who can safely defy the elements.

Scandal is described as something which one-half the world takes pleasure in inventing and the other half in believing. — The South-West.