There are three things which I consider excellent advice. First, don’t smoke to access. Second, don’t drink to excess. Third, don’t marry to excess.
Mark Twain Quotes
Sometimes too much to drink is barely enough.
As for drinking, I have no rule about that. When the others drink I like to help; otherwise I remain dry, by habit and preference. This dryness does not hurt me, but it could easily hurt you, because you are different. You let it alone.
There are people who strictly deprive themselves of each and every eatable, drinkable, and smokable which has in any way acquired a shady reputation. They pay this price for health. And health is all they get for it. How strange it is. It is like paying out your whole fortune for a cow that has […]
Never refuse to do a kindness unless the act would work great injury to yourself, and never refuse to take a drink- under any circumstances.
When all is said and done, the one sole condition that makes spiritual happiness and preserves it is the absence of doubt.
Shut the door. Not that it lets in the cold but that it lets out the coziness.
By what right has the dog come to be regarded as a “noble” animal? The more brutal and cruel and unjust you are to him the more your fawning and adoring slave he becomes; whereas, if you shamefully misuse a cat once she will always maintain a dignified reserve toward you afterward- you will never […]
If you pick up a starving dog and make him prosperous, he will not bite you; that is the principal difference between a dog and a man.
When a man’s dog turns against him it is time for his wife to pack her trunk and go home to mama.
