If you pick up a starving dog and make him prosperous, he will not bite you. This is the principal difference between a dog and a man.
Mark Twain Quotes
I have studied it often, but I never could discover the plot. (dictionary)
Satan hasn’t a single salaried helper; the Opposition employ a million.
Who prays for Satan? Who, in 1,800 years, has had the common humanity to pray for the one sinner that needed it most?
How lucky Adam was. He knew when he said a good thing, nobody had said it before. Adam was not alone in the Garden of Eden, however, and does not deserve all the credit; much is due to Eve, the first woman, and Satan, the first consultant.
We may not pay Satan reverence, for that would be indiscreet, but we can at least respect his talent.
Satan (impatiently) to New Comer. The trouble with you Chicago people is, that you think you are the best people down here; whereas you are merely the most numerous.
One cannot have everything the way he would like it. A man has no business to be depressed by a disappointment, anyway; he ought to make up his mind to get even.
You can’t depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus.
All democrats are insane, but not one of them knows it; none but the republicans and mugwumps know it. All the republicans are insane, but only the democrats and mugwumps can perceive it. The rule is perfect: in all matters of opinion our adversaries are insane.
