Patriot: the person who can holler the loudest without knowing what he is hollering about.

If you are planning to work very hard, start working by screwing around! Lounge about at home; fool around in the streets or in the fields! Laziness will fill you with energy! read more

• Thought Planning Work Very Hard Start Working by Screwing Around Lounge About Home Fool Streets Fields Laziness Fill Energy

Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead. The consciousness of loving and being loved brings a warmth and a richness to life that nothing else can bring. read more

• Thought Keep Love Heart Life Without Like Sunless Garden Flowers Dead Consciousness Loving Loved Brings Warmth Richness Nothing Bring

Oft expectation fails, and most oft there where most it promises; and oft it hits where hope is coldest, and despair most fits. read more

• Thought Oft Expectation Fails Most Promises Hits Hope Coldest Despair Fits

Every portrait that is painted with feeling is a portrait of the artist, not of the sitter. read more

• Thought Every Portrait Painted Feeling Artist Sitter

It takes a couple seconds to say Hello, but forever to say Goodbye. read more

• Thought Takes Couple Seconds Say Hello Forever Goodbye

Kindness is a language that the deaf can hear and the blind can see. read more

• Thought Kindness Language Deaf Hear Blind See

A wise man does not waste so good a commodity as lying for naught. read more

• Thought Wise Man Does Waste Good Commodity Lying for Naught

No one can tell me what is a good cigar for me. I am the only judge. People who claim to know say that I smoke the worst cigars in the world. They bring their own cigars when they come to my house. read more

• Thought Tell What Good Cigar for Judge People Claim Say Smoke Worst Cigars World They Bring Their Own Come House

I think a compliment ought to always precede a complaint, where one is possible, because it softens resentment and insures for the complaint a courteous and gentle reception. read more

• Thought Think Compliment Ought Precede Complaint Possible Softens Resentment Insures for Courteous Gentle Reception

The most outrageous lies that can be invented will find believers if a person only tells them with all his might. read more

• Thought Most Outrageous Lies Invented Find Believers Person Tells Them Might