Crankisms | Page 2

we care to admit.
25
Faithful are the wounds of a friend; and as it is more blessed to give
than to receive, we prefer to do the wounding.

26
The naked truth and a naked lie Are shocking alike to society.
27
A man often envies another man his physical qualities--rarely his
mental. As we have no soul mirror we cannot see the reflection of our
spiritual deformities.
28
It is easy to have conscientious scruples when they are profitable.
29
The man who marries for money is a fool, but rarely as big a fool as he
who marries for love.
30
When you have done a man a favor do not insist too earnestly that it is
a mere trifle, or he may take you at your word and not trouble to repay
it; which would be very disappointing.
31
The gentle art of making enemies is the one natural accomplishment
which is common to all sorts and conditions of men--and women.
32
What we think of ourselves combined with what others think of us is a
very fair estimate.
33
If a girl cannot make up her mind between two men it is because she
has no mind worth making up.

Besides, any man who will knowingly be one of two is not worth the
trouble of thinking about.
34
If we devoted as much attention to our own affairs as we freely give to
those of others, we and others would be gainers.
35
Merit, like the show inside a circus, is of comparatively little use as a
drawing card; it is the bluff and buncombe the banging drum and
megaphone of the barker which is the successful magnet.
36
We always know what we should do under certain circumstances, but
unfortunately we never find circumstances arranged so as to suit what
we do.
37
An over sensitive conscience is simply the evidence of spiritual
dyspepsia. The man who has it is no better than his fellows.
38
Generosity, as commonly understood, consists in forcing upon others
that for which one has no use.
39
There is a greater difference between really thinking and only thinking
that we think than most of us think.
40
We rashly demand that the devil shall have his due, forgetting that if
that gentleman gets all that is coming to him it will go badly with some

of us.
41
If women knew themselves as well as they know men--and if men
knew women as well as they know themselves--things would be very
much as they are.
42
Before he knows a woman a man often thinks her an angel; when he
knows her he knows--er--better.
43
A critic is one who knows perfectly well how a thing should be done,
but is unable to do it. Therefore we are all the keenest critics in matters
of which we know least.
44
From all enemies and most friends, good Lord, deliver us!
45
Everything comes to the man who waits
but that is no inducement to wait-- for no man wants everything.
He usually wants one thing in particular-- just that one which he never
gets, no matter how long he waits.
46
When a man has drained the dregs of the bitterness of life, hope and
fear no longer exist in him, only indifference which produces
stupefaction.
47

Forbidden fruit has no attraction until we know that it is forbidden.
48
A man can be judged from the theatres he frequents and the ladies who
accompany him there.
49
Criticism grows faint in the presence of successful achievement.
50-51
A man may confess that his judgment was at fault, but
never that his intentions were other than strictly honorable.
52
Our last match never ignites except when we are sure it will not, and
are prepared for the worst.
53
It is impossible to serve two masters, and few of us try. We are satisfied
to praise God from whom all blessings flow while we cash the checks
of Mammon.
54
Our own success is due to our indomitable energy and other deserving
traits; that of others largely to blind luck. With our energy and the good
luck of others what could we not achieve!
55
The trouble with most reformers that they waste their time and energy
trying to reform somebody else.

56
We are convinced in our own minds that every man deserves what he
gets; but, judging from ourselves, not every one gets what he deserves.
57
If we saw ourselves as others see us we should not believe our own
eyes; but we should have a still lower opinion of the rest of the world
than we now have.
58
When we care we usually don't dare; when we dare we don't often care.
59
What sounds so sweet