Crankisms | Page 2

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 as the human voice--to the one who is doing the talking!
60
Words may be mere wind, but then so is a tornado.
61
Laugh, and the world laughs with you; cry, and the world laughs at you.
62
A proverbial expression is often a crystallized lie which we should like to believe.
63
Because everything is for the best it does not follow that it is for our best.
64
It is easier to moralize than to be moral.
65
The difference between an actress on the stage and a woman not on the stage is a matter of here and there.
66
Ignorance is not so surprising, nor such a mark of inferiority, as unwillingness to learn.
67
He who grows indignant when his veracity is questioned generally has good and sufficient reason therefor.
68
Our joys are mainly those of prospect and retrospect.
69
It is not to be expected that the average man should