He travels the fastest who travels alone

God could not be everywhere, and therefore he made mothers.

A woman's guess is much more accurate than a man's certainty.

Gardens are not made by singing 'Oh, how beautiful,' and sitting in the shade.

Borrow trouble for yourself, if that's your nature, but don't lend it to your neighbours.

Fill the unforgiving minute with sixty seconds worth of distance run.

A woman is only a woman, but a good cigar is a smoke.

If history were taught in the form of stories, it would never be forgotten.

The silliest woman can manage a clever man; but it needs a very clever woman to manage a fool

An ounce of mother is worth a pound of clergy.

Words are, of course, the most powerful drug used by mankind.

Never look backwards or you'll fall down the stairs.

We have forty million reasons for failure, but not a single excuse.

Heaven grant us patience with a man in love.

The first condition of understanding a foreign country is to smell it.