Great Throughts Treasury

"Actions speak louder than words."

"Don’t swap horses in midstream."

"If a person's foresight were as good as their hindsight, we would all get somewhere."

"If you want to know what God thinks of money, look at the people he gives it to."

"The church bell sometimes does better work than the sermon."

"Don’t bite off more than you can chew."

"Everyone lives downstream from someone else."

"The small courtesies sweeten life; the greater, ennoble it."

"We all live downwind."

"If the shoe fits, wear it."

"It doesn't work to leap a twenty-foot chasm in two ten-foot jumps."

"Growing old is mandatory; growing up is optional."

"Sooner or later perseverance achieves."

"Smith and Wesson or a Colt always beat four aces."

"Necessity never made a good bargain."

"The only thing we learn from new elections is we learned nothing from the old."

"Never swap horses crossing a stream."

"Two wrongs don't make a right."

"There are three kinds of people; those that make things happen, those that watch things happen and those who don't know what's happening."