Better to be alone than in ill company. Borrowed garments never fit well. Nothing costs so much as what is given to us. Lean liberty is better than fat slavery. The mob has many heads, but no brains.
Never leave to tomorrow what you can do today. No crime is more infamous than the violation of truth. Even a dog gets bread by wagging his tail. Better a dollar earned than ten inherited. Land was never lost for want of an heir.
The best remedy for an injury is to forget it. We are more mindful of injuries than benefits. It’s better to suffer an injury than commit one. The worst pig often gets the best pear. A man has enemies when his back is to the wall.
There is no arguing with a large fist. Women, priests and poultry are never satisfied. The more a man has the more he wants. A small spark may consume a city. Don’t add insult to injury.
Insult begets insult as bugs beget bugs. Experience is the looking-glass of the intellect. Full bottles and glasses make swearers and asses. More men are drowned on land than in the sea. When drink enters, wisdom departs.
There is nothing so intolerable as a fortunate fool. Intolerance is the child of ignorance. Intoxication is the child of ignorance. Don’t burn incense on strange alters. Necessity is the mother of invention.
One of the greatest labor saving inventions of today is tomorrow. Truth never fears investigation. If you came unbidden you depart unthanked. As we are inwardly, so shall we appear outwardly. As the inner life is, so will be the language.
If better were within, better would come out. That which is in the mind is spoken. As a man’s heart is, so does he speak.
Strike while the iron is hot. Jealousy is a green-eyed monster. A jealous woman is worse than a witch. A loving man is always a jealous man.
"Money is like manure. If you spread it around, it does a lot of good. But if you pile it up in one place, it stinks like hell." ---- Clint Murchison, Sr., oil magnate, founder of Southern Union Gas, born in Tyler, Texas in 1895
