Wise or Otherwise Part 9

Infamy may rise to such a height as to become famous.

More women have been killed by innuendo than by hard work.

To the small boy a circus is more alluring than the Psalms of Solomon.

Eternity is an endless chain whose links are youth, old age and decay.

The shark turns on his back to devour his prey--the hypocrite prays that he may devour.

The money lender should provide himself with an asbestos overcoat when he leaves this world.

Every girl in store or office means a man without employment. Every man without employment is a man incapable of supporting a wife. Do you see the inevitable result?

Laughter is the doctor's deadliest enemy.

Praise is the cheapest coin but more potent than gold.

If all men were brothers nations would cease to exist.

Years are required to make a brutal man--hours, a woman.

We praise G.o.d for our victories. What does the other fellow do?

Patriotism is but another name for, 'love yourself and hate your neighbors.'

If churches were made as attractive as gin palaces, the former, not the latter, would be open six days in the week.

When you get there, you will find that Eternal Justice is not built on the departmental store system. Some pale-faced girl will offer the evidence.

Once Pity and Charity perched on every cloistered gate and cried, 'welcome.' Now they only venture forth on public occasions, when they will be seen of all men.

The cat's serenade gives tone to the back yard.

Mental problem. Suicide or side-tracked. Which?

The laugh of a child is sweeter to G.o.d than a forty minute prayer.

The Klondike is as alluring as a pretty woman and equally as freakish.

The greatness of the Yukon is only surpa.s.sed by the greatness of its liars.

Innocence is a rose bud with a worm outside waiting to gnaw a hole in it.

A blood-sucker on a boy's toe looks bigger to him than a sea-serpent to a man.

An Easter bonnet is more satisfying to a woman than the most eloquent sermon.

The witch doctor taboos a banana tree, the parson the joyous dance. Both are bigots.