However deep you bury an unpleasantness a dog will always root it up again.
Remember, the pudding proves itself only when you eat it.
Women can accept the fact that a man is a rotter, a swindler, a drug taker, a confirmed liar, and a general swine without batting an eyelash and without its impairing their affection for the brute in the least! Women are wonderful realists.
There’s a convention that one doesn’t speak ill of the dead. That’s stupid, I think. The truth’s always the truth. On the whole it’s better to keep your mouth shut about living people. You might conceivably injure them. The dead are past that. But the harm they’ve done lives after them sometimes.
There is no hatred so great as that of a man who has been made to love a woman against his will.
The state of mind of a community is always directly due to the influence of the man at the top.
The popular view that a child forgets easily is not an accurate one. Many people go right through life in the grip of an idea which has been impressed on them in very tender years.
Loyalty it is a pestilential thing in crime. Again and again it obscures the truth.
Life’s a battlefield – not a picnic!
It is often the case that one learns more about a person from their enemies than from their friends.
Archaeologists only look at what lies beneath their feet. The sky and the heavens don’t exist for them.
After all, perhaps dirt isn’t really so unhealthy as one is brought up to believe!
