OBSERVATIONS 



HE Preacher says, "Let us pray." The Practicer says, 

 "Let us smile." 



Long face never went with broad experience. 



Weather advice for all the year round: Your heart won't 

 keep fresh in cold storag e . 



To " practice self-control '' is to prohibit self-command. 



A man who attempts to " drive a sharp bargain ' usually finds its 

 sharpness lay in its hind heels. 



The first ingredient of common sense is the sense of humor. 



To judge a man's character: Ask the opinion of his next-door neigh- 

 bor then believe the opposite. 



The Rhyme of the Rendezvous: "Tongues wag, bodies lag, hearts sag." 

 Q In the presence of a real teacher, we do not learn. We discover. 

 If the man that loves a woman was as careful to tell her so as the man 

 that does not, homes would be happier and wrecked lives fewer. 

 Most people are too human to be humane. 

 Only small fish travel in shoals. 



Rules were made to be broken. But only by those who do it quietly 

 enough not to wake the neighbors. 

 Every birthday-fete is a death-day forecast. 

 A good deed becomes bad and a bad deed worse in the telling. 

 The only trouble with optimists is they 're weak in ornithology. Most 

 of them imagine Hope can be all wings and no body. 

 From the Confessions of a Proselyter (meaning me): "When a man's 

 faith is strong enough to work and support itself, he never sees it mop- 

 ing among the neighbors advising them to use its peculiar brand of 

 predigested creed." 



Pshaw! A " post of honor" is only a hitching-post after all. 

 Only a nobody can be a public personage. 



" Patriotism" is excusable in hornets and hedge-hogs, but not in men. 

 Q When we praise people for being polite, we forget they do not dare be 

 sincere > j 



To have " no time to lose" is sometimes to have no eternity to gain. 

 No man may safely play on a woman's feelings till he learns the use of 

 the tremolo stop. 

 The surest proof I am growing sincere: little children smile as I pass. 



EDWARD E A R L E P U R I N T O N 



