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the less jawing a person does about his money, the longer he’s apt to hang onto it.
He was born for trouble, as a good many are. If we could only see it in advance, the kindest thing would be to kill them in the cradle.
(The times are changed, and we are changed with them).
they had finished last in the human race.
“I’ve seen this sort of perverseness in elections. A man will be in office, doing fine, honest, upright, hard-working, even noble, as far as you can find that quality in a politician, and the opposition will put up a known scoundrel that hasn’t a thing to recommend him except noise. But if he brays long enough and loud enough he’ll bray himself right in. People are prepared to believe anything about a person as long as it’s bad.”
We’d be at the rock in plenty of time for a Sunday wedding. This appeared to cheer everybody up. Weddings do that, I’ve noticed. The ones already married are happy to see somebody else hooked, and the bachelors are naturally relieved that it isn’t them.
“He’s a fool,” I said. “But he means well enough. He’s just old. All old people act silly one way or another.”
