The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1885-11-14
UNCLE EsEKs WISDOM.
Aphorism Whose Truth Is INDICATED in
Everyday Life.


Aphorism Whose Truth Is INDICATED in
Everyday Life.
There IS great deal of intellectual
activity that is nothing better than idle
curiosity; like the fly, It's only ambition
is to buzz and get into things.
The great art in getting rich is not in
saving money, but knowing how to
spend it.
Don't mistake stupidity for patience,
patience is the humility of wisdom.
Any one may commit blunder, but
no one but fool is bit twice by the
same dog
The man whom idleness don't lead
into mischief is either very pure or
very stupid one.
Nature makes her own laws, but can't
break one if she tries.
Economy is kind of natural wealth;
it is money ever at interest.
To give so as to bestow a favor and
not create an obligation is delicate art.
The more ideas man has got the
fewer words he takes to express them.
Wise men never talk to make time; they
talk to save it.
Experience costs more than it is worth,
but most people refuse to learn at any
less price.
Advice, just at present, is the greatest
drug in the market, the supply has
ruined the demand.
Lies are like certain horses; they can
travel farther in one day than they can
get back in two.
Take all the fun out of this world and
every pound of life would weigh ten.
You can buy dog for two dollar S
and half, but there ism t money enough
in the world to buy the wag of his tail.
The poor are more exravagant than
the rich, and this is just what keeps
them poor; for the sake of one feast
they are willing to starve three days.
A suit of clothes that fits man per.
fectly is worth more to him than a ped.
gree that fits him indifferently.
Wisdom without learning is like a
sword without a handle, and learning
without wisdom is like handle without
sword.
Reform! |! is the battle-cry of civil.
zation-reform for others, immunity for
ourselves.
The ridiculous side of life goes far
toward making it endurable.
A fool may possibly amuse others,
but he can t amuse himself.
Beware of the man who listens much
aud talks little; he is getting your thun
der and saving his own lightning.
A peacock's pedigree is all in the
spread of his tail; wet day takes the
glory out of it,
Condensation is almost omnipoten
single words are autocrats, and sen.
tence is law for all mankind.
Men are very vain of their opinions,
and yet there is scarcely any two of then
who think alike
p What the world wants Just now il
less civilization and more of the virtues
Beware of the man of few words
he always has something in reserve.
Truth can travel to the end of the
earth all alone, but lie must have com
pany to keep up its courage.
Religion is most excellent to mi,
with business, but to mix business will
religion is not safe.
We get our vices from each other, but
our virtues by cultivation.
My friend, does it pay to be a grea
manP You must be hated by some
feared by many, and, at best, envied b,
all.
Labor will buy anything that is il
the market.
Pedigrees seldom improve by age.
Vice and virtue began life together
and will leave the world when the las
man does.
Wisdom can afford to go slow; but
a fool doesn't run he is sure to get left
The man who Is ever muttering t
himself is talking to fool,
The man who has no superstition
loses half the pleasures of life.
Honesty, like charity, begins at home
the man who is not honest with himse
can not be with others, Century.