Divorced men are more likely to meet their car payments than their child support obligations.
Removing the faults in a stage-coach may produce a perfect stage-coach but it is unlikely to produce the first motor car.
I want to let my friend Buster know that I would like to have dinner with him tonight. Does Buster work at home? Then how likely is he to have his cell phone on? Is he one of those people who only turns on his cell when he's in his car? I hate that.
I have several writer friends but I don't involve them in my work process. I'm more likely to talk about the business of publishing with them.
Well I think that there's a very thin dividing line between success and failure. And I think if you start a business without financial backing you're likely to go the wrong side of that dividing line.
Leave the President's family business to him. You will have plenty to do without trying to manage the First Family. They are likely to do fine without your help.
No enterprise is more likely to succeed than one concealed from the enemy until it is ripe for execution.
The best form of government is that which is most likely to prevent the greatest sum of evil.
No one wants to die. Even people who want to go to heaven don't want to die to get there. And yet death is the destination we all share. No one has ever escaped it. And that is as it should be because Death is very likely the single best invention of Life. It is Life's change agent. It clears out the old to make way for the new.
Surely these women won't lose any more of their beauty and charm by putting a ballot in a ballot box once a year than they are likely to lose standing in foundries or laundries all year round. There is no harder contest than the contest for bread let me tell you that.