An older student came to Otis and said, "I have been to see a great number of teachers and I have given up a great number of pleasures. I have fasted, been celibate and stayed awake nights seeking enlightenment. I have given up everything I was aske

Nothing succeeds like excess.

There is nothing so easy but that it becomes difficult when you do it reluctantly.

"You've got to have a gimmick if your band sucks."

"Cogito ergo I'm right and you're wrong."

If we spoke a different language, we would perceive a somewhat different world.

Marijuana will be legal some day, because the many law students who now smoke pot will someday become congressmen and legalize it in order to protect themselves.

It is annoying to be honest to no purpose.

To err is human, to repent, divine, to persist, devilish.

The course of true anything never does run smooth.

Not to laugh, not to lament, not to curse, but to understand.

Let us not look back in anger or forward in fear, but around us in awareness.

The reward of a thing well done is to have done it.

Of all possible committee reactions to any given agenda item, the reaction that will occur is the one which will liberate the greatest amount of hot air.

The two most beautiful words in the English language are "Cheque Enclosed."

When the English language gets in my way, I walk over it.

Once he had one leg in the White House and the nation trembled under his roars. Now he is a tinpot pope in the Coca-Cola belt and a brother to the forlorn pastors who belabor halfwits in galvanized iron tabernacles behind the railroad yards."

Try not to have a good time ... This is supposed to be educational.

A commune is where people join together to share their lack of wealth.

If you know the answer to a question, don't ask.

"World conquerors sometimes become fools, but fools never become world conquerors."

Plus ,ca change, plus c'est la m^eme chose. [The more things change, the more they remain the same.]

Once he had one leg in the White House and the nation trembled under his roars. Now he is a tinpot pope in the Coca-Cola belt and a brother to the forlorn pastors who belabor halfwits in galvanized iron tabernacles behind the railroad yards."

Too many people are thinking of security instead of opportunity. They seem more afraid of life than death.

We're only in it for the volume.

Rome was not built in one day.

I remember when legal used to mean lawful, now it means some kind of loophole.

If it doesn't smell yet, it's pretty fresh.

Hard reality has a way of cramping your style.

Every young man should have a hobby: learning how to handle money is the best one.

Never try to teach a pig to sing. It wastes your time and annoys the pig.

An aphorism is never exactly true; it is either a half-truth or one-and-a-half truths.

I go on working for the same reason a hen goes on laying eggs.

There is a natural hootchy-kootchy to a goldfish.

It has long been noticed that juries are pitiless for robbery and full of indulgence for infanticide. A question of interest, my dear Sir! The jury is afraid of being robbed and has passed the age when it could be a victim of infanticide.

That Xanthippe's husband should have become so great a philosopher is remarkable. Amid all the scolding, to be able to think! But he could not write: that was impossible. Socrates has not left us a single book.

I: The best way to make a silk purse from a sow's ear is to begin with a silk sow. The same is true of money. II: If today were half as good as tomorrow is supposed to be, it would probably be twice as good as yesterday was. III: There are

A continuing flow of paper is sufficient to continue the flow of paper.

He who despairs over an event is a coward, but he who holds hopes for the human condition is a fool.

The pollution's at that awkward stage. Too thick to navigate and too thin to cultivate.

Prosperity makes friends, adversity tries them.

Objectivity is to a newspaper what virtue is to a woman.

I don't want to achieve immortality through my work. I want to achieve immortality through not dying.

I respect faith, but doubt is what gives you an education.

Sic transit gloria mundi. [So passes away the glory of this world.]

Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.

The most delightful day after the one on which you buy a cottage in the country is the one on which you resell it.

Fortune Documents the Great Legal Decisions: We think that we may take judicial notice of the fact that the term "bitch" may imply some feeling of endearment when applied to a female of the canine species but that it is seldom, if ever, so used whe

All hope abandon, ye who enter here!

Think lucky. If you fall in a pond, check your pockets for fish.