There are many of us in this old world of ours who hold that things break about even for all of us. I have observed, for example, that we all get about the same amount of ice. The rich get it in the summer and the poor get it in the winter.

Every person, all the events in your life are there because you have drawn them there. What you choose to do with them is up to you.

It is often the case that the man who can't tell a lie thinks he is the best judge of one.

It is impossible to enjoy idling thoroughly unless one has plenty of work to do.

No one born with a mouth and a need is "innocent".

The only promotion rules I can think of are that a sense of shame is to be avoided at all costs and there is never any reason for a hustler to be less cunning than more virtuous men. Oh yes ... whenever you think you've got something really great, a

When you go into court you are putting your fate into the hands of twelve people who weren't smart enough to get out of jury duty.

Arrakis teaches the attitude of the knife - chopping off what's incomplete and saying: "Now it's complete because it's ended here."

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.

A committee takes root and grows, it flowers, wilts and dies, scattering the seed from which other committees will bloom.

If all the world's a stage, I want to operate the trap door.

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

A prediction is worth twenty explanations.

Beggars should be no choosers.

Whenever anyone says, "theoretically," they really mean, "not really."

God gave man two ears and one tongue so that we listen twice as much as we speak.

Soap and education are not as sudden as a massacre, but they are more deadly in the long run.

Some performers on television appear to be horrible people, but when you finally get to know them in person, they turn out to be even worse.

Education is what survives when what has been learnt has been forgotten.

The average Ph.D thesis is nothing but the transference of bones from one graveyard to another.

Porsche: there simply is no substitute.

Remember that there is an outside world to see and enjoy.

It is only by risking our persons from one hour to another that we live at all. And often enough our faith beforehand in an uncertified result is the only thing that makes the result come true.

A dead man cannot bite.

Must I hold a candle to my shames?

Prizes are for children.

Perhaps no person can be a poet, or even enjoy poetry without a certain unsoundness of mind.

We're constantly being bombarded by insulting and humiliating music, which people are making for you the way they make those Wonder Bread products. Just as food can be bad for your system, music can be bad for your spirtual and emotional feelings. I

Never take a resume seriously. Resumes only make money for the people who write the resumes. No resume ever tells an employer how many times a job applicant has had the clap. Why, indeed, would anyone hire a person based on a resume written by a

... Our second completely true news item was sent to me by Mr. H. Boyce Connell Jr. of Atlanta, Ga., where he is involved in a law firm. One thing I like about the South is, folks there care about tradition. If somebody gets handed a name like "H.

It shall be unlawful for any suspicious person to be within the municipality.

The universe is made of stories, not of atoms.

Ignorance is the Mother of Devotion.

Mike: "The Fourth Dimension is a shambles?" Bernie: "Nobody ever empties the ashtrays. People are SO inconsiderate."

Just because everything is different doesn't mean anything has changed.

Two heads are better than one.

The life which is unexamined is not worth living.

Don't tell me how hard you work. Tell me how much you get done.

There has been a little distress selling on the stock exchange.

The Worst Prison Guards The largest number of convicts ever to escape simultaneously from a maximum security prison is 124. This record is held by Alcoente Prison, near Lisbon in Portugal. During the weeks leading up to the escape in July 1978 th

The lunatic, the lover, and the poet, Are of imagination all compact...

The possession of a book becomes a substitute for reading it.

You're all clear now, kid. Now blow this thing so we can all go home.

It is by the fortune of God that, in this country, we have three benefits: freedom of speech, freedom of thought, and the wisdom never to use either.

Art is Nature speeded up and God slowed down.

Let's remind ourselves that last year's fresh idea is today's cliche.

Trust in Allah, but tie your camel.

By perseverance the snail reached the Ark.

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

Nothing matters very much, and few things matter at all.