The salary of the chief executive of the large corporation is not a market award for achievement. It is frequently in the nature of a warm personal gesture by the individual to himself.

XI: If the Earth could be made to rotate twice as fast, managers would get twice as much done. If the Earth could be made to rotate twenty times as fast, everyone else would get twice as much done since all the managers would fly off. XII: I

Peace cannot be kept by force; it can only be achieved by understanding.

It is equally bad when one speeds on the guest unwilling to go, and when he holds back one who is hastening. Rather one should befriend the guest who is there, but speed him when he wishes.

Go away, I'm all right.

God is really only another artist. He invented the giraffe, the elephant and the cat. He has no real style, He just goes on trying other things.

I owe the public nothing.

Swerve me? The path to my fixed purpose is laid with iron rails, whereon my soul is grooved to run. Over unsounded gorges, through the rifled hearts of mountains, under torrents' beds, unerringly I rush!

We have nowhere else to go... this is all we have.

Piece of cake!

Yevtushenko has... an ego that can crack crystal at a distance of twenty feet.

Many hands make light work.

My own business always bores me to death; I prefer other people's.

Death is life's way of telling you you've been fired.

... indifference is a militant thing ... when it goes away it leaves smoking ruins, where lie citizens bayonetted through the throat. It is not a children's pastime like mere highway robbery.

Even the clearest and most perfect circumstantial evidence is likely to be at fault, after all, and therefore ought to be received with great caution. Take the case of any pencil, sharpened by any woman; if you have witnesses, you will find she did

The life which is unexamined is not worth living.

The Lord prefers common-looking people. That is the reason that He makes so many of them.

How many "coming men" has one known! Where on earth do they all go to?

"You boys lookin' for trouble?" "Sure. Whaddya got?"

Being a woman is of special interest only to aspiring male transsexuals. To actual women it is merely a good excuse not to play football.

By protracting life, we do not deduct one jot from the duration of death.

I can't stand squealers; hit that guy.

There's nothing in the middle of the road but yellow stripes and dead armadillos.

You tread upon my patience.

If you think nobody cares if you're alive, try missing a couple of car payments.

Among all savage beasts, none is found so harmful as woman.

No one so thoroughly appreciates the value of constructive criticism as the one who's giving it.

You can have peace. Or you can have freedom. Don't ever count on having both at once.

By working faithfully eight hours a day, you may eventually get to be boss and work twelve.

He who wonders discovers that this in itself is wonder.

The idea there was that consumers would bring their broken electronic devices, such as television sets and VCR's, to the destruction centers, where trained personnel would whack them (the devices) with sledgehammers. With their devices thus permanent

Mum's the word.

I'll turn over a new leaf.

Sin boldly.

In every country and every age, the priest has been hostile to Liberty.

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

Certain passages in several laws have always defied interpretation and the most inexplicable must be a matter of opinion. A judge of the Court of Session of Scotland has sent the editors of this book his candidate which reads, "In the Nuts (unground

There are two ways of disliking poetry; one way is to dislike it, the other is to read Pope.

It were not best that we should all think alike; it is difference of opinion that makes horse-races.

If the church put in half the time on covetousness that it does on lust, this would be a better world.

Life is a hospital in which every patient is possessed by the desire to change his bed.

Military justice is to justice what military music is to music.

I hate quotations.

When your work speaks for itself, don't interrupt.

If little else, the brain is an educational toy.

Use an accordion. Go to jail.

Home life as we understand it is no more natural to us than a cage is to a cockatoo.

He is a man capable of turning any colour into grey.

All bad precedents began as justifiable measures.