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

Authors (and perhaps columnists) eventually rise to the top of whatever depths they were once able to plumb.

She cried, and the judge wiped her tears with my checkbook.

A violent man will die a violent death.

A banker is a fellow who lends you his umbrella when the sun is shining and wants it back the minute it begins to rain.

If reporters don't know that truth is plural, they ought to be lawyers.

Some scholars are like donkeys, they merely carry a lot of books.

"You would do well not to imagine profundity," he said. "Anything that seems of momentous occasion should be dwelt upon as though it were of slight note. Conversely, trivialities must be attended to with the greatest of care. Because death is moment

The superfluous is very necessary.

This is an especially good time for you vacationers who plan to fly, because the Reagan administration, as part of the same policy under which it recently sold Yellowstone National Park to Wayne Newton, has "deregulated" the airline industry. What t

Carol's head ached as she trailed behind the unsmiling Calibrees along the block of booths. She chirruped at Kennicott, "Let's be wild! Let's ride on the merry-go-round and grab a gold ring!" Kennicott considered it, and mumbled to Calibree, "Thin

Imagine what we can imagine!

Yes, I've now got this nice little apartment in New York, one of those L-shaped ones. Unfortunately, it's a lower case l.

For a light heart lives long.

Luck can't last a lifetime, unless you die young.

Dying is a very dull, dreary affair. My advice to you is to have nothing whatever to do with it.

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

Everything is possible. Pass the word.

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."

Doctors and lawyers must go to school for years and years, often with little sleep and with great sacrifice to their first wives.

The difference between the right word and the almost right word is the difference between lightning and the lightning bug.

The streets were dark with something more than night.

Prosperity makes friends, adversity tries them.

It's all right letting yourself go as long as you can let yourself back.

Roumanian-Yiddish cooking has killed more Jews than Hitler.

Briefly stated, the findings are that when presented with an array of data or a sequence of events in which they are instructed to discover an underlying order, subjects show strong tendencies to perceive order and causality in random arrays, to perc

'Naomi, sex at noon taxes.' I moan. Never odd or even. A man, a plan, a canal, Panama. Madam, I'm Adam. Sit on a potato pan, Otis. Sit on Otis.

A fake fortuneteller can be tolerated. But an authentic soothsayer should be shot on sight. Cassandra did not get half the kicking around she deserved.

If I had a plantation in Georgia and a home in Hell, I'd sell the plantation and go home.

My father was a creole, his father a Negro, and his father a monkey; my family, it seems, begins where yours left off.

"MOKE DAT YIGARETTE"

Take your work seriously but never take yourself seriously; and do not take what happens either to yourself or your work seriously.

I never believed in Santa Claus because I knew no white dude would come into my neighborhood after dark.

I believe that the moment is near when by a procedure of active paranoiac thought, it will be possible to systematize confusion and contribute to the total discrediting of the world of reality.

If you're like most homeowners, you're afraid that many repairs around your home are too difficult to tackle. So, when your furnace explodes, you call in a so-called professional to fix it. The "professional" arrives in a truck with lettering on t

What you don't know won't help you much either.

What one believes to be true either is true or becomes true.

A wise person makes his own decisions, a weak one obeys public opinion.

The big cities of America are becoming Third World countries.

Mental power tended to corrupt, and absolute intelligence tended to corrupt absolutely, until the victim eschewed violence entirely in favor of smart solutions to stupid problems.

Someone did a study of the three most-often-heard phrases in New York City. One is "Hey, taxi." Two is, "What train do I take to get to Bloomingdale's?" And three is, "Don't worry. It's just a flesh wound."

Know what I hate most? Rhetorical questions.

No small art is it to sleep: it is necessary for that purpose to keep awake all day.

If I cannot bend Heaven, I shall move Hell.

He hath eaten me out of house and home.

I don't know half of you half as well as I should like; and I like less than half of you half as well as you deserve.

Art is either plagiarism or revolution.

If we could sell our experiences for what they cost us, we would all be millionaires.

Don't go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first.

"The chain which can be yanked is not the eternal chain."