Of all men's miseries, the bitterest is this: to know so much and have control over nothing.

Once there lived a village of creatures along the bottom of a great crystal river. Each creature in its own manner clung tightly to the twigs and rocks of the river bottom, for clinging was their way of life, and resisting the current what each had

There are no accidents whatsoever in the universe.

Great acts are made up of small deeds.

Most general statements are false, including this one.

Truth never comes into the world but like a bastard, to the ignominy of him that brought her birth.

If a fool persists in his folly he shall become wise.

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

She applies her lipstick in spite of its contents: "greasy rouge, containing crushed and dried insect corpses for coloring, beeswax for stiffness, and olive oil to help it flow - the latter having the unfortunate tendency to go rancid several hours a

Beware of all enterprises that require new clothes, and not rather a new wearer of clothes.

The more laws and order are made prominent, the more thieves and robbers there will be.

Haste makes waste.

To every Ph.D. there is an equal and opposite Ph.D.

If at first you don't succeed, try, try again.

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.

Certainly the game is rigged. Don't let that stop you; if you don't bet, you can't win.

Illusion is the first of all pleasures.

Why isn't there a special name for the tops of your feet?

Don't guess

The most difficult thing in the world is to know how to do a thing and to watch someone else doing it wrong, without commenting.

If we don't survive, we don't do anything else.

Time is but the stream I go a-fishing in.

The superior man understands what is right; the inferior man understands what will sell.

Some women should be beaten regularly, like gongs.

A full belly makes a dull brain.

A game can by God repent or we'll punish it. That's how they did it in Salem in the seventeenth century, and that's how we'll do it now.

In the highest society, as well as in the lowest, woman is merely an instrument of pleasure.

Wisdom is knowing what to do with what you know.

[Maturity consists in the discovery that] there comes a critical moment where everything is reversed, after which the point becomes to understand more and more that there is something which cannot be understood.

The past always looks better than it was. It's only pleasant because it isn't here.

Women of genius commonly have masculine faces, figures and manners. In transplanting brains to an alien soil God leaves a little of the original earth clinging to the roots.

Having the fewest wants, I am nearest to the gods.

A little inaccuracy sometimes saves tons of explanation.

It is common sense to take a method and try it. If it fails, admit it frankly and try another. But above all, try something.

When you are at Rome live in the Roman style; when you are elsewhere live as they live elsewhere.

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

There is no doubt that my lawyer is honest. For example, when he filed his income tax return last year, he declared half of his salary as 'unearned income.'

My problem lies in reconciling my gross habits with my net income.

Non-Determinism is not meant to be reasonable.

The shortest distance between two points is under construction.

Work Hard. Rock Hard. Eat Hard. Sleep Hard. Grow Big. Wear Glasses If You Need 'Em.

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

To have died once is enough.

I never cheated an honest man, only rascals. They wanted something for nothing. I gave them nothing for something.

You are never given a wish without also being given the power to make it true. You may have to work for it, however.

If you only have a hammer, you tend to see every problem as a nail.

Life is the living you do, Death is the living you don't do.

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

Do not despair of life. You have no doubt force enough to overcome your obstacles. Think of the fox prowling through wood and field in a winter night for something to satisfy his hunger. Notwithstanding cold and hounds and traps, his race survives

He who fears the unknown may one day flee from his own backside.