Man must shape his tools lest they shape him.

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

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

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

What fools these mortals be.

Religion has done love a great service by making it a sin.

A definition of teaching: casting fake pearls before real swine.

A classic is something that everyone wants to have read and nobody wants to read.

Most general statements are false, including this one.

... why should you waste a single moment of *your* life seeming to be something you don't want to be? Lord, that's so simple. If you hate your job, quit it. If your friends are tedious, go out and find new friends. You are queer, you lucky fool, a

I didn't do it! Nobody saw me do it! Can't prove anything!

Illusion is the first of all pleasures.

If it were thought that anything I wrote was influenced by Robert Frost, I would take that particular work of mine, shred it, and flush it down the toilet, hoping not to clog the pipes. A more sententious, holding- forth old bore who expected every

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

Let sleeping dogs lie.

The only thing that experience teaches us is that experience teaches us nothing.

Eighteen goddess-like daughters are not equal to one son with a hump.

There are two kinds of fool. One says, "This is old, and therefore good." And one says, "This is new, and therefore better"

What we wish, that we readily believe.

Whom the mad would destroy, first they make Gods.

The price of seeking to force our beliefs on others is that someday they might force their beliefs on us.

Our business in life is not to succeed but to continue to fail in high spirits.

In the olden days in England, you could be hung for stealing a sheep or a loaf of bread. However, if a sheep stole a loaf of bread and gave it to you, you would only be tried for receiving, a crime punishable by forty lashes with the cat or the dog,

Every word is like an unnecessary stain on silence and nothingness.

Yet creeds mean very little, Coth answered the dark god, still speaking almost gently. The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds; and the pessimist fears this is true.

He that composes himself is wiser than he that composes a book.

You can bring men from other parts of the world who are sane. And you know what happens? At the very moment they cross those mountains... they go mad. Instantaneously and automatically, at the very moment they cross the mountains into California,

It has been said [by Anatole France], "it is not by amusing oneself that one learns," and, in reply: "it is *____only* by amusing oneself that one can learn."

None love the bearer of bad news.

Have the courage to take your own thoughts seriously, for they will shape you.

If ever the pleasure of one has to be bought by the pain of the other, there better be no trade. A trade by which one gains and the other loses is a fraud.

A journey of a thousand miles starts under one's feet.

The law will never make men free; it is men who have got to make the law free.