Take what you can use and let the rest go by.

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

Given a choice between grief and nothing, I'd choose grief.

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.

He who knows, does not speak. He who speaks, does not know.

The philosopher's treatment of a question is like the treatment of an illness.

Absence makes the heart grow fonder.

An idea is an eye given by God for the seeing of God. Some of these eyes we cannot bear to look out of, we blind them as quickly as possible.

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.

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

Prosperity makes friends, adversity tries them.

I was part of that strange race of people aptly described as spending their lives doing things they detest to make money they don't want to buy things they don't need to impress people they dislike.

Misery no longer loves company. Nowadays it insists on it.

I just asked myself... what would John DeLorean do?

You have to run as fast as you can just to stay where you are. If you want to get anywhere, you'll have to run much faster.

It is Mr. Mellon's credo that $200,000,000 can do no wrong. Our offense consists in doubting it.

When the sun shineth, make hay.

In a hierarchy every employee tends to rise to his level of incompetence ... in time every post tends to be occupied by an employee who is incompetent to carry out its duties ... Work is accomplished by those employees who have not yet reached their

If the ends don't justify the means, then what does?

Fain would I climb, yet fear I to fall.

It's always darkest just before the lights go out.

To add insult to injury.

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

I didn't believe in reincarnation in any of my other lives. I don't see why I should have to believe in it in this one.

For if there is a sin against life, it consists perhaps not so much in despairing of life as in hoping for another life and in eluding the implacable grandeur of this life.

"What's the use of a good quotation if you can't change it?"

I have a simple philosophy: Fill what's empty. Empty what's full. Scratch where it itches.

The superfluous is very necessary.

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

Alas, I am dying beyond my means.

After the game the king and the pawn go in the same box.

Whom the mad would destroy, first they make Gods.

I do not know whether I was then a man dreaming I was a butterfly, or whether I am now a butterfly dreaming I am a man.

The first rule of intelligent tinkering is to save all the parts.

Destiny is a good thing to accept when it's going your way. When it isn't, don't call it destiny; call it injustice, treachery, or simple bad luck.

I remember when legal used to mean lawful, now it means some kind of loophole.

Where there is much light there is also much shadow.

Sometimes, too long is too long.

Depend on the rabbit's foot if you will, but remember, it didn't help the rabbit.

If a shameless woman expects to be defiled and then dies of her fierce love because you do not consent, will chastity also be homicide?

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

Everything is possible. Pass the word.

A lot of people I know believe in positive thinking, and so do I. I believe everything positively stinks.

Or you or I must yield up his life to Ahrimanes. I would rather it were you. I should have no hesitation in sacrificing my own life to spare yours, but we take stock next week, and it would not be fair on the company.

Once the toothpaste is out of the tube, it's hard to get it back in.

L'hazard ne favorise que l'esprit prepare.

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.

Pereant, inquit, qui ante nos nostra dixerunt. [Confound those who have said our remarks before us.] or [May they perish who have expressed our bright ideas before us.]

My theology, briefly, is that the universe was dictated but not signed.

"If once a man indulges himself in murder, very soon he comes to think little of robbing; and from robbing he next comes to drinking and Sabbath-breaking, and from that to incivility and procrastination."

Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.

It's not so hard to lift yourself by your bootstraps once you're off the ground.