The closest to perfection a person ever comes is when he fills out a job application form.

The world wants to be deceived.

There's no such thing as a free lunch.

Who goeth a-borrowing goeth a-sorrowing.

I owe the public nothing.

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.

Remembering is for those who have forgotten.

He who knows others is wise. He who knows himself is enlightened.

Even the best of friends cannot attend each other's funeral.

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

It is bad luck to be superstitious.

According to my best recollection, I don't remember.

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

If a man has a strong faith he can indulge in the luxury of skepticism.

Why be a man when you can be a success?

Happiness is having a scratch for every itch.

Imagination is the one weapon in the war against reality.

Someday, Weederman, we'll look back on all this and laugh... It will probably be one of those deep, eerie ones that slowly builds to a blood-curdling maniacal scream... but still it will be a laugh.

"I don't mind going nowhere as long as it's an interesting path."

A society in which women are taught anything but the management of a family, the care of men, and the creation of the future generation is a society which is on its way out.

A woman occasionally is quite a serviceable substitute for masturbation. It takes an abundance of imagination, to be sure.

The intelligence of any discussion diminishes with the square of the number of participants.

Sweet April showers do spring May flowers.

Music in the soul can be heard by the universe.

If what they've been doing hasn't solved the problem, tell them to do something else.

Like, if I'm not for me, then fer shure, like who will be? And if, y'know, if I'm not like fer anyone else, then hey, I mean, what am I? And if not now, like I dunno, maybe like when? And if not Who, then I dunno, maybe like the Rolling Stones?

Freedom is what you do with what's been done to you.

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

Odets, where is thy sting?

The Poems, all three hundred of them, may be summed up in one of their phrases: "Let our thoughts be correct".

Do not seek death; death will find you. But seek the road which makes death a fulfillment.

When the ax entered the forest, the trees said, "The handle is one of us!"

VI: A hungry dog hunts best. A hungrier dog hunts even better. VII: Decreased business base increases overhead. So does increased business base. VIII: The most unsuccessful four years in the education of a cost-estimator is fifth grade ari

Let us not look back in anger or forward in fear, but around us in awareness.

Everything takes longer, costs more, and is less useful.

Just because everything is different doesn't mean anything has changed.

The only reward of virtue is virtue.

The proof of the pudding is in the eating.

A snake lurks in the grass.

Many hands make light work.

Patience is the best remedy for every trouble.

No man is an Iland, intire of it selfe; every man is a peece of the Continent, a part of the maine; if a Clod bee washed away by the Sea, Europe is the lesse, as well as if a Promontorie were, as well as if a Mannor of thy friends or of thine owne we

One man's Mede is another man's Persian.

I: The best way to make a silk purse from a sow's ear is to begin with a silk sow. The same is true of money. II: If today were half as good as tomorrow is supposed to be, it would probably be twice as good as yesterday was. III: There are

Nothing will dispel enthusiasm like a small admission fee.

Every young man should have a hobby: learning how to handle money is the best one.

The life which is unexamined is not worth living.

Lookie, lookie, here comes cookie...

Competitive fury is not always anger. It is the true missionary's courage and zeal in facing the possibility that one's best may not be enough.

Think sideways!

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