You k'n hide de fier, but w'at you gwine do wid de smoke?

The use of money is all the advantage there is to having money.

To add insult to injury.

A witty saying proves nothing.

Five bicycles make a volkswagen, seven make a truck.

Adde parvum parvo manus acervus erit. [Add little to little and there will be a big pile.]

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

He who laughs has not yet heard the bad news.

The optimist thinks that this is the best of all possible worlds, and the pessimist knows it.

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.

In spite of everything, I still believe that people are good at heart.

Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known.

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

What we wish, that we readily believe.

Joe Cool always spends the first two weeks at college sailing his frisbee.

My advice to you, my violent friend, is to seek out gold and sit on it.

Why are you doing this to me? Because knowledge is torture, and there must be awareness before there is change.

I went into the business for the money, and the art grew out of it. If people are disillusioned by that remark, I can't help it. It's the truth.

A man who cannot seduce men cannot save them either.

A good scapegoat is hard to find. A guilty conscience is the mother of invention.

An ounce of mother is worth a ton of priest.

He that bringeth a present, findeth the door open.

There is no proverb that is not true.

The sooner you make your first 5000 mistakes, the sooner you will be able to correct them.

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.

... but as records of courts and justice are admissible, it can easily be proved that powerful and malevolent magicians once existed and were a scourge to mankind. The evidence (including confession) upon which certain women were convicted of witch

Men freely believe that what they wish to desire.

"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."

It is a lesson which all history teaches wise men, to put trust in ideas, and not in circumstances.

The state of innocence contains the germs of all future sin.

Some men are heterosexual, and some are bisexual, and some men don't think about sex at all... they become lawyers.

Lay off the muses, it's a very tough dollar.

Ninety percent of the time things turn out worse than you thought they would. The other ten percent of the time you had no right to expect that much.

Chance is perhaps the work of God when He did not want to sign.

Three may keep a secret, if two of them are dead.

One good turn deserves another.

The chief danger in life is that you may take too many precautions.

Innovation is hard to schedule.

I think we're in trouble.

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.

Never appeal to a man's "better nature." He may not have one. Invoking his self-interest gives you more leverage.

Divorce is a game played by lawyers.

He that teaches himself has a fool for a master.

The best executive is one who has sense enough to pick good people to do what he wants done, and self-restraint enough to keep from meddling with them while they do it.

The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same time and still retain the ability to function.

Naked children have never played in _o_u_r fountains, and I.M. Pei will never be happy on Route 66.

The only "ism" Hollywood believes in is plagiarism.

Plastic... Aluminum... These are the inheritors of the Universe! Flesh and Blood have had their day... and that day is past!

The road to Hades is easy to travel.

You can observe a lot just by watching.

Those who educate children well are more to be honored than parents, for these only gave life, those the art of living well.