The future is a race between education and catastrophe.

I was in this prematurely air conditioned supermarket and there were all these aisles and there were these bathing caps you could buy that had these kind of Fourth of July plumes on them that were red and yellow and blue and I wasn't tempted to buy

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

Mother is far too clever to understand anything she does not like.

Take your work seriously but never take yourself seriously; and do not take what happens either to yourself or your work seriously.

We all live in a state of ambitious poverty.

"You mean, if you allow the master to be uncivil, to treat you any old way he likes, and to insult your dignity, then he may deem you fit to hear his view of things?" "Quite the contrary. You must defend your integrity, assuming you have integrit

Lo! Men have become the tool of their tools.

As Gen. de Gaulle occassionally acknowledges America to be the daughter of Europe, so I am pleased to come to Yale, the daughter of Harvard.

Marijuana will be legal some day, because the many law students who now smoke pot will someday become congressmen and legalize it in order to protect themselves.

Instead of loving your enemies, treat your friends a little better.

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

The road to Hades is easy to travel.

Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known.

For fools rush in where angels fear to tread.

Look ere ye leap.

He who writes with no misspelled words has prevented a first suspicion on the limits of his scholarship or, in the social world, of his general education and culture.

A good reputation is more valuable than money.

"We demand rigidly defined areas of doubt and uncertainty!"

Here's to women. Would that we could fall into her arms without falling into her hands.

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.

One picture is worth more than ten thousand words.

Every man thinks God is on his side. The rich and powerful know that he is.

The Worst Jury A murder trial at Manitoba in February 1978 was well advanced, when one juror revealed that he was completely deaf and did not have the remotest clue what was happening. The judge, Mr. Justice Solomon, asked him if he had heard any

The true way goes over a rope which is not stretched at any great height but just above the ground. It seems more designed to make people stumble than to be walked upon.

Five bicycles make a volkswagen, seven make a truck.

I went into a bar feeling a little depressed, the bartender said, "What'll you have, Bud"? I said," I don't know, surprise me". So he showed me a nude picture of my wife.

"No job too big; no fee too big!"

The eye is a menace to clear sight, the ear is a menace to subtle hearing, the mind is a menace to wisdom, every organ of the senses is a menace to its own capacity. ... Fuss, the god of the Southern Ocean, and Fret, the god of the Northern Ocean, h

We were so poor we couldn't afford a watchdog. If we heard a noise at night, we'd bark ourselves.

A man gazing at the stars is proverbially at the mercy of the puddles in the road.

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

Advertising is a valuable economic factor because it is the cheapest way of selling goods, particularly if the goods are worthless.

When a fellow says, "It ain't the money but the principle of the thing," it's the money.

With Congress, every time they make a joke it's a law; and every time they make a law it's a joke.

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

We have lingered long enough on the shores of the Cosmic Ocean.

There are two kinds of pedestrians... the quick and the dead.

It is easier for a camel to pass through the eye of a needle if it is lightly greased.

A violent man will die a violent death.

One learns to itch where one can scratch.

The lawgiver, of all beings, most owes the law allegiance. He of all men should behave as though the law compelled him. But it is the universal weakness of mankind that what we are given to administer we presently imagine we own.

Business will be either better or worse.

After his Ignoble Disgrace, Satan was being expelled from Heaven. As he passed through the Gates, he paused a moment in thought, and turned to God and said, "A new creature called Man, I hear, is soon to be created." "This is true," He replied.

Things are more like they are today than they ever were before.

When the English language gets in my way, I walk over it.

What does not destroy me, makes me stronger.

If you would know the value of money, go try to borrow some.

Practice yourself what you preach.

"Given the choice between accomplishing something and just lying around, I'd rather lie around. No contest."

In dwelling, be close to the land. In meditation, delve deep into the heart. In dealing with others, be gentle and kind. In speech, be true. In work, be competent. In action, be careful of your timing.