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

Those who have some means think that the most important thing in the world is love. The poor know that it is money.

When eating an elephant take one bite at a time.

"They make a desert and call it peace."

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

Ah, but a man's grasp should exceed his reach, Or what's a heaven for ?

Things past redress and now with me past care.

The farther you go, the less you know.

The avocation of assessing the failures of better men can be turned into a comfortable livelihood, providing you back it up with a Ph.D.

The error of youth is to believe that intelligence is a substitute for experience, while the error of age is to believe experience is a substitute for intelligence.

A platitude is simply a truth repeated till people get tired of hearing it.

He who laughs has not yet heard the bad news.

One man's brain plus one other will produce one half as many ideas as one man would have produced alone. These two plus two more will produce half again as many ideas. These four plus four more begin to represent a creative meeting, and the ratio c

If the path be beautiful, let us not ask where it leads.