Before you ask more questions, think about whether you really want to know the answers.

Circumstances rule men; men do not rule circumstances.

Progress might have been all right once, but it's gone on too long.

Work is of two kinds: first, altering the position of matter at or near the earth's surface relative to other matter; second, telling other people to do so.

There's no such thing as an original sin.

A beginning is the time for taking the most delicate care that balances are correct.

If I were a grave-digger or even a hangman, there are some people I could work for with a great deal of enjoyment.

The major sin is the sin of being born.

He who fears the unknown may one day flee from his own backside.

Only that in you which is me can hear what I'm saying.

She applies her lipstick in spite of its contents: "greasy rouge, containing crushed and dried insect corpses for coloring, beeswax for stiffness, and olive oil to help it flow - the latter having the unfortunate tendency to go rancid several hours a

Three o'clock in the afternoon is always just a little too late or a little too early for anything you want to do.

It is not doing the thing we like to do, but liking the thing we have to do, that makes life blessed.

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