Si jeunesse savait, si vieillesse pouvait. [If youth but knew, if old age but could.]

Go not to the elves for counsel, for they will say both yes and no.

Feminists say 60 percent of the country's wealth is in the hands of women. They're letting men hold the other 40 percent because their handbags are full.

A horse! A horse! My kingdom for a horse!

No good deed goes unpunished.

The older I grow, the less important the comma becomes. Let the reader catch his own breath.

There is always one thing to remember: writers are always selling somebody out.

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

Nothing so needs reforming as other people's habits.

No problem is so formidable that you can't just walk away from it.

Wishing without work is like fishing without bait.

It is the business of the future to be dangerous.

There are no physicists in the hottest parts of hell, because the existence of a "hottest part" implies a temperature difference, and any marginally competent physicist would immediately use this to run a heat engine and make some other part of hell

So far as I can remember, there is not one word in the Gospels in praise of intelligence.

All of us should treasure his Oriental wisdom and his preaching of a Zen-like detachment, as exemplified by his constant reminder to clerks, tellers, or others who grew excited by his presence in their banks: "Just lie down on the floor and keep calm

Nothing is more admirable than the fortitude with which millionaires tolerate the disadvantages of their wealth.

If there were a school for, say, sheet metal workers, that after three years left its graduates as unprepared for their careers as does law school, it would be closed down in a minute, and no doubt by lawyers.

Human resources are human first, and resources second.

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

The white race is the cancer of history.

CF&C stole it, fair and square.

The difference between the right word and the almost right word is the difference between lightning and the lightning bug.

In charity there is no excess.