Who goeth a-borrowing goeth a-sorrowing.

Consider the postage stamp: its usefulness consists in the ability to stick to one thing till it gets there.

Executive ability is deciding quickly and getting somebody else to do the work.

You knew the job was dangerous when you took it, Fred.

We can embody the truth, but we cannot know it.

How can you prove whether at this moment we are sleeping, and all our thoughts are a dream; or whether we are awake, and talking to one another in the waking state?

We are what we pretend to be.

The primary cause of failure in electrical appliances is an expired warranty. Often, you can get an appliance running again simply by changing the warranty expiration date with a 15/64-inch felt-tipped marker.

I know on which side my bread is buttered.

Luck can't last a lifetime, unless you die young.

To avoid criticism, do nothing, say nothing, be nothing.

You have to run as fast as you can just to stay where you are. If you want to get anywhere, you'll have to run much faster.

You can observe a lot just by watching.

Pauca sed matura. [Few but excellent.]

The more I want to get something done, the less I call it work.

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

Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.

And ever has it been known that love knows not its own depth until the hour of separation.

A sad spectacle. If they be inhabited, what a scope for misery and folly. If they be not inhabited, what a waste of space.

If you catch a man, throw him back.

Love may laugh at locksmiths, but he has a profound respect for money bags.

A society in which women are taught anything but the management of a family, the care of men, and the creation of the future generation is a society which is on its way out.

He has not acquired a fortune; the fortune has acquired him.