Pilfering Treasury property is paticularly dangerous: big thieves are ruthless in punishing little thieves.

IV. The time required for an object to fall twenty stories is greater than or equal to the time it takes for whoever knocked it off the ledge to spiral down twenty flights to attempt to capture it unbroken. Such an object is inevitably price

If you lose a son you can always get another, but there's only one Maltese Falcon.

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Goals... Plans... they're fantasies, they're part of a dream world...

Our swords shall play the orators for us.

God helps them that help themselves.

A woman who is guided by the head and not by the heart is a social pestilence: she has all the defects of the passionate and affectionate woman, with none of her compensations; she is without pity, without love, without virtue, without sex.

Too much of everything is just enough.

Put a rogue in the limelight and he will act like an honest man.

Exceptions prove the rule, and wreck the budget.

If you live in a country run by committee, be on the committee.

Television is now so desperately hungry for material that it is scraping the top of the barrel.

Doctors and lawyers must go to school for years and years, often with little sleep and with great sacrifice to their first wives.