It's not so hard to lift yourself by your bootstraps once you're off the ground.

All the big corporations depreciate their possessions, and you can, too, provided you use them for business purposes. For example, if you subscribe to the Wall Street Journal, a business-related newspaper, you can deduct the cost of your house, beca

It has long been noticed that juries are pitiless for robbery and full of indulgence for infanticide. A question of interest, my dear Sir! The jury is afraid of being robbed and has passed the age when it could be a victim of infanticide.

VI: A hungry dog hunts best. A hungrier dog hunts even better. VII: Decreased business base increases overhead. So does increased business base. VIII: The most unsuccessful four years in the education of a cost-estimator is fifth grade ari

Men of lofty genius when they are doing the least work are most active.

Sometimes, too long is too long.

Then a man said: Speak to us of Expectations. He then said: If a man does not see or hear the waters of the Jordan, then he should not taste the pomegranate or ply his wares in an open market. If a man would not labour in the salt and rock quarri

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

Execute every act of thy life as though it were thy last.

Anything anybody can say about America is true.

An honest tale speeds best being plainly told.

Burnt Sienna. That's the best thing that ever happened to Crayolas.

A good question is never answered. It is not a bolt to be tightened into place but a seed to be planted and to bear more seed toward the hope of greening the landscape of idea.

I just got off the phone with Sonny Barger [President of the Hell's Angels]. He wants me to appear as a character witness for him at his murder trial and said he'd be glad to appear as a character witness on my behalf if I ever needed one. Needless

When you make your mark in the world, watch out for guys with erasers.

"Every morning, I get up and look through the 'Forbes' list of the richest people in America. If I'm not there, I go to work"

Leave no stone unturned.

Whatever it is, I fear Greeks even when they bring gifts.

Just remember, wherever you go, there you are.

The Worst Musical Trio There are few bad musicians who have a chance to give a recital at a famous concert hall while still learning the rudiments of their instrument. This happened about thirty years ago to the son of a Rumanian gentleman who was

He that composes himself is wiser than he that composes a book.

Objectivity is to a newspaper what virtue is to a woman.

"Given the choice between accomplishing something and just lying around, I'd rather lie around. No contest."

"Jesus saves...but Gretzky gets the rebound!"

Whenever you find that you are on the side of the majority, it is time to reform.