A committee takes root and grows, it flowers, wilts and dies, scattering the seed from which other committees will bloom.

That Xanthippe's husband should have become so great a philosopher is remarkable. Amid all the scolding, to be able to think! But he could not write: that was impossible. Socrates has not left us a single book.

Five bicycles make a volkswagen, seven make a truck.

The truth is rarely pure, and never simple.

It is only the man whose intellect is clouded by his sexual impulse that could give the name of the fair sex to that undersized, narrow-shouldered, broad-hipped, and short-legged race.

It is through symbols that man consciously or unconsciously lives, works and has his being.

The more laws and order are made prominent, the more thieves and robbers there will be.