Several years ago, some smart businessmen had an idea: Why not build a big store where a do-it-yourselfer could get everything he needed at reasonable prices? Then they decided, nah, the hell with that, let's build a home center. And before long ho

Save a little money each month and at the end of the year you'll be surprised at how little you have.

The most difficult thing in the world is to know how to do a thing and to watch someone else doing it wrong, without commenting.

Nitwit ideas are for emergencies. You use them when you've got nothing else to try. If they work, they go in the Book. Otherwise you follow the Book, which is largely a collection of nitwit ideas that worked.

The philosopher's treatment of a question is like the treatment of an illness.

Truth never comes into the world but like a bastard, to the ignominy of him that brought her birth.

Wisdom is knowing what to do with what you know.

You are never given a wish without also being given the power to make it true. You may have to work for it, however.

Three minutes' thought would suffice to find this out; but thought is irksome and three minutes is a long time.

Practical people would be more practical if they would take a little more time for dreaming.

The more the merrier.

The salary of the chief executive of the large corporation is not a market award for achievement. It is frequently in the nature of a warm personal gesture by the individual to himself.

It is a profitable thing, if one is wise, to seem foolish.

In case of fire, stand in the hall and shout "Fire!"

You can never do just one thing.

Yesterday I was a dog. Today I'm a dog. Tomorrow I'll probably still be a dog. Sigh! There's so little hope for advancement.

The individual choice of garnishment of a burger can be an important point to the consumer in this day when individualism is an increasingly important thing to people.

Superstition, idolatry, and hypocrisy have ample wages, but truth goes a-begging.

God help those who do not help themselves.

Things are more like they are today than they ever were before.

We have nowhere else to go... this is all we have.