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

You can fool all the people all of the time if the advertising is right and the budget is big enough.

The only promotion rules I can think of are that a sense of shame is to be avoided at all costs and there is never any reason for a hustler to be less cunning than more virtuous men. Oh yes ... whenever you think you've got something really great, a

We have reason to be afraid. This is a terrible place.

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

Our business in life is not to succeed but to continue to fail in high spirits.

I am not afraid of tomorrow, for I have seen yesterday and I love today.

A little bit of rape is good for a man's soul.

Odets, where is thy sting?

Remembering is for those who have forgotten.

A place for everything and everything in its place.

Let your conscience be your guide.

Even if you do learn to speak correct English, whom are you going to speak it to?

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

What we need in this country, instead of Daylight Savings Time, which nobody really understands anyway, is a new concept called Weekday Morning Time, whereby at 7 a.m. every weekday we go into a space-launch-style "hold" for two to three hours, durin

About the time we think we can make ends meet, somebody moves the ends.

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

"Hi, I'm Preston A. Mantis, president of Consumers Retail Law Outlet. As you can see by my suit and the fact that I have all these books of equal height on the shelves behind me, I am a trained legal attorney. Do you have a car or a job? Do you ever

Charity begins at home.

All phone calls are obscene.

Good-bye. I am leaving because I am bored.

"No job too big; no fee too big!"

Mankind is poised midway between the gods and the beasts.

The greatest productive force is human selfishness.

To lead people, you must follow behind.

When you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth.

Innovation is hard to schedule.

Receiving a million dollars tax free will make you feel better than being flat broke and having a stomach ache.

Sho' they got to have it against the law. Shoot, ever'body git high, they wouldn't be nobody git up and feed the chickens. Hee-hee.

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.

Nothing is so firmly believed as that which we least know.

"Hey, Sam, how about a loan?" "Whattaya need?" "Oh, about $500." "Whattaya got for collateral?" "Whattaya need?" "How about an eye?"

Indeed, the first noble truth of Buddhism, usually translated as `all life is suffering,' is more accurately rendered `life is filled with a sense of pervasive unsatisfactoriness.'

By perseverance the snail reached the Ark.

Marijuana will be legal some day, because the many law students who now smoke pot will someday become congressmen and legalize it in order to protect themselves.

It is imperative when flying coach that you restrain any tendency toward the vividly imaginative. For although it may momentarily appear to be the case, it is not at all likely that the cabin is entirely inhabited by crying babies smoking inexpensiv

Well, he thought, since neither Aristotelian Logic nor the disciplines of Science seemed to offer much hope, it's time to go beyond them... Drawing a few deep even breaths, he entered a mental state practiced only by Masters of the Universal Way of

The only happiness lies in reason; all the rest of the world is dismal. The highest reason, however, I see in the work of the artist, and he may experience it as such. Happiness lies in the swiftness of feeling and thinking: all the rest of the worl

Intellect annuls Fate. So far as a man thinks, he is free.

If you catch a man, throw him back.

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

Well, the handwriting is on the floor.

Necessity hath no law.

After his Ignoble Disgrace, Satan was being expelled from Heaven. As he passed through the Gates, he paused a moment in thought, and turned to God and said, "A new creature called Man, I hear, is soon to be created." "This is true," He replied.

While there's life, there's hope.

Experience is a good teacher, but she sends in terrific bills.

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

Use an accordion. Go to jail.

Faith is under the left nipple.

Nice guys finish last, but we get to sleep in.

The time spent on any item of the agenda [of a finance committee] will be in inverse proportion to the sum involved.

You can no more win a war than you can win an earthquake.

Men will fuck mud.

Set the cart before the horse.

The trouble with opportunity is that it always comes disguised as hard work.

The best you get is an even break.

If two wrongs don't make a right, try three.

Divorce is a game played by lawyers.

The future not being born, my friend, we will abstain from baptizing it.

You can't expect a boy to be vicious till he's been to a good school.

Force has no place where there is need of skill.

Campus sidewalks never exist as the straightest line between two points.

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

The man who runs may fight again.

There is nothing new except what has been forgotten.

Sometimes a man who deserves to be looked down upon because he is a fool is despised only because he is a lawyer.

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.

He who laughs has not yet heard the bad news.

"I only touch base with reality on an as-needed basis!"

A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds.

The plot was designed in a light vein that somehow became varicose.

With her body, woman is more sincere than man; but with her mind she lies. And when she lies, she does not believe herself.

It is ridiculous to call this an industry. This is not. This is rat eat rat, dog eat dog. I'll kill 'em, and I'm going to kill 'em before they kill me. You're talking about the American way of survival of the fittest.

If there is no wind, row.

Yet creeds mean very little, Coth answered the dark god, still speaking almost gently. The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds; and the pessimist fears this is true.

Ah, but a man's grasp should exceed his reach, Or what's a heaven for ?

Mundus vult decipi decipiatur ergo.

If while you are in school, there is a shortage of qualified personnel in a particular field, then by the time you graduate with the necessary qualifications, that field's employment market is glutted.

Another day, another dollar.

What we do not understand we do not possess.

Those who do things in a noble spirit of self-sacrifice are to be avoided at all costs.

What an author likes to write most is his signature on the back of a cheque.

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

Death is a spirit leaving a body, sort of like a shell leaving the nut behind.

The 'A' is for content, the 'minus' is for not typing it. Don't ever do this to my eyes again.

Everything takes longer, costs more, and is less useful.

Somehow I reached excess without ever noticing when I was passing through satisfaction.

Home is where the hurt is.

I just need enough to tide me over until I need more.

... before I could come to any conclusion it occurred to me that my speech or my silence, indeed any action of mine, would be a mere futility. What did it matter what anyone knew or ignored? What did it matter who was manager? One gets sometimes s

Look, we trade every day out there with hustlers, deal-makers, shysters, con-men. That's the way businesses get started. That's the way this country was built.

Getting kicked out of the American Bar Association is liked getting kicked out of the Book-of-the-Month Club.

We are governed not by armies and police but by ideas.

"I'm dying," he croaked. "My experiment was a success," the chemist retorted . "You can't really train a beagle," he dogmatized. "That's no beagle, it's a mongrel," she muttered. "The fire is going out," he bellowed. "Bad marksmanship," the h

How do you explain school to a higher intelligence?

A word to the wise is enough.

A woman who is unfaithful deserves to be shot.

Learning without thought is labor lost; thought without learning is perilous.

An ounce of mother is worth a ton of priest.

Never appeal to a man's "better nature." He may not have one. Invoking his self-interest gives you more leverage.

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

Aim for the moon. If you miss, you may hit a star.

An older student came to Otis and said, "I have been to see a great number of teachers and I have given up a great number of pleasures. I have fasted, been celibate and stayed awake nights seeking enlightenment. I have given up everything I was aske

Happiness isn't something you experience; it's something you remember.

He who makes a beast of himself gets rid of the pain of being a man.

You climb to reach the summit, but once there, discover that all roads lead down.

Mother is far too clever to understand anything she does not like.

General notions are generally wrong.

The superfluous is very necessary.

Illusion is the first of all pleasures.

I know not how I came into this, shall I call it a dying life or a living death?

So little time, so little to do.

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Never keep up with the Joneses. Drag them down to your level.

Fear is the greatest salesman.

"I have to convince you, or at least snow you ..."

The Least Successful Equal Pay Advertisement In 1976 the European Economic Community pointed out to the Irish Government that it had not yet implemented the agreed sex equality legislation. The Dublin Government immediately advertised for an equal

The man-hating woman, like the cold woman, is largely imaginary. She is simply a woman who has done her best to snare a man and has failed.

Never promise more than you can perform.

Practice yourself what you preach.

To accuse others for one's own misfortunes is a sign of want of education. To accuse oneself shows that one's education has begun. To accuse neither oneself nor others shows that one's education is complete.

Porsche: there simply is no substitute.

I have the simplest tastes. I am always satisfied with the best.

If there were a school for, say, sheet metal workers, that after three years left its graduates as unprepared for their careers as does law school, it would be closed down in a minute, and no doubt by lawyers.

Bullwinkle: You just leave that to my pal. He's the brains of the outfit. General: What does that make YOU? Bullwinkle: What else? An executive.

Moderation is a fatal thing. Nothing succeeds like excess.

For if there is a sin against life, it consists perhaps not so much in despairing of life as in hoping for another life and in eluding the implacable grandeur of this life.

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.

The only alliance I would make with the Women's Liberation Movement is in bed.

Well, we'll really have a party, but we've gotta post a guard outside.

Luck, that's when preparation and opportunity meet.

There are ten or twenty basic truths, and life is the process of discovering them over and over and over.

Laws are like sausages. It's better not to see them being made.

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

In charity there is no excess.

One hundred women are not worth a single testicle.

It's is not, it isn't ain't, and it's it's, not its, if you mean it is. If you don't, it's its. Then too, it's hers. It isn't her's. It isn't our's either. It's ours, and likewise yours and theirs.

The typewriting machine, when played with expression, is no more annoying than the piano when played by a sister or near relation.

He knows not how to know who knows not also how to unknow.

The executioner is, I hear, very expert, and my neck is very slender.

Working with Julie Andrews is like getting hit over the head with a valentine.

What you don't know won't help you much either.

Some men are heterosexual, and some are bisexual, and some men don't think about sex at all... they become lawyers.

Women of genius commonly have masculine faces, figures and manners. In transplanting brains to an alien soil God leaves a little of the original earth clinging to the roots.

Every man thinks God is on his side. The rich and powerful know that he is.

The error of youth is to believe that intelligence is a substitute for experience, while the error of age is to believe experience is a substitute for intelligence.

There is no sin but ignorance.

The sunlights differ, but there is only one darkness.

Rotten wood cannot be carved.

What excuses stand in your way? How can you eliminate them?

Small is beautiful.

It is the business of the future to be dangerous.

One good turn deserves another.

In every hierarchy the cream rises until it sours.

Too many people are thinking of security instead of opportunity. They seem more afraid of life than death.

Woman is generally so bad that the difference between a good and a bad woman scarcely exists.

Do you know the difference between education and experience? Education is what you get when you read the fine print; experience is what you get when you don't.

I respect faith, but doubt is what gives you an education.

Let's remind ourselves that last year's fresh idea is today's cliche.

The state of innocence contains the germs of all future sin.

Plus ,ca change, plus c'est la m^eme chose. [The more things change, the more they remain the same.]

He who despairs over an event is a coward, but he who holds hopes for the human condition is a fool.

Freedom is what you do with what's been done to you.

It's very glamorous to raise millions of dollars, until it's time for the venture capitalist to suck your eyeballs out.

If the English language made any sense, lackadaisical would have something to do with a shortage of flowers.

Know what I hate most? Rhetorical questions.

I value kindness to human beings first of all, and kindness to animals. I don't respect the law; I have a total irreverence for anything connected with society except that which makes the roads safer, the beer stronger, the food cheaper, and old men

Certain passages in several laws have always defied interpretation and the most inexplicable must be a matter of opinion. A judge of the Court of Session of Scotland has sent the editors of this book his candidate which reads, "In the Nuts (unground

Never invest your money in anything that eats or needs repainting.

In "King Henry VI, Part II," Shakespeare has Dick Butcher suggest to his fellow anti-establishment rabble-rousers, "The first thing we do, let's kill all the lawyers." That action may be extreme but a similar sentiment was expressed by Thomas K. Co

Nothing is so firmly believed as that which we least know.

If you know the answer to a question, don't ask.

A man gazing at the stars is proverbially at the mercy of the puddles in the road.

My father, a good man, told me, "Never lose your ignorance; you cannot replace it."

All hope abandon, ye who enter here!

Praise the sea; on shore remain.

The Bible says that woman was the last thing God made. Evidently He made her on Saturday night. She reveals his fatigue.

Do not seek death; death will find you. But seek the road which makes death a fulfillment.

If God is One, what is bad?

Nothing matters very much, and few things matter at all.

Don't get mad, get even.

The first myth of management is that it exists. The second myth of management is that success equals skill.

Were there no women, men might live like gods.

Dying is one of the few things that can be done as easily lying down.

American business long ago gave up on demanding that prospective employees be honest and hardworking. It has even stopped hoping for employees who are educated enough that they can tell the difference between the men's room and the women's room with

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

The great question that has never been answered and which I have not yet been able to answer despite my thirty years of research into the feminine soul is: WHAT DOES A WOMAN WANT?

We all live in a state of ambitious poverty.

A full belly makes a dull brain.

It's always darkest just before the lights go out.

Non-Determinism is not meant to be reasonable.

Things are not always what they seem.

If you're like most homeowners, you're afraid that many repairs around your home are too difficult to tackle. So, when your furnace explodes, you call in a so-called professional to fix it. The "professional" arrives in a truck with lettering on t

My theology, briefly, is that the universe was dictated but not signed.

Everything is possible. Pass the word.

She cried, and the judge wiped her tears with my checkbook.

Sometimes a man who deserves to be looked down upon because he is a fool is despised only because he is a lawyer.

You can get much further with a kind word and a gun than you can with a kind word alone.

Long were the days of pain I have spent within its walls, and long were the nights of aloneness; and who can depart from his pain and his aloneness without regret?

I: The best way to make a silk purse from a sow's ear is to begin with a silk sow. The same is true of money. II: If today were half as good as tomorrow is supposed to be, it would probably be twice as good as yesterday was. III: There are

It has been said [by Anatole France], "it is not by amusing oneself that one learns," and, in reply: "it is *____only* by amusing oneself that one can learn."

A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.

None love the bearer of bad news.

If you live long enough, you'll see that every victory turns into a defeat.

If you are shooting under 80 you are neglecting your business; over 80 you are neglecting your golf.

For fools rush in where angels fear to tread.

[District Attorneys] learn in District Attorney School that there are two sure-fire ways to get a lot of favorable publicity: (1) Go down and raid all the lockers in the local high school and confiscate 53 marijuana cigarettes and put them in a

There are two ways of disliking poetry; one way is to dislike it, the other is to read Pope.

Someday, Weederman, we'll look back on all this and laugh... It will probably be one of those deep, eerie ones that slowly builds to a blood-curdling maniacal scream... but still it will be a laugh.

Where it is a duty to worship the sun it is pretty sure to be a crime to examine the laws of heat.

To restore a sense of reality, I think Walt Disney should have a Hardluckland.

What does education often do? It makes a straight cut ditch of a free meandering brook.

Writing about music is like dancing about architecture.

The use of money is all the advantage there is to having money.

A countryman between two lawyers is like a fish between two cats.

If men are not afraid to die, it is of no avail to threaten them with death. If men live in constant fear of dying, And if breaking the law means a man will be killed, Who will dare to break the law? There is always an official executioner. If

A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush.

Where it is a duty to worship the sun it is pretty sure to be a crime to examine the laws of heat.

Maternity pay? Now every Tom, Dick and Harry will get pregnant.

Ninety percent of everything is crap.

Any stone in your boot always migrates against the pressure gradient to exactly the point of most pressure.

When properly administered, vacations do not diminish productivity: for every week you're away and get nothing done, there's another when your boss is away and you get twice as much done.

A woman takes off her claim to respect along with her garments.

The intelligence of any discussion diminishes with the square of the number of participants.

"The chain which can be yanked is not the eternal chain."

If it doesn't smell yet, it's pretty fresh.

I'll turn over a new leaf.

Between 1950 and 1952, a bored weatherman, stationed north of Hudson Bay, left a monument that neither government nor time can eradicate. Using a bulldozer abandoned by the Air Force, he spent two years and great effort pushing boulders into a single

Littering is dumb.

You may have heard that a dean is to faculty as a hydrant is to a dog.

The Worst Jury A murder trial at Manitoba in February 1978 was well advanced, when one juror revealed that he was completely deaf and did not have the remotest clue what was happening. The judge, Mr. Justice Solomon, asked him if he had heard any

For thee the wonder-working earth puts forth sweet flowers.

The true way goes over a rope which is not stretched at any great height but just above the ground. It seems more designed to make people stumble than to be walked upon.

A rolling stone gathers no moss.

Fain would I climb, yet fear I to fall.

All I kin say is when you finds yo'self wanderin' in a peach orchard, ya don't go lookin' for rutabagas.

I'm glad I was not born before tea.

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

"You boys lookin' for trouble?" "Sure. Whaddya got?"

Kindness is the beginning of cruelty.

A man said to the Universe: "Sir, I exist!" "However," replied the Universe, "the fact has not created in me a sense of obligation."

We have lingered long enough on the shores of the Cosmic Ocean.

An ounce of hypocrisy is worth a pound of ambition.

What makes you think graduate school is supposed to be satisfying?

Progress was all right. Only it went on too long.

When alerted to an intrusion by tinkling glass or otherwise, 1) Calm yourself 2) Identify the intruder 3) If hostile, kill him. Step number 3 is of particular importance. If you leave the guy alive out of misguided softheartedness, he will repay y

Three may keep a secret, if two of them are dead.

Doubt isn't the opposite of faith; it is an element of faith.

All of the true things I am about to tell you are shameless lies.

Too much of everything is just enough.

Genius is pain.

Imagination is the one weapon in the war against reality.

When a fellow says, "It ain't the money but the principle of the thing," it's the money.

Suburbia is where the developer bulldozes out the trees, then names the streets after them.

He who has the courage to laugh is almost as much a master of the world as he who is ready to die.

One man's Mede is another man's Persian.

Perfection is reached, not when there is no longer anything to add, but when there is no longer anything to take away.

Term, holidays, term, holidays, till we leave school, and then work, work, work till we die.

The whole earth is in jail and we're plotting this incredible jailbreak.

"Do you think there's a God?" "Well, ____SOMEbody's out to get me!"

If a thing's worth doing, it is worth doing badly.

We're only in it for the volume.

But the greatest Electrical Pioneer of them all was Thomas Edison, who was a brilliant inventor despite the fact that he had little formal education and lived in New Jersey. Edison's first major invention in 1877, was the phonograph, which could soo

If you think education is expensive, try ignorance.

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.

For certain people, after fifty, litigation takes the place of sex.

America, I'm putting my queer shoulder to the wheel.

Adde parvum parvo manus acervus erit. [Add little to little and there will be a big pile.]

"Consequences, Schmonsequences, as long as I'm rich."

A fake fortuneteller can be tolerated. But an authentic soothsayer should be shot on sight. Cassandra did not get half the kicking around she deserved.

The trouble with superheros is what to do between phone booths.

I BET WHAT HAPPENED was they discovered fire and invented the wheel on the same day. Then that night, they burned the wheel.

Why am I so soft in the middle when the rest of my life is so hard?

You can tell the ideals of a nation by its advertisements.

Necessity has no law.

Let us not look back in anger or forward in fear, but around us in awareness.

Whatever is not nailed down is mine. Whatever I can pry up is not nailed down.

Credit ... is the only enduring testimonial to man's confidence in man.

The world wants to be deceived.

IF I HAD A MINE SHAFT, I don't think I would just abandon it. There's got to be a better way.

If I were a grave-digger or even a hangman, there are some people I could work for with a great deal of enjoyment.

No good deed goes unpunished.

The college graduate is presented with a sheepskin to cover his intellectual nakedness.

No is no negative in a woman's mouth.

I love treason but hate a traitor.

Once harm has been done, even a fool understands it.

If little green men land in your back yard, hide any little green women you've got in the house.

Yevtushenko has... an ego that can crack crystal at a distance of twenty feet.

"Plaese porrf raed."

The adjective is the banana peel of the parts of speech.

"If once a man indulges himself in murder, very soon he comes to think little of robbing; and from robbing he next comes to drinking and Sabbath-breaking, and from that to incivility and procrastination."

There is nothing so easy but that it becomes difficult when you do it reluctantly.

What we wish, that we readily believe.

The lawgiver, of all beings, most owes the law allegiance. He of all men should behave as though the law compelled him. But it is the universal weakness of mankind that what we are given to administer we presently imagine we own.

Just remember, wherever you go, there you are.

It doesn't matter whether you win or lose

Work is of two kinds: first, altering the position of matter at or near the earth's surface relative to other matter; second, telling other people to do so.

... but as records of courts and justice are admissible, it can easily be proved that powerful and malevolent magicians once existed and were a scourge to mankind. The evidence (including confession) upon which certain women were convicted of witch

You cannot see the wood for the trees.

The price one pays for pursuing any profession, or calling, is an intimate knowledge of its ugly side.

... Our second completely true news item was sent to me by Mr. H. Boyce Connell Jr. of Atlanta, Ga., where he is involved in a law firm. One thing I like about the South is, folks there care about tradition. If somebody gets handed a name like "H.

When the speaker and he to whom he is speaks do not understand, that is metaphysics.

From a certain point onward there is no longer any turning back. That is the point that must be reached.

Life is the living you do, Death is the living you don't do.

Let's say your wedding ring falls into your toaster, and when you stick your hand in to retrieve it, you suffer Pain and Suffering as well as Mental Anguish. You would sue: * The toaster manufacturer, for failure to include, in the instructions

A fool's brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry. Hence University education.

Judges, as a class, display, in the matter of arranging alimony, that reckless generosity which is found only in men who are giving away someone else's cash.

If there were a school for, say, sheet metal workers, that after three years left its graduates as unprepared for their careers as does law school, it would be closed down in a minute, and no doubt by lawyers.

Patience is the best remedy for every trouble.

Never try to teach a pig to sing. It wastes your time and annoys the pig.

Live within your income, even if you have to borrow to do so.

Academic politics is the most vicious and bitter form of politics, because the stakes are so low.

No act of kindness, no matter how small, is ever wasted.

Among all savage beasts, none is found so harmful as woman.

Sweet April showers do spring May flowers.

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It's easier to take it apart than to put it back together.

Mum's the word.

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.

He who fears the unknown may one day flee from his own backside.

I go on working for the same reason a hen goes on laying eggs.

True to our past we work with an inherited, observed, and accepted vision of personal futility, and of the beauty of the world.

Language is a virus from another planet.

We should realize that a city is better off with bad laws, so long as they remain fixed, then with good laws that are constantly being altered, that the lack of learning combined with sound common sense is more helpful than the kind of cleverness th

Let sleeping dogs lie.

There is a good deal of solemn cant about the common interests of capital and labour. As matters stand, their only common interest is that of cutting each other's throat.

Lookie, lookie, here comes cookie...

To generalize is to be an idiot.

In dwelling, be close to the land. In meditation, delve deep into the heart. In dealing with others, be gentle and kind. In speech, be true. In work, be competent. In action, be careful of your timing.

Some scholars are like donkeys, they merely carry a lot of books.

I don't have any use for bodyguards, but I do have a specific use for two highly trained certified public accountants.

"World conquerors sometimes become fools, but fools never become world conquerors."

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

Reality is bad enough, why should I tell the truth?

XXI: It's easy to get a loan unless you need it. XXII: If stock market experts were so expert, they would be buying stock, not selling advice. XXIII: Any task can be completed in only one-third more time than is currently estimated. XXIV:

It is bad luck to be superstitious.

An atom-blaster is a good weapon, but it can point both ways.

The first rule of intelligent tinkering is to save all the parts.

If we see the light at the end of the tunnel, it's the light of an oncoming train.

A good name lost is seldom regained. When character is gone, all is gone, and one of the richest jewels of life is lost forever.

A beginning is the time for taking the most delicate care that balances are correct.

Princeton's taste is sweet like a strawberry tart. Harvard's is a subtle taste, like whiskey, coffee, or tobacco. It may even be a bad habit, for all I know.

In childhood a woman must be subject to her father; in youth to her husband; when her husband is dead, to her sons. A woman must never be free of subjugation.

Beggars should be no choosers.

I remember when legal used to mean lawful, now it means some kind of loophole.

The day advanced as if to light some work of mine; it was morning, and lo! now it is evening, and nothing memorable is accomplished.

Have you ever stopped to think what it would be like to have a woman President? "I can't deal with the Russians today. Not now. I've got my period."

The more the merrier.

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

There is no doubt that my lawyer is honest. For example, when he filed his income tax return last year, he declared half of his salary as 'unearned income.'

The `loner' may be respected, but he is always resented by his colleagues, for he seems to be passing a critical judgment on them, when he may be simply making a limiting statement about himself.