Rotten wood cannot be carved.

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

Education is learning what you didn't even know you didn't know.

Human resources are human first, and resources second.

Mankind is poised midway between the gods and the beasts.

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

Sorry 'bout that sweat, honey. That's just holy water.

Certainly the game is rigged. Don't let that stop you; if you don't bet, you can't win.

The ratio of literacy to illiteracy is a constant, but nowadays the illiterates can read.

Good government never depends upon laws, but upon the personal qualities of those who govern. The machinery of government is always subordinate to the will of those who administer that machinery. The most important element of government, therefore,

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

A violent man will die a violent death.

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

Depend on the rabbit's foot if you will, but remember, it didn't help the rabbit.