The only really good place to buy lumber is at a store where the lumber has already been cut and attached together in the form of furniture, finished, and put inside boxes.

Nothing succeeds like success.

Odets, where is thy sting?

... 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

So you think that money is the root of all evil. Have you ever asked what is the root of money?

If I had a formula for bypassing trouble, I would not pass it around. Trouble creates a capacity to handle it. I don't say embrace trouble; that's as bad as treating it as an enemy. But I do say meet it as a friend, for you'll see a lot of it and y

I have ways of making money that you know nothing of.

You can never do just one thing.

You get what you pay for.

Man is the measure of all things.

Luck, that's when preparation and opportunity meet.

Beggars should be no choosers.

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

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

The superfluous is very necessary.

Nothing will dispel enthusiasm like a small admission fee.

Illusion is the first of all pleasures.

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

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

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

Wisdom is knowing what to do with what you know.

When the going gets tough, everyone leaves.

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

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

Now, you might ask, "How do I get one of those complete home tool sets for under $4?" An excellent question. Go to one of those really cheap discount stores where they sell plastic furniture in colors visible from the planet Neptune and where they

"Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away".

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

Take care of the luxuries and the necessities will take care of themselves.

There are two kinds of pedestrians... the quick and the dead.

Nonsense and beauty have close connections.

What we wish, that we readily believe.

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

Fortune Documents the Great Legal Decisions: We think that we may take judicial notice of the fact that the term "bitch" may imply some feeling of endearment when applied to a female of the canine species but that it is seldom, if ever, so used whe

I just asked myself... what would John DeLorean do?

... "fire" does not matter, "earth" and "air" and "water" do not matter. "I" do not matter. No word matters. But man forgets reality and remembers words. The more words he remembers, the cleverer do his fellows esteem him. He looks upon the great

I never cheated an honest man, only rascals. They wanted something for nothing. I gave them nothing for something.

The chief danger in life is that you may take too many precautions.

What sane person could live in this world and not be crazy?