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

The optimist thinks that this is the best of all possible worlds, and the pessimist knows it.

Do not despair of life. You have no doubt force enough to overcome your obstacles. Think of the fox prowling through wood and field in a winter night for something to satisfy his hunger. Notwithstanding cold and hounds and traps, his race survives

Two can Live as Cheaply as One for Half as Long.

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.

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

Trust in Allah, but tie your camel.

Mankind is poised midway between the gods and the beasts.

I hate dying.

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

The optimum committee has no members.

The greatest productive force is human selfishness.

There has been a little distress selling on the stock exchange.

Life is too short to be taken seriously.