The trouble with the rat-race is that even if you win, you're still a rat.

A journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step.

Si jeunesse savait, si vieillesse pouvait. [If youth but knew, if old age but could.]

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

In every hierarchy the cream rises until it sours.

The seven deadly sins ... Food, clothing, firing, rent, taxes, respectability and children. Nothing can lift those seven milestones from man's neck but money; and the spirit cannot soar until the milestones are lifted.

Men are superior to women.

The race is not always to the swift, nor the battle to the strong, but that's the way to bet.

I went into a bar feeling a little depressed, the bartender said, "What'll you have, Bud"? I said," I don't know, surprise me". So he showed me a nude picture of my wife.

Even the best of friends cannot attend each other's funeral.

Mundus vult decipi decipiatur ergo.

Why isn't there a special name for the tops of your feet?

Whatever it is, I fear Greeks even when they bring gifts.

Patience is the best remedy for every trouble.

Ain't no right way to do a wrong thing.

Exxon's 'Universe of Energy' tends to the peculiar rather than the humorous ... After [an incomprehensible film montage about wind and sun and rain and strip mines and] two or three minutes of mechanical confusion, the seats locomote through a short

There are no accidents whatsoever in the universe.

Facts are the enemy of truth.

If God is One, what is bad?

The shortest distance between two points is under construction.

If I cannot bend Heaven, I shall move Hell.

Set the cart before the horse.

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

Not to laugh, not to lament, not to curse, but to understand.

The [Ford Foundation] is a large body of money completely surrounded by people who want some.

The superfluous is very necessary.

Practice yourself what you preach.

The course of true anything never does run smooth.

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

Either I'm dead or my watch has stopped.

If I love you, what business is it of yours?

Ninety percent of everything is crap.