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

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

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.'

It has long been noticed that juries are pitiless for robbery and full of indulgence for infanticide. A question of interest, my dear Sir! The jury is afraid of being robbed and has passed the age when it could be a victim of infanticide.

It is not enough that I should succeed. Others must fail.

This is the sort of English up with which I will not put.

were found to be wearing neckwear that was tighter than their neck circumference. The visual discrimination of the 22 subjects was evaluated using a critical flicker frequency (CFF) test. Results of the CFF test indicated that tight neckwear signifi

Of all possible committee reactions to any given agenda item, the reaction that will occur is the one which will liberate the greatest amount of hot air.

Art is a jealous mistress.

Honesty's the best policy.

Superstition, idolatry, and hypocrisy have ample wages, but truth goes a-begging.

It is only the man whose intellect is clouded by his sexual impulse that could give the name of the fair sex to that undersized, narrow-shouldered, broad-hipped, and short-legged race.

Anyone can hold the helm when the sea is calm.

Progress might have been all right once, but it's gone on too long.

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

There is a secret person undamaged within every individual.

No small art is it to sleep: it is necessary for that purpose to keep awake all day.

Divorce is a game played by lawyers.

This is an especially good time for you vacationers who plan to fly, because the Reagan administration, as part of the same policy under which it recently sold Yellowstone National Park to Wayne Newton, has "deregulated" the airline industry. What t

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

You see, I consider that a man's brain originally is like a little empty attic, and you have to stock it with such furniture as you choose. A fool takes in all the lumber of every sort he comes across, so that the knowledge which might be useful to