The longest part of the journey is said to be the passing of the gate.

Why attack God? He may be as miserable as we are.

"We maintain that the very foundation of our way of life is what we call free enterprise," said Cash McCall, "but when one of our citizens show enough free enterprise to pile up a little of that profit, we do our best to make him feel that he ought t

A thing is not necessarily true because a man dies for it.

He played the king as if afraid someone else would play the ace.

Dying is one of the few things that can be done as easily lying down.

Good-bye. I am leaving because I am bored.

You have to run as fast as you can just to stay where you are. If you want to get anywhere, you'll have to run much faster.

Rebellion lay in his way, and he found it.

I go on working for the same reason a hen goes on laying eggs.

A word to the wise is enough.

Having nothing, nothing can he lose.

Yes, I've now got this nice little apartment in New York, one of those L-shaped ones. Unfortunately, it's a lower case l.

I appreciate the fact that this draft was done in haste, but some of the sentences that you are sending out in the world to do your work for you are loitering in taverns or asleep beside the highway.

"Jesus saves...but Gretzky gets the rebound!"

A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds.

Man proposes, God disposes.

Here's to women. Would that we could fall into her arms without falling into her hands.

I am just a nice, clean-cut Mongolian boy.

The first thing I do in the morning is brush my teeth and sharpen my tongue.

But the greatest Electrical Pioneer of them all was Thomas Edison, who was a brilliant inventor despite the fact that he had little formal education and lived in New Jersey. Edison's first major invention in 1877, was the phonograph, which could soo

The greatest productive force is human selfishness.

Exceptions prove the rule, and wreck the budget.

Maternity pay? Now every Tom, Dick and Harry will get pregnant.

Look, we trade every day out there with hustlers, deal-makers, shysters, con-men. That's the way businesses get started. That's the way this country was built.

The Worst Jury A murder trial at Manitoba in February 1978 was well advanced, when one juror revealed that he was completely deaf and did not have the remotest clue what was happening. The judge, Mr. Justice Solomon, asked him if he had heard any

I remember when legal used to mean lawful, now it means some kind of loophole.

It is a wise father that knows his own child.

Boston State House is the hub of the Solar System. You couldn't pry that out of a Boston man if you had the tire of all creation straightened out for a crowbar.

A likely impossibility is always preferable to an unconvincing possibility.

Death is a spirit leaving a body, sort of like a shell leaving the nut behind.

Waste not fresh tears over old griefs.

I've got a very bad feeling about this.

Instead of loving your enemies, treat your friends a little better.

To lead people, you must follow behind.

Never have so many understood so little about so much.

A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush.

Everywhere I go I'm asked if I think the university stifles writers. My opinion is that they don't stifle enough of them. There's many a bestseller that could have been prevented by a good teacher.

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

If a man stay away from his wife for seven years, the law presumes the separation to have killed him; yet according to our daily experience, it might well prolong his life.

The Public is merely a multiplied "me."

Those who educate children well are more to be honored than parents, for these only gave life, those the art of living well.

Have the courage to take your own thoughts seriously, for they will shape you.

If you hype something and it succeeds, you're a genius