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

He that composes himself is wiser than he that composes a book.

Would that my hand were as swift as my tongue.

"We demand rigidly defined areas of doubt and uncertainty!"

To avoid criticism, do nothing, say nothing, be nothing.

Two wrongs don't make a right, but they make a good excuse.

Let me assure you that to us here at First National, you're not just a number. Youre two numbers, a dash, three more numbers, another dash and another number.

A man who cannot seduce men cannot save them either.

"If once a man indulges himself in murder, very soon he comes to think little of robbing; and from robbing he next comes to drinking and Sabbath-breaking, and from that to incivility and procrastination."

Things are not always what they seem.

Never try to teach a pig to sing. It wastes your time and annoys the pig.

A prediction is worth twenty explanations.

Lots of folks confuse bad management with destiny.

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

Money doesn't talk, it swears.

No man is an Iland, intire of it selfe; every man is a peece of the Continent, a part of the maine; if a Clod bee washed away by the Sea, Europe is the lesse, as well as if a Promontorie were, as well as if a Mannor of thy friends or of thine owne we

It's very glamorous to raise millions of dollars, until it's time for the venture capitalist to suck your eyeballs out.

She cried, and the judge wiped her tears with my checkbook.

It is Mr. Mellon's credo that $200,000,000 can do no wrong. Our offense consists in doubting it.

Force has no place where there is need of skill.

You or I must yield up his life to Ahrimanes. I would rather it were you. I should have no hesitation in sacrificing my own life to spare yours, but we take stock next week, and it would not be fair on the company.

Everything takes longer, costs more, and is less useful.

"No job too big; no fee too big!"

Beggars should be no choosers.

Many hands make light work.

Moneyliness is next to Godliness.

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

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.

Everybody likes a kidder, but nobody lends him money.

Facts are the enemy of truth.

When I was in school, I cheated on my metaphysics exam: I looked into the soul of the boy sitting next to me.

University politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small.

The major sin is the sin of being born.