In the long run we are all dead.

Never tell people how to do things. Tell them WHAT to do and they will surprise you with their ingenuity.

The day advanced as if to light some work of mine; it was morning, and lo! now it is evening, and nothing memorable is accomplished.

It's not a sin not to be Irish, but it is a great shame.

The truth of a thing is the feel of it, not the think of it.

Just because everything is different doesn't mean anything has changed.

I've got a very bad feeling about this.

My problem lies in reconciling my gross habits with my net income.

The Soviet Union, which has complained recently about alleged anti-Soviet themes in American advertising, lodged an official protest this week against the Ford Motor Company's new campaign: "Hey you stinking, fat Russian, get off my Ford Escort."

Art is anything you can get away with.

Let's say your wedding ring falls into your toaster, and when you stick your hand in to retrieve it, you suffer Pain and Suffering as well as Mental Anguish. You would sue: * The toaster manufacturer, for failure to include, in the instructions

Necessity hath no law.

The more I want to get something done, the less I call it work.

Mirrors should reflect a little before throwing back images.

Once there lived a village of creatures along the bottom of a great crystal river. Each creature in its own manner clung tightly to the twigs and rocks of the river bottom, for clinging was their way of life, and resisting the current what each had

Praise the sea; on shore remain.

The early bird who catches the worm works for someone who comes in late and owns the worm farm.

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

A verbal contract isn't worth the paper it's written on.

Being a miner, as soon as you're too old and tired and sick and stupid to do your job properly, you have to go, where the very opposite applies with the judges.

Goals... Plans... they're fantasies, they're part of a dream world...

Sho' they got to have it against the law. Shoot, ever'body git high, they wouldn't be nobody git up and feed the chickens. Hee-hee.

It's easier to take it apart than to put it back together.

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

The lawgiver, of all beings, most owes the law allegiance. He of all men should behave as though the law compelled him. But it is the universal weakness of mankind that what we are given to administer we presently imagine we own.

Anyone can hold the helm when the sea is calm.

Happiness isn't something you experience; it's something you remember.

Never look a gift horse in the mouth.

If Beethoven's Seventh Symphony is not by some means abridged, it will soon fall into disuse.

British education is probably the best in the world, if you can survive it. If you can't there is nothing left for you but the diplomatic corps.

It is common sense to take a method and try it. If it fails, admit it frankly and try another. But above all, try something.