The coast was clear.

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

The shortest distance between two points is under construction.

From a certain point onward there is no longer any turning back. That is the point that must be reached.

Life would be tolerable but for its amusements.

Suburbia is where the developer bulldozes out the trees, then names the streets after them.

He who fears the unknown may one day flee from his own backside.

Never keep up with the Joneses. Drag them down to your level.

So little time, so little to do.

You can observe a lot just by watching.

Nothing endures but change.

A rolling stone gathers no moss.

A place for everything and everything in its place.

Every person, all the events in your life are there because you have drawn them there. What you choose to do with them is up to you.

Force has no place where there is need of skill.

Waste not fresh tears over old griefs.

No problem is so formidable that you can't just walk away from it.

Having the fewest wants, I am nearest to the gods.

Hard reality has a way of cramping your style.

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.

General notions are generally wrong.

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

Go away, I'm all right.

Never buy from a rich salesman.

If you're like most homeowners, you're afraid that many repairs around your home are too difficult to tackle. So, when your furnace explodes, you call in a so-called professional to fix it. The "professional" arrives in a truck with lettering on t

When the blind lead the blind they will both fall over the cliff.

We're all in this alone.

The most delightful day after the one on which you buy a cottage in the country is the one on which you resell it.

By protracting life, we do not deduct one jot from the duration of death.

A priest asked: What is Fate, Master? And the Master answered: It is that which gives a beast of burden its reason for existence. It is that which men in former times had to bear upon their backs. It is that which has caused nations to build bywa

I understand why you're confused. You're thinking too much.

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

Term, holidays, term, holidays, till we leave school, and then work, work, work till we die.

If you wish to be happy for one hour, get drunk. If you wish to be happy for three days, get married. If you wish to be happy for a month, kill your pig and eat it. If you wish to be happy forever, learn to fish.

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.

Fear is the greatest salesman.

For fools rush in where angels fear to tread.

I love treason but hate a traitor.

From the cradle to the coffin underwear comes first.

By the middle 1880's, practically all the roads except those in the South, were of the present standard gauge. The southern roads were still five feet between rails. It was decided to change the gauge of all southern roads to standard, in one day

Work Hard. Rock Hard. Eat Hard. Sleep Hard. Grow Big. Wear Glasses If You Need 'Em.

You knew the job was dangerous when you took it, Fred.

Small is beautiful.

Business will be either better or worse.

I'd be a poorer man if I'd never seen an eagle fly.

I don't want to achieve immortality through my work. I want to achieve immortality through not dying.

Two wrongs are only the beginning.

The best executive is one who has sense enough to pick good people to do what he wants done, and self-restraint enough to keep from meddling with them while they do it.

Walking on water wasn't built in a day.

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

The great question that has never been answered and which I have not yet been able to answer despite my thirty years of research into the feminine soul is: WHAT DOES A WOMAN WANT?

The two most beautiful words in the English language are "Cheque Enclosed."