Odets, where is thy sting?

Anyone can hold the helm when the sea is calm.

If you only have a hammer, you tend to see every problem as a nail.

I am not afraid of tomorrow, for I have seen yesterday and I love today.

Let sleeping dogs lie.

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

There is no cure for birth and death other than to enjoy the interval.

"Earth is a great, big funhouse without the fun."

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.'

Who does not trust enough will not be trusted.

A journey of a thousand miles starts under one's feet.

I owe the public nothing.

Better late than never.

XI: If the Earth could be made to rotate twice as fast, managers would get twice as much done. If the Earth could be made to rotate twenty times as fast, everyone else would get twice as much done since all the managers would fly off. XII: I

In this world, nothing is certain but death and taxes.

Imagination is the one weapon in the war against reality.

Money doesn't talk, it swears.

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

Nothing will ever be attempted if all possible objections must be first overcome.

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

About the time we think we can make ends meet, somebody moves the ends.

You k'n hide de fier, but w'at you gwine do wid de smoke?

Look ere ye leap.

What!? Me worry?

Good salesmen and good repairmen will never go hungry.

If your happiness depends on what somebody else does, I guess you do have a problem.

If ever the pleasure of one has to be bought by the pain of the other, there better be no trade. A trade by which one gains and the other loses is a fraud.

Things are more like they are today than they ever were before.