Or 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.

It was the next morning that the armies of Twodor marched east laden with long lances, sharp swords, and death-dealing hangovers. The thousands were led by Arrowroot, who sat limply in his sidesaddle, nursing a whopper. Goodgulf, Gimlet, and the r

The course of true anything never does run smooth.

Patience is the best remedy for every trouble.

Out of sight is out of mind.

We are not a loved organization, but we are a respected one.

It's pretty hard to tell what does bring happiness; poverty and wealth have both failed.

Do not use that foreign word "ideals". We have that excellent native word "lies".

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

Nothing succeeds like excess.

Woman is generally so bad that the difference between a good and a bad woman scarcely exists.

Women of genius commonly have masculine faces, figures and manners. In transplanting brains to an alien soil God leaves a little of the original earth clinging to the roots.

Sometimes even to live is an act of courage.

I was part of that strange race of people aptly described as spending their lives doing things they detest to make money they don't want to buy things they don't need to impress people they dislike.

Facts, apart from their relationships, are like labels on empty bottles.

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

Wait for that wisest of all counselors, Time.

The chief cause of problems is solutions.

I have seen the future and it is just like the present, only longer.

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

The farther you go, the less you know.

Forgive and forget.

XXVI: If a sufficient number of management layers are superimposed on each other, it can be assured that disaster is not left to chance. XXVII: Rank does not intimidate hardware. Neither does the lack of rank. XXVIII: It is better to be the r