When the English language gets in my way, I walk over it.

One picture is worth more than ten thousand words.

There's no such thing as a free lunch.

There is a good deal of solemn cant about the common interests of capital and labour. As matters stand, their only common interest is that of cutting each other's throat.

Progress was all right. Only it went on too long.

Well begun is half done.

The confusion of a staff member is measured by the length of his memos.

'Naomi, sex at noon taxes.' I moan. Never odd or even. A man, a plan, a canal, Panama. Madam, I'm Adam. Sit on a potato pan, Otis. Sit on Otis.

Why isn't there a special name for the tops of your feet?

God was satisfied with his own work, and that is fatal.

The optimist thinks that this is the best of all possible worlds, and the pessimist knows it.

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