What passes for optimism is most often the effect of an intellectual error.

Execute every act of thy life as though it were thy last.

Sic transit gloria mundi. [So passes away the glory of this world.]

The rights and interests of the laboring man will be protected and cared for not by our labor agitators, but by the Christian men to whom God in his infinite wisdom has given control of property interests of the country, and upon the successful manag

If we spoke a different language, we would perceive a somewhat different world.

Nitwit ideas are for emergencies. You use them when you've got nothing else to try. If they work, they go in the Book. Otherwise you follow the Book, which is largely a collection of nitwit ideas that worked.

Money can't buy love, but it improves your bargaining position.

I need another lawyer like I need another hole in my head.

The penalty for laughing in a courtroom is six months in jail; if it were not for this penalty, the jury would never hear the evidence.

The proof of the pudding is in the eating.

Eighteen goddess-like daughters are not equal to one son with a hump.

For thee the wonder-working earth puts forth sweet flowers.

"We're not talking about the same thing," he said. "For you the world is weird because if you're not bored with it you're at odds with it. For me the world is weird because it is stupendous, awesome, mysterious, unfathomable; my interest has been to

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.'

A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds.

"No job too big; no fee too big!"

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 individual choice of garnishment of a burger can be an important point to the consumer in this day when individualism is an increasingly important thing to people.

What one fool can do, another can.

... "fire" does not matter, "earth" and "air" and "water" do not matter. "I" do not matter. No word matters. But man forgets reality and remembers words. The more words he remembers, the cleverer do his fellows esteem him. He looks upon the great