Non-Determinism is not meant to be reasonable.

In the long run we are all dead.

If there were a school for, say, sheet metal workers, that after three years left its graduates as unprepared for their careers as does law school, it would be closed down in a minute, and no doubt by lawyers.

Words have a longer life than deeds.

Drop the vase and it will become a Ming of the past.

Receiving a million dollars tax free will make you feel better than being flat broke and having a stomach ache.

A definition of teaching: casting fake pearls before real swine.

We're living in a golden age. All you need is gold.

The day advanced as if to light some work of mine; it was morning, and lo! now it is evening, and nothing memorable is accomplished.

Sometimes, too long is too long.

God made everything out of nothing, but the nothingness shows through.

Some performers on television appear to be horrible people, but when you finally get to know them in person, they turn out to be even worse.

Credit ... is the only enduring testimonial to man's confidence in man.

A sinking ship gathers no moss.

Hard work never killed anybody, but why take a chance?

"You mean, if you allow the master to be uncivil, to treat you any old way he likes, and to insult your dignity, then he may deem you fit to hear his view of things?" "Quite the contrary. You must defend your integrity, assuming you have integrit

This novel is not to be tossed lightly aside, but to be hurled with great force.

If a guru falls in the forest with no one to hear him, was he really a guru at all?

One good turn asketh another.

What an artist dies with me!

Life sucks, but death doesn't put out at all.

Marijuana will be legal some day, because the many law students who now smoke pot will someday become congressmen and legalize it in order to protect themselves.

Comparing information and knowledge is like asking whether the fatness of a pig is more or less green than the designated hitter rule."

Too much of everything is just enough.

Wisdom is knowing what to do with what you know.

Take what you can use and let the rest go by.

It is your concern when your neighbor's wall is on fire.

One picture is worth more than ten thousand words.

"If a camel flies, no one laughs if it doesn't get very far."

The more I want to get something done, the less I call it work.

It is through symbols that man consciously or unconsciously lives, works and has his being.

An office party is not, as is sometimes supposed the Managing Director's chance to kiss the tea-girl. It is the tea-girl's chance to kiss the Managing Director (however bizarre an ambition this may seem to anyone who has seen the Managing Director f

Fortune Documents the Great Legal Decisions: We think that we may take judicial notice of the fact that the term "bitch" may imply some feeling of endearment when applied to a female of the canine species but that it is seldom, if ever, so used whe

Those who educate children well are more to be honored than parents, for these only gave life, those the art of living well.

Now, you might ask, "How do I get one of those complete home tool sets for under $4?" An excellent question. Go to one of those really cheap discount stores where they sell plastic furniture in colors visible from the planet Neptune and where they

You get what you pay for.

Well begun is half done.

Nothing is so firmly believed as that which we least know.

The universe is made of stories, not of atoms.

All is well that ends well.

Nullum magnum ingenium sine mixtura dementiae fuit. [There is no great genius without some touch of madness.]

It's not so hard to lift yourself by your bootstraps once you're off the ground.

Somehow I reached excess without ever noticing when I was passing through satisfaction.

If happiness is in your destiny, you need not be in a hurry.

Porsche: there simply is no substitute.

Well, the handwriting is on the floor.

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

A wise person makes his own decisions, a weak one obeys public opinion.

Pity the meek, for they shall inherit the earth.

What we need in this country, instead of Daylight Savings Time, which nobody really understands anyway, is a new concept called Weekday Morning Time, whereby at 7 a.m. every weekday we go into a space-launch-style "hold" for two to three hours, durin

Live within your income, even if you have to borrow to do so.

In spite of everything, I still believe that people are good at heart.

Very few people do anything creative after the age of thirty-five. The reason is that very few people do anything creative before the age of thirty-five.

The streets were dark with something more than night.

Love may laugh at locksmiths, but he has a profound respect for money bags.

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.

None love the bearer of bad news.

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

A male gynecologist is like an auto mechanic who has never owned a car.

Honesty pays, but it doesn't seem to pay enough to suit some people.

If you want divine justice, die.

When the going gets tough, everyone leaves.

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The superior man understands what is right; the inferior man understands what will sell.

"We demand rigidly defined areas of doubt and uncertainty!"

A man gazing at the stars is proverbially at the mercy of the puddles in the road.

Once the toothpaste is out of the tube, it's hard to get it back in.

Nothing is so firmly believed as that which we least know.

Men freely believe that what they wish to desire.

God instructs the heart, not by ideas, but by pains and contradictions.

Here's to women. Would that we could fall into her arms without falling into her hands.

The man-hating woman, like the cold woman, is largely imaginary. She is simply a woman who has done her best to snare a man and has failed.

It is impossible to enjoy idling thoroughly unless one has plenty of work to do.

The man who runs may fight again.

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

There's no justice in this world.

Traveling through hyperspace isn't like dusting crops, boy.

It is imperative when flying coach that you restrain any tendency toward the vividly imaginative. For although it may momentarily appear to be the case, it is not at all likely that the cabin is entirely inhabited by crying babies smoking inexpensiv

"There was an interesting development in the CBS-Westmoreland trial: both sides agreed that after the trial, Andy Rooney would be allowed to talk to the jury for three minutes about little things that annoyed him during the trial."

Would it help if I got out and pushed?

There is no fool to the old fool.

A word to the wise is enough.

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

Nothing endures but change.

Life would be tolerable but for its amusements.

Certainly the game is rigged. Don't let that stop you; if you don't bet, you can't win.

Dying is a very dull, dreary affair. My advice to you is to have nothing whatever to do with it.

A committee is a group that keeps the minutes and loses hours.

Jesus may love you, but I think you're garbage wrapped in skin.

What soon grows old? Gratitude.

And ever has it been known that love knows not its own depth until the hour of separation.

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

Long were the days of pain I have spent within its walls, and long were the nights of aloneness; and who can depart from his pain and his aloneness without regret?

He thought of Musashi, the Sword Saint, standing in his garden more than three hundred years ago. "What is the 'Body of a rock'?" he was asked. In answer, Musashi summoned a pupil of his and bid him kill himself by slashing his abdomen with a knife.

There are worse things in life than death. Have you ever spent an evening with an insurance salesman?