Fortune and love befriend the bold.

For if there is a sin against life, it consists perhaps not so much in despairing of life as in hoping for another life and in eluding the implacable grandeur of this life.

If at first you don't succeed, you're doing about average.

We have nowhere else to go... this is all we have.

If I could drop dead right now, I'd be the happiest man alive!

There's no such thing as a free lunch.

Love the sea? I dote upon it

"Hi, I'm Preston A. Mantis, president of Consumers Retail Law Outlet. As you can see by my suit and the fact that I have all these books of equal height on the shelves behind me, I am a trained legal attorney. Do you have a car or a job? Do you ever

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.

It's odd, and a little unsettling, to reflect upon the fact that English is the only major language in which "I" is capitalized; in many other languages "You" is capitalized and the "i" is lower case.

I stopped believing in Santa Claus when I was six. Mother took me to see him in a department store and he asked for my autograph.

There are three reasons for becoming a writer: the first is that you need the money; the second that you have something to say that you think the world should know; the third is that you can't think what to do with the long winter evenings.

It is ridiculous to call this an industry. This is not. This is rat eat rat, dog eat dog. I'll kill 'em, and I'm going to kill 'em before they kill me. You're talking about the American way of survival of the fittest.

Live fast, die young, and leave a good looking corpse.

Nice guys finish last, but we get to sleep in.

Of all possible committee reactions to any given agenda item, the reaction that will occur is the one which will liberate the greatest amount of hot air.

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

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

No group of professionals meets except to conspire against the public at large.

Life is the childhood of our immortality.

Remark of Dr. Baldwin's concerning upstarts: We don't care to eat toadstools that think they are truffles.

British education is probably the best in the world, if you can survive it. If you can't there is nothing left for you but the diplomatic corps.

As well look for a needle in a bottle of hay.

The first thing I do in the morning is brush my teeth and sharpen my tongue.

"The jig's up, Elman." "Which jig?"

We can embody the truth, but we cannot know it.

To restore a sense of reality, I think Walt Disney should have a Hardluckland.

The Priest's grey nimbus in a niche where he dressed discreetly. I will not sleep here tonight. Home also I cannot go. A voice, sweetened and sustained, called to him from the sea. Turning the curve he waved his hand. A sleek brown head, a seal's,

Darth Vader! Only you would be so bold!

Education is learning what you didn't even know you didn't know.

This is the sort of English up with which I will not put.

The streets were dark with something more than night.

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

Yet creeds mean very little, Coth answered the dark god, still speaking almost gently. The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds; and the pessimist fears this is true.

The Hollywood tradition I like best is called "sucking up to the stars."

So so is good, very good, very excellent good: and yet it is not; it is but so so.

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.

We have art that we do not die of the truth.

Progress might have been all right once, but it's gone on too long.

Playing an unamplified electric guitar is like strumming on a picnic table.

The typewriting machine, when played with expression, is no more annoying than the piano when played by a sister or near relation.

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