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

There must be more to life than having everything.

Exceptions prove the rule, and wreck the budget.

In case of fire, stand in the hall and shout "Fire!"

Nothing so needs reforming as other people's habits.

It is only the man whose intellect is clouded by his sexual impulse that could give the name of the fair sex to that undersized, narrow-shouldered, broad-hipped, and short-legged race.

A man is known by the company he organizes.

It is better to live rich than to die rich.

The most costly of all follies is to believe passionately in the palpably not true. It is the chief occupation of mankind.

If I have to lay an egg for my country, I'll do it.

I am America's child, a spastic slogging on demented limbs drooling I'll trade my PhD for a telephone voice.

Thieves respect property; they merely wish the property to become their property that they may more perfectly respect it.

Grig (the navigator): ... so you see, it's just the two of us against the entire space armada. Alex (the gunner): What?!? Grig: I've always wanted to fight a desperate battle against overwhelming odds. Alex: It'll be a slaughter! Grig: That'

Advertising is a valuable economic factor because it is the cheapest way of selling goods, particularly if the goods are worthless.

"To YOU I'm an atheist; to God, I'm the Loyal Opposition."

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

The Bible says that woman was the last thing God made. Evidently He made her on Saturday night. She reveals his fatigue.

When a man assumes a public trust, he should consider himself as public property.

Any stone in your boot always migrates against the pressure gradient to exactly the point of most pressure.

It's not a sin not to be Irish, but it is a great shame.

A memorandum is written not to inform the reader, but to protect the writer.

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

Judges, as a class, display, in the matter of arranging alimony, that reckless generosity which is found only in men who are giving away someone else's cash.

...He who laughs does not believe in what he laughs at, but neither does he hate it. Therefore, laughing at evil means not preparing oneself to combat it, and laughing at good means denying the power through which good is self-propagating.

I think... I think it's in my basement... Let me go upstairs and check.

A likely impossibility is always preferable to an unconvincing possibility.

When in doubt, use brute force.

America, I'm putting my queer shoulder to the wheel.

Another day, another dollar.

The more laws and order are made prominent, the more thieves and robbers there will be.

I recognize terror as the finest emotion and so I will try to terrorize the reader. But if I find that I cannot terrify, I will try to horrify, and if I find that I cannot horrify, I'll go for the gross-out.

"Is it just me, or does anyone else read `bible humpers' every time someone writes `bible thumpers?'

Someday, Weederman, we'll look back on all this and laugh... It will probably be one of those deep, eerie ones that slowly builds to a blood-curdling maniacal scream... but still it will be a laugh.

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

Executive ability is deciding quickly and getting somebody else to do the work.

There is more to life than increasing its speed.

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.

A racially integrated community is a chronological term timed from the entrance of the first black family to the exit of the last white family.

Let sleeping dogs lie.

The intelligence of any discussion diminishes with the square of the number of participants.

Sometimes a man who deserves to be looked down upon because he is a fool is despised only because he is a lawyer.

He who despairs over an event is a coward, but he who holds hopes for the human condition is a fool.

The end move in politics is always to pick up a gun.

... but as records of courts and justice are admissible, it can easily be proved that powerful and malevolent magicians once existed and were a scourge to mankind. The evidence (including confession) upon which certain women were convicted of witch

War is much too serious a matter to be entrusted to the military.

"My country, right or wrong" is a thing that no patriot would think of saying, except in a desperate case. It is like saying "My mother, drunk or sober."

Time is the most valuable thing a man can spend.

Fast ship? You mean you've never heard of the Millennium Falcon?

"Benson, you are so free of the ravages of intelligence"

The Least Successful Equal Pay Advertisement In 1976 the European Economic Community pointed out to the Irish Government that it had not yet implemented the agreed sex equality legislation. The Dublin Government immediately advertised for an equal

Hell is empty and all the devils are here.

I'd just as soon kiss a Wookie.

There are two kinds of pedestrians... the quick and the dead.

Suffering alone exists, none who suffer; The deed there is, but no doer thereof; Nirvana is, but no one is seeking it; The Path there is, but none who travel it.

Perfection is reached, not when there is no longer anything to add, but when there is no longer anything to take away.

Practice is the best of all instructors.

Acting is not very hard. The most important things are to be able to laugh and cry. If I have to cry, I think of my sex life. And if I have to laugh, well, I think of my sex life.

Mum's the word.

Don't everyone thank me at once!

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.

The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence that it is not utterly absurd; indeed, in view of the silliness of the majority of mankind, a widespread belief is more often likely to be foolish than sensible.

When a fellow says, "It ain't the money but the principle of the thing," it's the money.

Campus sidewalks never exist as the straightest line between two points.

So she went into the garden to cut a cabbage leaf to make an apple pie; and at the same time a great she-bear, coming up the street pops its head into the shop. "What! no soap?" So he died, and she very imprudently married the barber; and there were

Small is beautiful.

In childhood a woman must be subject to her father; in youth to her husband; when her husband is dead, to her sons. A woman must never be free of subjugation.

The means-and-ends moralists, or non-doers, always end up on their ends without any means.

Once a word has been allowed to escape, it cannot be recalled.

You may my glories and my state dispose, But not my griefs; still am I king of those.

The fashion wears out more apparel than the man.

There are no manifestos like cannon and musketry.

We are giving instruction to FBI agents in the various Chinese dialects ... to handle present and likely future contingencies.

When in doubt, tell the truth.

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

I went into the business for the money, and the art grew out of it. If people are disillusioned by that remark, I can't help it. It's the truth.

Ten persons who speak make more noise than ten thousand who are silent.

It has long been an axiom of mine that the little things are infinitely the most important.

I know on which side my bread is buttered.

Those who have some means think that the most important thing in the world is love. The poor know that it is money.

I think we are in Rats' Alley where the dead men lost their bones.

The abuse of greatness is when it disjoins remorse from power.

If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world.

If you give Congress a chance to vote on both sides of an issue, it will always do it.

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

She say, Miss Colie, You better hush. God might hear you. Let 'im hear me, I say. If he ever listened to poor colored women the world would be a different place, I can tell you.

Reality is bad enough, why should I tell the truth?

The man with the best job in the country is the Vice President. All he has to do is get up every morning and say, "How's the President?"

If reporters don't know that truth is plural, they ought to be lawyers.

Hating the Yankees is as American as pizza pie, unwed mothers and cheating on your income tax.

If Christianity was morality, Socrates would be the Saviour.

The bone-chilling scream split the warm summer night in two, the first half being before the scream when it was fairly balmy and calm and pleasant, the second half still balmy and quite pleasant for those who hadn't heard the scream at all, but not c

The introduction of a new kind of music must be shunned as imperiling the whole state, for styles of music are never disturbed without affecting the most important political institutions. ... The new style, gradually gaining a lodgement, quitely ins

When you're in command, command.

Unless hours were cups of sack, and minutes capons, and clocks the tongues of bawds, and dials the signs of leaping houses, and the blessed sun himself a fair, hot wench in flame-colored taffeta, I see no reason why thou shouldst be so superfluous to

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

In my end is my beginning.

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.

Never buy from a rich salesman.

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

The use of money is all the advantage there is to having money.

Flame on!

I value kindness to human beings first of all, and kindness to animals. I don't respect the law; I have a total irreverence for anything connected with society except that which makes the roads safer, the beer stronger, the food cheaper, and old men

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

"Not only is God dead, but just try to find a plumber on weekends."

They're giving bank robbing a bad name.

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.'

Being a woman is a terribly difficult trade, since it consists principally of dealings with men.

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

I played lead guitar in a band called The Federal Duck, which is the kind of name that was popular in the '60s as a result of controlled substances being in widespread use. Back then, there were no restrictions, in terms of talent, on who could make

The lawgiver, of all beings, most owes the law allegiance. He of all men should behave as though the law compelled him. But it is the universal weakness of mankind that what we are given to administer we presently imagine we own.

Prosperity makes friends, adversity tries them.

Whatever doesn't succeed in two months and a half in California will never succeed.

The reward of a thing well done is to have done it.

Best Mistakes In Films In his "Filmgoer's Companion", Mr. Leslie Halliwell helpfully lists four of the cinema's greatest moments which you should get to see if at all possible. In "Carmen Jones", the camera tracks with Dorothy Dandridge down a st

It is a profitable thing, if one is wise, to seem foolish.

There is nothing new except what has been forgotten.

Sometimes a man who deserves to be looked down upon because he is a fool is despised only because he is a lawyer.

Learning without thought is labor lost; thought without learning is perilous.

How apt the poor are to be proud.

If you go on with this nuclear arms race, all you are going to do is make the rubble bounce.

Then a man said: Speak to us of Expectations. He then said: If a man does not see or hear the waters of the Jordan, then he should not taste the pomegranate or ply his wares in an open market. If a man would not labour in the salt and rock quarri

Only those who leisurely approach that which the masses are busy about can be busy about that which the masses take leisurely.

Adhere to your own act, and congratulate yourself if you have done something strange and extravagant, and broken the monotony of a decorous age.

Sorry 'bout that sweat, honey. That's just holy water.

The ideal voice for radio may be defined as showing no substance, no sex, no owner, and a message of importance for every housewife.

There is no character, howsoever good and fine, but it can be destroyed by ridicule, howsoever poor and witless. Observe the ass, for instance: his character is about perfect, he is the choicest spirit among all the humbler animals, yet see what rid

There is much Obi-Wan did not tell you.

The older I grow, the less important the comma becomes. Let the reader catch his own breath.

[He] took me into his library and showed me his books, of which he had a complete set.

The college graduate is presented with a sheepskin to cover his intellectual nakedness.

"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

If you are shooting under 80 you are neglecting your business; over 80 you are neglecting your golf.

You have all the characteristics of a popular politician: a horrible voice, bad breeding, and a vulgar manner.

What I tell you three times is true.

Would ye both eat your cake and have your cake?

You can tell the ideals of a nation by its advertisements.

If the church put in half the time on covetousness that it does on lust, this would be a better world.

Indomitable in retreat; invincible in advance; insufferable in victory.

The ripest fruit falls first.

The term "fire" brings up visions of violence and mayhem and the ugly scene of shooting employees who make mistakes. We will now refer to this process as "deleting" an employee (much as a file is deleted from a disk). The employee is simply there o

Men will fuck mud.

Never invest your money in anything that eats or needs repainting.

I stick my neck out for nobody.

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

Good government never depends upon laws, but upon the personal qualities of those who govern. The machinery of government is always subordinate to the will of those who administer that machinery. The most important element of government, therefore,

Better the prince of some inferior court, Than second, or less, in beatific light.

I accept chaos. I am not sure whether it accepts me. I know some people are terrified of the bomb. But then some people are terrified to be seen carrying a modern screen magazine. Experience teaches us that silence terrifies people the most.

The major sin is the sin of being born.

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

The trouble with opportunity is that it always comes disguised as hard work.

Reality is nothing but a collective hunch.

He who has the courage to laugh is almost as much a master of the world as he who is ready to die.

My advice to you, my violent friend, is to seek out gold and sit on it.

Writing is easy; all you do is sit staring at the blank sheet of paper until drops of blood form on your forehead.

Many of the characters are fools and they are always playing tricks on me and treating me badly.

Life is like a 10 speed bicycle. Most of us have gears we never use.

Fear is the greatest salesman.

Under any conditions, anywhere, whatever you are doing, there is some ordinance under which you can be booked.

Dying is one of the few things that can be done as easily lying down.

Like so many Americans, she was trying to construct a life that made sense from things she found in gift shops.

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

The income tax has made more liars out of the American people than golf has. Even when you make a tax form out on the level, you don't know when it's through if you are a crook or a martyr.

Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious.

"You have been in Afghanistan, I perceive."

Life is a concentration camp. You're stuck here and there's no way out and you can only rage impotently against your persecutors.

Once harm has been done, even a fool understands it.

A game can by God repent or we'll punish it. That's how they did it in Salem in the seventeenth century, and that's how we'll do it now.

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?

We should be glad we're living in the time that we are. If any of us had been born into a more enlightened age, I'm sure we would have immediately been taken out and shot.

Out of sight is out of mind.

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

If we can ever make red tape nutritional, we can feed the world.

When I hear a man applauded by the mob I always feel a pang of pity for him. All he has to do to be hissed is to live long enough.

I never made a mistake in my life. I thought I did once, but I was wrong.

May you live in uninteresting times.

Save a little money each month and at the end of the year you'll be surprised at how little you have.

What we cannot speak about we must pass over in silence.

When a shepherd goes to kill a wolf, and takes his dog along to see the sport, he should take care to avoid mistakes. The dog has certain relationships to the wolf the shepherd may have forgotten.

We ... make the modern error of dignifying the Individual. We do everything we can to butter him up. We give him a name, assure him that he has certain inalienable rights, educate him, let him pass on his name to his brats and when he dies we give

Scratch the average female and you'll find a purring bundle... at the ready to love and honor, bake a torte and still produce quintuplets.

Poverty must have its satisfactions, else there would not be so many poor people.

Since a politician never believes what he says, he is surprised when others believe him.

A drama critic is a person who surprises a playwright by informing him what he meant.

In India, "cold weather" is merely a conventional phrase and has come into use through the necessity of having some way to distinguish between weather which will melt a brass door-knob and weather which will only make it mushy.

Fortune and love befriend the bold.

Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known.

The surest protection against temptation is cowardice.

Solipsists of the World... you are already united.

Writing about music is like dancing about architecture.

We Americans, we're a simple people... but piss us off, and we'll bomb your cities.

The chief enemy of creativity is "good" sense

The IRS spends God knows how much of your tax money on these toll-free information hot lines staffed by IRS employees, whose idea of a dynamite tax tip is that you should print neatly. If you ask them a real tax question, such as how you can cheat,

The very ink with which all history is written is merely fluid prejudice.

If built in great numbers, motels will be used for nothing but illegal purposes.

Isn't it nice that people who prefer Los Angeles to San Francisco live there?

Kiss me, Kate, we will be married o' Sunday.

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

What is good? Everything that heightens the feeling of power in man, the will to power, power itself. What is bad? Everything that is born of weakness. Not contentedness but more power; not peace but war; not virtue but fitness. The weak and the

As to Jesus of Nazareth... I think the system of Morals and his Religion, as he left them to us, the best the World ever saw or is likely to see; but I apprehend it has received various corrupting Changes, and I have, with most of the present Dissent

During almost fifteen centuries the legal establishment of Christianity has been upon trial. What has been its fruits? More or less, in all places, pride and indolence in the clergy; ignorance and servility in the laity,; in both, superstition, bigo

To be or not to be.

VII. Certain bodies can pass through solid walls painted to resemble tunnel entrances; others cannot. This trompe l'oeil inconsistency has baffled generations, but at least it is known that whoever paints an entrance on a wall's surface to

"Cogito ergo I'm right and you're wrong."

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

Everything takes longer, costs more, and is less useful.

... we must not judge the society of the future by considering whether or not we should like to live in it; the question is whether those who have grown up in it will be happier than those who have grown up in our society or those of the past.

I paid a visit to my local precinct in Greenwich Village and asked a sergeant to show me some rape statistics. He politely obliged. That month there had been thirty-five rape complaints, an advance of ten over the same month for the previous year.

No poet or novelist wishes he was the only one who ever lived, but most of them wish they were the only one alive, and quite a number fondly believe their wish has been granted.

An older student came to Otis and said, "I have been to see a great number of teachers and I have given up a great number of pleasures. I have fasted, been celibate and stayed awake nights seeking enlightenment. I have given up everything I was aske

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

It is not the critic who counts, or how the strong man stumbled, or whether the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood, who strives vali

It is something to be able to paint a particular picture, or to carve a statue, and so to make a few objects beautiful; but it is far more glorious to carve and paint the very atmosphere and medium through which we look, which morally we can do. T

One big pile is better than two little piles.

Where it is a duty to worship the sun it is pretty sure to be a crime to examine the laws of heat.

If you make any money, the government shoves you in the creek once a year with it in your pockets, and all that don't get wet you can keep.

With women, I've got a long bamboo pole with a leather loop on the end of it. I slip the loop around their necks so they can't get away or come too close. Like catching snakes.

Life would be tolerable but for its amusements.

Immature artists imitate, mature artists steal.

The Soviet Union, which has complained recently about alleged anti-Soviet themes in American advertising, lodged an official protest this week against the Ford Motor Company's new campaign: "Hey you stinking, fat Russian, get off my Ford Escort."

You can't run away forever, But there's nothing wrong with getting a good head start.

The two oldest professions in the world have been ruined by amateurs.

The holy passion of Friendship is of so sweet and steady and loyal and enduring a nature that it will last through a whole lifetime, if not asked to lend money.

Awash with unfocused desire, Everett twisted the lobe of his one remaining ear and felt the presence of somebody else behind him, which caused terror to push through his nervous system like a flash flood roaring down the mid-fork of the Feather River

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

You don't move to Edina, you achieve Edina.

The life which is unexamined is not worth living.

The Least Successful Police Dogs America has a very strong candidate in "La Dur", a fearsome looking schnauzer hound, who was retired from the Orlando police force in Florida in 1978. He consistently refused to do anything which might ruffle or of

No two persons ever read the same book.

The Least Perceptive Literary Critic The most important critic in our field of study is Lord Halifax. A most individual judge of poetry, he once invited Alexander Pope round to give a public reading of his latest poem. Pope, the leading poet of h

The salary of the chief executive of the large corporation is not a market award for achievement. It is frequently in the nature of a warm personal gesture by the individual to himself.

Termiter's argument that God is His own grandmother generated a surprising amount of controversy among Church leaders, who on the one hand considered the argument unsupported by scripture but on the other hand were unwilling to risk offending God's g

A Christian is a man who feels repentance on Sunday for what he did on Saturday and is going to do on Monday.

Certain passages in several laws have always defied interpretation and the most inexplicable must be a matter of opinion. A judge of the Court of Session of Scotland has sent the editors of this book his candidate which reads, "In the Nuts (unground

Politics, like religion, hold up the torches of matrydom to the reformers of error.

If they were so inclined, they could impeach him because they don't like his necktie.

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

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

Asking a working writer what he thinks about critics is like asking a lamp-post how it feels about dogs.

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

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.

The trouble with superheros is what to do between phone booths.

Welcome to Lake Wobegon, where all the men are strong, the women are pretty, and the children are above-average.

The difference between a Miracle and a Fact is exactly the difference between a mermaid and a seal.

We are what we pretend to be.

I'll burn my books.

Man is by nature a political animal.

Home is where the hurt is.

Having nothing, nothing can he lose.

However, on religious issues there can be little or no compromise. There is no position on which people are so immovable as their religious beliefs. There is no more powerful ally one can claim in a debate than Jesus Christ, or God, or Allah, or wha

Joe Cool always spends the first two weeks at college sailing his frisbee.

If Jesus Christ came to this town, people would say, great guy; terrible carpenter.

Not all who own a harp are harpers.

I always had a repulsive need to be something more than human.

My father was a saint, I'm not.

We all declare for liberty, but in using the same word we do not all mean the same thing.

Christianity might be a good thing if anyone ever tried it.

Let us never negotiate out of fear, but let us never fear to negotiate.

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

Is uniformity attainable? Millions of innocent men, women, and children, since the introduction of Christianity, have been burnt, tortured, fined, imprisoned; yet we have not advanced one inch towards uniformity. What has been the effect of coercio

A Galileo could no more be elected president of the United States than he could be elected Pope of Rome. Both high posts are reserved for men favored by God with an extraordinary genius for swathing the bitter facts of life in bandages of self-illus

Immigration is the sincerest form of flattery.

The genius of our ruling class is that it has kept a majority of the people from ever questioning the inequity of a system where most people drudge along paying heavy taxes for which they get nothing in return.

A sinking ship gathers no moss.

Chance is perhaps the work of God when He did not want to sign.

If a man has a strong faith he can indulge in the luxury of skepticism.

The Worst Jury A murder trial at Manitoba in February 1978 was well advanced, when one juror revealed that he was completely deaf and did not have the remotest clue what was happening. The judge, Mr. Justice Solomon, asked him if he had heard any

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

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"What's this? Trix? Aunt! Trix? You? You're after the prize! What is it?" He picked up the box and studied the back. "A glow-in-the-dark squid! Have you got it out of there yet?" He tilted the box, angling the little colored balls of cereal

If the American dream is for Americans only, it will remain our dream and never be our destiny.

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

If you don't strike oil in twenty minutes, stop boring.

Boston State House is the hub of the Solar System. You couldn't pry that out of a Boston man if you had the tire of all creation straightened out for a crowbar.

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

One, with God, is always a majority, but many a martyr has been burned at the stake while the votes were being counted.

The control of the production of wealth is the control of human life itself.

Seize the day, put no trust in the morrow!

Talking about music is like dancing about architecture.

Once, I read that a man be never stronger than when he truly realizes how weak he is.

Lay off the muses, it's a very tough dollar.

How do you explain school to a higher intelligence?

Sensible and responsible women do not want to vote.

I was gratified to be able to answer promptly, and I did. I said I didn't know.

The Law, in its majestic equality, forbids the rich, as well as the poor, to sleep under the bridges, to beg in the streets, and to steal bread.

A rolling stone gathers no moss.

Patch griefs with proverbs.

If a man stay away from his wife for seven years, the law presumes the separation to have killed him; yet according to our daily experience, it might well prolong his life.

"Are you police officers?" "No, ma'am. We're musicians."

Let's say your wedding ring falls into your toaster, and when you stick your hand in to retrieve it, you suffer Pain and Suffering as well as Mental Anguish. You would sue: * The toaster manufacturer, for failure to include, in the instructions

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.

There's no such thing as a free lunch.

I respect faith, but doubt is what gives you an education.

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

Think lucky. If you fall in a pond, check your pockets for fish.

Coincidences are spiritual puns.

One man's Mede is another man's Persian.

Chapter 1 The story so far: In the beginning the Universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move.

There is no fool to the old fool.

There are no answers, only cross-references.

A violent man will die a violent death.

A good reputation is more valuable than money.

If a jury in a criminal trial stays out for more than twenty-four hours, it is certain to vote acquittal, save in those instances where it votes guilty.

Man is the measure of all things.

He who writes with no misspelled words has prevented a first suspicion on the limits of his scholarship or, in the social world, of his general education and culture.

Usually, when a lot of men get together, it's called a war.

If you lose a son you can always get another, but there's only one Maltese Falcon.

If I could reach, I'd never leave the house.

Thou hast seen nothing yet.

Ninety percent of the time things turn out worse than you thought they would. The other ten percent of the time you had no right to expect that much.

The lunatic, the lover, and the poet, Are of imagination all compact...

Once there lived a village of creatures along the bottom of a great crystal river. Each creature in its own manner clung tightly to the twigs and rocks of the river bottom, for clinging was their way of life, and resisting the current what each had