Have the courage to take your own thoughts seriously, for they will shape you.

So you think that money is the root of all evil. Have you ever asked what is the root of money?

Circumstances rule men; men do not rule circumstances.

Watch your mouth, kid, or you'll find yourself floating home.

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.

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

"Go to Heaven for the climate, Hell for the company."

His followers called him Mahasamatman and said he was a god. He preferred to drop the Maha- and the -atman, however, and called himself Sam. He never claimed to be a god. But then, he never claimed not to be a god. Circum- stances being what they

The fashion wears out more apparel than the man.

The Anglo-Saxon conscience does not prevent the Anglo-Saxon from sinning, it merely prevents him from enjoying his sin.

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

Mate, this parrot wouldn't VOOM if you put four million volts through it!

I went into a bar feeling a little depressed, the bartender said, "What'll you have, Bud"? I said," I don't know, surprise me". So he showed me a nude picture of my wife.

This is the first age that's paid much attention to the future, which is a little ironic since we may not have one.

Unknown person(s) stole the American flag from its pole in Etra Park sometime between 3pm Jan 17 and 11:30 am Jan 20. The flag is described as red, white and blue, having 50 stars and was valued at $40.

The Least Successful Executions History has furnished us with two executioners worthy of attention. The first performed in Sydney in Australia. In 1803 three attempts were made to hang a Mr. Joseph Samuels. On the first two of these the rope snap

Well, the handwriting is on the floor.

Patience is the best remedy for every trouble.

Bingo, gas station, hamburger with a side order of airplane noise, and you'll be Gary, Indiana.

The ratio of literacy to illiteracy is a constant, but nowadays the illiterates can read.

Mind! I don't mean to say that I know, of my own knowledge, what there is particularly dead about a door-nail. I might have been inclined, myself, to regard a coffin-nail as the deadest piece of ironmongery in the trade. But the wisdom of our ances

If the colleges were better, if they really had it, you would need to get the police at the gates to keep order in the inrushing multitude. See in college how we thwart the natural love of learning by leaving the natural method of teaching what each

For the fashion of Minas Tirith was such that it was built on seven levels, each delved into a hill, and about each was set a wall, and in each wall was a gate.

The Israelis are the Doberman pinschers of the Middle East. They treat the Arabs like postmen.

I owe the public nothing.

It has been said [by Anatole France], "it is not by amusing oneself that one learns," and, in reply: "it is *____only* by amusing oneself that one can learn."

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

Military intelligence is a contradiction in terms.

Let me take you a button-hole lower.

Anything anybody can say about America is true.

The Poems, all three hundred of them, may be summed up in one of their phrases: "Let our thoughts be correct".

A likely impossibility is always preferable to an unconvincing possibility.

Veni, vidi, vici. [I came, I saw, I conquered].

How apt the poor are to be proud.

Three minutes' thought would suffice to find this out; but thought is irksome and three minutes is a long time.

Don't everyone thank me at once!

Necessity has no law.

In "King Henry VI, Part II," Shakespeare has Dick Butcher suggest to his fellow anti-establishment rabble-rousers, "The first thing we do, let's kill all the lawyers." That action may be extreme but a similar sentiment was expressed by Thomas K. Co

Democracy is the worst form of government except all those other forms that have been tried from time to time.

The fact that people are poor or discriminated against doesn't necessarily endow them with any special qualities of justice, nobility, charity or compassion.

Thompson, if he is to be believed, has sampled the entire rainbow of legal and illegal drugs in heroic efforts to feel better than he does. As for the truth about his health: I have asked around about it. I am told that he appears to be strong and

Many a writer seems to think he is never profound except when he can't understand his own meaning.

If God is One, what is bad?

I have just enough white in me to make my honesty questionable.

The truth is rarely pure, and never simple.

The Crown is full of it!

Tallulah Bankhead barged down the Nile last night as Cleopatra and sank.

One of your most ancient writers, a historian named Herodotus, tells of a thief who was to be executed. As he was taken away he made a bargain with the king: in one year he would teach the king's favorite horse to sing hymns. The other prisoners wa

To every Ph.D. there is an equal and opposite Ph.D.

She ran the gamut of emotions from 'A' to 'B'.

No evil can happen to a good man.

In Hollywood, if you don't have happiness, you send out for it.

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.

God shows his contempt for wealth by the kind of person he selects to receive it.

In the begining, God created the Earth and he said, "Let there be mud." And there was mud. And God said, "Let Us make living creatures out of mud, so the mud can see what we have done." And God created every living creature that now moveth, and

I was in this prematurely air conditioned supermarket and there were all these aisles and there were these bathing caps you could buy that had these kind of Fourth of July plumes on them that were red and yellow and blue and I wasn't tempted to buy

My tears stuck in their little ducts, refusing to be jerked.

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

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.

Brahma said: Well, after hearing ten thousand explanations, a fool is no wiser. But an intelligent man needs only two thousand five hundred.

Yevtushenko has... an ego that can crack crystal at a distance of twenty feet.

What I tell you three times is true.

Whatever you do will be insignificant, but it is very important that you do it.

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

Being a woman is of special interest only to aspiring male transsexuals. To actual women it is merely a good excuse not to play football.

The hardest thing in the world to understand is the income tax.

War spares not the brave, but the cowardly.

Never laugh at live dragons.

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

The chief danger in life is that you may take too many precautions.

Television is a medium because anything well done is rare.

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

Fortune's Guide to Freshman Notetaking: WHEN THE PROFESSOR SAYS: YOU WRITE: Probably the greatest quality of the poetry John Milton

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

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

Beauty is one of the rare things which does not lead to doubt of God.

Our sires' age was worse that our grandsires'. We their sons are more worthless than they: so in our turn we shall give the world a progeny yet more corrupt.

If I love you, what business is it of yours?

A countryman between two lawyers is like a fish between two cats.

The only thing that stops God from sending a second Flood is that the first one was useless.

Doctors and lawyers must go to school for years and years, often with little sleep and with great sacrifice to their first wives.

A copy of the universe is not what is required of art; one of the damned things is ample.

I trust the first lion he meets will do his duty.

What an artist dies with me!

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

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

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.

Business will be either better or worse.

Too many people are thinking of security instead of opportunity. They seem more afraid of life than death.

A man's house is his castle.

The longest part of the journey is said to be the passing of the gate.

Plumbing is one of the easier of do-it-yourself activities, requiring only a few simple tools and a willingness to stick your arm into a clogged toilet. In fact, you can solve many home plumbing problems, such as annoying faucet drip, merely by tur

All this wheeling and dealing around, why, it isn't for money, it's for fun. Money's just the way we keep score.

Anything is possible on paper.

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

No house should ever be on any hill or on anything. It should be of the hill, belonging to it.

Suspicion always haunts the guilty mind.

Age before beauty; and pearls before swine.

Trifles make perfection, and perfection is no trifle.

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

Ben, why didn't you tell me?

I must have a prodigious quantity of mind; it takes me as much as a week sometimes to make it up.

He draweth out the thread of his verbosity finer than the staple of his argument.

To use violence is to already be defeated.

Hell is empty and all the devils are here.

"Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away".

The first duty of a revolutionary is to get away with it.

All I know is what the words know, and dead things, and that makes a handsome little sum, with a beginning and a middle and an end, as in the well-built phrase and the long sonata of the dead.

I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones.

If I had any humility I would be perfect.

Repartee is something we think of twenty-four hours too late.

Military justice is to justice what military music is to music.

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?"

Cleanliness becomes more important when godliness is unlikely.

The more the merrier.

"... all the modern inconveniences ..."

When alerted to an intrusion by tinkling glass or otherwise, 1) Calm yourself 2) Identify the intruder 3) If hostile, kill him. Step number 3 is of particular importance. If you leave the guy alive out of misguided softheartedness, he will repay y

What is the robbing of a bank compared to the founding of a bank?

The sooner you make your first 5000 mistakes, the sooner you will be able to correct them.

Things past redress and now with me past care.

"Rights" is a fictional abstraction. No one has "Rights", neither machines nor flesh-and-blood. Persons... have opportunities, not rights, which they use or do not use.

I am a friend of the working man, and I would rather be his friend than be one.

So little time, so little to do.

Fear is the greatest salesman.

A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush.

The human animal differs from the lesser primates in his passion for lists of "Ten Best".

"The Right Honorable Gentleman is indebted to his memory for his jests and to his imagination for his facts."

He who knows others is wise. He who knows himself is enlightened.

The danger is not that a particular class is unfit to govern. Every class is unfit to govern.

You can no more win a war than you can win an earthquake.

Nothing will ever be attempted if all possible objections must be first overcome.

You can fool all the people all of the time if the advertising is right and the budget is big enough.

Lord, what fools these mortals be!

The English instinctively admire any man who has no talent and is modest about it.

The notes blatted skyward as they rose over the Canada geese, feathered rumps mooning the day, webbed appendages frantically pedaling unseen bicycles in their search for sustenance, driven by cruel Nature's maxim, 'Ya wanna eat, ya gotta work,' and a

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

To add insult to injury.

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

Hain't we got all the fools in town on our side? And hain't that a big enough majority in any town?

In breeding cattle you need one bull for every twenty-five cows, unless the cows are known sluts.

Anyone who has had a bull by the tail knows five or six more things than someone who hasn't.

It is common sense to take a method and try it. If it fails, admit it frankly and try another. But above all, try something.

My father was a creole, his father a Negro, and his father a monkey; my family, it seems, begins where yours left off.

HR 3128. Omnibus Budget Reconciliation, Fiscal 1986. Martin, R-Ill., motion that the House recede from its disagreement to the Senate amendment making changes in the bill to reduce fiscal 1986 deficits. The Senate amendment was an amendment to the

... why should you waste a single moment of *your* life seeming to be something you don't want to be? Lord, that's so simple. If you hate your job, quit it. If your friends are tedious, go out and find new friends. You are queer, you lucky fool, a

I don't have any solution but I certainly admire the problem.

Exceptions prove the rule, and wreck the budget.

You get what you pay for.

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

Someone did a study of the three most-often-heard phrases in New York City. One is "Hey, taxi." Two is, "What train do I take to get to Bloomingdale's?" And three is, "Don't worry. It's just a flesh wound."

Innovation is hard to schedule.

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

Darth Vader! Only you would be so bold!

When you have an efficient government, you have a dictatorship.

Never let your sense of morals prevent you from doing what is right.

The degree of civilization in a society can be judged by entering its prisons.

Now it is such a bizarrely improbable coincidence that anything so mind- bogglingly useful could have evolved purely by chance that some thinkers have chosen to see it as a final and clinching proof of the non-existence of God. The argument follows:

When one burns one's bridges, what a very nice fire it makes.

Everywhere I go I'm asked if I think the university stifles writers. My opinion is that they don't stifle enough of them. There's many a bestseller that could have been prevented by a good teacher.

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

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.

If there is no wind, row.

Democracy is a process by which the people are free to choose the man who will get the blame.

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.

Let him choose out of my files, his projects to accomplish.

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

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

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.

One of my favorite jokes, a telling commentary on Jewish mothers' capacity to lay on guilt, involves the mother who gave her son two neckties on Chanuka. The boy hurried into his bedroom, ripped off the tie he was wearing, put on one of the ties his

The faster we go, the rounder we get.

"Well, it's garish, ugly, and derelicts have used it for a toilet. The rides are dilapidated to the point of being lethal, and could easily maim or kill innocent little children." "Oh, so you don't like it?" "Don't like it? I'm CRAZY for it."

If we don't survive, we don't do anything else.

The good Christian should beware of mathematicians and all those who make empty prophecies. The danger already exists that mathematicians have made a covenant with the devil to darken the spirit and confine man in the bonds of Hell.

Tempt not a desperate man.

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

I try to keep an open mind, but not so open that my brains fall out.

"I'll carry your books, I'll carry a tune, I'll carry on, carry over, carry forward, Cary Grant, cash & carry, Carry Me Back To Old Virginia, I'll even Hara Kari if you show me how, but I will *not* carry a gun."

They spell it "da Vinci" and pronounce it "da Vinchy". Foreigners always spell better than they pronounce.

No one born with a mouth and a need is "innocent".

If you want to know what god thinks of money, just look at the people he gave it to.

Lots of folks confuse bad management with destiny.

The trouble is, there is an endless supply of White Men, but there has always been a limited number of Human Beings.

I am not afraid of tomorrow, for I have seen yesterday and I love today.

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.

You k'n hide de fier, but w'at you gwine do wid de smoke?

"God gives burdens; also shoulders" Jimmy Carter cited this Jewish saying in his concession speech at the end of the 1980 election. At least he said it was a Jewish saying; I can't find it anywhere. I'm sure he's telling the truth though; why wo

The whole world is a scab. The point is to pick it constructively.

I place economy among the first and most important virtues, and public debt as the greatest of dangers to be feared. To preserve our independence, we must not let our rulers load us with perpetual debt. If we run into such debts, we must be taxed i

Princeton's taste is sweet like a strawberry tart. Harvard's is a subtle taste, like whiskey, coffee, or tobacco. It may even be a bad habit, for all I know.

If it were thought that anything I wrote was influenced by Robert Frost, I would take that particular work of mine, shred it, and flush it down the toilet, hoping not to clog the pipes. A more sententious, holding- forth old bore who expected every

When you die, you lose a very important part of your life.

Harp not on that string.

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

I never cheated an honest man, only rascals. They wanted something for nothing. I gave them nothing for something.

Burnt Sienna. That's the best thing that ever happened to Crayolas.

It is like saying that for the cause of peace, God and the Devil will have a high-level meeting.

There is no proverb that is not true.

Advertising is the rattling of a stick inside a swill bucket.

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.

Whenever the literary German dives into a sentence, that is the last you are going to see of him until he emerges on the other side of his Atlantic with his verb in his mouth.

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

Mundus vult decipi decipiatur ergo.

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

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.

'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.

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

By protracting life, we do not deduct one jot from the duration of death.

"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

Being a miner, as soon as you're too old and tired and sick and stupid to do your job properly, you have to go, where the very opposite applies with the judges.

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

He who renders warfare fatal to all engaged in it will be the greatest benefactor the world has yet known.

Turn the other cheek.

Honesty's the best policy.

There is nothing new except what has been forgotten.

The human instinct to censor thrives, as it always will, living in irrepressible conflict with the human instinct to speak. Outrage, self-righteousness, and paranoia feed the maw of censorship. Squelching speech, however, never reduces society's net

If you think education is expensive, try ignorance.

Plus ,ca change, plus c'est la m^eme chose. [The more things change, the more they remain the same.]

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

In every country and every age, the priest has been hostile to Liberty.

What fools these mortals be.

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

Women are nothing but machines for producing children.

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

Two wrongs are only the beginning.

She applies her lipstick in spite of its contents: "greasy rouge, containing crushed and dried insect corpses for coloring, beeswax for stiffness, and olive oil to help it flow - the latter having the unfortunate tendency to go rancid several hours a

In Marseilles they make half the toilet soap we consume in America, but the Marseillaise only have a vague theoretical idea of its use, which they have obtained from books of travel.

The first thing we do, let's kill all the lawyers.

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

They have been at a great feast of languages, and stolen the scraps.

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

"It's a summons." "What's a summons?" "It means summon's in trouble."

I will make you shorter by the head.

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.

A bank is a place where they lend you an umbrella in fair weather and ask for it back the when it begins to rain.

"They make a desert and call it peace."

The road to ruin is always in good repair, and the travellers pay the expense of it.

Adde parvum parvo manus acervus erit. [Add little to little and there will be a big pile.]

... before I could come to any conclusion it occurred to me that my speech or my silence, indeed any action of mine, would be a mere futility. What did it matter what anyone knew or ignored? What did it matter who was manager? One gets sometimes s

From a certain point onward there is no longer any turning back. That is the point that must be reached.

Scrubbing floors and emptying bedpans has as much dignity as the Presidency.

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

Force has no place where there is need of skill.

Alas, how love can trifle with itself!

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

I didn't do it! Nobody saw me do it! Can't prove anything!

Rotten wood cannot be carved.

[The French Riviera is] a sunny place for shady people.

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

A woman occasionally is quite a serviceable substitute for masturbation. It takes an abundance of imagination, to be sure.

By working faithfully eight hours a day, you may eventually get to be boss and work twelve.

There cannot be a crisis next week. My schedule is already full.

If you wish to be happy for one hour, get drunk. If you wish to be happy for three days, get married. If you wish to be happy for a month, kill your pig and eat it. If you wish to be happy forever, learn to fish.

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

Genius is pain.

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

The cart has no place where a fifth wheel could be used.

"What was the worst thing you've ever done?" "I won't tell you that, but I'll tell you the worst thing that ever happened to me... the most dreadful thing."

There's nothing to writing. All you do is sit at a typewriter and open a vein.

They sentenced me to twenty years of boredom for trying to change the system from within. I'm coming now I'm coming to reward them. First we take Manhattan, then we take Berlin. I'm guided by a signal in the heavens. I'm guided by this birthmark

We should realize that a city is better off with bad laws, so long as they remain fixed, then with good laws that are constantly being altered, that the lack of learning combined with sound common sense is more helpful than the kind of cleverness th

Pereant, inquit, qui ante nos nostra dixerunt. [Confound those who have said our remarks before us.] or [May they perish who have expressed our bright ideas before us.]

The scum also rises.

Optimism is the content of small men in high places.

There is an old time toast which is golden for its beauty. "When you ascend the hill of prosperity may you not meet a friend."

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.

When the blind lead the blind they will both fall over the cliff.

I steal.

It is often the case that the man who can't tell a lie thinks he is the best judge of one.

Who's scruffy-looking?

In the highest society, as well as in the lowest, woman is merely an instrument of pleasure.

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

Just because you like my stuff doesn't mean I owe you anything.

A word to the wise is enough.

The graveyards are full of indispensable men.

The man who runs may fight again.

Ours is a world of nuclear giants and ethical infants.

The human race has one really effective weapon, and that is laughter.

The only thing that experience teaches us is that experience teaches us nothing.

If you aren't rich you should always look useful.

Under a government which imprisons any unjustly, the true place for a just man is also a prison.

Men will fuck mud.

Man must shape his tools lest they shape him.

The devil can cite Scripture for his purpose.

Time is a great teacher, but unfortunately it kills all its pupils.

Majorities, of course, start with minorities.

Education is what survives when what has been learnt has been forgotten.

Snakes. Why did it have to be snakes?

There are three infallible ways of pleasing an author, and the three form a rising scale of compliment: 1, to tell him you have read one of his books; 2, to tell him you have read all of his books; 3, to ask him to let you read the manuscript of his

The executioner is, I hear, very expert, and my neck is very slender.

Out of sight is out of mind.

America is a melting pot. You know, where those on the bottom get burned, and the scum rises to the top.

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

My religion consists of a humble admiration of the illimitable superior spirit who reveals himself in the slight details we are able to perceive with our frail and feeble mind.

Nothing matters very much, and few things matter at all.

It is annoying to be honest to no purpose.

In Pierre Trudeau, Canada has finally produced a Prime Minister worthy of assassination.

I never believed in Santa Claus because I knew no white dude would come into my neighborhood after dark.

The future is a race between education and catastrophe.

"It don't matter, Sail, ... Could be worse. The fam'ly might be donatin' the proceeds to the Cath'lic Church, or the Mormons or somethin'. One cult's the same another."

There are two ways of disliking art. One is to dislike it. The other is to like it rationally.

To think contrary to one's era is heroism. But to speak against it is madness.

Some women should be beaten regularly, like gongs.

May you live in uninteresting times.

Academic politics is the most vicious and bitter form of politics, because the stakes are so low.

The mome rath isn't born that could outgrabe me.

But if you wish at once to do nothing and to be respectable nowdays, the best pretext is to be at work on some profound study.

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

Work is the crab grass in the lawn of life.

Instead of loving your enemies, treat your friends a little better.

It is said an Eastern monarch once charged his wise men to invent him a sentence to be ever in view, and which should be true and appropriate in all times and situations. They presented him the words: "And this, too, shall pass away."