Fill what's empty, empty what's full, scratch where it itches.

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

Another day, another dollar.

With Congress, every time they make a joke it's a law; and every time they make a law it's a joke.

All of us should treasure his Oriental wisdom and his preaching of a Zen-like detachment, as exemplified by his constant reminder to clerks, tellers, or others who grew excited by his presence in their banks: "Just lie down on the floor and keep calm

A journey of a thousand miles starts under one's feet.

There is no better way of exercising the imagination than the study of law. No poet ever interpreted nature as freely as a lawyer interprets truth.

A committee takes root and grows, it flowers, wilts and dies, scattering the seed from which other committees will bloom.

If we see the light at the end of the tunnel, it's the light of an oncoming train.

A rolling stone gathers no moss.

The first requisite for immortality is death.

Moderation is a fatal thing. Nothing succeeds like excess.

To add insult to injury.

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

Working with Julie Andrews is like getting hit over the head with a valentine.

Our policy is, when in doubt, do the right thing.

Catharsis is something I associate with pornography and crossword puzzles.

If while you are in school, there is a shortage of qualified personnel in a particular field, then by the time you graduate with the necessary qualifications, that field's employment market is glutted.

"Necessity is the mother of invention" is a silly proverb. "Necessity is the mother of futile dodges" is much nearer the truth.

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

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

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

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.

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.

"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 possession of a book becomes a substitute for reading it.

The seven deadly sins ... Food, clothing, firing, rent, taxes, respectability and children. Nothing can lift those seven milestones from man's neck but money; and the spirit cannot soar until the milestones are lifted.

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

Of all men's miseries, the bitterest is this: to know so much and have control over nothing.

An ounce of hypocrisy is worth a pound of ambition.

Every young man should have a hobby: learning how to handle money is the best one.

I just asked myself... what would John DeLorean do?

... Our second completely true news item was sent to me by Mr. H. Boyce Connell Jr. of Atlanta, Ga., where he is involved in a law firm. One thing I like about the South is, folks there care about tradition. If somebody gets handed a name like "H.

It is Mr. Mellon's credo that $200,000,000 can do no wrong. Our offense consists in doubting it.

The course of true anything never does run smooth.

The tree in which the sap is stagnant remains fruitless.

"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

What does education often do? It makes a straight cut ditch of a free meandering brook.

At ebb tide I wrote a line upon the sand, and gave it all my heart and all my soul. At flood tide I returned to read what I had inscribed and found my ignorance upon the shore.

Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.

I will make you shorter by the head.

... 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

Life is like a sewer. What you get out of it depends on what you put into it.

Philosophy will clip an angel's wings.

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.

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

Necessity has no law.

The price one pays for pursuing any profession, or calling, is an intimate knowledge of its ugly side.

I understand why you're confused. You're thinking too much.

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.'

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.

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

The only reward of virtue is virtue.

"Well," Brahma said, "even after ten thousand explanations, a fool is no wiser, but an intelligent man requires only two thousand five hundred."

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

Well, he thought, since neither Aristotelian Logic nor the disciplines of Science seemed to offer much hope, it's time to go beyond them... Drawing a few deep even breaths, he entered a mental state practiced only by Masters of the Universal Way of

Lookie, lookie, here comes cookie...

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

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

There is nothing new except what has been forgotten.

Let others praise ancient times; I am glad I was born in these.

Nasrudin returned to his village from the imperial capital, and the villagers gathered around to hear what had passed. "At this time," said Nasrudin, "I only want to say that the King spoke to me." All the villagers but the stupidest ran off to spr

Nonsense and beauty have close connections.

Men are superior to women.

I go on working for the same reason a hen goes on laying eggs.

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

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.

Destiny is a good thing to accept when it's going your way. When it isn't, don't call it destiny; call it injustice, treachery, or simple bad luck.

There are no answers, only cross-references.

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

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.

I owe the public nothing.

The greatest productive force is human selfishness.

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

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

Well begun is half done.

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.

Objectivity is to a newspaper what virtue is to a woman.

Human resources are human first, and resources second.

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

Death is life's way of telling you you've been fired.

May you live in uninteresting times.

I have the simplest tastes. I am always satisfied with the best.

Fear is the greatest salesman.

Fortune and love befriend the bold.

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

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

Imagine what we can imagine!

A good name lost is seldom regained. When character is gone, all is gone, and one of the richest jewels of life is lost forever.

The Worst Car Hire Service When David Schwartz left university in 1972, he set up Rent-a-wreck as a joke. Being a natural prankster, he acquired a fleet of beat-up shabby, wreckages waiting for the scrap heap in California. He put on a cap and lo

Bullwinkle: You just leave that to my pal. He's the brains of the outfit. General: What does that make YOU? Bullwinkle: What else? An executive.

We all live in a state of ambitious poverty.

What we wish, that we readily believe.

Men's skin is different from women's skin. It is usually bigger, and it has more snakes tattooed on it. Also, if you examine a woman's skin very closely, inch by inch, starting at her shapely ankles, then gently tracing the slender curve of her cal

"Die? I should say not, dear fellow. No Barrymore would allow such a conventional thing to happen to him."

The eye is a menace to clear sight, the ear is a menace to subtle hearing, the mind is a menace to wisdom, every organ of the senses is a menace to its own capacity. ... Fuss, the god of the Southern Ocean, and Fret, the god of the Northern Ocean, h

Three o'clock in the afternoon is always just a little too late or a little too early for anything you want to do.

She cried, and the judge wiped her tears with my checkbook.

Briefly stated, the findings are that when presented with an array of data or a sequence of events in which they are instructed to discover an underlying order, subjects show strong tendencies to perceive order and causality in random arrays, to perc

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

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

The first rule of all intelligent tinkering is to keep all the parts.

Instead of giving money to found colleges to promote learning, why don't they pass a constitutional amendment prohibiting anybody from learning anything? If it works as good as the Prohibition one did, why, in five years we would have the smartest r

A witty saying proves nothing.

None love the bearer of bad news.

Never keep up with the Joneses. Drag them down to your level.

Circumstances rule men; men do not rule circumstances.

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 continuing flow of paper is sufficient to continue the flow of paper.

He who fears the unknown may one day flee from his own backside.

I have often regretted my speech, never my silence.

I BET WHAT HAPPENED was they discovered fire and invented the wheel on the same day. Then that night, they burned the wheel.

True to our past we work with an inherited, observed, and accepted vision of personal futility, and of the beauty of the world.

Cleanliness becomes more important when godliness is unlikely.

Experience is a good teacher, but she sends in terrific bills.

Don't go to bed with no price on your head.

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

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

Competitive fury is not always anger. It is the true missionary's courage and zeal in facing the possibility that one's best may not be enough.

"If once a man indulges himself in murder, very soon he comes to think little of robbing; and from robbing he next comes to drinking and Sabbath-breaking, and from that to incivility and procrastination."

He that composes himself is wiser than he that composes a book.

The trouble with the rat-race is that even if you win, you're still a rat.

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

You must be the change you wish to see in the world.

Divorce is a game played by lawyers.

[District Attorneys] learn in District Attorney School that there are two sure-fire ways to get a lot of favorable publicity: (1) Go down and raid all the lockers in the local high school and confiscate 53 marijuana cigarettes and put them in a

Language is a virus from another planet.

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

... 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

A vacuum is a hell of a lot better than some of the stuff that nature replaces it with.

We rarely find anyone who can say he has lived a happy life, and who, content with his life, can retire from the world like a satisfied guest.

It is so stupid of modern civilisation to have given up believing in the devil when he is the only explanation of it.

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.

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

All the really good ideas I ever had came to me while I was milking a cow.

Beggars should be no choosers.

Two can Live as Cheaply as One for Half as Long.

Wisdom is knowing what to do with what you know.

A thing is not necessarily true because a man dies for it.

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

Anyone can hold the helm when the sea is calm.

I have made this letter longer than usual because I lack the time to make it shorter.

Kindness is the beginning of cruelty.

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

Not to laugh, not to lament, not to curse, but to understand.

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,

We are what we pretend to be.

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.

The [Ford Foundation] is a large body of money completely surrounded by people who want some.

Nothing succeeds like excess.

Who goeth a-borrowing goeth a-sorrowing.

Moneyliness is next to Godliness.

A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.

Anything is possible on paper.

"I don't mind going nowhere as long as it's an interesting path."

A little inaccuracy saves a world of explanation.

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

I'd be a poorer man if I'd never seen an eagle fly.

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

In charity there is no excess.

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

Nothing is impossible for the man who doesn't have to do it himself.

The life which is unexamined is not worth living.

Absence makes the heart grow fonder.

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

...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.

Money can't buy happiness, but it can make you awfully comfortable while you're being miserable.

Set the cart before the horse.

Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known.

Three may keep a secret, if two of them are dead.

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

God help those who do not help themselves.

Whenever anyone says, "theoretically," they really mean, "not really."

There is no comfort without pain; thus we define salvation through suffering.

Whatever is not nailed down is mine. Whatever I can pry up is not nailed down.

Life would be tolerable but for its amusements.

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

Housework can kill you if done right.

He that teaches himself has a fool for a master.

Ignorance is the Mother of Devotion.

Reality is just a convenient measure of complexity.

One picture is worth more than ten thousand words.

I remember when legal used to mean lawful, now it means some kind of loophole.

Why isn't there a special name for the tops of your feet?

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

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

Some women should be beaten regularly, like gongs.

Before you ask more questions, think about whether you really want to know the answers.

Do you know the difference between education and experience? Education is what you get when you read the fine print; experience is what you get when you don't.

A fool's brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry. Hence University education.

Several years ago, some smart businessmen had an idea: Why not build a big store where a do-it-yourselfer could get everything he needed at reasonable prices? Then they decided, nah, the hell with that, let's build a home center. And before long ho

"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

Every man thinks God is on his side. The rich and powerful know that he is.

I remember when legal used to mean lawful, now it means some kind of loophole.

Mundus vult decipi decipiatur ergo.

The adjective is the banana peel of the parts of speech.

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.

When the going gets tough, everyone leaves.

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

'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.

Take your work seriously but never take yourself seriously; and do not take what happens either to yourself or your work seriously.

A journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step.

If the English language made any sense, lackadaisical would have something to do with a shortage of flowers.

Out of sight is out of mind.

Look before you leap.

Since everything in life is but an experience perfect in being what it is, having nothing to do with good or bad, acceptance or rejection, one may well burst out in laughter.

The root of all superstition is that men observe when a thing hits, but not when it misses.

Writing about music is like dancing about architecture.

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

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

Honesty is for the most part less profitable than dishonesty.

There is a natural hootchy-kootchy to a goldfish.

Like, if I'm not for me, then fer shure, like who will be? And if, y'know, if I'm not like fer anyone else, then hey, I mean, what am I? And if not now, like I dunno, maybe like when? And if not Who, then I dunno, maybe like the Rolling Stones?

A likely impossibility is always preferable to an unconvincing possibility.

If there is no God, who pops up the next Kleenex?

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

If you want divine justice, die.

Events are not affected, they develop.

If there is no wind, row.

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

Home is where the hurt is.

In a hierarchy every employee tends to rise to his level of incompetence ... in time every post tends to be occupied by an employee who is incompetent to carry out its duties ... Work is accomplished by those employees who have not yet reached their

Si jeunesse savait, si vieillesse pouvait. [If youth but knew, if old age but could.]

Work Hard. Rock Hard. Eat Hard. Sleep Hard. Grow Big. Wear Glasses If You Need 'Em.

In dwelling, be close to the land. In meditation, delve deep into the heart. In dealing with others, be gentle and kind. In speech, be true. In work, be competent. In action, be careful of your timing.

A society in which women are taught anything but the management of a family, the care of men, and the creation of the future generation is a society which is on its way out.

... a thing called Ethics, whose nature was confusing but if you had it you were a High-Class Realtor and if you hadn't you were a shyster, a piker and a fly-by-night. These virtues awakened Confidence and enabled you to handle Bigger Propositions.

Dignity is like a flag. It flaps in a storm.

A lot of people I know believe in positive thinking, and so do I. I believe everything positively stinks.

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

Nothing succeeds like success.

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

A prediction is worth twenty explanations.

You're all clear now, kid. Now blow this thing so we can all go home.

I'm always looking for a new idea that will be more productive than its cost.

If you do not think about the future, you cannot have one.

Business will be either better or worse.

The pollution's at that awkward stage. Too thick to navigate and too thin to cultivate.

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.

With Congress, every time they make a joke it's a law; and every time they make a law it's a joke.

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

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

To avoid criticism, do nothing, say nothing, be nothing.

Turn the other cheek.

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

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

Mum's the word.

Let me assure you that to us here at First National, you're not just a number. Youre two numbers, a dash, three more numbers, another dash and another number.

I'll turn over a new leaf.

Work is the crab grass in the lawn of life.

If God is One, what is bad?

... "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

"If once a man indulges himself in murder, very soon he comes to think little of robbing; and from robbing he next comes to drinking and Sabbath-breaking, and from that to incivility and procrastination."

Mother is far too clever to understand anything she does not like.

He who knows that enough is enough will always have enough.

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.

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

"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."

Life is the childhood of our immortality.

Remembering is for those who have forgotten.

There's no justice in this world.

The major sin is the sin of being born.

Look, we trade every day out there with hustlers, deal-makers, shysters, con-men. That's the way businesses get started. That's the way this country was built.

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

Rotten wood cannot be carved.

Nice guys finish last.

Anyone can do any amount of work provided it isn't the work he is supposed to be doing at the moment.

"I only touch base with reality on an as-needed basis!"

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

You can't expect a boy to be vicious till he's been to a good school.

No is no negative in a woman's mouth.

A woman's a woman until the day she dies, but a man's only a man as long as he can.

I've got all the money I'll ever need if I die by 4 o'clock.

If ever the pleasure of one has to be bought by the pain of the other, there better be no trade. A trade by which one gains and the other loses is a fraud.

Given a choice between grief and nothing, I'd choose grief.

I love treason but hate a traitor.

Reality is nothing but a collective hunch.

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

Real wealth can only increase.

Littering is dumb.

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

What you want, what you're hanging around in the world waiting for, is for something to occur to you.

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

After his Ignoble Disgrace, Satan was being expelled from Heaven. As he passed through the Gates, he paused a moment in thought, and turned to God and said, "A new creature called Man, I hear, is soon to be created." "This is true," He replied.

University politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small.

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

The universe is made of stories, not of atoms.

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

If a man loses his reverence for any part of life, he will lose his reverence for all of life.

If you hype something and it succeeds, you're a genius

Coincidences are spiritual puns.

It is wise to keep in mind that neither success nor failure is ever final.

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

Sho' they got to have it against the law. Shoot, ever'body git high, they wouldn't be nobody git up and feed the chickens. Hee-hee.

If you only have a hammer, you tend to see every problem as a nail.

Nothing is more admirable than the fortitude with which millionaires tolerate the disadvantages of their wealth.

were found to be wearing neckwear that was tighter than their neck circumference. The visual discrimination of the 22 subjects was evaluated using a critical flicker frequency (CFF) test. Results of the CFF test indicated that tight neckwear signifi

The closest to perfection a person ever comes is when he fills out a job application form.

Those who do things in a noble spirit of self-sacrifice are to be avoided at all costs.

A highly intelligent man should take a primitive woman. Imagine if on top of everything else, I had a woman who interfered with my work.

The time spent on any item of the agenda [of a finance committee] will be in inverse proportion to the sum involved.

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

A great many people think they are thinking when they are merely rearranging their prejudices.

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

There's nothing worse for your business than extra Santa Clauses smoking in the men's room.

When you make your mark in the world, watch out for guys with erasers.

Work is of two kinds: first, altering the position of matter at or near the earth's surface relative to other matter; second, telling other people to do so.

It is the quality rather than the quantity that matters.

Too much of everything is just enough.