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

All men know the utility of useful things; but they do not know the utility of futility.

"I'm in Pittsburgh. Why am I here?"

Education is the process of casting false pearls before real swine.

It is the quality rather than the quantity that matters.

One picture is worth more than ten thousand words.

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

God help those who do not help themselves.

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

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.

I don't know anything about music. In my line you don't have to.

Waste not fresh tears over old griefs.

Everything is possible. Pass the word.

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

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.

If I had a plantation in Georgia and a home in Hell, I'd sell the plantation and go home.

Nice guys finish last.

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

No two persons ever read the same book.

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

If you live in New York, even if you're Catholic, you're Jewish.

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.

A woman who is guided by the head and not by the heart is a social pestilence: she has all the defects of the passionate and affectionate woman, with none of her compensations; she is without pity, without love, without virtue, without sex.

Reality is nothing but a collective hunch.

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.

Illusion is the first of all pleasures.

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

Mundus vult decipi decipiatur ergo.

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

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

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.

Some men are heterosexual, and some are bisexual, and some men don't think about sex at all... they become lawyers.

Sometimes even to live is an act of courage.

Walking on water wasn't built in a day.

Music in the soul can be heard by the universe.

The whole earth is in jail and we're plotting this incredible jailbreak.

I have often regretted my speech, never my silence.

Any two philosophers can tell each other all they know in two hours.

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

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.

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

Patience is the best remedy for every trouble.

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

"I understand this is your first dead client," Sabian was saying. The absurdity of the statement made me want to laugh but they don't call me Deadpan Allie and lie.

The truth is what is; what should be is a dirty lie.

The optimum committee has no members.

The Almighty in His infinite wisdom did not see fit to create Frenchmen in the image of Englishmen.

The mosquito is the state bird of New Jersey.

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

Laws are like sausages. It's better not to see them being made.

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

It is bad luck to be superstitious.

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.

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

When the going gets tough, everyone leaves.

The problem that we thought was a problem was, indeed, a problem, but not the problem we thought was the problem.

XXVI: If a sufficient number of management layers are superimposed on each other, it can be assured that disaster is not left to chance. XXVII: Rank does not intimidate hardware. Neither does the lack of rank. XXVIII: It is better to be the r

If little else, the brain is an educational toy.

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When you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth.

America has been discovered before, but it has always been hushed up.

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

When eating an elephant take one bite at a time.

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.

"All snakes who wish to remain in Ireland will please raise their right hands."

Gauls! We have nothing to fear; except perhaps that the sky may fall on our heads tomorrow. But as we all know, tomorrow never comes!!

Fame lost its appeal for me when I went into a public restroom and an autograph seeker handed me a pen and paper under the stall door.

From the cradle to the coffin underwear comes first.

When I was younger, I could remember anything, whether it had happened or not; but my faculties are decaying now and soon I shall be so I cannot remember any but the things that never happened. It is sad to go to pieces like this but we all have to

The human brain is a wonderful thing. It starts working the moment you are born, and never stops until you stand up to speak in public.

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

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

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.

Hard reality has a way of cramping your style.

Depend on the rabbit's foot if you will, but remember, it didn't help the rabbit.

If little green men land in your back yard, hide any little green women you've got in the house.

Feminists say 60 percent of the country's wealth is in the hands of women. They're letting men hold the other 40 percent because their handbags are full.

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.

I have a very strange feeling about this...

An aphorism is never exactly true; it is either a half-truth or one-and-a-half truths.

Work consists of whatever a body is obliged to do. Play consists of whatever a body is not obliged to do.

The race is not always to the swift, nor the battle to the strong, but that's the way to bet.

He played the king as if afraid someone else would play the ace.

The Worst Musical Trio There are few bad musicians who have a chance to give a recital at a famous concert hall while still learning the rudiments of their instrument. This happened about thirty years ago to the son of a Rumanian gentleman who was

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

Reality is just a convenient measure of complexity.

"Earth is a great, big funhouse without the fun."

There's no justice in this world.

There is more to life than increasing its speed.

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

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.

Non-Determinism is not meant to be reasonable.

The past always looks better than it was. It's only pleasant because it isn't here.

I will make you shorter by the head.

The flush toilet is the basis of Western civilization.

The life which is unexamined is not worth living.

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

It'll be just like Beggars' Canyon back home.

Nothing succeeds like success.

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

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

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

Ben, why didn't you tell me?

American business long ago gave up on demanding that prospective employees be honest and hardworking. It has even stopped hoping for employees who are educated enough that they can tell the difference between the men's room and the women's room with

The Soviet pre-eminence in chess can be traced to the average Russian's readiness to brood obsessively over anything, even the arrangement of some pieces of wood. Indeed, the Russians' predisposition for quiet reflection followed by sudden preventi

None love the bearer of bad news.

Why does a hearse horse snicker, hauling a lawyer away?

Events are not affected, they develop.

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.

There is no sin but ignorance.

When in doubt, have a man come through the door with a gun in his hand.

History is nothing but a collection of fables and useless trifles, cluttered up with a mass of unnecessary figures and proper names.

"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."

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

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

The fact that it works is immaterial.

Ignorance is the Mother of Devotion.

All is well that ends well.

What kind of sordid business are you on now? I mean, man, whither goest thou? Whither goest thou, America, in thy shiny car in the night?

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

Well begun is half done.

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.

You may have heard that a dean is to faculty as a hydrant is to a dog.

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

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

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

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

For every bloke who makes his mark, there's half a dozen waiting to rub it out.

Art is anything you can get away with.

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

Money doesn't talk, it swears.

A likely impossibility is always preferable to an unconvincing possibility.

Likewise, the national appetizer, brine-cured herring with raw onions, wins few friends, Germans excepted.

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

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.

Love the sea? I dote upon it

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

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

What good is an obscenity trial except to popularize literature?

IF I HAD A MINE SHAFT, I don't think I would just abandon it. There's got to be a better way.

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

The universe is made of stories, not of atoms.

The faster I go, the behinder I get.

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

You don't have to think too hard when you talk to teachers.

Cleanliness becomes more important when godliness is unlikely.

I know on which side my bread is buttered.

If you know the answer to a question, don't ask.

You tread upon my patience.

Art is a jealous mistress.

Sic transit gloria mundi. [So passes away the glory of this world.]

Monterey... is decidedly the pleasantest and most civilized-looking place in California ... [it] is also a great place for cock-fighting, gambling of all sorts, fandangos, and various kinds of amusements and knavery.

A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds.

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.

People in general do not willingly read if they have anything else to amuse them.

We'll be recording at the Paradise Friday night. Live, on the Death label.

Rascal, am I? Take THAT!

The United States is like the guy at the party who gives cocaine to everybody and still nobody likes him.

Housework can kill you if done right.

Living in New York City gives people real incentives to want things that nobody else wants.

Who does not trust enough will not be trusted.

Any road followed to its end leads precisely nowhere. Climb the mountain just a little to test it's a mountain. From the top of the mountain, you cannot see the mountain.

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

The world has many unintentionally cruel mechanisms that are not designed for people who walk on their hands.

"You would do well not to imagine profundity," he said. "Anything that seems of momentous occasion should be dwelt upon as though it were of slight note. Conversely, trivialities must be attended to with the greatest of care. Because death is moment

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.

Dear Mister Language Person: What is the purpose of the apostrophe? Answer: The apostrophe is used mainly in hand-lettered small business signs to alert the reader than an "S" is coming up at the end of a word, as in: WE DO NOT EXCEPT PERSONAL CHEC

"We're not talking about the same thing," he said. "For you the world is weird because if you're not bored with it you're at odds with it. For me the world is weird because it is stupendous, awesome, mysterious, unfathomable; my interest has been to

...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.

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

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

Happiness is having a scratch for every itch.

Anything anybody can say about America is true.

But the greatest Electrical Pioneer of them all was Thomas Edison, who was a brilliant inventor despite the fact that he had little formal education and lived in New Jersey. Edison's first major invention in 1877, was the phonograph, which could soo

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

Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration.

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.'

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

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

When a man is tired of London, he is tired of life.

No man is an Iland, intire of it selfe; every man is a peece of the Continent, a part of the maine; if a Clod bee washed away by the Sea, Europe is the lesse, as well as if a Promontorie were, as well as if a Mannor of thy friends or of thine owne we

Too much of everything is just enough.

Please try to limit the amount of "this room doesn't have any bazingas" until you are told that those rooms are "punched out." Once punched out, we have a right to complain about atrocities, missing bazingas, and such.

The only alliance I would make with the Women's Liberation Movement is in bed.

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

For certain people, after fifty, litigation takes the place of sex.

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.]

This is an especially good time for you vacationers who plan to fly, because the Reagan administration, as part of the same policy under which it recently sold Yellowstone National Park to Wayne Newton, has "deregulated" the airline industry. What t

When I was in school, I cheated on my metaphysics exam: I looked into the soul of the boy sitting next to me.

Let's remind ourselves that last year's fresh idea is today's cliche.

Inglish Spocken Hier: some mangled translations Sign on a cathedral in Spain: It is forbidden to enter a woman, even a foreigner if dressed as a man. Above the enterance to a Cairo bar: Unaccompanied ladies not admitted unless with husb

You have all eternity to be cautious in when you're dead.

You get what you pay for.

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

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

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

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

In my end is my beginning.

You cannot see the wood for the trees.

If God is One, what is bad?

"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

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

Arrakis teaches the attitude of the knife - chopping off what's incomplete and saying: "Now it's complete because it's ended here."

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.

Porsche: there simply is no substitute.

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

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

Do not despair of life. You have no doubt force enough to overcome your obstacles. Think of the fox prowling through wood and field in a winter night for something to satisfy his hunger. Notwithstanding cold and hounds and traps, his race survives

It is only by risking our persons from one hour to another that we live at all. And often enough our faith beforehand in an uncertified result is the only thing that makes the result come true.

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

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

The two most beautiful words in the English language are "Cheque Enclosed."

Charity begins at home.

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

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

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."

... 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

To have died once is enough.

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

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

A morgue is a morgue is a morgue. They can paint the walls with aggressively cheerful primary colors and splashy bold graphics, but it's still a holding place for the dead until they can be parted out to organ banks. Not that I would have cared nor

Toto, I don't think we're in Kansas anymore.

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

[Maturity consists in the discovery that] there comes a critical moment where everything is reversed, after which the point becomes to understand more and more that there is something which cannot be understood.

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

Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.

If you have to ask what jazz is, you'll never know.

Crito, I owe a cock to Asclepius; will you remember to pay the debt?

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

Like ya know? Rock 'N Roll is an esoteric language that unlocks the creativity chambers in people's brains, and like totally activates their essential hipness, which of course is like totally necessary for saving the earth, like because the first th

If you want divine justice, die.

Well, we'll really have a party, but we've gotta post a guard outside.

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

Catharsis is something I associate with pornography and crossword puzzles.

Armenians and Azerbaijanis in Stepanakert, capital of the Nagorno-Karabakh autonomous region, rioted over much needed spelling reform in the Soviet Union.

What we wish, that we readily believe.

The only problem with seeing too much is that it makes you insane.

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

Just once I would like to persuade the audience not to wear any article of blue denim. If only they could see themselves in a pair of brown corduroys like mine instead of this awful, boring blue denim. I don't enjoy the sky or sea as much as I used

What makes you think graduate school is supposed to be satisfying?

Home is where the hurt is.

Two wrongs are only the beginning.

The road to Hades is easy to travel.

For certain people, after fifty, litigation takes the place of sex.

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,

Do not seek death; death will find you. But seek the road which makes death a fulfillment.

I do not know whether I was then a man dreaming I was a butterfly, or whether I am now a butterfly dreaming I am a man.

The shortest distance between two points is under construction.

The chief cause of problems is solutions.

That's no moon...

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

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

The average Ph.D thesis is nothing but the transference of bones from one graveyard to another.

Let your conscience be your guide.

Intellect annuls Fate. So far as a man thinks, he is free.

No problem is so formidable that you can't just walk away from it.

A witty saying proves nothing.

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

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

You are never given a wish without also being given the power to make it true. You may have to work for it, however.

If we could sell our experiences for what they cost us, we would all be millionaires.

Haste makes waste.

Women are nothing but machines for producing children.

A lie is an abomination unto the Lord and a very present help in time of trouble.

A dream will always triumph over reality, once it is given the chance.

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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.

I'm glad I was not born before tea.

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

A sinking ship gathers no moss.

Innovation is hard to schedule.

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

Have you ever stopped to think what it would be like to have a woman President? "I can't deal with the Russians today. Not now. I've got my period."

God helps them that help themselves.

... "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

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

The ultimate game show will be the one where somebody gets killed at the end.

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.

Talking about music is like dancing about architecture.

It is not doing the thing we like to do, but liking the thing we have to do, that makes life blessed.

A beginning is the time for taking the most delicate care that balances are correct.

A platitude is simply a truth repeated till people get tired of hearing it.

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

Who dat who say "who dat" when I say "who dat"?

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

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

Authors (and perhaps columnists) eventually rise to the top of whatever depths they were once able to plumb.

Think sideways!

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

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

As failures go, attempting to recall the past is like trying to grasp the meaning of existence. Both make one feel like a baby clutching at a basketball: one's palms keep sliding off.

In charity there is no excess.

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

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

Hotels are tired of getting ripped off. I checked into a hotel and they had towels from my house.

It is sweet to let the mind unbend on occasion.

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

Some men are heterosexual, and some are bisexual, and some men don't think about sex at all... they become lawyers.

There is no cure for birth and death other than to enjoy the interval.

It is when I struggle to be brief that I become obscure.

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

Call on God, but row away from the rocks.

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

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

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

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

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

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

Use what talents you possess: the woods would be very silent if no birds sang there except those that sang best.

"Spare no expense to save money on this one."