I know not how I came into this, shall I call it a dying life or a living death?

It took me fifteen years to discover that I had no talent for writing, but I couldn't give it up because by that time I was too famous.

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

Don't go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first.

When I reflect upon the number of disagreeable people who I know who have gone to a better world, I am moved to lead a different life.

Another possible source of guidance for teenagers is television, but television's message has always been that the need for truth, wisdom and world peace pales by comparison with the need for a toothpaste that offers whiter teeth *___and* fresher

It is imperative when flying coach that you restrain any tendency toward the vividly imaginative. For although it may momentarily appear to be the case, it is not at all likely that the cabin is entirely inhabited by crying babies smoking inexpensiv

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."

If men are not afraid to die, it is of no avail to threaten them with death. If men live in constant fear of dying, And if breaking the law means a man will be killed, Who will dare to break the law? There is always an official executioner. If

Or you or I must yield up his life to Ahrimanes. I would rather it were you. I should have no hesitation in sacrificing my own life to spare yours, but we take stock next week, and it would not be fair on the company.

By trying we can easily learn to endure adversity. Another man's, I mean.

Events are not affected, they develop.

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

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

[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.

Innovation is hard to schedule.

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.

The first sign of corruption in a society that is still alive is that the end justifies the means.

"It's kind of fun to do the impossible."

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.

Swerve me? The path to my fixed purpose is laid with iron rails, whereon my soul is grooved to run. Over unsounded gorges, through the rifled hearts of mountains, under torrents' beds, unerringly I rush!

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.

In the plot, people came to the land; the land loved them; they worked and struggled and had lots of children. There was a Frenchman who talked funny and a greenhorn from England who was a fancy-pants but when it came to the crunch he was all courag

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

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

The bay-trees in our country are all wither'd And meteors fright the fixed stars of heaven; The pale-faced moon looks bloody on the earth And lean-look'd prophets whisper fearful change. These signs forerun the death or fall of kings.

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

... "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

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

Steady movement is more important than speed, much of the time. So long as there is a regular progression of stimuli to get your mental hooks into, there is room for lateral movement. Once this begins, its rate is a matter of discretion.

Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.

You or I must yield up his life to Ahrimanes. I would rather it were you. I should have no hesitation in sacrificing my own life to spare yours, but we take stock next week, and it would not be fair on the company.

There are no answers, only cross-references.

What an artist dies with me!

The future not being born, my friend, we will abstain from baptizing it.

According to my best recollection, I don't remember.

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.

Perhaps no person can be a poet, or even enjoy poetry without a certain unsoundness of mind.

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.

When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro.

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

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

Language is a virus from another planet.

Imitation is the sincerest form of television.

Darth Vader! Only you would be so bold!

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.

It is easier to resist at the beginning than at the end.

It is a lesson which all history teaches wise men, to put trust in ideas, and not in circumstances.

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

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

A violent man will die a violent death.

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

How do you explain school to a higher intelligence?

No good deed goes unpunished.

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

Haste makes waste.

The superfluous is very necessary.

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

The plot was designed in a light vein that somehow became varicose.

Nice guys finish last.

Luck, that's when preparation and opportunity meet.

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

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

Absence makes the heart grow fonder.

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

Inglish Spocken Hier: some mangled translations Various signs in Poland: Right turn toward immediate outside. Go soothingly in the snow, as there lurk the ski demons. Five o'clock tea at all hours. In a men's washroom in Sidney:

I have defined the hundred per cent American as ninety-nine per cent an idiot.

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

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

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

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

The sky is blue so we know where to stop mowing.

A man said to the Universe: "Sir, I exist!" "However," replied the Universe, "the fact has not created in me a sense of obligation."

The fact that it works is immaterial.

Never promise more than you can perform.

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

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

Life being what it is, one dreams of revenge.

Bond reflected that good Americans were fine people and that most of them seemed to come from Texas.

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

A light wife doth make a heavy husband.

"MOKE DAT YIGARETTE"

We have reason to be afraid. This is a terrible place.

Goals... Plans... they're fantasies, they're part of a dream world...

There is much Obi-Wan did not tell you.

If a thing's worth having, it's worth cheating for.

Living in LA is like not having a date on Saturday night.

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

I love treason but hate a traitor.

It is a wise father that knows his own child.

"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."

You can bring men from other parts of the world who are sane. And you know what happens? At the very moment they cross those mountains... they go mad. Instantaneously and automatically, at the very moment they cross the mountains into California,

"Given the choice between accomplishing something and just lying around, I'd rather lie around. No contest."

None love the bearer of bad news.

Treat your friend as if he might become an enemy.

Wagner's music is better than it sounds.

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

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

One good turn asketh another.