Confucius say too much.

"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

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

Life is a serious burden, which no thinking, humane person would wantonly inflict on someone else.

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

Plots are like girdles. Hidden, they hold your interest; revealed, they're of no interest except to fetishists. Like girdles, they attempt to contain an uncontainable experience.

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

You should never wear your best trousers when you go out to fight for freedom and liberty.

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

"I wonder", he said to himself, "what's in a book while it's closed. Oh, I know it's full of letters printed on paper, but all the same, something must be happening, because as soon as I open it, there's a whole story with people I don't know yet

Out of sight is out of mind.

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

There is no sin but ignorance.

When more and more people are thrown out of work, unemployment results.

If a fool persists in his folly he shall become wise.

I may not be totally perfect, but parts of me are excellent.

If you laid all of our laws end to end, there would be no end.

Catholicism has changed tremendously in the recent years. Now when Communion is served there is also a salad bar.

If little else, the brain is an educational toy.

War is like love, it always finds a way.

I hate small towns because once you've seen the cannon in the park there's nothing else to do.

No evil can happen to a good man.

The Puritan hated bear-baiting, not because it gave pain to the bear, but because it gave pleasure to the spectators.

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

The most delightful day after the one on which you buy a cottage in the country is the one on which you resell it.

I don't know who my grandfather was; I am much more concerned to know what his grandson will be.

Innovation is hard to schedule.

... A solemn, unsmiling, sanctimonious old iceberg who looked like he was waiting for a vacancy in the Trinity.

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.

We all live under the same sky, but we don't all have the same horizon.

It is up to us to produce better-quality movies.

There is always something new out of Africa.

No one so thoroughly appreciates the value of constructive criticism as the one who's giving it.

You can't erase a dream, you can only wake me up.

Your manuscript is both good and original, but the part that is good is not original and the part that is original is not good.

A man's house is his castle.

The man who follows the crowd will usually get no further than the crowd. The man who walks alone is likely to find himself in places no one has ever been.

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

If you are of the opinion that the contemplation of suicide is sufficient evidence of a poetic nature, do not forget that actions speak louder than words.

Power tends to corrupt, absolute power corrupts absolutely.

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 acted to show my love for Jodie Foster.

For most men life is a search for the proper manila envelope in which to get themselves filed.

The price of seeking to force our beliefs on others is that someday they might force their beliefs on us.

I'll turn over a new leaf.

Use an accordion. Go to jail.

Praise the sea; on shore remain.

"You've got to have a gimmick if your band sucks."

Ah, but a man's grasp should exceed his reach, Or what's a heaven for ?

Naked children have never played in _o_u_r fountains, and I.M. Pei will never be happy on Route 66.

All is well that ends well.

Recently deceased blues guitarist Stevie Ray Vaughan "comes to" after his death. He sees Jimi Hendrix sitting next to him, tuning his guitar. "Holy cow," he thinks to himself, "this guy is my idol." Over at the microphone, about to sing, are Jim Mo

We lie loudest when we lie to ourselves.

"What are you watching?" "I don't know." "Well, what's happening?" "I'm not sure... I think the guy in the hat did something terrible." "Why are you watching it?" "You're so analytical. Sometimes you just have to let art flow over you."

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

There is no proverb that is not true.

April 1 This is the day upon which we are reminded of what we are on the other three hundred and sixty-four.

When in doubt, tell the truth.

I have found little that is good about human beings. In my experience most of them are trash.

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

Absolutum obsoletum. (If it works, it's out of date.)

Going into politics is as fatal to a gentleman as going into a bordello is fatal to a virgin.

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

It seems appropriate to me that Mapplethorpe's perverse images should be situated so close to Congress, which perpetuates a number of unnatural acts upon the body politic every day, without benefit of artificial lubrication or foreplay.

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

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

Men of lofty genius when they are doing the least work are most active.

I am an optimist. It does not seem too much use being anything else.

Don't tell me how hard you work. Tell me how much you get done.

Don't steal; thou'lt never thus compete successfully in business. Cheat.

For fools rush in where angels fear to tread.

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

There is no doubt that my lawyer is honest. For example, when he filed his income tax return last year, he declared half of his salary as 'unearned income.'

God is Dead.

As long as war is regarded as wicked, it will always have its fascination. When it is looked upon as vulgar, it will cease to be popular.

In any country there must be people who have to die. They are the sacrifices any nation has to make to achieve law and order.

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

That's no moon...

Business will be either better or worse.

I remember once being on a station platform in Cleveland at four in the morning. A black porter was carrying my bags, and as we were waiting for the train to come in, he said to me: "Excuse me, Mr. Cooke, I don't want to invade your privacy, but I h

I have seen the future and it is just like the present, only longer.

There is no such thing as inner peace. There is only nervousness or death. Any attempt to prove otherwise constitutes unacceptable behaviour.

What we see depends on mainly what we look for.

Go to the Scriptures... the joyful promises it contains will be a balsam to all your troubles.

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.

I want to be the white man's brother, not his brother-in-law.

No group of professionals meets except to conspire against the public at large.

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

"World conquerors sometimes become fools, but fools never become world conquerors."

A place for everything and everything in its place.

Let your conscience be your guide.

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

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

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