Worry is interest paid in advance for a debt you may never owe.
The true subject of science is the beauty of the world.
Standing in the middle of the road is very dangerous; you get knocked down by the traffic from both sides.
A library is thought in cold storage.
At age 20 we worry about what others think of us. At 40 we don't care what they think of us. At 60 we discover they haven't been thinking of us at all.
Any car will last a lifetime - if you are careless enough.
Some people are better imagined in one's bed than found there in the morning.
If the only tool you have is a hammer, you tend to see every problem as a nail.
With every word unspoken each moment comes undone.
A pessimist is one who burns bridges before the enemy gets to them.
If we find a man of rare intellect, we should ask him what books he reads.
You don't choose your family. They are God's gift to you, as you are to them.
Sin has many tools, but a lie is the handle which fits them all.
One solution to one problem makes two problems.
Knowledge that stops at what it does not know is perfect.
The hat is the pride of man; for he who cannot keep his hat on before kings and emperors is no free man.
The silence of a wise man is always meaningful.
Remember that as a teenager you are in the last stage of your life when you will be happy to hear the phone is for you.
Some people obtain fame, others deserve it.
Don't send me flowers when I'm dead. If you like me, send them while I'm alive.
Movies in Hollywood now, for the past 20 or 30 years, are made mainly by lawyers or agents.
From the sublime to the ridiculous is but a step.
Dieting is a system of starving yourself to death so you can live a little longer.
Life's not a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a well preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, loudly proclaiming -WOW- What a ride!
Talk low, talk slow, and don't talk too much.
Never try to look into both eyes at the same time.... Switch your gaze from one eye to the other. That signals warmth and sincerity.
Saintliness is also a temptation.
[...] parables are unnecessary for recognizing the blatant absurdity of everyday life. Reality is lesson enough.
It is not true that drink changes a man's character. It may reveal it more clearly.
Doctors bury their mistakes. Lawyers hang them. But journalists put theirs on the front page.
Suicide is the permanent solution to a temporary problem.
Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success.
There is something behind the throne greater than the King himself.
Probably the battle of Waterloo was won on the playing-fields of Eton, but the opening battles of all subsequent wars have been lost there.
Life is not meant to be easy, my child; but take courage: it can be delightful.
Immature artists imitate. Mature artists steal.
The city is not a concrete jungle, it is a human zoo.
I thought if war did not include killing, I'd like to see one every year.
Man is a tool-using animal... Without tools he is nothing, with tools he is all.
The secret of a leader lies in the tests he has faced over the whole course of his life and the habit of action he develops in meeting those tests.
Never be afraid to laugh at yourself, after all, you could be missing out on the joke of the century.
I think being a woman is like being Irish.... Everyone says you're important and nice, but you take second place all the same.
It's not money that brings happiness, it's lots of money.
Man is the one who desires, woman the one who is desired. This is woman's entire but decisive advantage. Through man's passions, nature has given man into woman's hands, and the woman who does not know how to make him her subject, her slave, her toy, and how to betray him with a smile in the end is not wise.
Hell is other people.
The nice part about being a pessimist is that you are constantly being either proven right or pleasantly surprised.
