Fine doesn't mean fine! The scale goes: great, good, okay, not okay, I hate you, fine.

Understanding a metaphor is like deciphering a code or unraveling a riddle.

...a metaphor that works in one society may seem preposterous in another.

No doubt metaphors are dangerous- and perhaps especially so in philosophy. But a prohibition against their use would be a willful and harmful restriction upon our powers of inquiry.

... a result once generally accepted by mathematicians is seldom retracted, and then only with great pangs. The Nature of Mathematics

Whether it is big or small, the size of a poor man’s yard incessantly reminds him that he is poor.

A wrong path may take you to the right wisdom!

The luck of having talent is not enough one must also have a talent for luck.

I give thanks that I am now rich, well and happy and that my financial affairs are in divine order. Every day in every way I am growing richer and richer.

The best teams play for each other, not with each other

Moms Mabley said you have to say good things about the dead. I say, 'He's dead. Good.'

Demanding respect is like chasing a butterfly. Chase it, and you'll never catch it. Sit still, and it may light on your shoulder.

It may be that you will be happiest in the rat race; perhaps, like me, you are basically a rat.

The closest I've ever come to saying "no" is "Not now, we're landing."

Lying is an elementary means of self-defense.