Who grasps with his fist one who has an arm of steel injures only his own powerless wrist. Wait till inconstant fortune ties his hand, then ... pick out his brains.

An optimist stays up until midnight to see the new year in. A pessimist stays up to make sure the old year leaves.

We hope that, when the insects take over the world, they will remember with gratitude how we took them along on all our picnics.

The eagle may soar; beavers build dams.

The US has not imposed democracy in Yemen, its people have.

The whale is endangered, while the ant continues to do just fine.

Even pearls are dark before the whiteness of his teeth.

Money won't buy happiness, but it will pay the salaries of a large research staff to study the problem.

Youth is when you're allowed to stay up late on New Year's Eve. Middle age is when you're forced to.

Now that women are jockeys, baseball umpires, atomic scientists, and business executives, maybe someday they can master parallel parking.

The government is shutting down the coal industry, they say it's cheaper to draw nuclear power off the French grid and cheaper to buy coal from Colombia.

i am a museum full of artbut you had your eyes shut

...this is a way of handling a fear of losing control. One way - which is perhaps not the best way - to try and regain control is to talk, talk, talk.Love Professor - to Jennifer

Quality sells itself. No hype needed.

The chihuahua and the pink velour track suit. I think it's kind of an iconic look.

Every evil screams only one message: 'I am good.'

Where civilization entailed the corruption of barbarian virtues and the creation of dependent people, I decided, I was opposed to civilization.

I feel that if I establish the world or the premise from the first line, then I can get the reader to come with me where I want her to go.

It would be as useless to perceive how things 'actually look' as it would be to watch the random dots on untuned television screens.

We're concerned with how things turn out; God seems more concerned with how we turn out.

The law protects nothing in that very respect, in which it is, at the same time, in the eye of the law, a crime.