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The meaning of life is not simply to exist, to survive, but to move ahead, to go up, to achieve, to conquer.
Middle age - when everything hurts, and what doesn't hurt doesn't work.
Feminists and flat tires are seldom in each others company.
Two wrongs don't make a right, but three lefts do.
Karama saari basa (Relax only after finishing the job)
Bhagari maari hasa (Laugh only after killing your enemy)
Bhagari maari hasa (Laugh only after killing your enemy)
When a man steals your wife, there is no better revenge than to let him keep her.
I had some words with my wife, and she had some paragraphs with me.
Two secrets to keep your marriage brimming
1. Whenever you're wrong, admit it,
2. Whenever you're right, shut up.
1. Whenever you're wrong, admit it,
2. Whenever you're right, shut up.
Anything essential is invisible to the eyes.
Prospective husband in a bookstore: "Do you have a book called 'Man, The Master of Women'?"
Salesgirl: "The fiction department is on the other side, sir."
Salesgirl: "The fiction department is on the other side, sir."
Leading normal life, doing normal things, that is the good luck we don't even think about.
Worrying is like sitting in a rocking chair. It gives you something to do but it doesn't get you anywhere.
The trick is in what one emphasizes. We either make ourselves miserable, or we make ourselves happy. The amount of work is the same.
I like work: it fascinates me. I can sit and look at it for hours.
There are two motives for reading a book; one, that you enjoy it; the other, that you can boast about it.
Ask not what you can do for your country. Ask what’s for lunch.
The older I grow, the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom.
You can fool some of the people all of the time, and all of the people some of the time, but you can make a fool of yourself anytime.
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He is one of those people who would be enormously improved by death.
As a rule we disbelieve all the facts and theories for which we have no use.
Honesty is the best image.
The public is wonderfully tolerant. It forgives everything except genius.
Efficiency is intelligent laziness.
I find it rather easy to portray a businessman. Being bland, rather cruel and incompetent comes naturally to me.
Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves.
Anyone who uses the phrase 'easy as taking candy from a baby' has never tried taking candy from a baby.
Happiness is not achieved by the conscious pursuit of happiness; it is generally the by-product of other activities.
The only time people dislike gossip is when you gossip about them.
The best way to handle a temptation is to succumb to that.
Be right at the right place and time. No use cribbing you're right and the world has been unfair to you. Choose the right place and time (and the person) to be right with!
We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.
When plunder becomes a way of life for a group of men living together in society, they create for themselves in the course of time a legal system that authorizes it and a moral code that glorifies it.
He who is not sure of his memory should not undertake the trade of lying.
Life is a storm, my young friend. You will bask in the sunlight one moment, be shattered on the rocks the next. What makes you a man is what you do when that storm comes.
If you have something to hide you probably shouldn’t put it on the web and shouldn’t have done that in the first place.
I would love to change the world, I just don't have the source code yet.
We never have the time to do it right
but always have time to do it over.
but always have time to do it over.
Heard melodies are sweet, but those unheard
Are sweeter.
Are sweeter.
"Flecks of spittle flew from his mouth like when water touches hot oil in a griddle."