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Nothing fails like success.

War is a series of catastrophes that results in a victory.

I shot an arrow into the air, and it stuck.

A society grows great when old men plant trees in whose shade they know they shall never sit.

A word out of season may mar a whole lifetime.

Eat and drink with your relatives; do business with strangers.

Wonder is the beginning of wisdom.

First secure an independent income, then practice virtue.

It is easier to talk than to hold one's tongue.

The net of the sleeper catches fish.

All things good to know are difficult to learn.

The beginning is the half of every action.

Where there is a sea there are pirates.

To deceive a diplomat speak the truth, he has no experience with it.

Observe your enemies, for they first find your faults.

No need to teach an eagle to fly.

First secure an independent income, then practice virtue.

Many men know how to flatter, few men know how to praise.

A heart that loves is always young.

A society grows great when old men plant trees whose shade they know they shall never sit in.

Gray hair is a sign of age, not wisdom.

To love is nothing. To be loved is something. To love and be loved is everything.

Something unpredictable but in the end it's right, I hope you have the time of your life.

Your food stamps will be stopped effective March, 1992, because we received notice that you passed away. May God bless you. You may reapply if there is a change in your circumstances.

Anger at lies lasts forever. Anger at truth can't last.

I'm disappointed, but I'm not going to run around like Dennis Rodman and head-butt somebody. (after losing the Masters tournament

I understand that smoking is vaguely inappropriate in certain situations. You know, like an orphanage, cancer ward, whatever.

In the transmission of human culture, people always attempt to replicate, to pass on to the next generation the skills and values of the parents, but the attempt always fails because cultural transmission is geared to learning, not D.N.A.

There was a blithe certainty that came from first comprehending the full Einstein field equations, arabesques of Greek letters clinging tenuously to the page, a gossamer web. They seemed insubstantial when you first saw them, a string of squiggles. Yet to follow the delicate tensors as they contracted, as the superscripts paired with subscripts, collapsing mathematically into concrete classical entities-- potential; mass; forces vectoring in a curved geometry-- that was a sublime experience. The iron fist of the real, inside the velvet glove of airy mathematics.

As long as people are going to call you a lunatic anyway, why not get the benefit of it? It liberates you from convention.

There are fine things which you mean to do some day, under what you think will be more favorable circumstances. But the only time that is surely yours is the present, hence this is the time to speak the word of appreciation and sympathy, to do the generous deed, to forgive the fault of a thoughtless friend, to sacrifice self a little more for others. Today is the day in which to express your noblest qualities of mind and heart, to do at least one worthy thing which you have long postponed, and to use your God-given abilities for the enrichment of someone less fortunate. Today you can make your life - significant and worthwhile. The present is yours to do with as you will.

By constant self-discipline and self-control you can develop greatness of character

Walking is also an ambulation of mind.

Walking is also an ambulation of mind.

No man was ever so much deceived by another as by himself.

I hardly know so true a mark of a little mind as the servile imitation of others.

From the moment I picked up your book until I laid it down, I was convulsed with laughter. Some day I intend reading it.

Military intelligence is a contradiction in terms.

My mother loved children -- she would have given anything if I had been one.

Military intelligence is a contradiction in terms.

I find television very educational. The minute somebody turns it on, I go to the library and read a good book.

The husband who wants a happy marriage should learn to keep his mouth shut and his checkbook open.

I do not care to belong to a club that accepts people like me as members.

Military intelligence is a contradiction in terms.

Paying alimony is like feeding hay to a dead horse.

No one is completely unhappy at the failure of his best friend.

My mother loved children - she would have given anything if I had been one.

Anyone who says he can see through women is missing a lot.

In America you can go on the air and kid the politicians, and the politicians can go on the air and kid the people.

Money frees you from doing things you dislike. Since I dislike doing nearly everything, money is handy.

Women should be obscene and not heard.

A child of five would understand this. Send someone to fetch a child of five.

Either this man is dead or my watch has stopped.