A meeting is an event where minutes are kept and hours are lost.
A successful person is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks that others throw at him.
All things are difficult before they are easy.
All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident.
Always go to other people’s funerals; otherwise they won’t go to yours.
Arithmetic is not an opinion.
Computers make very fast, very accurate mistakes.
Do not believe your brother, believe your own crooked eye.
Duck diplomacy...means that you float along placidly on the surface, but underneath you are paddling like the dickens with your feet.
Dwell on the past and you’ll lose an eye. Forget the past and you’ll lose both eyes.
Error has no rights.
Everything must be doubted.
Freedom spoils, and lack of freedom teaches.
He who takes offense when no offense is intended is a fool, and he who takes offense when offense is intended is a greater fool.
I alone cannot change the world, but I can cast a stone across the water to create many ripples.
I speak in Latin to God, Italian to women, French to men, and German to my horse.
If after ten minutes at the poker table you do not know who the patsy is, you are the patsy.
If you call a horse's tail a leg, how many legs does a horse have? The answer is four, because calling a horse's tail a leg doesn't make it one.
If you want to build a ship, then don't drum up men to gather wood, give orders, and divide the work. Rather, teach them to yearn for the far and the endless sea.
If you’re not catching flak, you’re not over the target.
Imagination is a good servant, but a bad master.
In a time of universal deceit telling the truth is a revolutionary act.
In war, truth is the first casualty.
It is better to be a warrior in a garden than to be a gardener in a war.
It takes five years to become an overnight success.
Look for three qualities in employees: integrity, intelligence, and energy. And if they don’t have the first, the other two will kill you.
News is what somebody does not want you to print. All the rest is advertising.
Paper has more patience than people.
Prepare the child for the road, not the road for the child.
Simplicity is the sign of truth.
Talk does not cook rice.
The corruption of the best is the worst of all.
The hard times brace you, and the soft times drive you to drink.
The law helps him who watches.
The word 'no' is a complete sentence.
There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is.
They struck at the tree with an ax, and the tree said, 'But the handle is one of us!'
War is like fishing with a golden net; the loss risked is always greater than the catch can be.
Whom the gods would destroy they first make mad.
You can vote your way into socialism, but you have to shoot your way out.
