There are two sorts of sick consciences, those that are not aware enough of sin and those that are not aware enough of pardon.
A loafer always has the correct time.
The hardest thing is to take less when you can get more.
Next to a circus there ain't nothing that packs up and tears out faster than the Christmas spirit.
Of all the home remedies, a good wife is best.
Nobody ever forgets where he buried the hatchet.
Some fellows get credit for being conservative when they are only stupid.
Many people are surprised to hear that we have comedians in Russia, but they are there. They are dead, but they are there.
I had thought that growing up's consolation was that you could escape from the arbitrariness of things, that somehow one acquired more control. Now you had two numbers until you were ninety-nine. And it wasn't true. Growing up was just more of the same but taller. What happened was all luck. There was no logic.
If you are not rising with ethichs, you will sink with every rise!
If you want to promote anything, all the work that you put into it is basically promoting the idea of it so that people will go for it. And if they don't go for it, you can't institute it. You can't do it.