what man calls civilizationalways results in desertsman is never on the squarehe uses up the fat and greenery of the eartheach generation wastes a little moreof the future with greed and lust for riches

An optimist is a guy that has never had much experience.

Punctuality is one of the cardinal business virtues: always insist on it in your subordinates.

I once heard the survivors of a colony of ants that had been partially obliterated by a cow's foot seriously debating the intention of the gods towards their civilization.

The things that I can't have I want, And what I have seems second-rate, The things I want to do I can't, And what I have to do I hate.

This is another day! Are its eyes blurred with maudlin grief for any wasted past? A thousand thousand failures shall not daunt! Let dust clasp dust, death, death; I am alive!

The art of newspaper paragraphing is to stroke a platitude until it purrs like an epigram.