The reason crime doesn't pay is that when it does, it is called a more respectable name.
There are two sorts of losers - the good loser, and the one who can't act.
Competence, like truth, beauty, and contact lenses, is in the eye of the beholder.
A pessimist is a man who looks both ways when he crosses the street.
In most hierarchies, supercompetence is more objectionable than incompetence.
The seaman tells stories of winds, the ploughman of bulls; the soldier details his wounds, the shepherd his sheep.