A philosopher is a blind man in a dark room looking for a black cat that isn't there. A theologian is the man who finds it.

Slump, and the world slumps with you. Push, and you push alone.

A rut is a grave with the ends knocked out.

When a New Yorker looks like he has a suntan, it's probably rust.

Competence, like truth, beauty, and contact lenses, is in the eye of the beholder.

The incompetent with nothing to do can still make a mess of it.

Many an optimist has become rich simply by buying out a pessimist.