Before publishers' blurbs were invented, authors had to make their reputations by writing.

The reason crime doesn't pay is that when it does, it is called a more respectable name.

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

Don't worry about middle age: you'll outgrow it.

If we lacked imagination enough to foresee something better, life would indeed be a tragedy.

He laughs best whose laugh lasts.

In a hierarchy, every employee tends to rise to his level of incompetence.