There are two kinds of egotists: Those who admit it, and the rest of us

They lead only as the carved wooden figurehead leads the ship.

No committee could ever come up with anything as revolutionary as a camel - anything as practical and as perfectly designed to perform effectively under such difficult conditions.

A bore is a person who lights up the room simply by leaving it.

There are two kinds of failures: those who thought and never did, and those who did and never thought

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

Fortune knocks but once, but misfortune has much more patience.