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

The seaman tells stories of winds, the ploughman of bulls; the soldier details his wounds, the shepherd his sheep.

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

Marriage is a good deal like taking a bath-not so hot once you get accustomed to it.

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

Poetry is that which is lost in translation.

If you can't keep up, drag them down to your level.