Life is progress from want to want, not from enjoyment to enjoyment.

Thetime to repair the roof is when the sun is shining.

Only freemen can negotiate. Prisoners cannot enter into contracts. Your freedom andmine cannot be separated.

Concentration of wealth will never be a problem as long as we have those three great institutions for redistributing it: Taxes, wives, offspring.

Consistencyrequires you to be as ignorant today as you were a year ago.

Honesty and Wisdom are such a delightful pastime, at another person's expense !

The oldbelieve everything, the middle-aged suspect everything, the young knoweverything.

The art of life is the avoiding of pain.

Knowingthat everything's futile but still fighting, still raging against the dying ofthe light that's what motivates me all the time ... If you hold that sense offutility in your head for too long, it can begin to eat into you. You canstill be aware of it

Are youreally listening... or are you just waiting for your turn to talk?

A fly beforehis own eye is bigger than an elephant in the next field.

Silenceis foolish if we are wise, but wise if we are foolish.