It isn't important to come out on top, what matters is to be the one who comes out alive.

Everything has been thought of before, but the difficulty is to think of it again

He whotalks incessantly, talks nonsense.

Nobody everforgets where he buried the hatchet.

Being virtuous is no feat once temptation ceases.

A man of great common sense and good taste-meaning there a man without originality or moral courage.

Pessimism, when you get used to it, is just as agreeable as optimism.

Power doesn't corrupt people, people corrupt power.

Ignorance is a form of environmental pollution.

The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet.

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

Beware of the chap who reminds you that you can't take it with you . he'll try to take it with him.