Good taste is the enemy of comedy.
In our civilization, and under our republican form of government, intelligence is so highly honored that it is rewarded by exemption from the cares of office.
Some people make headlines while others make history.
Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime.
Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there.
'Never put off until tomorrow what you can do today.' Under the influence of this pestilent morality, I am forever letting tomorrow's work slop backwards into today's, and doing painfully and nervously today what I could do quickly and easily tomorrow.
He will always be a slave who does not know how to live upon a little.