In my many years I have come to a conclusion that one useless man is a shame, two is a law firm, and three or more is a congress.

Take death for example. A great deal of our effort goes into avoiding it. We make extraordinary efforts to delay it, and often consider its intrusion a tragic event. Yet we’d find it hard to live without it. Death gives meaning to our lives. It gives importance and value to time. Time would become meaningless if there were too much of it.

Of all forms of tyranny the least attractive and the most vulgar is the tyranny of mere wealth, the tyranny of plutocracy.

When an idea is wanting, a word can always be found to take its place.

Never be afraid to laugh at yourself, after all, you could be missing out on the joke of the century.

No one travelling on a business trip would be missed if he failed to arrive.

Whatever women do they must do twice as well as men to be thought half as good. Luckily this is not difficult.

In the future everyone will be famous for fifteen minutes.

Conspicuous consumption of valuable goods is a means of reputability to the gentleman of leisure.

Take a two-mile walk every morning before breakfast.