Let's look on the bright side: we're having an adventure, Fezzik, and most people live and die without being as lucky as we are.
My father, [was] a mid-level phonecompany manager who treated my mother at best like an incompetent employee. At worst? He never beat her, but his pure, inarticulate fury would fill the house for days...
Nothing complements a fast mind better than a slow tongue. And nothing aggravates a slow mind better than a fast tongue.
Sometimes when you innovate, you make mistakes. It is best to admit them quickly, and get on with improving your other innovations.
Manners and politeness will never become old-fashioned.
You can't just ask customers what they want and then try to give that to them. By the time you get it built, they'll want something new.
Even so have I given the womb of the earth to those that be sown in it in their times.
Bellybuttons are our link with the past.
Sow good seeds for a good yield.
There is no absurdity so palpable but that it may be firmly planted in the human head if you only begin to inculcate it before the age of five, by constantly repeating it with an air of great solemnit...
On the other hand it is possible that human control over the machines may be retained. In that case the average man may have control over certain private machines of his own, such as his car of his pe...