As to modesty and decency, if we are simians we have done well, considering: but if we are something else-fallen angels-we have indeed fallen far.

Information's pretty thin stuff unless mixed with experience.

The ant is knowing and wise, but he doesn't know enough to take a vacation.

Ants are good citizens: they place group interests first.

Age should not have its face lifted, but it should rather teach the world to admire wrinkles as the etchings of experience and the firm line of character.

Too many moralists begin with a dislike of reality.

You can't sweep other people off their feet, if you can't be swept off your own.

A moderate addiction to money may not always be hurtful; but when taken in excess it is nearly always bad for the health.

If your parents didn't have any children, there's a good chance that you won't have any.

The real world is not easy to live in. It is rough; it is slippery. Without the most clear-eyed adjustments we fall and get crushed. A man must stay sober; not always, but most of the time.

Creatures whose mainspring is curiosity enjoy the accumulating of facts far more than the pausing at times to reflect on those facts.

I do, I’m afraid, understand books far more readily than I understand people. Books are so easy to get along with.

If there is progress anywhere it is because there has been people who worked for it not just prayed for it.

I thought, my love is so good, why isn't it calling the same thing back.

Throw the computer away and don't look on the internet. That's the best thing to do.

If I could have banned them all...I would have!

A cold and moist brain is an inseparable companion to folly.

God gave me Parkinson's syndrome to show me I'm not 'The Greatest' - he is.

I've never felt fallow in the sense that there's been no work.

Captaincy is 90 per cent luck and 10 per cent skill. But don't try it without that 10 per cent.

Bill Gates did predict that computers for people made sense because he wrote a basic.