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Let's have some new clichés.

Samuel Goldwyn, in Art and Literature

It gets late early out there.

Yogi Berra, (on Yankee Stadium in the fall), in Work and Recreation

The reward of a thing well done is to have done it.

Ralph Waldo Emerson, in Success and Failure and Work and Recreation

Yield to temptation -- it may not pass your way again.

Robert A. Heinlein, Time Enough for Love (Lazarus Long), in Vice and Virtue

It's better to keep your mouth shut and give the impression that you're stupid than to open it and remove all doubt.

Unknown, in Wisdom and Ignorance

A bank is a place where they lend you an umbrella in fair weather and ask for it back when it begins to rain.

Robert Frost, in Wealth and Poverty

Be polite to all, but intimate with few.

Thomas Jefferson, in Altruism and Cynicism

Be braver -- you can't cross a chasm in two small jumps.

David Lloyd George, in Success and Failure

I will answer anything I can with honor, but not about others.

John Brown, in Vice and Virtue

Change occurs in direct proportion to dissatisfaction, but dissatisfaction never changes.

Doug Horton, in Success and Failure

Kindness is the beginning of cruelty.

Frank Herbert, Dune, in Altruism and Cynicism

Life is the childhood of our immortality.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, in Life and Death

Luck can't last a lifetime unless you die young.

Russell Banks, in Life and Death and Success and Failure

These are not books, lumps of lifeless paper, but minds alive on the shelves.

Gilbert Highet, in Art and Literature

When angry, count to ten before you speak; when very angry, a hundred.

Thomas Jefferson, Writings, in Wisdom and Ignorance

The more you wrestle with a turd, the more shit gets on you.

Shelly Horton, in Success and Failure

Man is able to do what he is unable to imagine. His head trails a wake through the galaxy of the absurd.

René Char, in Success and Failure

Imagination is the one weapon in the war against reality.

Jules de Gaultier, in Wisdom and Ignorance

In nature, there are neither rewards nor punishments -- there are consequences.

Robert G. Ingersoll, in Altruism and Cynicism

Disorder increases with time because we measure time in the direction in which disorder increases.

Stephen Hawking, in Science and Religion