“I think that I think, therefore I think that I am.”

Dawn: When men of reason go to bed.

True, man does not know woman. But neither does woman.

Divorce: a resumption of diplomatic relations and rectification of boundaries.

Ocean: A body of water occupying about two-thirds of a world made for man – who has no gills.

To the eye of failure success is an accident.

REALISM, n. The art of depicting nature as it is seem by toads. The charm suffusing a landscape painted by a mole, or a story written by a measuring-worm.

MYTHOLOGY, n. The body of a primitive people’s beliefs concerning its origin, early history, heroes, deities and so forth, as distinguished from the true accounts which it invents later.

Mausoleum, n: the final and funniest folly of the rich.

Patriotism. Combustible rubbish ready to the torch of any one ambitious to illuminate his name.

The only distinction that democracies reward is a high degree of conformity.

The covers of this book are too far apart.

Philosophy: A route of many roads leading from nowhere to nothing.

Laughter, n. An interior convulsion, producing a distortion of the features and accompanied by inarticulate noises. It is infectious and, though intermittent, incurable.

What is a democrat? One who believes that the republicans have ruined the country. What is a republican? One who believes that the democrats would ruin the country.

Absurdity, n.: A statement or belief manifestly inconsistent with one’s own opinion.

Democracy is four wolves and a lamb voting on what to have for lunch.

Along with success comes a reputation for wisdom.

Character is like a tree and reputation its shadow. The shadow is what we think it is and the tree is the real thing.

Your brand name is only as good as your reputation.

I wrote the story myself. It’s about a girl who lost her reputation and never missed it.

It takes 20 years to build a reputation and five minuted to ruin it. If you think about that you’ll do things differently.

If you lose money for the firm, I will be forgiving. If you lose reputation, I will be ruthless.

The two most important things in any company do not appear in its balance sheet: its reputation and its people.

Love comes with a knife, not some shy question, and not with fears for its reputation!