"It was built against the will of the immortal gods, and so it did not last for long."

"The wine urges me on, the bewitching wine, which sets even a wise man to singing and to laughing gently and rouses him up to dance and brings forth words which were better unspoken."

"I should rather labor as another's serf, in the home of a man without fortune, one whose livelihood was meager, than rule over all the departed dead."

"It is tedious to tell again tales already plainly told."

"A companion's words of persuasion are effective."

"Evil deeds do not prosper; the slow man catches up with the swift."

"Irrigation of the land with seawater desalinated by fusion power is ancient. It's called rain."

"Americans are the only people in the world known to me whose status anxiety prompts them to advertise their college and university affiliations in the rear window of their automobiles."

"The avoidance of taxes is the only intellectual pursuit that still carries any reward."

"When everyone is somebody, then no one's anybody."

"Grub first, then ethics."

"Love goes out the door when money comes innuendo."