An oral contract isn’t worth the paper its written on.

I have never let my schooling interfere with my education. -Mark Twain-

I don’t shop in antique stores. I already have a house full of perfectly good old stuff.

Never do a wrong thing to make a friend or to keep one. -Robert E. Lee-

You’d lay down your life for me? How soon?

Never go to sea with two chronometers; take one or three.

There is not such a cradle of democracy upon the earth as the Free Public Library, this republic of letters, where neither rank, office, nor wealth receives the slightest consideration. -Andrew Carnegie-

Adde parvum parvo magnus acervus erit. [Add little to little and there will be a big pile.] -Ovid-

You can lead a yak to water, but you can’t teach an old dog to make a silk purse out of a pig in a poke. -Opus-

Your assumptions are your windows on the world. Scrub them off every once in a while, or the light won’t come in. -Alan Alda-