"Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes
off your goal." 
Henry Ford (1863-1947)

Wisdom is running after mankind...but mankind is quicker !

If you can't get your books or receipts to balance out,
here's a useful term vending machine distributors rely
on: "Slug Factor." 

    - Rich Hall 

Early to rise, early to bed, makes a man healthy but socially dead.

                 (Anamaniacs) 

If you cannot get rid of the family skeleton, you may as well make it dance.

                                                          -- George Bernard Shaw

(speaking of his family's habit of laughing over his father's drunken
escapades)