Nothing will ever be attempted if all possible objections must be first overcome.

Good judgement comes from experience. Experience comes from bad judgement.

God has intended the great to be great and the little to be little... The trade unions, under the European system, destroy liberty [...] I do not mean to say that a dollar a day is enough to support a workingman... not enough to support a man and fiv

You know how to win a victory, Hannibal, but not how to use it.

The way of the world is to praise dead saints and prosecute live ones.

It is only the great men who are truly obscene. If they had not dared to be obscene, they could never have dared to be great.

It takes all kinds to fill the freeways.

There's no trick to being a humorist when you have the whole government working for you.

One hundred women are not worth a single testicle.

United Nations, New York, December 25. The peace and joy of the Christmas season was marred by a proclamation of a general strike of all the military forces of the world. Panic reigns in the hearts of all the patriots of every persuasion. Meanwhil

Whenever I hear anyone arguing for slavery, I feel a strong impulse to see it tried on him personally.

I am an optimist. It does not seem too much use being anything else.

Sherry [Thomas Sheridan] is dull, naturally dull; but it must have taken him a great deal of pains to become what we now see him. Such an excess of stupidity, sir, is not in Nature.

I just need enough to tide me over until I need more.

Advertising is the rattling of a stick inside a swill bucket.

A diplomat's life consists of three things: protocol, Geritol, and alcohol.

I'm glad I was not born before tea.