The coast was clear.

Furious activity is no substitute for understanding.

Never tell people how to do things. Tell them WHAT to do and they will surprise you with their ingenuity.

There is no distinctly native American criminal class except Congress.

When you have to kill a man it costs nothing to be polite.

I don't give a shit what happens. I want you all to stonewall it. Let them plead the Fifth Amendment, cover up, or anything else if it'll save the plan.

While there's life, there's hope.

I regret to say that we of the F.B.I. are powerless to act in cases of oral-genital intimacy, unless it has in some way obstructed interstate commerce.

If there is no wind, row.

Bond reflected that good Americans were fine people and that most of them seemed to come from Texas.

Everything takes longer, costs more, and is less useful.

Words have a longer life than deeds.

We are so fond of each other because our ailments are the same.

I often quote myself; it adds spice to my conversation.

What!? Me worry?

Tallulah Bankhead barged down the Nile last night as Cleopatra and sank.

We are what we pretend to be.

It is said an Eastern monarch once charged his wise men to invent him a sentence to be ever in view, and which should be true and appropriate in all times and situations. They presented him the words: "And this, too, shall pass away."

Education and religion are two things not regulated by supply and demand. The less of either the people have, the less they want.

I know not how I came into this, shall I call it a dying life or a living death?

Dear Ann Landers: My husband watches the TV preachers every Sunday. He claims one minister said there are 350 different sins. My husband wants to know if you can get the list. He thinks he is missing something.

The so-called lessons of history are for the most part the rationalizations of the victors. History is written by the survivors.

A wise person makes his own decisions, a weak one obeys public opinion.

"...The name of the song is called 'Haddocks' Eyes'!" "Oh, that's the name of the song, is it?" Alice said, trying to feel interested. "No, you don't understand," the Knight said, looking a little vexed. "That's what the name is called. The nam

The nearer to the church, the further from God.

If there were a school for, say, sheet metal workers, that after three years left its graduates as unprepared for their careers as does law school, it would be closed down in a minute, and no doubt by lawyers.

I consider a new device or technology to have been culturally accepted when it has been used to commit a murder.

"The jig's up, Elman." "Which jig?"

I think any man in business would be foolish to fool around with his secretary. If it's somebody else's secretary, fine.

After the game the king and the pawn go in the same box.

When more and more people are thrown out of work, unemployment results.

Welcome to Lake Wobegon, where all the men are strong, the women are pretty, and the children are above-average.

It is dangerous for a national candidate to say things that people might remember.

I'm going to Vietnam at the request of the White House. President Johnson says a war isn't really a war without my jokes.

Majorities, of course, start with minorities.

"MacDonald has the gift on compressing the largest amount of words into the smallest amount of thoughts."

There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, than are dreamt of in your philosophy.

Suburbia is where the developer bulldozes out the trees, then names the streets after them.

Advertising is a valuable economic factor because it is the cheapest way of selling goods, particularly if the goods are worthless.

Everything is possible. Pass the word.

Richard Nixon was the most dishonest individual I have ever met in my life. He lied to his wife, his family, his friends, his colleagues in the Congress, lifetime members of his own political party, the American people, and the world.

We'll be recording at the Paradise Friday night. Live, on the Death label.

In my experience, if you have to keep the lavatory door shut by extending your left leg, it's modern architecture.

I go on working for the same reason a hen goes on laying eggs.

A casual stroll through a lunatic asylum shows that faith does not prove anything.

For the fashion of Minas Tirith was such that it was built on seven levels, each delved into a hill, and about each was set a wall, and in each wall was a gate.

Beware of mathematicians and all those who make empty prophecies. The danger already exists that the mathematicians have made covenant with the devil to darken the spirit and to confine man in the bonds of hell.

In "King Henry VI, Part II," Shakespeare has Dick Butcher suggest to his fellow anti-establishment rabble-rousers, "The first thing we do, let's kill all the lawyers." That action may be extreme but a similar sentiment was expressed by Thomas K. Co

A male gynecologist is like an auto mechanic who has never owned a car.

In Hollywood, if you don't have happiness, you send out for it.