Once he had one leg in the White House and the nation trembled under his roars. Now he is a tinpot pope in the Coca-Cola belt and a brother to the forlorn pastors who belabor halfwits in galvanized iron tabernacles behind the railroad yards."

The more I want to get something done, the less I call it work.

An aphorism is never exactly true; it is either a half-truth or one-and-a-half truths.

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

Every man thinks God is on his side. The rich and powerful know that he is.

Someday we'll look back on this moment and plow into a parked car.

A priest asked: What is Fate, Master? And the Master answered: It is that which gives a beast of burden its reason for existence. It is that which men in former times had to bear upon their backs. It is that which has caused nations to build bywa

I: The best way to make a silk purse from a sow's ear is to begin with a silk sow. The same is true of money. II: If today were half as good as tomorrow is supposed to be, it would probably be twice as good as yesterday was. III: There are

An idea is an eye given by God for the seeing of God. Some of these eyes we cannot bear to look out of, we blind them as quickly as possible.

If you know the answer to a question, don't ask.

Where there is much light there is also much shadow.

I value kindness to human beings first of all, and kindness to animals. I don't respect the law; I have a total irreverence for anything connected with society except that which makes the roads safer, the beer stronger, the food cheaper, and old men

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

The universe is made of stories, not of atoms.

Imagine what we can imagine!

The Law, in its majestic equality, forbids the rich, as well as the poor, to sleep under the bridges, to beg in the streets, and to steal bread.

Three minutes' thought would suffice to find this out; but thought is irksome and three minutes is a long time.

Events are not affected, they develop.

If little green men land in your back yard, hide any little green women you've got in the house.

Look before you leap.

Life being what it is, one dreams of revenge.

Some people say a front-engine car handles best. Some people say a rear-engine car handles best. I say a rented car handles best.

It is the business of the future to be dangerous.

Never try to teach a pig to sing. It wastes your time and annoys the pig.

The major sin is the sin of being born.

To avoid criticism, do nothing, say nothing, be nothing.

There is no cure for birth and death other than to enjoy the interval.

You can tell the ideals of a nation by its advertisements.

Treat your friend as if he might become an enemy.

Better tried by twelve than carried by six.

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American business long ago gave up on demanding that prospective employees be honest and hardworking. It has even stopped hoping for employees who are educated enough that they can tell the difference between the men's room and the women's room with

Laws are like sausages. It's better not to see them being made.

When the blind lead the blind they will both fall over the cliff.

Good salesmen and good repairmen will never go hungry.

Anything is possible on paper.

The problem that we thought was a problem was, indeed, a problem, but not the problem we thought was the problem.

Some men are heterosexual, and some are bisexual, and some men don't think about sex at all... they become lawyers.

Certain passages in several laws have always defied interpretation and the most inexplicable must be a matter of opinion. A judge of the Court of Session of Scotland has sent the editors of this book his candidate which reads, "In the Nuts (unground

You are never given a wish without also being given the power to make it true. You may have to work for it, however.

Every man who has reached even his intellectual teens begins to suspect that life is no farce; that it is not genteel comedy even; that it flowers and fructifies on the contrary out of the profoundest tragic depths of the essential death in which its

General notions are generally wrong.

Nice guys finish last.

The philosopher's treatment of a question is like the treatment of an illness.

Nice guys finish last, but we get to sleep in.

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Sweet April showers do spring May flowers.

Whatever you do will be insignificant, but it is very important that you do it.

"You mean, if you allow the master to be uncivil, to treat you any old way he likes, and to insult your dignity, then he may deem you fit to hear his view of things?" "Quite the contrary. You must defend your integrity, assuming you have integrit

Fill what's empty, empty what's full, scratch where it itches.