Men of lofty genius when they are doing the least work are most active.

"If once a man indulges himself in murder, very soon he comes to think little of robbing; and from robbing he next comes to drinking and Sabbath-breaking, and from that to incivility and procrastination."

Ten persons who speak make more noise than ten thousand who are silent.

A good reputation is more valuable than money.

A woman who is unfaithful deserves to be shot.

Under every stone lurks a politician.

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In the Spring, I have counted 136 different kinds of weather inside of 24 hours.

They sentenced me to twenty years of boredom for trying to change the system from within. I'm coming now I'm coming to reward them. First we take Manhattan, then we take Berlin. I'm guided by a signal in the heavens. I'm guided by this birthmark

It is not the critic who counts, or how the strong man stumbled, or whether the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood, who strives vali

Age before beauty; and pearls before swine.

"What's this? Trix? Aunt! Trix? You? You're after the prize! What is it?" He picked up the box and studied the back. "A glow-in-the-dark squid! Have you got it out of there yet?" He tilted the box, angling the little colored balls of cereal

The ratio of literacy to illiteracy is a constant, but nowadays the illiterates can read.

Once harm has been done, even a fool understands it.

We are governed not by armies and police but by ideas.

It is only the man whose intellect is clouded by his sexual impulse that could give the name of the fair sex to that undersized, narrow-shouldered, broad-hipped, and short-legged race.

A Christian is a man who feels repentance on Sunday for what he did on Saturday and is going to do on Monday.

So little time, so little to do.

There's no justice in this world.

Fraud is the homage that force pays to reason.

The hardest thing in the world to understand is the income tax.

Fanaticism consists of redoubling your effort when you have forgotten your aim.

Many of the characters are fools and they are always playing tricks on me and treating me badly.

Scratch the average female and you'll find a purring bundle... at the ready to love and honor, bake a torte and still produce quintuplets.

Luck can't last a lifetime, unless you die young.

You always introduce the younger person to the older person, using the wording: "Miss Brown, I'd like to introduce you to an older person" (unless her name is not "Miss Brown"). If you do not know a person's age, ask for a driver's license and a ma

When I was a boy I was told that anybody could become President. Now I'm beginning to believe it.

Steady movement is more important than speed, much of the time. So long as there is a regular progression of stimuli to get your mental hooks into, there is room for lateral movement. Once this begins, its rate is a matter of discretion.

In the Halls of Justice the only justice is in the halls.

The only really good place to buy lumber is at a store where the lumber has already been cut and attached together in the form of furniture, finished, and put inside boxes.

When in doubt, use brute force.

This is the sort of English up with which I will not put.

When you make your mark in the world, watch out for guys with erasers.

The politician is someone who deals in man's problems of adjustment. To ask a politician to lead us is to ask the tail of a dog to lead the dog.

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

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

Receiving a million dollars tax free will make you feel better than being flat broke and having a stomach ache.

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

"I'll carry your books, I'll carry a tune, I'll carry on, carry over, carry forward, Cary Grant, cash & carry, Carry Me Back To Old Virginia, I'll even Hara Kari if you show me how, but I will *not* carry a gun."

If while you are in school, there is a shortage of qualified personnel in a particular field, then by the time you graduate with the necessary qualifications, that field's employment market is glutted.

It has long been noticed that juries are pitiless for robbery and full of indulgence for infanticide. A question of interest, my dear Sir! The jury is afraid of being robbed and has passed the age when it could be a victim of infanticide.

Happiness isn't something you experience; it's something you remember.

The cry has been that when war is declared, all opposition should therefore be hushed. A sentiment more unworthy of a free country could hardly be propagated. If the doctrine be admitted, rulers have only to declare war and they are screened at onc

Remember that there is an outside world to see and enjoy.

The Anglo-Saxon conscience does not prevent the Anglo-Saxon from sinning, it merely prevents him from enjoying his sin.

Only those who leisurely approach that which the masses are busy about can be busy about that which the masses take leisurely.

"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

Liberty don't work as good in practice as it does in speeches.

The less a statesman amounts to, the more he loves the flag.

When alerted to an intrusion by tinkling glass or otherwise, 1) Calm yourself 2) Identify the intruder 3) If hostile, kill him. Step number 3 is of particular importance. If you leave the guy alive out of misguided softheartedness, he will repay y