Women of genius commonly have masculine faces, figures and manners. In transplanting brains to an alien soil God leaves a little of the original earth clinging to the roots.

VII. Certain bodies can pass through solid walls painted to resemble tunnel entrances; others cannot. This trompe l'oeil inconsistency has baffled generations, but at least it is known that whoever paints an entrance on a wall's surface to

Learning without thought is labor lost; thought without learning is perilous.

A full belly makes a dull brain.

What one fool can do, another can.

The penalty for laughing in a courtroom is six months in jail; if it were not for this penalty, the jury would never hear the evidence.

Always the dullness of the fool is the whetstone of the wits.

I was part of that strange race of people aptly described as spending their lives doing things they detest to make money they don't want to buy things they don't need to impress people they dislike.

It's easier to take it apart than to put it back together.

You see, I consider that a man's brain originally is like a little empty attic, and you have to stock it with such furniture as you choose. A fool takes in all the lumber of every sort he comes across, so that the knowledge which might be useful to

"Somewhere", said Father Vittorini, "did Blake not speak of the Machineries of Joy? That is, did not God promote environments, then intimidate these Natures by provoking the existence of flesh, toy men and women, such as are we all? And thus happi

Monterey... is decidedly the pleasantest and most civilized-looking place in California ... [it] is also a great place for cock-fighting, gambling of all sorts, fandangos, and various kinds of amusements and knavery.

Where it is a duty to worship the sun it is pretty sure to be a crime to examine the laws of heat.

If the ends don't justify the means, then what does?

You can observe a lot just by watching.

A yawn is a silent shout.

Always do right. This will gratify some people and astonish the rest.

The road to ruin is always in good repair, and the travellers pay the expense of it.

I dread success. To have succeeded is to have finished one's business on earth, like the male spider, who is killed by the female the moment he has succeeded in his courtship. I like a state of continual becoming, with a goal in front and not behin

Acting is not very hard. The most important things are to be able to laugh and cry. If I have to cry, I think of my sex life. And if I have to laugh, well, I think of my sex life.

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

I remember when legal used to mean lawful, now it means some kind of loophole.

Snakes. Why did it have to be snakes?

He jests at scars who never felt a wound.

Love may laugh at locksmiths, but he has a profound respect for money bags.

No is no negative in a woman's mouth.

The truth of a thing is the feel of it, not the think of it.

The United States is like the guy at the party who gives cocaine to everybody and still nobody likes him.

The penalty for laughing in a courtroom is six months in jail; if it were not for this penalty, the jury would never hear the evidence.

A countryman between two lawyers is like a fish between two cats.

The road to Hades is easy to travel.

I am America's child, a spastic slogging on demented limbs drooling I'll trade my PhD for a telephone voice.

The trouble with superheros is what to do between phone booths.

An honest tale speeds best being plainly told.

Some scholars are like donkeys, they merely carry a lot of books.

A countryman between two lawyers is like a fish between two cats.

Do not seek death; death will find you. But seek the road which makes death a fulfillment.

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

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

My dear People. My dear Bagginses and Boffins, and my dear Tooks and Brandybucks, and Grubbs, and Chubbs, and Burrowses, and Hornblowers, and Bolgers, Bracegirdles, Goodbodies, Brockhouses and Proudfoots. Also my good Sackville Bagginses that I w

Money can't buy love, but it improves your bargaining position.

It doesn't matter whether you win or lose

It is your concern when your neighbor's wall is on fire.

Money doesn't talk, it swears.

We have art that we do not die of the truth.

An old Jewish man reads about Einstein's theory of relativity in the newspaper and asks his scientist grandson to explain it to him. "Well, zayda, it's sort of like this. Einstein says that if you're having your teeth drilled without Novocain, a mi

There are people who find it odd to eat four or five Chinese meals in a row; in China, I often remind them, there are a billion or so people who find nothing odd about it.

If you want to know what god thinks of money, just look at the people he gave it to.

It is bad luck to be superstitious.

Fortune Documents the Great Legal Decisions: We think that we may take judicial notice of the fact that the term "bitch" may imply some feeling of endearment when applied to a female of the canine species but that it is seldom, if ever, so used whe