The shifts of Fortune test the reliability of friends.

This was the most unkindest cut of all.

The world is full of people who have never, since childhood, met an open doorway with an open mind.

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

That's where the money was.

Hear me, my chiefs, I am tired; my heart is sick and sad. From where the sun now stands I Will Fight No More Forever.

Lansdale seized on the idea of using Nixon to build support for the [Vietnamese] elections ... really honest elections, this time. "Oh, sure, honest, yes, that's right," Nixon said, "so long as you win!" With that he winked, drove his elbow into La

I didn't do it! Nobody saw me do it! Can't prove anything!

Dianetics is a milestone for man comparable to his discovery of fire and superior to his invention of the wheel and the arch.

In our civilization, and under our republican form of government, intelligence is so highly honored that it is rewarded by exemption from the cares of office.

The true Southern watermelon is a boon apart, and not to be mentioned with commoner things. It is chief of the world's luxuries, king by the grace of God over all the fruits of the earth. When one has tasted it, he knows what the angels eat. It wa

So far as we are human, what we do must be either evil or good: so far as we do evil or good, we are human: and it is better, in a paradoxical way, to do evil than to do nothing: at least we exist.

Where there is much light there is also much shadow.

Too much is just enough.

She is not refined. She is not unrefined. She keeps a parrot.

Hope is a waking dream.

If the colleges were better, if they really had it, you would need to get the police at the gates to keep order in the inrushing multitude. See in college how we thwart the natural love of learning by leaving the natural method of teaching what each

Rascal, am I? Take THAT!

You can destroy your now by worrying about tomorrow.

The rule is, jam to-morrow and jam yesterday, but never jam today.

How many "coming men" has one known! Where on earth do they all go to?

When I came back to Dublin I was courtmartialed in my absence and sentenced to death in my absence, so I said they could shoot me in my absence.

Repartee is something we think of twenty-four hours too late.

He that teaches himself has a fool for a master.

Love your neighbour, yet don't pull down your hedge.

Baseball is a skilled game. It's America's game - it, and high taxes.

Alas, I am dying beyond my means.

It is exactly because a man cannot do a thing that he is a proper judge of it.

The idle mind knows not what it is it wants.

I used to think that the brain was the most wonderful organ in my body. Then I realized who was telling me this.

If a man has a strong faith he can indulge in the luxury of skepticism.

We are all born mad. Some remain so.

When in doubt, do it. It's much easier to apologize than to get permission.

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Treat your friend as if he might become an enemy.

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.

A dead man cannot bite.

I try to keep an open mind, but not so open that my brains fall out.

"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."

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

A woman who is guided by the head and not by the heart is a social pestilence: she has all the defects of the passionate and affectionate woman, with none of her compensations; she is without pity, without love, without virtue, without sex.

For certain people, after fifty, litigation takes the place of sex.

I reverently believe that the maker who made us all makes everything in New England, but the weather. I don't know who makes that, but I think it must be raw apprentices in the weather-clerks factory who experiment and learn how, in New England, fo

It's odd, and a little unsettling, to reflect upon the fact that English is the only major language in which "I" is capitalized; in many other languages "You" is capitalized and the "i" is lower case.

I put the shotgun in an Adidas bag and padded it out with four pairs of tennis socks, not my style at all, but that was what I was aiming for: If they think you're crude, go technical; if they think you're technical, go crude. I'm a very technical

You'd better smile when they watch you, smile like you're in control.

Competitive fury is not always anger. It is the true missionary's courage and zeal in facing the possibility that one's best may not be enough.

To generalize is to be an idiot.

The Soviet pre-eminence in chess can be traced to the average Russian's readiness to brood obsessively over anything, even the arrangement of some pieces of wood. Indeed, the Russians' predisposition for quiet reflection followed by sudden preventi

The most recent attempt to revive the moribund campus left, a national conference held at Rutgers University February 5-7, ended when the participants decided that they were too racist to found a new national organization. The stated goal of the c