When the English language gets in my way, I walk over it.

An investment in knowledge always pays the best interest.

The problem with me is that I am fifty or one hundred years ahead of my time. My speed is very fast. Some ministers have had to drop out of my government because they could not keep up.

The marriage of Marxism and feminism has been like the marriage of husband and wife depicted in English common law: Marxism and feminism are one, and that one is marxism.

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

We should be careful to get out of an experience only the wisdom that is in it - and stay there, lest we be like the cat that sits down on a hot stove-lid. She will never sit down on a hot stove-lid again - and that is well; but also she will never

Every day people are straying away from the church and going back to God.

A woman's a woman until the day she dies, but a man's only a man as long as he can.

I went into the business for the money, and the art grew out of it. If people are disillusioned by that remark, I can't help it. It's the truth.

The only thing that stops God from sending a second Flood is that the first one was useless.

When your work speaks for itself, don't interrupt.

Every word is like an unnecessary stain on silence and nothingness.

You may have heard that a dean is to faculty as a hydrant is to a dog.

The past always looks better than it was. It's only pleasant because it isn't here.

However, on religious issues there can be little or no compromise. There is no position on which people are so immovable as their religious beliefs. There is no more powerful ally one can claim in a debate than Jesus Christ, or God, or Allah, or wha

The state of innocence contains the germs of all future sin.

Piece of cake!

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.

Just because you like my stuff doesn't mean I owe you anything.

Already the spirit of our schooling is permeated with the feeling that every subject, every topic, every fact, every professed truth must be submitted to a certain publicity and impartiality. All proffered samples of learning must go to the same ass

In a country where the sole employer is the State, opposition means death by slow starvation. The old principle: Who does not work shall not eat, has been replaced by a new one: Who does not obey shall not eat.

An older student came to Otis and said, "I have been to see a great number of teachers and I have given up a great number of pleasures. I have fasted, been celibate and stayed awake nights seeking enlightenment. I have given up everything I was aske

Television is a medium because anything well done is rare.

"There was an interesting development in the CBS-Westmoreland trial: both sides agreed that after the trial, Andy Rooney would be allowed to talk to the jury for three minutes about little things that annoyed him during the trial."

Harp not on that string.

So you think that money is the root of all evil. Have you ever asked what is the root of money?

I owe the public nothing.

I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forego their use.

The Least Successful Police Dogs America has a very strong candidate in "La Dur", a fearsome looking schnauzer hound, who was retired from the Orlando police force in Florida in 1978. He consistently refused to do anything which might ruffle or of

WE'RE GOING TO THROW THE MX AWAY AFTER WE BUILD IT. The MX is really [Don't tell anybody!] just a "bargaining chip" in the nuclear-arms- reduction talks with the Russians. See, we have a problem with the Russians. They look at our leaders and they

If you pick up a starving dog and make him prosperous, he will not bite you. This is the principal difference between a dog and a man.

Somehow I reached excess without ever noticing when I was passing through satisfaction.

Ain't no right way to do a wrong thing.

If any man wishes to be humbled and mortified, let him become president of Harvard.

If it doesn't smell yet, it's pretty fresh.

It is the business of the future to be dangerous.

There is no hunting like the hunting of man, and those who have hunted armed men long enough and liked it, never care for anything else thereafter.

The notes blatted skyward as they rose over the Canada geese, feathered rumps mooning the day, webbed appendages frantically pedaling unseen bicycles in their search for sustenance, driven by cruel Nature's maxim, 'Ya wanna eat, ya gotta work,' and a

The average Ph.D thesis is nothing but the transference of bones from one graveyard to another.

Gay shlafen: Yiddish for "go to sleep". Now doesn't "gay shlafen" have a softer, more soothing sound than the harsh, staccato "go to sleep"? Listen to the difference: "Go to sleep, you little wretch!" ... "Gay shlafen, darling." Obvious, isn't

You should never wear your best trousers when you go out to fight for freedom and liberty.

Reality is nothing but a collective hunch.

A political man can have as his aim the realization of freedom, but he has no means to realize it other than through violence.

I had never been too political, but I knew how white people treated black people and it was hard for me to come back to the bullshit white people put a black person through in this country. To realize you don't have any power to make things differen

I never trust a man unless I've got his pecker in my pocket.

It's not easy, being green.

The only way I can lose this election is if I'm caught in bed with a dead girl or a live boy.

"After I asked him what he meant, he replied that freedom consisted of the unimpeded right to get rich, to use his ability, no matter what the cost to others, to win advancement."

Dying is one of the few things that can be done as easily lying down.

There are many of us in this old world of ours who hold that things break about even for all of us. I have observed, for example, that we all get about the same amount of ice. The rich get it in the summer and the poor get it in the winter.