The future is a race between education and catastrophe.

Would ye both eat your cake and have your cake?

I owe the public nothing.

In every country and every age, the priest has been hostile to Liberty.

When the going gets tough, everyone leaves.

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

Another such victory over the Romans, and we are undone.

Being a woman is a terribly difficult trade, since it consists principally of dealings with men.

A myth is a religion in which no-one any longer believes.

Nice guys finish last.

There is no comfort without pain; thus we define salvation through suffering.

In any country there must be people who have to die. They are the sacrifices any nation has to make to achieve law and order.

In matters of principle, stand like a rock; in matters of taste, swim with the current.

We must respect the other fellow's religion, but only in the sense and to the extent that we respect his theory that his wife is beautiful and his children smart.

You know you are getting old when you think you should drive the speed limit.

The secret of success is sincerity. Once you can fake that, you've got it made.

Exxon's 'Universe of Energy' tends to the peculiar rather than the humorous ... After [an incomprehensible film montage about wind and sun and rain and strip mines and] two or three minutes of mechanical confusion, the seats locomote through a short

War is like love, it always finds a way.

Last guys don't finish nice.

Go ahead... make my day.

I try not to break the rules but merely to test their elasticity.

The more laws and order are made prominent, the more thieves and robbers there will be.

Even the best of friends cannot attend each other's funeral.

All I kin say is when you finds yo'self wanderin' in a peach orchard, ya don't go lookin' for rutabagas.

The old complaint that mass culture is designed for eleven-year-olds is of course a shameful canard. The key age has traditionally been more like fourteen.

Indeed, the first noble truth of Buddhism, usually translated as `all life is suffering,' is more accurately rendered `life is filled with a sense of pervasive unsatisfactoriness.'

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

Isn't it nice that people who prefer Los Angeles to San Francisco live there?

You never have to change anything you got up in the middle of the night to write.

He who writes with no misspelled words has prevented a first suspicion on the limits of his scholarship or, in the social world, of his general education and culture.

It is often easier to ask for forgiveness than to ask for permission.

You cannot shake hands with a clenched fist.

No group of professionals meets except to conspire against the public at large.

Unknown person(s) stole the American flag from its pole in Etra Park sometime between 3pm Jan 17 and 11:30 am Jan 20. The flag is described as red, white and blue, having 50 stars and was valued at $40.

Prizes are for children.

Catharsis is something I associate with pornography and crossword puzzles.

For myself, I can only say that I am astonished and somewhat terrified at the results of this evening's experiments. Astonished at the wonderful power you have developed, and terrified at the thought that so much hideous and bad music may be put on

One good turn deserves another.

Questions are never indiscreet, answers sometimes are.

The most difficult thing in the world is to know how to do a thing and to watch someone else doing it wrong, without commenting.

I have a dream. I have a dream that one day, on the red hills of Georgia, the sons of former slaves and the sons of former slaveowners will be able to sit down together at the table of brotherhood.

You can't hold a man down without staying down with him.

I'm going to raise an issue and stick it in your ear.

Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent.

Yield to Temptation ... it may not pass your way again.

"California is proud to be the home of the freeway."

I never believed in Santa Claus because I knew no white dude would come into my neighborhood after dark.

A continuing flow of paper is sufficient to continue the flow of paper.

If there really was a Jewish conspiracy to run the world, my rabbi would have let me in on it by now. I contribute enough to the shule.

Once there lived a village of creatures along the bottom of a great crystal river. Each creature in its own manner clung tightly to the twigs and rocks of the river bottom, for clinging was their way of life, and resisting the current what each had