There is only one thing in the world worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about.

Never look a gift horse in the mouth.

No problem is so formidable that you can't just walk away from it.

What is the robbing of a bank compared to the founding of a bank?

My only love sprung from my only hate! Too early seen unknown, and known too late!

Not all who own a harp are harpers.

In Hollywood, all marriages are happy. It's trying to live together afterwards that causes the problems.

I am a man: nothing human is alien to me.

She ran the gamut of emotions from 'A' to 'B'.

The trouble with this country is that there are too many politicians who believe, with a conviction based on experience, that you can fool all of the people all of the time.

Smartness runs in my family. When I went to school I was so smart my teacher was in my class for five years.

I think... I think it's in my basement... Let me go upstairs and check.

We are not a loved organization, but we are a respected one.

Music in the soul can be heard by the universe.

Mental power tended to corrupt, and absolute intelligence tended to corrupt absolutely, until the victim eschewed violence entirely in favor of smart solutions to stupid problems.

Dear Mister Language Person: What is the purpose of the apostrophe? Answer: The apostrophe is used mainly in hand-lettered small business signs to alert the reader than an "S" is coming up at the end of a word, as in: WE DO NOT EXCEPT PERSONAL CHEC

Someone did a study of the three most-often-heard phrases in New York City. One is "Hey, taxi." Two is, "What train do I take to get to Bloomingdale's?" And three is, "Don't worry. It's just a flesh wound."

Awash with unfocused desire, Everett twisted the lobe of his one remaining ear and felt the presence of somebody else behind him, which caused terror to push through his nervous system like a flash flood roaring down the mid-fork of the Feather River

If God lived on Earth, people would knock out all His windows.

Rebellion lay in his way, and he found it.

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

'Naomi, sex at noon taxes.' I moan. Never odd or even. A man, a plan, a canal, Panama. Madam, I'm Adam. Sit on a potato pan, Otis. Sit on Otis.

... we must not judge the society of the future by considering whether or not we should like to live in it; the question is whether those who have grown up in it will be happier than those who have grown up in our society or those of the past.

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

If one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again, there is no use in reading it at all.

Authors (and perhaps columnists) eventually rise to the top of whatever depths they were once able to plumb.

Academic politics is the most vicious and bitter form of politics, because the stakes are so low.

And tomorrow will be like today, only more so.

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So so is good, very good, very excellent good: and yet it is not; it is but so so.

Not to laugh, not to lament, not to curse, but to understand.

The only winner in the War of 1812 was Tchaikovsky.

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