Sorry 'bout that sweat, honey. That's just holy water.

Thompson, if he is to be believed, has sampled the entire rainbow of legal and illegal drugs in heroic efforts to feel better than he does. As for the truth about his health: I have asked around about it. I am told that he appears to be strong and

I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.

An investment in knowledge always pays the best interest.

This sad little lizard told me that he was a brontosaurus on his mother's side. I did not laugh; people who boast of ancestry often have little else to sustain them. Humoring them costs nothing and adds happiness in a world in which happiness is al

By the middle 1880's, practically all the roads except those in the South, were of the present standard gauge. The southern roads were still five feet between rails. It was decided to change the gauge of all southern roads to standard, in one day

In charity there is no excess.

I have a simple philosophy: Fill what's empty. Empty what's full. Scratch where it itches.

Furious activity is no substitute for understanding.

The assertion that "all men are created equal" was of no practical use in effecting our separation from Great Britain and it was placed in the Declaration not for that, but for future use.

What does it take for Americans to do great things; to go to the moon, to win wars, to dig canals linking oceans, to build railroads across a continent? In independent thought about this question, Neil Armstrong and I concluded that it takes a coinci

Politicians speak for their parties, and parties never are, never have been, and never will be wrong.

He who fears the unknown may one day flee from his own backside.

The average, healthy, well-adjusted adult gets up at seven-thirty in the morning feeling just terrible.

I'd be a poorer man if I'd never seen an eagle fly.

HR 3128. Omnibus Budget Reconciliation, Fiscal 1986. Martin, R-Ill., motion that the House recede from its disagreement to the Senate amendment making changes in the bill to reduce fiscal 1986 deficits. The Senate amendment was an amendment to the

The politician is someone who deals in man's problems of adjustment. To ask a politician to lead us is to ask the tail of a dog to lead the dog.

... "fire" does not matter, "earth" and "air" and "water" do not matter. "I" do not matter. No word matters. But man forgets reality and remembers words. The more words he remembers, the cleverer do his fellows esteem him. He looks upon the great

In India, "cold weather" is merely a conventional phrase and has come into use through the necessity of having some way to distinguish between weather which will melt a brass door-knob and weather which will only make it mushy.

There are no answers, only cross-references.

The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed.

Life is like a 10 speed bicycle. Most of us have gears we never use.

The world has many unintentionally cruel mechanisms that are not designed for people who walk on their hands.

Save a little money each month and at the end of the year you'll be surprised at how little you have.

It is dangerous for a national candidate to say things that people might remember.

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We rarely find anyone who can say he has lived a happy life, and who, content with his life, can retire from the world like a satisfied guest.

My own life has been spent chronicling the rise and fall of human systems, and I am convinced that we are terribly vulnerable. ... We should be reluctant to turn back upon the frontier of this epoch. Space is indifferent to what we do; it has no fe

Joe Cool always spends the first two weeks at college sailing his frisbee.

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

... it still remains true that as a set of cognitive beliefs about the existence of God in any recognizable sense continuous with the great systems of the past, religious doctrines constitute a speculative hypothesis of an extremely low order of prob

God is Dead.

It is a wise father that knows his own child.