No man's ambition has a right to stand in the way of performing a simple act of justice.

A writer is congenitally unable to tell the truth and that is why we call what he writes fiction.

Let your conscience be your guide.

The longer I am out of office, the more infallible I appear to myself.

You may my glories and my state dispose, But not my griefs; still am I king of those.

I'm never through with a girl until I've had her three ways.

Doctors and lawyers must go to school for years and years, often with little sleep and with great sacrifice to their first wives.

I've never been hurt by anything I didn't say.

In the plot, people came to the land; the land loved them; they worked and struggled and had lots of children. There was a Frenchman who talked funny and a greenhorn from England who was a fancy-pants but when it came to the crunch he was all courag

When I was younger, I could remember anything, whether it had happened or not; but my faculties are decaying now and soon I shall be so I cannot remember any but the things that never happened. It is sad to go to pieces like this but we all have to

The Anglo-Saxon conscience does not prevent the Anglo-Saxon from sinning, it merely prevents him from enjoying his sin.

Always do right. This will gratify some people and astonish the rest.

Rome was not built in one day.

I know not how I came into this, shall I call it a dying life or a living death?

War is delightful to those who have had no experience of it.

Gauls! We have nothing to fear; except perhaps that the sky may fall on our heads tomorrow. But as we all know, tomorrow never comes!!

It was a female that drove me to drink and I didn't even have the kindness to thank her.

The optimum committee has no members.

It is difficult to produce a television documentary that is both incisive and probing when every twelve minutes one is interrupted by twelve dancing rabbits singing about toilet paper.

The root of all superstition is that men observe when a thing hits, but not when it misses.

I have already given two cousins to the war and I stand ready to sacrifice my wife's brother.

I accept chaos. I am not sure whether it accepts me. I know some people are terrified of the bomb. But then some people are terrified to be seen carrying a modern screen magazine. Experience teaches us that silence terrifies people the most.

All men know the utility of useful things; but they do not know the utility of futility.

God was satisfied with his own work, and that is fatal.

Man is by nature a political animal.

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

The world's great men have not commonly been great scholars, nor its great scholars great men.

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.