It is only by risking our persons from one hour to another that we live at all. And often enough our faith beforehand in an uncertified result is the only thing that makes the result come true.

I was part of that strange race of people aptly described as spending their lives doing things they detest to make money they don't want to buy things they don't need to impress people they dislike.

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

Those who educate children well are more to be honored than parents, for these only gave life, those the art of living well.

What makes you think graduate school is supposed to be satisfying?

If you only have a hammer, you tend to see every problem as a nail.

In the Halls of Justice the only justice is in the halls.

Experience is that marvelous thing that enables you recognize a mistake when you make it again.

Confess your sins to the Lord and you will be forgiven; confess them to man and you will be laughed at.

Traveling through hyperspace isn't like dusting crops, boy.

Youth is a disease from which we all recover.

Out of sight is out of mind.

A woman who is unfaithful deserves to be shot.

A witty saying proves nothing.

You shall judge of a man by his foes as well as by his friends.

Feminists say 60 percent of the country's wealth is in the hands of women. They're letting men hold the other 40 percent because their handbags are full.

A liberal is a person whose interests aren't at stake at the moment.

Two wrongs don't make a right, but they make a good excuse.

Hope not, lest ye be disappointed.

I paid a visit to my local precinct in Greenwich Village and asked a sergeant to show me some rape statistics. He politely obliged. That month there had been thirty-five rape complaints, an advance of ten over the same month for the previous year.

How can you prove whether at this moment we are sleeping, and all our thoughts are a dream; or whether we are awake, and talking to one another in the waking state?

The big cities of America are becoming Third World countries.

A hundred years from now it is very likely that [of Twain's works] "The Jumping Frog" alone will be remembered.

If a jury in a criminal trial stays out for more than twenty-four hours, it is certain to vote acquittal, save in those instances where it votes guilty.

We are what we pretend to be.

I need another lawyer like I need another hole in my head.

Texas is Hell on woman and horses.

All phone calls are obscene.