One man's brain plus one other will produce one half as many ideas as one man would have produced alone. These two plus two more will produce half again as many ideas. These four plus four more begin to represent a creative meeting, and the ratio c

In Hollywood, if you don't have happiness, you send out for it.

Slaves are generally expected to sing as well as to work ... I did not, when a slave, understand the deep meanings of those rude, and apparently incoherent songs. I was myself within the circle, so that I neither saw nor heard as those without might

"Every morning, I get up and look through the 'Forbes' list of the richest people in America. If I'm not there, I go to work"

A little inaccuracy saves a world of explanation.

The first Rotarian was the first man to call John the Baptist "Jack."

When you are about to die, a wombat is better than no company at all.

The only alliance I would make with the Women's Liberation Movement is in bed.

The salary of the chief executive of the large corporation is not a market award for achievement. It is frequently in the nature of a warm personal gesture by the individual to himself.

The graveyards are full of indispensable men.

There's no such thing as a free lunch.

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."

Mirrors should reflect a little before throwing back images.

The only happiness lies in reason; all the rest of the world is dismal. The highest reason, however, I see in the work of the artist, and he may experience it as such. Happiness lies in the swiftness of feeling and thinking: all the rest of the worl

Justice is incidental to law and order.

"You mean, if you allow the master to be uncivil, to treat you any old way he likes, and to insult your dignity, then he may deem you fit to hear his view of things?" "Quite the contrary. You must defend your integrity, assuming you have integrit

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

There's small choice in rotten apples.

A sinking ship gathers no moss.

Most people are unable to write because they are unable to think, and they are unable to think because they congenitally lack the equipment to do so, just as they congenitally lack the equipment to fly over the moon.

Nothing succeeds like the appearance of success.

I think we're in trouble.

All kings is mostly rapscallions.

It's odd, and a little unsettling, to reflect upon the fact that English is the only major language in which "I" is capitalized; in many other languages "You" is capitalized and the "i" is lower case.

Somewhat alarmed at the continued growth of the number of employees on the Department of Agriculture payroll in 1962, Michigan Republican Robert Griffin proposed an amendment to the farm bill so that "the total number of employees in the Department

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

A classic is something that everyone wants to have read and nobody wants to read.

The final delusion is the belief that one has lost all delusions.