In every country and every age, the priest has been hostile to Liberty.

When I hear a man applauded by the mob I always feel a pang of pity for him. All he has to do to be hissed is to live long enough.

When more and more people are thrown out of work, unemployment results.

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

If you have seen one city slum you have seen them all.

Anything that is worth doing has been done frequently. Things hitherto undone should be given, I suspect, a wide berth.

New Jersey is not the armpit of the nation; it's the asshole of the universe.

No Marxist can deny that the interests of socialism are higher than the interests of the right of nations to self-determination.

If you want divine justice, die.

If reporters don't know that truth is plural, they ought to be lawyers.

BS: You remind me of a man. B: What man? BS: The man with the power. B: What power? BS: The power of voodoo. B: Voodoo? BS: You do. B: Do what? BS: Remind me of a man. B: What man? BS: The man with the power...

He that teaches himself has a fool for a master.

There is always one thing to remember: writers are always selling somebody out.

All I know is what the words know, and dead things, and that makes a handsome little sum, with a beginning and a middle and an end, as in the well-built phrase and the long sonata of the dead.

The Least Perceptive Literary Critic The most important critic in our field of study is Lord Halifax. A most individual judge of poetry, he once invited Alexander Pope round to give a public reading of his latest poem. Pope, the leading poet of h

"Not only is God dead, but just try to find a plumber on weekends."

The two most beautiful words in the English language are "Cheque Enclosed."

"We're not talking about the same thing," he said. "For you the world is weird because if you're not bored with it you're at odds with it. For me the world is weird because it is stupendous, awesome, mysterious, unfathomable; my interest has been to

Once I belonged to a group that really had THE WORD. I fought like hell for them. But another group came along and exposed the word of my group as shallow and degenerate. They had a better word. So I quit the first group and lost all the friends

Acting is not very hard. The most important things are to be able to laugh and cry. If I have to cry, I think of my sex life. And if I have to laugh, well, I think of my sex life.

This night methinks is but the daylight sick.

"It was a Roman who said it was sweet to die for one's country. The Greeks never said it was sweet to die for anything. They had no vital lies."

The price of seeking to force our beliefs on others is that someday they might force their beliefs on us.

We should keep the Panama Canal. After all, we stole it fair and square.

If men are not afraid to die, it is of no avail to threaten them with death. If men live in constant fear of dying, And if breaking the law means a man will be killed, Who will dare to break the law? There is always an official executioner. If

The mark of the immature man is that he wants to die nobly for a cause, while the mark of a mature man is that he wants to live humbly for one.

For the fashion of Minas Tirith was such that it was built on seven levels, each delved into a hill, and about each was set a wall, and in each wall was a gate.

Before you ask more questions, think about whether you really want to know the answers.

The devil can cite Scripture for his purpose.

Vice-President Hubert Humphrey's loquacity is legendary, and Barry Goldwater notes that "Hubert has been clocked at 275 words a minute with gusts up to 340." On the campaign trail during 1964, Republican nominee Barry Goldwater stated, "The imme

To think contrary to one's era is heroism. But to speak against it is madness.

"Hi, I'm Preston A. Mantis, president of Consumers Retail Law Outlet. As you can see by my suit and the fact that I have all these books of equal height on the shelves behind me, I am a trained legal attorney. Do you have a car or a job? Do you ever

In my end is my beginning.

If you go on with this nuclear arms race, all you are going to do is make the rubble bounce.

Mind! I don't mean to say that I know, of my own knowledge, what there is particularly dead about a door-nail. I might have been inclined, myself, to regard a coffin-nail as the deadest piece of ironmongery in the trade. But the wisdom of our ances

I go on working for the same reason a hen goes on laying eggs.

Rascal, am I? Take THAT!

If I made peace with Russia today, I'd only attack her again tomorrow. I just couldn't help myself.

Audacity, and again, audacity, and always audacity.

Mum's the word.

Burnt Sienna. That's the best thing that ever happened to Crayolas.

The best executive is one who has sense enough to pick good people to do what he wants done, and self-restraint enough to keep from meddling with them while they do it.

For thee the wonder-working earth puts forth sweet flowers.

They will only cause the lower classes to move about needlessly.

To be patriotic, hate all nations but your own; to be religious, all sects but your own; to be moral, all pretenses but your own.

The only really good place to buy lumber is at a store where the lumber has already been cut and attached together in the form of furniture, finished, and put inside boxes.

People never lie so much as after a hunt, during a war, or before an election.

Fortune Documents the Great Legal Decisions: We think that we may take judicial notice of the fact that the term "bitch" may imply some feeling of endearment when applied to a female of the canine species but that it is seldom, if ever, so used whe

When in doubt, use brute force.

Democracy is the worst form of government except all those other forms that have been tried from time to time.

It is better to have loved and lost

The most costly of all follies is to believe passionately in the palpably not true. It is the chief occupation of mankind.