It's no surprise that things are so screwed up: everyone that knows how to run a government is either driving taxicabs or cutting hair.

In "King Henry VI, Part II," Shakespeare has Dick Butcher suggest to his fellow anti-establishment rabble-rousers, "The first thing we do, let's kill all the lawyers." That action may be extreme but a similar sentiment was expressed by Thomas K. Co

The past always looks better than it was. It's only pleasant because it isn't here.

Anything is possible on paper.

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

CF&C stole it, fair and square.

I didn't believe in reincarnation in any of my other lives. I don't see why I should have to believe in it in this one.

When you jump for joy, beware that no-one moves the ground from beneath your feet.

It is impossible to enjoy idling thoroughly unless one has plenty of work to do.

A countryman between two lawyers is like a fish between two cats.

Young men think old men are fools; but old men know young men are fools.

A good plan today is better than a perfect plan tomorrow.

If you took all of the grains of sand in the world, and lined them up end to end in a row, you'd be working for the government!

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.

We should have a great many fewer disputes in the world if only words were taken for what they are, the signs of our ideas only, and not for things themselves.

Nothing succeeds like excess.

One man's Mede is another man's Persian.

No evil can happen to a good man.

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

When a man assumes a public trust, he should consider himself as public property.