If a man loses his reverence for any part of life, he will lose his reverence for all of life.

"You boys lookin' for trouble?" "Sure. Whaddya got?"

"MacDonald has the gift on compressing the largest amount of words into the smallest amount of thoughts."

Crucifixes are sexy because there's a naked man on them.

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

Is uniformity attainable? Millions of innocent men, women, and children, since the introduction of Christianity, have been burnt, tortured, fined, imprisoned; yet we have not advanced one inch towards uniformity. What has been the effect of coercio

Good government never depends upon laws, but upon the personal qualities of those who govern. The machinery of government is always subordinate to the will of those who administer that machinery. The most important element of government, therefore,

He that breaks a thing to find out what it is has left the path of wisdom.

Audacity, and again, audacity, and always audacity.

There is more to life than increasing its speed.

In a country where the sole employer is the State, opposition means death by slow starvation. The old principle: Who does not work shall not eat, has been replaced by a new one: Who does not obey shall not eat.

"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

Theology is an attempt to explain a subject by men who do not understand it. The intent is not to tell the truth but to satisfy the questioner.

Why be a man when you can be a success?

Mothers all want their sons to grow up to be President, but they don't want them to become politicians in the process.

... "fire" does not matter, "earth" and "air" and "water" do not matter. "I" do not matter. No word matters. But man forgets reality and remembers words. The more words he remembers, the cleverer do his fellows esteem him. He looks upon the great

By protracting life, we do not deduct one jot from the duration of death.

The danger is not that a particular class is unfit to govern. Every class is unfit to govern.

I never believed in Santa Claus because I knew no white dude would come into my neighborhood after dark.

None love the bearer of bad news.

What sane person could live in this world and not be crazy?

I have never understood this liking for war. It panders to instincts already catered for within the scope of any respectable domestic establishment.

At twenty-six, Kate, though not promiscuous, had slept with most of the decent men in public life.

There are no accidents whatsoever in the universe.

Life would be tolerable but for its amusements.

A people living under the perpetual menace of war and invasion is very easy to govern. It demands no social reforms. It does not haggle over expenditures on armaments and military equipment. It pays without discussion, it ruins itself, and that is

The more the merrier.

I would like the government to do all it can to mitigate, then, in understanding, in mutuality of interest, in concern for the common good, our tasks will be solved.

You cannot shake hands with a clenched fist.

Diplomacy is the art of letting the other party have things your way.

The only excuse for God is that he doesn't exist.

Under any conditions, anywhere, whatever you are doing, there is some ordinance under which you can be booked.

Well, you know, no matter where you go, there you are.

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.

All the big corporations depreciate their possessions, and you can, too, provided you use them for business purposes. For example, if you subscribe to the Wall Street Journal, a business-related newspaper, you can deduct the cost of your house, beca

Clothes make the man. Naked people have little or no influence on society.

It is often the case that the man who can't tell a lie thinks he is the best judge of one.

Seize the day, put no trust in the morrow!

There is a road to freedom. Its milestones are Obedience, Endeavor, Honesty, Order, Cleanliness, Sobriety, Truthfulness, Sacrifice, and love of the Fatherland.

What one believes to be true either is true or becomes true.

What's a cult? It just means not enough people to make a minority.

Do you realize the responsibility I carry? I'm the only person standing between Nixon and the White House.

What you want, what you're hanging around in the world waiting for, is for something to occur to you.

Politics, like religion, hold up the torches of matrydom to the reformers of error.

"Avoid revolution or expect to get shot. Mother and I will grieve, but we will gladly buy a dinner for the National Guardsman who shot you."

I reverently believe that the maker who made us all makes everything in New England, but the weather. I don't know who makes that, but I think it must be raw apprentices in the weather-clerks factory who experiment and learn how, in New England, fo

I believe that the moment is near when by a procedure of active paranoiac thought, it will be possible to systematize confusion and contribute to the total discrediting of the world of reality.

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

The first sign of corruption in a society that is still alive is that the end justifies the means.

"I'm dying," he croaked. "My experiment was a success," the chemist retorted . "You can't really train a beagle," he dogmatized. "That's no beagle, it's a mongrel," she muttered. "The fire is going out," he bellowed. "Bad marksmanship," the h

Hard reality has a way of cramping your style.