"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

Any two philosophers can tell each other all they know in two hours.

There seems no plan because it is all plan.

If atheism is to be used to express the state of mind in which God is identified with the unknowable, and theology is pronounced to be a collection of meaningless words about unintelligible chimeras, then I have no doubt, and I think few people doubt

"Plaese porrf raed."

A Galileo could no more be elected president of the United States than he could be elected Pope of Rome. Both high posts are reserved for men favored by God with an extraordinary genius for swathing the bitter facts of life in bandages of self-illus

I have defined the hundred per cent American as ninety-nine per cent an idiot.

If at first you don't succeed, try, try again.

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

Life being what it is, one dreams of revenge.

Things past redress and now with me past care.

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

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

If any man wishes to be humbled and mortified, let him become president of Harvard.

You're all clear now, kid. Now blow this thing so we can all go home.

Nobody can be exactly like me. Sometimes even I have trouble doing it.

It is not enough that I should succeed. Others must fail.

Men freely believe that what they wish to desire.

You can always pick up your needle and move to another groove.

Nothing in life is so exhilarating as to be shot at without result.

Mundus vult decipi decipiatur ergo.

Eeny, Meeny, Jelly Beanie, the spirits are about to speak!

For a light heart lives long.

The public demands certainties; it must be told definitely and a bit raucously that this is true and that is false. But there are no certainties.

The only thing that experience teaches us is that experience teaches us nothing.

Dying is a very dull, dreary affair. My advice to you is to have nothing whatever to do with it.

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.

Two can Live as Cheaply as One for Half as Long.

"... all the modern inconveniences ..."

A synonym is a word you use when you can't spell the word you first thought of.

Without adventure, civilization is in full decay.

Who does not trust enough will not be trusted.

Rembrandt is not to be compared in the painting of character with our extraordinarily gifted English artist, Mr. Rippingille.

Anyone who has had a bull by the tail knows five or six more things than someone who hasn't.

The chief danger in life is that you may take too many precautions.

It's from Casablanca. I've been waiting all my life to use that line.

If I had a formula for bypassing trouble, I would not pass it around. Trouble creates a capacity to handle it. I don't say embrace trouble; that's as bad as treating it as an enemy. But I do say meet it as a friend, for you'll see a lot of it and y

Where do I find the time for not reading so many books?

Walking on water wasn't built in a day.

The proof of the pudding is in the eating.

The price one pays for pursuing any profession, or calling, is an intimate knowledge of its ugly side.

Aim for the moon. If you miss, you may hit a star.

A little inaccuracy sometimes saves tons of explanation.

One of the lessons of history is that nothing is often a good thing to do and always a clever thing to say.

It is Mr. Mellon's credo that $200,000,000 can do no wrong. Our offense consists in doubting it.

For myself, I can only say that I am astonished and somewhat terrified at the results of this evening's experiments. Astonished at the wonderful power you have developed, and terrified at the thought that so much hideous and bad music may be put on

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

I knew her before she was a virgin.

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

A bank is a place where they lend you an umbrella in fair weather and ask for it back the when it begins to rain.

Nothing succeeds like the appearance of success.