Arrakis teaches the attitude of the knife - chopping off what's incomplete and saying: "Now it's complete because it's ended here."

For a light heart lives long.

"Consequences, Schmonsequences, as long as I'm rich."

He who attacks the fundamentals of the American broadcasting industry attacks democracy itself.

I never vote for anyone. I always vote against.

We all live under the same sky, but we don't all have the same horizon.

The language of politics is poetry, not prose. Jackson is poetry. Cuomo is poetry. Dukakis is a word processor.

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

Misery no longer loves company. Nowadays it insists on it.

Judges, as a class, display, in the matter of arranging alimony, that reckless generosity which is found only in men who are giving away someone else's cash.

One learns to itch where one can scratch.

What I tell you three times is true.

How can you prove whether at this moment we are sleeping, and all our thoughts are a dream; or whether we are awake, and talking to one another in the waking state?

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.

If you are of the opinion that the contemplation of suicide is sufficient evidence of a poetic nature, do not forget that actions speak louder than words.

The scum also rises.

You know it's going to be a long day when you get up, shave and shower, start to get dressed and your shoes are still warm.

Prizes are for children.

So far as I can remember, there is not one word in the Gospels in praise of intelligence.

Remember folks. Street lights timed for 35 mph are also timed for 70 mph.

From a certain point onward there is no longer any turning back. That is the point that must be reached.

Military justice is to justice what military music is to music.

It is a lesson which all history teaches wise men, to put trust in ideas, and not in circumstances.

Politics and the fate of mankind are formed by men without ideals and without greatness. Those who have greatness within them do not go in for politics.

Be regular and orderly in your life, so that you may be violent and original in your work.

Monterey... is decidedly the pleasantest and most civilized-looking place in California ... [it] is also a great place for cock-fighting, gambling of all sorts, fandangos, and various kinds of amusements and knavery.

We lie loudest when we lie to ourselves.

Atlee is a very modest man. And with reason.

I was gratified to be able to answer promptly, and I did. I said I didn't know.

The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence that it is not utterly absurd; indeed, in view of the silliness of the majority of mankind, a widespread belief is more often likely to be foolish than sensible.

War is much too serious a matter to be entrusted to the military.

It seems appropriate to me that Mapplethorpe's perverse images should be situated so close to Congress, which perpetuates a number of unnatural acts upon the body politic every day, without benefit of artificial lubrication or foreplay.

Unprovided with original learning, unformed in the habits of thinking, unskilled in the arts of composition, I resolved to write a book.

Were it not for the presence of the unwashed and the half-educated, the formless, queer and incomplete, the unreasonable and absurd, the infinite shapes of the delightful human tadpole, the horizon would not wear so wide a grin.

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Sic transit gloria mundi. [So passes away the glory of this world.]

Lansdale seized on the idea of using Nixon to build support for the [Vietnamese] elections ... really honest elections, this time. "Oh, sure, honest, yes, that's right," Nixon said, "so long as you win!" With that he winked, drove his elbow into La

I don't have any solution but I certainly admire the problem.

It is a wise father that knows his own child.

A casual stroll through a lunatic asylum shows that faith does not prove anything.

Nice guys finish last.

The fact that it works is immaterial.

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.

The world is full of people who have never, since childhood, met an open doorway with an open mind.

A sad spectacle. If they be inhabited, what a scope for misery and folly. If they be not inhabited, what a waste of space.

Go away, I'm all right.

A racially integrated community is a chronological term timed from the entrance of the first black family to the exit of the last white family.

A man who cannot seduce men cannot save them either.

Tallulah Bankhead barged down the Nile last night as Cleopatra and sank.

The rule is, jam to-morrow and jam yesterday, but never jam today.

If a shameless woman expects to be defiled and then dies of her fierce love because you do not consent, will chastity also be homicide?