Every man who has reached even his intellectual teens begins to suspect that life is no farce; that it is not genteel comedy even; that it flowers and fructifies on the contrary out of the profoundest tragic depths of the essential death in which its

"World conquerors sometimes become fools, but fools never become world conquerors."

It is enough to make one sympathize with a tyrant for the determination of his courtiers to deceive him for their own personal ends...

The marriage of Marxism and feminism has been like the marriage of husband and wife depicted in English common law: Marxism and feminism are one, and that one is marxism.

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

Of all men's miseries, the bitterest is this: to know so much and have control over nothing.

Alexander Hamilton started the U.S. Treasury with nothing - and that was the closest our country has ever been to being even.

Visits always give pleasure: if not on arrival, then on the departure.

The adjective is the banana peel of the parts of speech.

This sad little lizard told me that he was a brontosaurus on his mother's side. I did not laugh; people who boast of ancestry often have little else to sustain them. Humoring them costs nothing and adds happiness in a world in which happiness is al

The more the merrier.

Wisdom is knowing what to do with what you know.

France is a country where the money falls apart and you can't tear the toilet paper.

Everyone is in the best seat.

Inglish Spocken Hier: some mangled translations Sign on a cathedral in Spain: It is forbidden to enter a woman, even a foreigner if dressed as a man. Above the enterance to a Cairo bar: Unaccompanied ladies not admitted unless with husb

Here's to women. Would that we could fall into her arms without falling into her hands.

If a jury in a criminal trial stays out for more than twenty-four hours, it is certain to vote acquittal, save in those instances where it votes guilty.

Look ere ye leap.

I can hire one half of the working class to kill the other half.

Maryel brought her bat into Exit once and started whacking people on the dance floor. Now everyone's doing it. It's called grand slam dancing.

"If once a man indulges himself in murder, very soon he comes to think little of robbing; and from robbing he next comes to drinking and Sabbath-breaking, and from that to incivility and procrastination."

Life is too short to be taken seriously.