When, in 1964, New Hampshire Republican Senator Norris Cotton announced his support of Bary Goldwater in his state's primary election, he was questioned as to whether this indicated a change of his hitherto "liberal" political views. "Well," expla

If two people love each other, there can be no happy end to it.

If you're not very clever you should be conciliatory.

People who develop the habit of thinking of themselves as world citizens are fulfilling the first requirement of sanity in our time.

When angry, count four; when very angry, swear.

It's a recession when your neighbour loses his job; it's a depression when you lose yours.

A definition of teaching: casting fake pearls before real swine.

He that is giddy thinks the world turns round.

The penalty for laughing in a courtroom is six months in jail; if it were not for this penalty, the jury would never hear the evidence.

I treasure this strange combination found in very few persons: a fierce desire for life as well as a lucid perception of the ultimate futility of the quest.

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There are ten or twenty basic truths, and life is the process of discovering them over and over and over.

Men's skin is different from women's skin. It is usually bigger, and it has more snakes tattooed on it. Also, if you examine a woman's skin very closely, inch by inch, starting at her shapely ankles, then gently tracing the slender curve of her cal

He is a man capable of turning any colour into grey.

One good turn asketh another.

Writing is easy; all you do is sit staring at the blank sheet of paper until drops of blood form on your forehead.

I dote on his very absence.

Before you ask more questions, think about whether you really want to know the answers.

Tom Hayden is the kind of politician who gives opportunism a bad name.

Wagner's music is better than it sounds.

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I found Rome a city of bricks and left it a city of marble.