The [Ford Foundation] is a large body of money completely surrounded by people who want some.

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

Money is truthful. If a man speaks of his honor, make him pay cash.

It's easier to take it apart than to put it back together.

Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.

Imagination is the one weapon in the war against reality.

Everybody likes a kidder, but nobody lends him money.

Mother is far too clever to understand anything she does not like.

... "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

Instead of giving money to found colleges to promote learning, why don't they pass a constitutional amendment prohibiting anybody from learning anything? If it works as good as the Prohibition one did, why, in five years we would have the smartest r

We are governed not by armies and police but by ideas.

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

The fact that it works is immaterial.

Go ahead... make my day.

I was in this prematurely air conditioned supermarket and there were all these aisles and there were these bathing caps you could buy that had these kind of Fourth of July plumes on them that were red and yellow and blue and I wasn't tempted to buy

Feminists say 60 percent of the country's wealth is in the hands of women. They're letting men hold the other 40 percent because their handbags are full.

The Least Perceptive Literary Critic The most important critic in our field of study is Lord Halifax. A most individual judge of poetry, he once invited Alexander Pope round to give a public reading of his latest poem. Pope, the leading poet of h

People in general do not willingly read if they have anything else to amuse them.

Generally speaking, the Way of the warrior is resolute acceptance of death.

... Our second completely true news item was sent to me by Mr. H. Boyce Connell Jr. of Atlanta, Ga., where he is involved in a law firm. One thing I like about the South is, folks there care about tradition. If somebody gets handed a name like "H.

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A critic is a bundle of biases held loosely together by a sense of taste.