... a thing called Ethics, whose nature was confusing but if you had it you were a High-Class Realtor and if you hadn't you were a shyster, a piker and a fly-by-night. These virtues awakened Confidence and enabled you to handle Bigger Propositions.

Ninety percent of the politicians give the other ten percent a bad reputation.

It is only by risking our persons from one hour to another that we live at all. And often enough our faith beforehand in an uncertified result is the only thing that makes the result come true.

Look ere ye leap.

I never cheated an honest man, only rascals. They wanted something for nothing. I gave them nothing for something.

'Naomi, sex at noon taxes.' I moan. Never odd or even. A man, a plan, a canal, Panama. Madam, I'm Adam. Sit on a potato pan, Otis. Sit on Otis.

Writing about music is like dancing about architecture.

On account of being a democracy and run by the people, we are the only nation in the world that has to keep a government four years, no matter what it does.

Already the spirit of our schooling is permeated with the feeling that every subject, every topic, every fact, every professed truth must be submitted to a certain publicity and impartiality. All proffered samples of learning must go to the same ass

He who despairs over an event is a coward, but he who holds hopes for the human condition is a fool.

Calvin Coolidge was the greatest man who ever came out of Plymouth Corner, Vermont.

God has intended the great to be great and the little to be little... The trade unions, under the European system, destroy liberty [...] I do not mean to say that a dollar a day is enough to support a workingman... not enough to support a man and fiv

It may be better to be a live jackal than a dead lion, but it is better still to be a live lion. And usually easier.

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When in doubt, have a man come through the door with a gun in his hand.

Small is beautiful.

Some scholars are like donkeys, they merely carry a lot of books.

It's no surprise that things are so screwed up: everyone that knows how to run a government is either driving taxicabs or cutting hair.

Don't get mad, get even.

Sherry [Thomas Sheridan] is dull, naturally dull; but it must have taken him a great deal of pains to become what we now see him. Such an excess of stupidity, sir, is not in Nature.

A citizen of America will cross the ocean to fight for democracy, but won't cross the street to vote in a national election.

My rackets are run on strictly American lines, and they're going to stay that way.

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

Would that my hand were as swift as my tongue.

The eye is a menace to clear sight, the ear is a menace to subtle hearing, the mind is a menace to wisdom, every organ of the senses is a menace to its own capacity. ... Fuss, the god of the Southern Ocean, and Fret, the god of the Northern Ocean, h