It's hard to drive at the limit, but it's harder to know where the limits are.

A statesman is a politician who's been dead 10 or 15 years.

Look before you leap.

The Law, in its majestic equality, forbids the rich, as well as the poor, to sleep under the bridges, to beg in the streets, and to steal bread.

Certain passages in several laws have always defied interpretation and the most inexplicable must be a matter of opinion. A judge of the Court of Session of Scotland has sent the editors of this book his candidate which reads, "In the Nuts (unground

A fanatic is one who can't change his mind and won't change the subject.

Ten years of rejection slips is nature's way of telling you to stop writing.

Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength. War is peace.

Politicians should read science fiction, not westerns and detective stories.

Its name is Public Opinion. It is held in reverence. It settles everything. Some think it is the voice of God.

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

April 1 This is the day upon which we are reminded of what we are on the other three hundred and sixty-four.

Diplomacy is the art of saying "nice doggie" until you can find a rock.

Once harm has been done, even a fool understands 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.

If you tell the truth you don't have to remember anything.

The better part of valor is discretion.

A man's house is his castle.

Writing is turning one's worst moments into money.

It is common sense to take a method and try it. If it fails, admit it frankly and try another. But above all, try something.

The ultimate game show will be the one where somebody gets killed at the end.

Even the clearest and most perfect circumstantial evidence is likely to be at fault, after all, and therefore ought to be received with great caution. Take the case of any pencil, sharpened by any woman; if you have witnesses, you will find she did

Dianetics is a milestone for man comparable to his discovery of fire and superior to his invention of the wheel and the arch.

Flame on!

The distinction between Freedom and Liberty is not accurately known; naturalists have been unable to find a living specimen of either.