We are what we pretend to be.

When you die, you lose a very important part of your life.

Princeton's taste is sweet like a strawberry tart. Harvard's is a subtle taste, like whiskey, coffee, or tobacco. It may even be a bad habit, for all I know.

I often quote myself; it adds spice to my conversation.

HR 3128. Omnibus Budget Reconciliation, Fiscal 1986. Martin, R-Ill., motion that the House recede from its disagreement to the Senate amendment making changes in the bill to reduce fiscal 1986 deficits. The Senate amendment was an amendment to the

After the game the king and the pawn go in the same box.

Plus ,ca change, plus c'est la m^eme chose. [The more things change, the more they remain the same.]

There are many of us in this old world of ours who hold that things break about even for all of us. I have observed, for example, that we all get about the same amount of ice. The rich get it in the summer and the poor get it in the winter.

My advice to you, my violent friend, is to seek out gold and sit on it.

A fool's brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry. Hence University education.

I had another dream the other day about music critics. They were small and rodent-like with padlocked ears, as if they had stepped out of a painting by Goya.

Ninety percent of the time things turn out worse than you thought they would. The other ten percent of the time you had no right to expect that much.

Set the cart before the horse.

Nice guys finish last, but we get to sleep in.

There must be more to life than having everything.

There is a secret person undamaged within every individual.

The trouble with superheros is what to do between phone booths.

If you would know the value of money, go try to borrow some.

Those who educate children well are more to be honored than parents, for these only gave life, those the art of living well.