When you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth.

He who laughs has not yet heard the bad news.

The end move in politics is always to pick up a gun.

There are three rules for writing a novel. Unfortunately, no one knows what they are.

The mark of the immature man is that he wants to die nobly for a cause, while the mark of a mature man is that he wants to live humbly for one.

Even if you do learn to speak correct English, whom are you going to speak it to?

I've touch'd the highest point of all my greatness; And from that full meridian of my glory I haste now to my setting. I shall fall, Like a bright exhalation in the evening And no man see me more.

IF I HAD A MINE SHAFT, I don't think I would just abandon it. There's got to be a better way.

All generalizations are false, including this one.

The surest protection against temptation is cowardice.

The Soviet pre-eminence in chess can be traced to the average Russian's readiness to brood obsessively over anything, even the arrangement of some pieces of wood. Indeed, the Russians' predisposition for quiet reflection followed by sudden preventi

A university is what a college becomes when the faculty loses interest in students.

The time spent on any item of the agenda [of a finance committee] will be in inverse proportion to the sum involved.

If I had done everything I'm credited with, I'd be speaking to you from a laboratory jar at Harvard.

No poet or novelist wishes he was the only one who ever lived, but most of them wish they were the only one alive, and quite a number fondly believe their wish has been granted.

Cold is God's way of teling us to burn more Catholics.