Lord, what fools these mortals be!

I think any man in business would be foolish to fool around with his secretary. If it's somebody else's secretary, fine.

To do two things at once is to do neither.

It is the nature of extreme self-lovers, as they will set an house on fire, and it were but to roast their eggs.

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

He who knows others is wise. He who knows himself is enlightened.

I shot an arrow in to the air, and it stuck.

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

The universe is made of stories, not of atoms.

Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed. This world in arms is not spending money alone. It is spending t

Progress might have been all right once, but it's gone on too long.

The lawgiver, of all beings, most owes the law allegiance. He of all men should behave as though the law compelled him. But it is the universal weakness of mankind that what we are given to administer we presently imagine we own.

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

Charity begins at home.