With women, I've got a long bamboo pole with a leather loop on the end of it. I slip the loop around their necks so they can't get away or come too close. Like catching snakes.

Let me assure you that to us here at First National, you're not just a number. Youre two numbers, a dash, three more numbers, another dash and another number.

The man who has never been flogged has never been taught.

Don't buy a landslide. I don't want to have to pay for one more vote than I have to.

... indifference is a militant thing ... when it goes away it leaves smoking ruins, where lie citizens bayonetted through the throat. It is not a children's pastime like mere highway robbery.

If we can ever make red tape nutritional, we can feed the world.

Drop the vase and it will become a Ming of the past.

You k'n hide de fier, but w'at you gwine do wid de smoke?

The seven deadly sins ... Food, clothing, firing, rent, taxes, respectability and children. Nothing can lift those seven milestones from man's neck but money; and the spirit cannot soar until the milestones are lifted.

A place for everything and everything in its place.

What excuses stand in your way? How can you eliminate them?

I hate dying.

The distinction between true and false appears to become increasingly blurred by... the pollution of the language.

American cars are made shoddily... Cars made overseas are far superior.

Let us not look back in anger or forward in fear, but around us in awareness.

Thompson, if he is to be believed, has sampled the entire rainbow of legal and illegal drugs in heroic efforts to feel better than he does. As for the truth about his health: I have asked around about it. I am told that he appears to be strong and

Have the courage to take your own thoughts seriously, for they will shape you.

A team effort is a lot of people doing what I say.

If little else, the brain is an educational toy.

As Gen. de Gaulle occassionally acknowledges America to be the daughter of Europe, so I am pleased to come to Yale, the daughter of Harvard.

You should never wear your best trousers when you go out to fight for freedom and liberty.

The means-and-ends moralists, or non-doers, always end up on their ends without any means.

You won't skid if you stay in a rut.

A good question is never answered. It is not a bolt to be tightened into place but a seed to be planted and to bear more seed toward the hope of greening the landscape of idea.

Fortune Documents the Great Legal Decisions: We think that we may take judicial notice of the fact that the term "bitch" may imply some feeling of endearment when applied to a female of the canine species but that it is seldom, if ever, so used whe

When eating an elephant take one bite at a time.

Nothing endures but change.

"Hi, I'm Preston A. Mantis, president of Consumers Retail Law Outlet. As you can see by my suit and the fact that I have all these books of equal height on the shelves behind me, I am a trained legal attorney. Do you have a car or a job? Do you ever

We are giving instruction to FBI agents in the various Chinese dialects ... to handle present and likely future contingencies.

"I wonder", he said to himself, "what's in a book while it's closed. Oh, I know it's full of letters printed on paper, but all the same, something must be happening, because as soon as I open it, there's a whole story with people I don't know yet

Tom Hayden is the kind of politician who gives opportunism a bad name.

We should have a Vollyballocracy. We elect a six-pack of presidents. Each one serves until they screw up, at which point they rotate.

Skill without imagination is craftsmanship and gives us many useful objects such as wickerwork picnic baskets. Imagination without skill gives us modern art.

I was part of that strange race of people aptly described as spending their lives doing things they detest to make money they don't want to buy things they don't need to impress people they dislike.

If a man loses his reverence for any part of life, he will lose his reverence for all of life.

To every Ph.D. there is an equal and opposite Ph.D.

Misery no longer loves company. Nowadays it insists on it.

Doctors and lawyers must go to school for years and years, often with little sleep and with great sacrifice to their first wives.

You have all the characteristics of a popular politician: a horrible voice, bad breeding, and a vulgar manner.

Never buy what you do not want because it is cheap; it will be dear to you.

"They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety."

Who goeth a-borrowing goeth a-sorrowing.

Something unpleasant is coming when men are anxious to tell the truth.

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

Anything anybody can say about America is true.

Sure there are dishonest men in local government. But there are dishonest men in national government too.

Forgive him, for he believes that the customs of his tribe are the laws of nature!

Fill what's empty, empty what's full, scratch where it itches.

I value kindness to human beings first of all, and kindness to animals. I don't respect the law; I have a total irreverence for anything connected with society except that which makes the roads safer, the beer stronger, the food cheaper, and old men

A diplomat is a person who can tell you to go to hell in such a way that you actually look forward to the trip.

Paranoids are people, too; they have their own problems. It's easy to criticize, but if everybody hated you, you'd be paranoid too.

The whole world is a scab. The point is to pick it constructively.