What is the robbing of a bank compared to the founding of a bank?

In "King Henry VI, Part II," Shakespeare has Dick Butcher suggest to his fellow anti-establishment rabble-rousers, "The first thing we do, let's kill all the lawyers." That action may be extreme but a similar sentiment was expressed by Thomas K. Co

I'm not sure I've even got the brains to be President.

October 12, the Discovery. It was wonderful to find America, but it would have been more wonderful to miss it.

To think contrary to one's era is heroism. But to speak against it is madness.

So she went into the garden to cut a cabbage leaf to make an apple pie; and at the same time a great she-bear, coming up the street pops its head into the shop. "What! no soap?" So he died, and she very imprudently married the barber; and there were

The only two things that motivate me and that matter to me are revenge and guilt.

There but for the grace of God, goes God.

Nothing endures but change.

Naked children have never played in _o_u_r fountains, and I.M. Pei will never be happy on Route 66.

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.

October. This is one of the peculiarly dangerous months to speculate in stocks in. The others are July, January, September, April, November, May, March, June, December, August, and February.

Briefly stated, the findings are that when presented with an array of data or a sequence of events in which they are instructed to discover an underlying order, subjects show strong tendencies to perceive order and causality in random arrays, to perc

"Not only is God dead, but just try to find a plumber on weekends."

In India, "cold weather" is merely a conventional phrase and has come into use through the necessity of having some way to distinguish between weather which will melt a brass door-knob and weather which will only make it mushy.

Lansdale seized on the idea of using Nixon to build support for the [Vietnamese] elections ... really honest elections, this time. "Oh, sure, honest, yes, that's right," Nixon said, "so long as you win!" With that he winked, drove his elbow into La

Thou hast seen nothing yet.

Never buy from a rich salesman.

"Go to Heaven for the climate, Hell for the company."

"I'll carry your books, I'll carry a tune, I'll carry on, carry over, carry forward, Cary Grant, cash & carry, Carry Me Back To Old Virginia, I'll even Hara Kari if you show me how, but I will *not* carry a gun."

There are people who find it odd to eat four or five Chinese meals in a row; in China, I often remind them, there are a billion or so people who find nothing odd about it.

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

Here's to women. Would that we could fall into her arms without falling into her hands.

I am examining you on your fool ideas that no intelligent Christian on earth believes.

If you give Congress a chance to vote on both sides of an issue, it will always do it.

I BET WHAT HAPPENED was they discovered fire and invented the wheel on the same day. Then that night, they burned the wheel.

A hundred years from now it is very likely that [of Twain's works] "The Jumping Frog" alone will be remembered.

Politics is supposed to be the second oldest profession. I have come to realize that it bears a very close resemblance to the first.

When eating an elephant take one bite at a time.

Look ere ye leap.

"I gained nothing at all from Supreme Enlightenment, and for that very reason it is called Supreme Enlightenment."

The individual choice of garnishment of a burger can be an important point to the consumer in this day when individualism is an increasingly important thing to people.

No one born with a mouth and a need is "innocent".

Learning French is trivial: the word for horse is cheval, and everything else follows in the same way.

It's all right letting yourself go as long as you can let yourself back.

If you know the answer to a question, don't ask.

My father was a creole, his father a Negro, and his father a monkey; my family, it seems, begins where yours left off.

I like to believe that people in the long run are going to do more to promote peace than our governments. Indeed, I think that people want peace so much that one of these days governments had better get out of the way and let them have it.

Let's say your wedding ring falls into your toaster, and when you stick your hand in to retrieve it, you suffer Pain and Suffering as well as Mental Anguish. You would sue: * The toaster manufacturer, for failure to include, in the instructions

Maryel brought her bat into Exit once and started whacking people on the dance floor. Now everyone's doing it. It's called grand slam dancing.

The nearer to the church, the further from God.

Were it not for the presence of the unwashed and the half-educated, the formless, queer and incomplete, the unreasonable and absurd, the infinite shapes of the delightful human tadpole, the horizon would not wear so wide a grin.

Never tell people how to do things. Tell them WHAT to do and they will surprise you with their ingenuity.

We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.

It looks like it's up to me to save our skins. Get into that garbage chute, flyboy!

Some scholars are like donkeys, they merely carry a lot of books.

Politics makes strange bedfellows, and journalism makes strange politics.

Well, he didn't know what to do, so he decided to look at the government, to see what they did, and scale it down and run his life that way.

Beauty is one of the rare things which does not lead to doubt of God.

Joe Cool always spends the first two weeks at college sailing his frisbee.

He that teaches himself has a fool for a master.

For certain people, after fifty, litigation takes the place of sex.