The control of the production of wealth is the control of human life itself.

I need another lawyer like I need another hole in my head.

Like ya know? Rock 'N Roll is an esoteric language that unlocks the creativity chambers in people's brains, and like totally activates their essential hipness, which of course is like totally necessary for saving the earth, like because the first th

"All snakes who wish to remain in Ireland will please raise their right hands."

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

Many a bum show has been saved by the flag.

I would like to electrocute everyone who uses the word 'fair' in connection with income tax policies.

The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent virtue of socialism is the equal sharing of misery.

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

Honesty's the best policy.

The difference between the right word and the almost right word is the difference between lightning and the lightning bug.

It's not so hard to lift yourself by your bootstraps once you're off the ground.

"If once a man indulges himself in murder, very soon he comes to think little of robbing; and from robbing he next comes to drinking and Sabbath-breaking, and from that to incivility and procrastination."

XXI: It's easy to get a loan unless you need it. XXII: If stock market experts were so expert, they would be buying stock, not selling advice. XXIII: Any task can be completed in only one-third more time than is currently estimated. XXIV:

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

Inglish Spocken Hier: some mangled translations Various signs in Poland: Right turn toward immediate outside. Go soothingly in the snow, as there lurk the ski demons. Five o'clock tea at all hours. In a men's washroom in Sidney:

Those who have some means think that the most important thing in the world is love. The poor know that it is money.

Historians have now definitely established that Juan Cabrillo, discoverer of California, was not looking for Kansas, thus setting a precedent that continues to this day.

"The Army is a place where you get up early in the morning to be yelled at by people with short haircuts and tiny brains."

The avocation of assessing the failures of better men can be turned into a comfortable livelihood, providing you back it up with a Ph.D.

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.

Take care of the luxuries and the necessities will take care of themselves.

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

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

Training is everything. The peach was once a bitter almond; cauliflower is nothing but cabbage with a college education.

Why isn't there a special name for the tops of your feet?

I am just a nice, clean-cut Mongolian boy.

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

If reporters don't know that truth is plural, they ought to be lawyers.

Trifles make perfection, and perfection is no trifle.

"The State of California has no business subsidizing intellectual curiosity."

The genius of our ruling class is that it has kept a majority of the people from ever questioning the inequity of a system where most people drudge along paying heavy taxes for which they get nothing in return.

[He] took me into his library and showed me his books, of which he had a complete set.

Judges, as a class, display, in the matter of arranging alimony, that reckless generosity which is found only in men who are giving away someone else's cash.

Once, I read that a man be never stronger than when he truly realizes how weak he is.

True to our past we work with an inherited, observed, and accepted vision of personal futility, and of the beauty of the world.

Awash with unfocused desire, Everett twisted the lobe of his one remaining ear and felt the presence of somebody else behind him, which caused terror to push through his nervous system like a flash flood roaring down the mid-fork of the Feather River

At ebb tide I wrote a line upon the sand, and gave it all my heart and all my soul. At flood tide I returned to read what I had inscribed and found my ignorance upon the shore.

I have a dream. I have a dream that one day, on the red hills of Georgia, the sons of former slaves and the sons of former slaveowners will be able to sit down together at the table of brotherhood.

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

Most Texans think Hanukkah is some sort of duck call.

The sky is blue so we know where to stop mowing.

Live fast, die young, and leave a good looking corpse.

All other things being equal, a bald man cannot be elected President of the United States.

I think we're in trouble.

Maternity pay? Now every Tom, Dick and Harry will get pregnant.

Immature poets imitate, mature poets steal.

Robert Kennedy's 1964 Senatorial campaign planners told him that their intention was to present him to the television viewers as a sincere, generous person. "You going to use a double?" asked Kennedy. Thumbing through a promotional pamphlet prep

It follows that any commander in chief who undertakes to carry out a plan which he considers defective is at fault; he must put forth his reasons, insist of the plan being changed, and finally tender his resignation rather than be the instrument of h

The first rule of all intelligent tinkering is to keep all the parts.

If you laid all of our laws end to end, there would be no end.

Every cloud engenders not a storm.