Alas, how love can trifle with itself!

Young men, hear an old man to whom old men hearkened when he was young.

Yes, I've now got this nice little apartment in New York, one of those L-shaped ones. Unfortunately, it's a lower case l.

Very few blacks will take up golf until the requirement for plaid pants is dropped.

Innocence ends when one is stripped of the delusion that one likes oneself.

My father, a good man, told me, "Never lose your ignorance; you cannot replace it."

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

An older student came to Otis and said, "I have been to see a great number of teachers and I have given up a great number of pleasures. I have fasted, been celibate and stayed awake nights seeking enlightenment. I have given up everything I was aske

Immature artists imitate, mature artists steal.

"That's no answer," Job said, "And for someone who's supposed to be omnipotent, let me tell you 'tabernacle' has only one l."

an idiot politically. But the designations may be good business for war veterans. Having bled for their country in 1861 and 1918, they have bled it all they could consequently. And why not?"

Diplomacy is to do and say, the nastiest thing in the nicest way.

Events are not affected, they develop.

The politician is someone who deals in man's problems of adjustment. To ask a politician to lead us is to ask the tail of a dog to lead the dog.

A great empire, like a great cake, is most easily diminished at the edges.

I never deny, I never contradict. I sometimes forget.

No one becomes depraved in a moment.

The world is your exercise-book, the pages on which you do your sums. It is not reality, although you can express reality there if you wish. You are also free to write nonsense, or lies, or to tear the pages.

Have a place for everything and keep the thing somewhere else; this is not advice, it is merely custom.

So so is good, very good, very excellent good: and yet it is not; it is but so so.

Having nothing, nothing can he lose.

Law enforcement officers should use only the minimum force necessary in dealing with disorders when they arise.

The most disagreeable thing that your worst enemy says to your face does not approach what your best friends say behind your back.