Eighteen goddess-like daughters are not equal to one son with a hump.

Tempt not a desperate man.

One learns to itch where one can scratch.

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.

I love treason but hate a traitor.

I'd be a poorer man if I'd never seen an eagle fly.

Things are not always what they seem.

Facts, apart from their relationships, are like labels on empty bottles.

Honesty's the best policy.

The old complaint that mass culture is designed for eleven-year-olds is of course a shameful canard. The key age has traditionally been more like fourteen.

Nothing is more admirable than the fortitude with which millionaires tolerate the disadvantages of their wealth.

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

A committee takes root and grows, it flowers, wilts and dies, scattering the seed from which other committees will bloom.

Superstition, idolatry, and hypocrisy have ample wages, but truth goes a-begging.

The human race has one really effective weapon, and that is laughter.

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

Anyone can do any amount of work provided it isn't the work he is supposed to be doing at the moment.

He thinks the Gettysburg Address is where Lincoln lived.

"Avoid revolution or expect to get shot. Mother and I will grieve, but we will gladly buy a dinner for the National Guardsman who shot you."

So little time, so little to do.

So far as I can remember, there is not one word in the Gospels in praise of intelligence.

The public is an old woman. Let her maunder and mumble.

If you aren't rich you should always look useful.