It is not the critic who counts, or how the strong man stumbled, or whether the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood, who strives vali

If you cannot in the long run tell everyone what you have been doing, your doing was worthless.

"... all the modern inconveniences ..."

Modern art is what happens when painters stop looking at girls and persuade themselves that they have a better idea.

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

The Russians have put a small ball up in the air. That does not raise my apprehensions one iota.

We were so poor we couldn't afford a watchdog. If we heard a noise at night, we'd bark ourselves.

A woman who is guided by the head and not by the heart is a social pestilence: she has all the defects of the passionate and affectionate woman, with none of her compensations; she is without pity, without love, without virtue, without sex.

Plots are like girdles. Hidden, they hold your interest; revealed, they're of no interest except to fetishists. Like girdles, they attempt to contain an uncontainable experience.

Whoever fights monsters should see to it that in the process he does not become a monster. And when you look into an abyss, the abyss also looks into you.

A violent man will die a violent death.

When, in 1964, New Hampshire Republican Senator Norris Cotton announced his support of Bary Goldwater in his state's primary election, he was questioned as to whether this indicated a change of his hitherto "liberal" political views. "Well," expla

Politicians are the same all over. They promise to build a bridge even where there is no river.

Everybody has something to conceal.

It has been observed that one's nose is never so happy as when it is thrust into the affairs of another, from which some physiologists have drawn the inference that the nose is devoid of the sense of smell.

Live fast, die young, and leave a flat patch of fur on the highway!

Freedom's just another word for nothing left to lose.

Two wrongs are only the beginning.

Never have so many understood so little about so much.

It was the next morning that the armies of Twodor marched east laden with long lances, sharp swords, and death-dealing hangovers. The thousands were led by Arrowroot, who sat limply in his sidesaddle, nursing a whopper. Goodgulf, Gimlet, and the r

Most people have a furious itch to talk about themselves and are restrained only by the disinclination of others to listen. Reserve is an artificial quality that is developed in most of us as the result of innumerable rebuffs.

The man who runs may fight again.

Then a man said: Speak to us of Expectations. He then said: If a man does not see or hear the waters of the Jordan, then he should not taste the pomegranate or ply his wares in an open market. If a man would not labour in the salt and rock quarri

Peace cannot be kept by force; it can only be achieved by understanding.

Plus ,ca change, plus c'est la m^eme chose. [The more things change, the more they remain the same.]

The major advances in civilization are processes that all but wreck the societies in which they occur.

Traffic signals in New York are just rough guidelines.

Nothing endures but change.

Honesty's the best policy.

Sometimes I get the feeling that I went to a party on Perry Lane in 1962, and the party spilled out of the house, and came down the street, and covered the world.

Piece of cake!

The major sin is the sin of being born.

Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of the time.

An honest tale speeds best being plainly told.

In our civilization, and under our republican form of government, intelligence is so highly honored that it is rewarded by exemption from the cares of office.

Mother is far too clever to understand anything she does not like.

Go slowly to the entertainments of thy friends, but quickly to their misfortunes.

If a man slept by day, he had little time to work. That was a satisfying notion to Escargot.

It is enough to make one sympathize with a tyrant for the determination of his courtiers to deceive him for their own personal ends...

So many men, so many opinions; every one his own way.

The more the merrier.

Mum's the word.