It is through symbols that man consciously or unconsciously lives, works and has his being.

Music in the soul can be heard by the universe.

Bond reflected that good Americans were fine people and that most of them seemed to come from Texas.

Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.

"You have been in Afghanistan, I perceive."

You're either part of the solution or part of the problem.

I never believed in Santa Claus because I knew no white dude would come into my neighborhood after dark.

A good scapegoat is hard to find. A guilty conscience is the mother of invention.

"You and I as individuals can, by borrowing, live beyond our means, but only for a limited period of time. Why should we think that collectively, as a nation, we are not bound by that same limitation?"

Education and religion are two things not regulated by supply and demand. The less of either the people have, the less they want.

Perhaps the remembrance of these things will prove a source of future pleasure.

I just need enough to tide me over until I need more.

Life would be tolerable but for its amusements.

If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent him.

If two people love each other, there can be no happy end to it.

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

Not to laugh, not to lament, not to curse, but to understand.

You're never too old to become younger.

Praise the Lord and pass the ammunition.

Alas, I am dying beyond my means.

April 1 This is the day upon which we are reminded of what we are on the other three hundred and sixty-four.

If a shameless woman expects to be defiled and then dies of her fierce love because you do not consent, will chastity also be homicide?

"Nuclear war would really set back cable."

Feminists say 60 percent of the country's wealth is in the hands of women. They're letting men hold the other 40 percent because their handbags are full.

"I only touch base with reality on an as-needed basis!"

The Bible is not my Book and Christianity is not my religion. I could never give assent to the long complicated statements of Christian dogma.

"What's this? Trix? Aunt! Trix? You? You're after the prize! What is it?" He picked up the box and studied the back. "A glow-in-the-dark squid! Have you got it out of there yet?" He tilted the box, angling the little colored balls of cereal

Suffering alone exists, none who suffer; The deed there is, but no doer thereof; Nirvana is, but no one is seeking it; The Path there is, but none who travel it.

Sweet April showers do spring May flowers.

When a fellow says, "It ain't the money but the principle of the thing," it's the money.

What makes you think graduate school is supposed to be satisfying?

You need only reflect that one of the best ways to get yourself a reputation as a dangerous citizen these days is to go about repeating the very phrases which our founding fathers used in the struggle for independence.

All is well that ends well.

Let us never negotiate out of fear, but let us never fear to negotiate.

The secret of success is sincerity. Once you can fake that, you've got it made.

There is always one thing to remember: writers are always selling somebody out.

What I tell you three times is true.

The flush toilet is the basis of Western civilization.

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

"Hey, Sam, how about a loan?" "Whattaya need?" "Oh, about $500." "Whattaya got for collateral?" "Whattaya need?" "How about an eye?"

I'm never through with a girl until I've had her three ways.

You can always pick up your needle and move to another groove.

An office party is not, as is sometimes supposed the Managing Director's chance to kiss the tea-girl. It is the tea-girl's chance to kiss the Managing Director (however bizarre an ambition this may seem to anyone who has seen the Managing Director f

I just got off the phone with Sonny Barger [President of the Hell's Angels]. He wants me to appear as a character witness for him at his murder trial and said he'd be glad to appear as a character witness on my behalf if I ever needed one. Needless

The human race is a race of cowards; and I am not only marching in that procession but carrying a banner.

You can destroy your now by worrying about tomorrow.

No problem is so formidable that you can't just walk away from it.

If you catch a man, throw him back.

What's a cult? It just means not enough people to make a minority.

Luck can't last a lifetime, unless you die young.

Don't be humble ... you're not that great.

Dear Ann Landers: My husband watches the TV preachers every Sunday. He claims one minister said there are 350 different sins. My husband wants to know if you can get the list. He thinks he is missing something.

The question is, why are politicians so eager to be president? What is it about the job that makes it worth revealing, on national television, that you have the ethical standards of a slime-coated piece of industrial waste?

I must have a prodigious quantity of mind; it takes me as much as a week sometimes to make it up.

"Acceptance without proof is the fundamental characteristic of Western religion, Rejection without proof is the fundamental characteristic of Western science."

Extreme fear can neither fight nor fly.

They're giving bank robbing a bad name.

God instructs the heart, not by ideas, but by pains and contradictions.

Hollywood is where if you don't have happiness you send out for it.

Who goeth a-borrowing goeth a-sorrowing.

"If we relied conclusively on scientific data for every one of our findings, I'm afraid all of our work would be inconclusive."

I accept chaos. I am not sure whether it accepts me. I know some people are terrified of the bomb. But then some people are terrified to be seen carrying a modern screen magazine. Experience teaches us that silence terrifies people the most.

If Jesus Christ came to this town, people would say, great guy; terrible carpenter.

Nitwit ideas are for emergencies. You use them when you've got nothing else to try. If they work, they go in the Book. Otherwise you follow the Book, which is largely a collection of nitwit ideas that worked.

Liberals are the first to dump you if you con them or get into trouble. Conservatives are better. They never run out on you.

Political speeches are like steer horns. A point here, a point there, and a lot of bull inbetween.

Power tends to corrupt, absolute power corrupts absolutely.

The use of money is all the advantage there is to having money.

"Well," Brahma said, "even after ten thousand explanations, a fool is no wiser, but an intelligent man requires only two thousand five hundred."

The Anglo-Saxon conscience does not prevent the Anglo-Saxon from sinning, it merely prevents him from enjoying his sin.

He was a fiddler, and consequently a rogue.

I went to a Grateful Dead Concert and they played for SEVEN hours. Great song.

"Life is too important to take seriously."

There must be more to life than having everything.

Have you ever stopped to think what it would be like to have a woman President? "I can't deal with the Russians today. Not now. I've got my period."

As long as war is regarded as wicked, it will always have its fascination. When it is looked upon as vulgar, it will cease to be popular.

You can't depend on the man who made the mess to clean it up.

Even the clearest and most perfect circumstantial evidence is likely to be at fault, after all, and therefore ought to be received with great caution. Take the case of any pencil, sharpened by any woman; if you have witnesses, you will find she did

A conservative is a man who believes that nothing should be done for the first time.

Seeing that death, a necessary end, Will come when it will come.

A vacuum is a hell of a lot better than some of the stuff that nature replaces it with.

We should have a great many fewer disputes in the world if only words were taken for what they are, the signs of our ideas only, and not for things themselves.

Mum's the word.

The penalty for laughing in a courtroom is six months in jail; if it were not for this penalty, the jury would never hear the evidence.

Why, when no honest man will deny in private that every ultimate problem is wrapped in the profoundest mystery, do honest men proclaim in pulpits that unhesitating certainty is the duty of the most foolish and ignorant? Is it not a spectacle to make

Now, you might ask, "How do I get one of those complete home tool sets for under $4?" An excellent question. Go to one of those really cheap discount stores where they sell plastic furniture in colors visible from the planet Neptune and where they

Majorities, of course, start with minorities.

It's not a sin not to be Irish, but it is a great shame.

Why, every one as they like; as the good woman said when she kissed her cow.

The reasons that each of these countries has had to renege on its financial committments were all somewhat different: Argentina because of a war, Poland because of its vast misguided overinvestment in heavy industry, Honduras because the coffee price

Let us endeavor so to live that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry.

To jaw-jaw is better than to war-war.

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

Playing an unamplified electric guitar is like strumming on a picnic table.

It's our fault. We should have given him better parts.

If we don't survive, we don't do anything else.

To use violence is to already be defeated.

It is said an Eastern monarch once charged his wise men to invent him a sentence to be ever in view, and which should be true and appropriate in all times and situations. They presented him the words: "And this, too, shall pass away."

You can have peace. Or you can have freedom. Don't ever count on having both at once.

Facts are the enemy of truth.

Immigration is the sincerest form of flattery.

"In Christianity neither morality nor religion come into contact with reality at any point."

To say you got a vote of confidence would be to say you needed a vote of confidence.

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.

The superior man understands what is right; the inferior man understands what will sell.

It is impossible to enjoy idling thoroughly unless one has plenty of work to do.

Women of genius commonly have masculine faces, figures and manners. In transplanting brains to an alien soil God leaves a little of the original earth clinging to the roots.

Things are more like they are today than they ever were before.

Good government never depends upon laws, but upon the personal qualities of those who govern. The machinery of government is always subordinate to the will of those who administer that machinery. The most important element of government, therefore,

Armenians and Azerbaijanis in Stepanakert, capital of the Nagorno-Karabakh autonomous region, rioted over much needed spelling reform in the Soviet Union.

"They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety."

And what accomplished villains these old engineers were! What diabolical ways to sabotage they found! Nikolai Karlovich von Meck, of the People's Comissariat of Railroads ... would hold forth for hours on end about the economic problems involved in

BS: You remind me of a man. B: What man? BS: The man with the power. B: What power? BS: The power of voodoo. B: Voodoo? BS: You do. B: Do what? BS: Remind me of a man. B: What man? BS: The man with the power...

The first sign of corruption in a society that is still alive is that the end justifies the means.

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

Never buy what you do not want because it is cheap; it will be dear to you.

Since a politician never believes what he says, he is surprised when others believe him.

Democracy is good. I say this because other systems are worse.

Skill without imagination is craftsmanship and gives us many useful objects such as wickerwork picnic baskets. Imagination without skill gives us modern art.

By trying we can easily learn to endure adversity. Another man's, I mean.

A decade after Vietnam, we still cannot understand why "their" Salvadorans fight better than "our" Salvadorans. It is not a matter of their training or their equipment. It has to do with the quality of the society we are asking them to risk death d

A little inaccuracy saves a world of explanation.

Religion is what keeps the poor from murdering the rich.

A witty saying proves nothing.

Honesty's the best policy.

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

(1) Avoid fried meats which angry up the blood. (2) If your stomach antagonizes you, pacify it with cool thoughts. (3) Keep the juices flowing by jangling around gently as you move. (4) Go very lightly on the vices, such as carrying on in society, as

This novel is not to be tossed lightly aside, but to be hurled with great force.

If we spoke a different language, we would perceive a somewhat different world.

Gratitude and treachery are merely the two extremities of the same procession. You have seen all of it that is worth staying for when the band and the gaudy officials have gone by.

The smallest worm will turn being trodden on.

Another such victory over the Romans, and we are undone.

Toto, I don't think we're in Kansas anymore.

No matter whether th' constitution follows th' flag or not, th' supreme court follows th' iliction returns.

I have the simplest tastes. I am always satisfied with the best.

Ninety percent of the politicians give the other ten percent a bad reputation.

Any priest or shaman must be presumed guilty until proved innocent.

The English instinctively admire any man who has no talent and is modest about it.

A businessman is a hybrid of a dancer and a calculator.

If a guru falls in the forest with no one to hear him, was he really a guru at all?

"I wonder", he said to himself, "what's in a book while it's closed. Oh, I know it's full of letters printed on paper, but all the same, something must be happening, because as soon as I open it, there's a whole story with people I don't know yet

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

Divorce is a game played by lawyers.

XLI: The more one produces, the less one gets. XLII: Simple systems are not feasible because they require infinite testing. XLIII: Hardware works best when it matters the least. XLIV: Aircraft flight in the 21st century will always be in a we

With Congress, every time they make a joke it's a law; and every time they make a law it's a joke.

To add insult to injury.

Young men think old men are fools; but old men know young men are fools.

Dying is one of the few things that can be done as easily lying down.

I'll turn over a new leaf.

"Rights" is a fictional abstraction. No one has "Rights", neither machines nor flesh-and-blood. Persons... have opportunities, not rights, which they use or do not use.

Best Mistakes In Films In his "Filmgoer's Companion", Mr. Leslie Halliwell helpfully lists four of the cinema's greatest moments which you should get to see if at all possible. In "Carmen Jones", the camera tracks with Dorothy Dandridge down a st

Campus sidewalks never exist as the straightest line between two points.

It is a sobering thought that when Mozart was my age, he had been dead for two years.

Sorry 'bout that sweat, honey. That's just holy water.

Once a word has been allowed to escape, it cannot be recalled.

It is a wise father that knows his own child.

If people say that here and there someone has been taken away and maltreated, I can only reply: You can't make an omelette without breaking eggs.

The warning message we sent the Russians was a calculated ambiguity that would be clearly understood.

Mate, this parrot wouldn't VOOM if you put four million volts through it!

The Israelis are the Doberman pinschers of the Middle East. They treat the Arabs like postmen.

Anybody has a right to evade taxes if he can get away with it. No citizen has a moral obligation to assist in maintaining his government.

If all the world's a stage, I want to operate the trap door.

We're living in a golden age. All you need is gold.

Tom Hayden is the kind of politician who gives opportunism a bad name.

A priest asked: What is Fate, Master? And the Master answered: It is that which gives a beast of burden its reason for existence. It is that which men in former times had to bear upon their backs. It is that which has caused nations to build bywa

Think sideways!

Let me assure you that to us here at First National, you're not just a number. Youre two numbers, a dash, three more numbers, another dash and another number.

And yet, seasons must be taken with a grain of salt, for they too have a sense of humor, as does history. Corn stalks comedy, comedy stalks tragedy, and this too is historic. And yet, still, when corn meets tragedy face to face, we have politics.

A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush.

The rights and interests of the laboring man will be protected and cared for not by our labor agitators, but by the Christian men to whom God in his infinite wisdom has given control of property interests of the country, and upon the successful manag

The IRS spends God knows how much of your tax money on these toll-free information hot lines staffed by IRS employees, whose idea of a dynamite tax tip is that you should print neatly. If you ask them a real tax question, such as how you can cheat,

Some performers on television appear to be horrible people, but when you finally get to know them in person, they turn out to be even worse.

God is Dead.

Only that in you which is me can hear what I'm saying.

I don't give a shit what happens. I want you all to stonewall it. Let them plead the Fifth Amendment, cover up, or anything else if it'll save the plan.

There's small choice in rotten apples.

If it were thought that anything I wrote was influenced by Robert Frost, I would take that particular work of mine, shred it, and flush it down the toilet, hoping not to clog the pipes. A more sententious, holding- forth old bore who expected every

My advice to you, my violent friend, is to seek out gold and sit on it.

Success is the sole earthly judge of right and wrong.

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

During almost fifteen centuries the legal establishment of Christianity has been upon trial. What has been its fruits? More or less, in all places, pride and indolence in the clergy; ignorance and servility in the laity,; in both, superstition, bigo

Solipsists of the World... you are already united.

He thinks the Gettysburg Address is where Lincoln lived.

Honesty is for the most part less profitable than dishonesty.

Some men are heterosexual, and some are bisexual, and some men don't think about sex at all... they become lawyers.

The time was the 19th of May, 1780. The place was Hartford, Connecticut. The day has gone down in New England history as a terrible foretaste of Judgement Day. For at noon the skies turned from blue to grey and by mid-afternoon had blackened over s

Illusion is the first of all pleasures.

The pollution's at that awkward stage. Too thick to navigate and too thin to cultivate.

There is no better way of exercising the imagination than the study of law. No poet ever interpreted nature as freely as a lawyer interprets truth.

If you go on with this nuclear arms race, all you are going to do is make the rubble bounce.

If it doesn't smell yet, it's pretty fresh.

Anyone can hold the helm when the sea is calm.

The chief cause of problems is solutions.

When a man assumes a public trust, he should consider himself as public property.

You can tell the ideals of a nation by its advertisements.

Laws are like sausages. It's better not to see them being made.

If a nation values anything more than freedom, it will lose its freedom; and the irony of it is that if it is comfort or money it values more, it will lose that, too.

Dying is a very dull, dreary affair. My advice to you is to have nothing whatever to do with it.

I do not patronize poor, ill educated, or disenfranchised people by exempting them from the same critical examination I feel free to direct toward the rest of society, however much I might champion the same minority or disadvantaged group in the foru

Mike: "The Fourth Dimension is a shambles?" Bernie: "Nobody ever empties the ashtrays. People are SO inconsiderate."

Let sleeping dogs lie.

It is by the fortune of God that, in this country, we have three benefits: freedom of speech, freedom of thought, and the wisdom never to use either.

When asked by an anthropologist what the Indians called America before the white men came, an Indian said simply "Ours."

It is ridiculous to call this an industry. This is not. This is rat eat rat, dog eat dog. I'll kill 'em, and I'm going to kill 'em before they kill me. You're talking about the American way of survival of the fittest.

For the first time we have a weapon that nobody has used for thirty years. This gives me great hope for the human race.

Si Dieu n'existait pas, il faudrait l'inventer. [If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent him.]

I just asked myself... what would John DeLorean do?

Sometimes even to live is an act of courage.

There is no distinctly native American criminal class except Congress.

We are all worms. But I do believe I am a glowworm.

We should be glad we're living in the time that we are. If any of us had been born into a more enlightened age, I'm sure we would have immediately been taken out and shot.

An old Jewish man reads about Einstein's theory of relativity in the newspaper and asks his scientist grandson to explain it to him. "Well, zayda, it's sort of like this. Einstein says that if you're having your teeth drilled without Novocain, a mi

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

Youth is a disease from which we all recover.

The clergy successfully preached the doctrines of patience and pusillanimity; the active virtues of society were discouraged; and the last remains of a military spirit were buried in the cloister: a large portion of public and private wealth was cons

The American system of ours, call it Americanism, call it Capitalism, call it what you like, gives each and every one of us a great opportunity if we only seize it with both hands and make the most of it.

Justice is incidental to law and order.

The only excuse for God is that he doesn't exist.

The greatest productive force is human selfishness.

If a jury in a criminal trial stays out for more than twenty-four hours, it is certain to vote acquittal, save in those instances where it votes guilty.

With women, I've got a long bamboo pole with a leather loop on the end of it. I slip the loop around their necks so they can't get away or come too close. Like catching snakes.

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

I don't have any solution but I certainly admire the problem.

Lo! Men have become the tool of their tools.

I am convinced that the truest act of courage is to sacrifice ourselves for others in a totally nonviolent struggle for justice. To be a man is to suffer for others.

Art is a jealous mistress.

After the ground war began, captured Iraqi soldiers said any of them caught by superiors wearing a white T-shirt would be executed because of the ease with which the shirts could be used as surrender flags. Some Iraqi soldiers carried bleach with th

If a man loses his reverence for any part of life, he will lose his reverence for all of life.

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.

Walking on water wasn't built in a day.

The Puritan hated bear-baiting, not because it gave pain to the bear, but because it gave pleasure to the spectators.

The possession of a book becomes a substitute for reading it.

Look before you leap.

That government is best which governs least.

Several years ago, some smart businessmen had an idea: Why not build a big store where a do-it-yourselfer could get everything he needed at reasonable prices? Then they decided, nah, the hell with that, let's build a home center. And before long ho

Fortune and love befriend the bold.

The rights you have are the rights given you by this Committee [the House Un-American Activities Committee]. We will determine what rights you have and what rights you have not got.