[Maturity consists in the discovery that] there comes a critical moment where everything is reversed, after which the point becomes to understand more and more that there is something which cannot be understood.

All this wheeling and dealing around, why, it isn't for money, it's for fun. Money's just the way we keep score.

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What we cannot speak about we must pass over in silence.

As long as there are entrenched social and political distinctions between sexes, races or classes, there will be forms of science whose main function is to rationalize and legitimize these distinctions.

By protracting life, we do not deduct one jot from the duration of death.

Traveling through hyperspace isn't like dusting crops, boy.

There cannot be a crisis next week. My schedule is already full.

Our policy is, when in doubt, do the right thing.

Whenever I hear anyone arguing for slavery, I feel a strong impulse to see it tried on him personally.

New York now leads the world's great cities in the number of people around whom you shouldn't make a sudden move.

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

San Francisco isn't what it used to be, and it never was.

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.

What does it take for Americans to do great things; to go to the moon, to win wars, to dig canals linking oceans, to build railroads across a continent? In independent thought about this question, Neil Armstrong and I concluded that it takes a coinci

If a thing's worth having, it's worth cheating for.

He who knows, does not speak. He who speaks, does not know.

It's pretty hard to tell what does bring happiness; poverty and wealth have both failed.

Of all possible committee reactions to any given agenda item, the reaction that will occur is the one which will liberate the greatest amount of hot air.

What excuses stand in your way? How can you eliminate them?

I'm going to raise an issue and stick it in your ear.

Roumanian-Yiddish cooking has killed more Jews than Hitler.

An Englishman never enjoys himself, except for a noble purpose.

The first thing I do in the morning is brush my teeth and sharpen my tongue.

Fill what's empty, empty what's full, scratch where it itches.

Men freely believe that what they wish to desire.

There are three rules for writing a novel. Unfortunately, no one knows what they are.

It usually takes more than three weeks to prepare a good impromptu speech.

My theology, briefly, is that the universe was dictated but not signed.

Long were the days of pain I have spent within its walls, and long were the nights of aloneness; and who can depart from his pain and his aloneness without regret?

For courage mounteth with occasion.

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So little time, so little to do.

A university is what a college becomes when the faculty loses interest in students.

In the highest society, as well as in the lowest, woman is merely an instrument of pleasure.

Marijuana will be legal some day, because the many law students who now smoke pot will someday become congressmen and legalize it in order to protect themselves.

I'll never get off this planet.

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

We Americans, we're a simple people... but piss us off, and we'll bomb your cities.

The streets were dark with something more than night.

There is more to life than increasing its speed.

The public demands certainties; it must be told definitely and a bit raucously that this is true and that is false. But there are no certainties.

A critic is a bundle of biases held loosely together by a sense of taste.

The Law, in its majestic equality, forbids the rich, as well as the poor, to sleep under the bridges, to beg in the streets, and to steal bread.

Anyone can hold the helm when the sea is calm.

Dignity is like a flag. It flaps in a storm.

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

When a shepherd goes to kill a wolf, and takes his dog along to see the sport, he should take care to avoid mistakes. The dog has certain relationships to the wolf the shepherd may have forgotten.

A wise person makes his own decisions, a weak one obeys public opinion.

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

I went into a bar feeling a little depressed, the bartender said, "What'll you have, Bud"? I said," I don't know, surprise me". So he showed me a nude picture of my wife.

Put a rogue in the limelight and he will act like an honest man.

The future is a race between education and catastrophe.

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

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

If you can count your money, you don't have a billion dollars.

It is something to be able to paint a particular picture, or to carve a statue, and so to make a few objects beautiful; but it is far more glorious to carve and paint the very atmosphere and medium through which we look, which morally we can do. T

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

"The jig's up, Elman." "Which jig?"

Why does a hearse horse snicker, hauling a lawyer away?

The only way to keep your health is to eat what you don't want, drink what you don't like, and do what you'd rather not.

No bird soars too high if he soars with his own wings.

A synonym is a word you use when you can't spell the word you first thought of.

If the path be beautiful, let us not ask where it leads.

Life is too short to be taken seriously.

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

And tomorrow will be like today, only more so.

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

The ultimate game show will be the one where somebody gets killed at the end.

Don't get mad, get even.

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

If you are of the opinion that the contemplation of suicide is sufficient evidence of a poetic nature, do not forget that actions speak louder than words.

According to the Rand McNally Places-Rated Almanac, the best place to live in America is the city of Pittsburgh. The city of New York came in twenty-fifth. Here in New York we really don't care too much. Because we know that we could beat up their

Generally speaking, the Way of the warrior is resolute acceptance of death.

You can fool all the people all of the time if the advertising is right and the budget is big enough.

A memorandum is written not to inform the reader, but to protect the writer.

The capacity of human beings to bore one another seems to be vastly greater than that of any other animals. Some of their most esteemed inventions have no other apparent purpose, for example, the dinner party of more than two, the epic poem, and the

He hath eaten me out of house and home.

If there is a sin against life, it consists perhaps not so much in despairing of life as in hoping for another life and in eluding the implacable grandeur of this life.

In "King Henry VI, Part II," Shakespeare has Dick Butcher suggest to his fellow anti-establishment rabble-rousers, "The first thing we do, let's kill all the lawyers." That action may be extreme but a similar sentiment was expressed by Thomas K. Co

Instead of loving your enemies, treat your friends a little better.

If you pick up a starving dog and make him prosperous, he will not bite you. This is the principal difference between a dog and a man.

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.

Its name is Public Opinion. It is held in reverence. It settles everything. Some think it is the voice of God.

Adhere to your own act, and congratulate yourself if you have done something strange and extravagant, and broken the monotony of a decorous age.

The price one pays for pursuing any profession, or calling, is an intimate knowledge of its ugly side.

We are not a loved organization, but we are a respected one.

Never buy from a rich salesman.

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

A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds.

Extreme fear can neither fight nor fly.

Imagination is the one weapon in the war against reality.

Odets, where is thy sting?

Man is the measure of all things.

When one burns one's bridges, what a very nice fire it makes.

A man who cannot seduce men cannot save them either.

"The Right Honorable Gentleman is indebted to his memory for his jests and to his imagination for his facts."

Sometimes a man who deserves to be looked down upon because he is a fool is despised only because he is a lawyer.

On account of being a democracy and run by the people, we are the only nation in the world that has to keep a government four years, no matter what it does.

The true Southern watermelon is a boon apart, and not to be mentioned with commoner things. It is chief of the world's luxuries, king by the grace of God over all the fruits of the earth. When one has tasted it, he knows what the angels eat. It wa

"There was an interesting development in the CBS-Westmoreland trial: both sides agreed that after the trial, Andy Rooney would be allowed to talk to the jury for three minutes about little things that annoyed him during the trial."

Anything is possible on paper.

For a light heart lives long.

We're fantastically incredibly sorry for all these extremely unreasonable things we did. I can only plead that my simple, barely-sentient friend and myself are underprivileged, deprived and also college students.

...He who laughs does not believe in what he laughs at, but neither does he hate it. Therefore, laughing at evil means not preparing oneself to combat it, and laughing at good means denying the power through which good is self-propagating.

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

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Every man who has reached even his intellectual teens begins to suspect that life is no farce; that it is not genteel comedy even; that it flowers and fructifies on the contrary out of the profoundest tragic depths of the essential death in which its

The average Ph.D thesis is nothing but the transference of bones from one graveyard to another.

We all declare for liberty, but in using the same word we do not all mean the same thing.

If you're like most homeowners, you're afraid that many repairs around your home are too difficult to tackle. So, when your furnace explodes, you call in a so-called professional to fix it. The "professional" arrives in a truck with lettering on t

America, how can I write a holy litany in your silly mood?

We're only in it for the volume.

How do you explain school to a higher intelligence?

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.

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.

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

Competitive fury is not always anger. It is the true missionary's courage and zeal in facing the possibility that one's best may not be enough.

If the colleges were better, if they really had it, you would need to get the police at the gates to keep order in the inrushing multitude. See in college how we thwart the natural love of learning by leaving the natural method of teaching what each

That's where the money was.

Fast ship? You mean you've never heard of the Millennium Falcon?

There is a natural hootchy-kootchy to a goldfish.

Any road followed to its end leads precisely nowhere. Climb the mountain just a little to test it's a mountain. From the top of the mountain, you cannot see the mountain.

Most Texans think Hanukkah is some sort of duck call.

The two oldest professions in the world have been ruined by amateurs.

The root of all superstition is that men observe when a thing hits, but not when it misses.

There is always something new out of Africa.

"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."

The greatest productive force is human selfishness.

Littering is dumb.

Marijuana will be legal some day, because the many law students who now smoke pot will someday become congressmen and legalize it in order to protect themselves.

Men will fuck mud.

Save a little money each month and at the end of the year you'll be surprised at how little you have.

Thompson, if he is to be believed, has sampled the entire rainbow of legal and illegal drugs in heroic efforts to feel better than he does. As for the truth about his health: I have asked around about it. I am told that he appears to be strong and