Hope is a good breakfast, but it is a bad supper.

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.

In the olden days in England, you could be hung for stealing a sheep or a loaf of bread. However, if a sheep stole a loaf of bread and gave it to you, you would only be tried for receiving, a crime punishable by forty lashes with the cat or the dog,

Don't get the idea that I'm one of those goddamn radicals. Don't get the idea that I'm knocking the American system.

Never look a gift horse in the mouth.

Goals... Plans... they're fantasies, they're part of a dream world...

Speak softly and own a big, mean Doberman.

If two wrongs don't make a right, try three.

There are no answers, only cross-references.

Advertising is a valuable economic factor because it is the cheapest way of selling goods, particularly if the goods are worthless.

It is necessary for the welfare of society that genius should be privileged to utter sedition, to blaspheme, to outrage good taste, to corrupt the youthful mind, and generally to scandalize one's uncles.

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

Remark of Dr. Baldwin's concerning upstarts: We don't care to eat toadstools that think they are truffles.

You knew the job was dangerous when you took it, Fred.

Why attack God? He may be as miserable as we are.

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.

From the cradle to the coffin underwear comes first.

There is only one word for aid that is genuinely without strings, and that word is blackmail.

It is exactly because a man cannot do a thing that he is a proper judge of it.

I cannot and will not cut my conscience to fit this year's fashions.

It is easier to fight for one's principles than to live up to them.

We give advice, but we cannot give the wisdom to profit by it.

Whatever you do will be insignificant, but it is very important that you do it.

... but as records of courts and justice are admissible, it can easily be proved that powerful and malevolent magicians once existed and were a scourge to mankind. The evidence (including confession) upon which certain women were convicted of witch

I'd just as soon kiss a Wookie.

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

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

Thank God I've always avoided persecuting my enemies.

If you lose a son you can always get another, but there's only one Maltese Falcon.

Hard reality has a way of cramping your style.

IF I HAD A MINE SHAFT, I don't think I would just abandon it. There's got to be a better way.

If there were a school for, say, sheet metal workers, that after three years left its graduates as unprepared for their careers as does law school, it would be closed down in a minute, and no doubt by lawyers.

Absolutum obsoletum. (If it works, it's out of date.)

"Every morning, I get up and look through the 'Forbes' list of the richest people in America. If I'm not there, I go to work"

"Lemme show ya the odds, Sparky... In yer country, ya got 14 million black people, and 3 million white people. Now, does the name `Custer' mean anything to you?"

No is no negative in a woman's mouth.

Fay: The British police force used to be run by men of integrity. Truscott: That is a mistake which has been rectified.

Ever get the feeling that the world's on tape and one of the reels is missing?

XXI: It's easy to get a loan unless you need it. XXII: If stock market experts were so expert, they would be buying stock, not selling advice. XXIII: Any task can be completed in only one-third more time than is currently estimated. XXIV:

You guys have been practicing discrimination for years. Now it's our turn.

Once there lived a village of creatures along the bottom of a great crystal river. Each creature in its own manner clung tightly to the twigs and rocks of the river bottom, for clinging was their way of life, and resisting the current what each had

When you make your mark in the world, watch out for guys with erasers.

[Sir Stafford Cripps] has all the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire.