An atom-blaster is a good weapon, but it can point both ways.

Since everything in life is but an experience perfect in being what it is, having nothing to do with good or bad, acceptance or rejection, one may well burst out in laughter.

Better tried by twelve than carried by six.

There are people who find it odd to eat four or five Chinese meals in a row; in China, I often remind them, there are a billion or so people who find nothing odd about it.

There is nothing so easy but that it becomes difficult when you do it reluctantly.

Flame on!

One learns to itch where one can scratch.

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.

"There is no Father Christmas. It's just a marketing ploy to make low income parents' lives a misery." "... I want you to picture the trusting face of a child, streaked with tears because of what you just said." "I want you to picture the face of

Neckties strangle clear thinking.

Man is the measure of all things.

A countryman between two lawyers is like a fish between two cats.

Lo! Men have become the tool of their tools.

"Die? I should say not, dear fellow. No Barrymore would allow such a conventional thing to happen to him."

Tallulah Bankhead barged down the Nile last night as Cleopatra and sank.

To accuse others for one's own misfortunes is a sign of want of education. To accuse oneself shows that one's education has begun. To accuse neither oneself nor others shows that one's education is complete.

Rome was not built in one day.

There are ten or twenty basic truths, and life is the process of discovering them over and over and over.

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

Walking on water wasn't built in a day.

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

Mental power tended to corrupt, and absolute intelligence tended to corrupt absolutely, until the victim eschewed violence entirely in favor of smart solutions to stupid problems.

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

Odets, where is thy sting?

But if you wish at once to do nothing and to be respectable nowdays, the best pretext is to be at work on some profound study.

Satire is what closes Saturday night.

If at first you don't succeed, try, try again.

Let your conscience be your guide.

When I was in school, I cheated on my metaphysics exam: I looked into the soul of the boy sitting next to me.

Fortune and love befriend the bold.

It is wise to keep in mind that neither success nor failure is ever final.

To teach is to learn twice.

Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.

Fourteen years in the professor dodge has taught me that one can argue ingeniously on behalf of any theory, applied to any piece of literature. This is rarely harmful, because normally no-one reads such essays.

You can never do just one thing.

I'll turn over a new leaf.

The best you get is an even break.

I'll never get off this planet.

You can bring men from other parts of the world who are sane. And you know what happens? At the very moment they cross those mountains... they go mad. Instantaneously and automatically, at the very moment they cross the mountains into California,

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.

The goys have proven the following theorem...

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

Practical people would be more practical if they would take a little more time for dreaming.