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

Youth is a blunder, manhood a struggle, old age a regret.

Audacity, and again, audacity, and always audacity.

The first myth of management is that it exists. The second myth of management is that success equals skill.

You buy a judge by weight, like iron in a junk yard. A justice of the peace or a magistrate can be had for a five-dollar bill. In the municipal courts, he will cost you ten. In the circuit or superior courts, he wants fifteen. The state appellate

Where it is a duty to worship the sun it is pretty sure to be a crime to examine the laws of heat.

"Oh, yes. The important thing about having lots of things to remember is that you've got to go somewhere afterwards where you can remember them, you see? You've got to stop. You haven't really been anywhere until you've got back home. I think th

I don't see what's wrong with giving Bobby a little experience before he starts to practice law.

The profession of book writing makes horse racing seem like a solid, stable business.

Darth Vader! Only you would be so bold!

You are never given a wish without also being given the power to make it true. You may have to work for it, however.

Our business in life is not to succeed but to continue to fail in high spirits.

History is the version of past events that people have decided to agree on.

You men out there probably think you already know how to dress for success. You know, for example, that you should not wear leisure suits or white plastic belts and shoes, unless you are going to a costume party disguised as a pig farmer vacationing

There are two types of people in this world, good and bad. The good sleep better, but the bad seem to enjoy the waking hours much more.

Isn't it nice that people who prefer Los Angeles to San Francisco live there?

It's hard to drive at the limit, but it's harder to know where the limits are.

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

Plumbing is one of the easier of do-it-yourself activities, requiring only a few simple tools and a willingness to stick your arm into a clogged toilet. In fact, you can solve many home plumbing problems, such as annoying faucet drip, merely by tur

Kindness is a language which the deaf can hear and the blind can read.

Odets, where is thy sting?

A woman's a woman until the day she dies, but a man's only a man as long as he can.

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

This is an especially good time for you vacationers who plan to fly, because the Reagan administration, as part of the same policy under which it recently sold Yellowstone National Park to Wayne Newton, has "deregulated" the airline industry. What t

Turn the other cheek.

Rincewind looked down at him and grinned slowly. It was a wide, manic, and utterly humourless rictus. It was the sort of grin that is normally accompanied by small riverside birds wandering in and out, picking scraps out of the teeth.

He who wonders discovers that this in itself is wonder.

Good salesmen and good repairmen will never go hungry.

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

We know next to nothing about virtually everything. It is not necessary to know the origin of the universe; it is necessary to want to know. Civilization depends not on any particular knowledge, but on the disposition to crave knowledge.

Kiss me, Kate, we will be married o' Sunday.

Practice is the best of all instructors.

I have made mistakes but I have never made the mistake of claiming that I have never made one.

Everything takes longer, costs more, and is less useful.

If you want divine justice, die.

'Naomi, sex at noon taxes.' I moan. Never odd or even. A man, a plan, a canal, Panama. Madam, I'm Adam. Sit on a potato pan, Otis. Sit on Otis.

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

Any two philosophers can tell each other all they know in two hours.

Power tends to corrupt, absolute power corrupts absolutely.

Money doesn't talk, it swears.

If I have to lay an egg for my country, I'll do it.

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

I didn't believe in reincarnation in any of my other lives. I don't see why I should have to believe in it in this one.

Hating the Yankees is as American as pizza pie, unwed mothers and cheating on your income tax.

America, I'm putting my queer shoulder to the wheel.

The older I grow, the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom.

I put the shotgun in an Adidas bag and padded it out with four pairs of tennis socks, not my style at all, but that was what I was aiming for: If they think you're crude, go technical; if they think you're technical, go crude. I'm a very technical

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?

A beginning is the time for taking the most delicate care that balances are correct.

I consider a new device or technology to have been culturally accepted when it has been used to commit a murder.

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

Don't talk to me about naval tradition. It's nothing but rum, sodomy and the lash.

Those who educate children well are more to be honored than parents, for these only gave life, those the art of living well.

A racially integrated community is a chronological term timed from the entrance of the first black family to the exit of the last white family.

In a museum in Havana, there are two skulls of Christopher Columbus, "one when he was a boy and one when he was a man."

In charity there is no excess.

No group of professionals meets except to conspire against the public at large.

If a man stay away from his wife for seven years, the law presumes the separation to have killed him; yet according to our daily experience, it might well prolong his life.

Vice-President Hubert Humphrey's loquacity is legendary, and Barry Goldwater notes that "Hubert has been clocked at 275 words a minute with gusts up to 340." On the campaign trail during 1964, Republican nominee Barry Goldwater stated, "The imme

To err is human, to repent, divine, to persist, devilish.

A sequel is an admission that you've been reduced to imitating yourself.

A public debt is a kind of anchor in the storm; but if the anchor be too heavy for the vessel, she will be sunk by that very weight which was intended for her preservation.

Certain passages in several laws have always defied interpretation and the most inexplicable must be a matter of opinion. A judge of the Court of Session of Scotland has sent the editors of this book his candidate which reads, "In the Nuts (unground

I never did give anybody hell. I just told the truth and they thought it was hell.

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

It is a lesson which all history teaches wise men, to put trust in ideas, and not in circumstances.

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

"Any news from the President on a successor?" he asked hopefully. "None," Anita replied. "She's having great difficulty finding someone qualified who is willing to accept the post." "Then I stay," said Dr. Fresh. "I'm not good for much, but I c

Praise the Lord and pass the ammunition.

Man is by nature a political animal.

Out of the crooked timber of humanity no straight thing can ever be made.

In case of fire, stand in the hall and shout "Fire!"

The fact that it works is immaterial.

Nice guys finish last, but we get to sleep in.

If there is a wrong way to do something, then someone will do it.

Even if you do learn to speak correct English, whom are you going to speak it to?

Just weigh your own hurt against the hurt of all the others, and then do what's best.

[The French Riviera is] a sunny place for shady people.

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

I believe that Ronald Reagan will someday make this country what it once was ... an arctic wilderness.

You see, I consider that a man's brain originally is like a little empty attic, and you have to stock it with such furniture as you choose. A fool takes in all the lumber of every sort he comes across, so that the knowledge which might be useful to

It seemed the world was divided into good and bad people. The good ones slept better... while the bad ones seemed to enjoy the waking hours much more.

Telling the truth to people who misunderstand you is generally promoting a falsehood, isn't it?

He was a fiddler, and consequently a rogue.

Justice always prevails ... three times out of seven!

Imitation is the sincerest form of television.

You couldn't even prove the White House staff sane beyond a reasonable doubt.

The forest is safe because a lion lives therein and the lion is safe because it lives in a forest. Likewise the friendship of persons rests on mutual help.

They're giving bank robbing a bad name.

There are no great men, buster. There are only men.

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

Honesty's the best policy.

The idle mind knows not what it is it wants.

of the time.

Anyone who is capable of getting themselves made President should on no account be allowed to do the job.

... 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

Very few things happen at the right time, and the rest do not happen at all. The conscientious historian will correct these defects.

If Christianity was morality, Socrates would be the Saviour.

"Spare no expense to save money on this one."

The ripest fruit falls first.

Just because I turn down a contract on a guy doesn't mean he isn't going to get hit.

To teach is to learn twice.

The race is not always to the swift, nor the battle to the strong, but that's the way to bet.

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.

HR 3128. Omnibus Budget Reconciliation, Fiscal 1986. Martin, R-Ill., motion that the House recede from its disagreement to the Senate amendment making changes in the bill to reduce fiscal 1986 deficits. The Senate amendment was an amendment to the

"You've got to have a gimmick if your band sucks."

The trouble with opportunity is that it always comes disguised as hard work.

Littering is dumb.

He thinks the Gettysburg Address is where Lincoln lived.

One of the most striking differences between a cat and a lie is that a cat has only nine lives.

Nothing endures but change.

Well, here it is, 1983, so it won't be long before you start reading a lot of boring stories about people like Vance Hartke. Hartke is a governor or mayor or something from one of the flatter states, and the reason you'll be reading about him is tha

He that teaches himself has a fool for a master.

Majorities, of course, start with minorities.

Even the best of friends cannot attend each other's funeral.

Porsche: there simply is no substitute.

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

Don't go to bed with no price on your head.

Man must shape his tools lest they shape him.

The most recent attempt to revive the moribund campus left, a national conference held at Rutgers University February 5-7, ended when the participants decided that they were too racist to found a new national organization. The stated goal of the c

You have all eternity to be cautious in when you're dead.

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.

Inglish Spocken Hier: some mangled translations Sign on a cathedral in Spain: It is forbidden to enter a woman, even a foreigner if dressed as a man. Above the enterance to a Cairo bar: Unaccompanied ladies not admitted unless with husb

What upsets me is not that you lied to me, but that from now on I can no longer believe you.

If you know the answer to a question, don't ask.

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

I know on which side my bread is buttered.

Exxon's 'Universe of Energy' tends to the peculiar rather than the humorous ... After [an incomprehensible film montage about wind and sun and rain and strip mines and] two or three minutes of mechanical confusion, the seats locomote through a short

Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength. War is peace.

The best portion of a good man's life, his little, nameless, unremembered acts of kindness and love.

"There is a God, but He drinks"

"Necessity is the mother of invention" is a silly proverb. "Necessity is the mother of futile dodges" is much nearer the truth.

Another day, another dollar.

When I saw a sign on the freeway that said, "Los Angeles 445 miles," I said to myself, "I've got to get out of this lane."

Think lucky. If you fall in a pond, check your pockets for fish.

Having nothing, nothing can he lose.

If happiness is in your destiny, you need not be in a hurry.

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

You cannot see the wood for the trees.

Trust in Allah, but tie your camel.

Many of the characters are fools and they are always playing tricks on me and treating me badly.

Nasrudin returned to his village from the imperial capital, and the villagers gathered around to hear what had passed. "At this time," said Nasrudin, "I only want to say that the King spoke to me." All the villagers but the stupidest ran off to spr

Every why hath a wherefore.

Atlee is a very modest man. And with reason.

Suspicion always haunts the guilty mind.

I heard a definition of an intellectual, that I thought was very interesting: a man who takes more words than are necessary to tell more than he knows.

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

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

If people are good only because they fear punishment, and hope for reward, then we are a sorry lot indeed.

Well, he thought, since neither Aristotelian Logic nor the disciplines of Science seemed to offer much hope, it's time to go beyond them... Drawing a few deep even breaths, he entered a mental state practiced only by Masters of the Universal Way of

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

It is the business of little minds to shrink.

More people are flattered into virtue than bullied out of vice.

The distinction between true and false appears to become increasingly blurred by... the pollution of the language.

The public is an old woman. Let her maunder and mumble.

If you are a fatalist, what can you do about it?

Hear me, my chiefs, I am tired; my heart is sick and sad. From where the sun now stands I Will Fight No More Forever.

Small is beautiful.

I need another lawyer like I need another hole in my head.

You k'n hide de fier, but w'at you gwine do wid de smoke?

A kind of Batman of contemporary letters.

To stay young requires unceasing cultivation of the ability to unlearn old falsehoods.

Of all men's miseries, the bitterest is this: to know so much and have control over nothing.

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

Political history is far too criminal a subject to be a fit thing to teach children.

If society fits you comfortably enough, you call it freedom.

You may have heard that a dean is to faculty as a hydrant is to a dog.

The angry man always thinks he can do more than he can.

"Not only is God dead, but just try to find a plumber on weekends."

All generalizations are false, including this one.

I can't understand it. I can't even understand the people who can understand it.

Interesting poll results reported in today's New York Post: people on the street in midtown Manhattan were asked whether they approved of the US invasion of Grenada. Fifty-three percent said yes; 39 percent said no; and 8 percent said "Gimme a quart

People of privilege will always risk their complete destruction rather than surrender any material part of their advantage.

Practical politics consists in ignoring facts.

The Worst Prison Guards The largest number of convicts ever to escape simultaneously from a maximum security prison is 124. This record is held by Alcoente Prison, near Lisbon in Portugal. During the weeks leading up to the escape in July 1978 th

America is a stronger nation for the ACLU's uncompromising effort.

A committee is a group that keeps the minutes and loses hours.

The aim of a joke is not to degrade the human being but to remind him that he is already degraded.

People never lie so much as after a hunt, during a war, or before an election.

Why was I born with such contemporaries?

One measure of friendship consists not in the number of things friends can discuss, but in the number of things they need no longer mention.

Ye've also got to remember that ... respectable people do the most astonishin' things to preserve their respectability. Thank God I'm not respectable.

Man proposes, God disposes.

A woman who is unfaithful deserves to be shot.

British education is probably the best in the world, if you can survive it. If you can't there is nothing left for you but the diplomatic corps.

Intellect annuls Fate. So far as a man thinks, he is free.

I remember when legal used to mean lawful, now it means some kind of loophole.

When alerted to an intrusion by tinkling glass or otherwise, 1) Calm yourself 2) Identify the intruder 3) If hostile, kill him. Step number 3 is of particular importance. If you leave the guy alive out of misguided softheartedness, he will repay y

Governor Tarkin. I should have expected to find you holding Vader's leash. I thought I recognized your foul stench when I was brought on board.

"Go to Heaven for the climate, Hell for the company."

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

We were young and our happiness dazzled us with its strength. But there was also a terrible betrayal that lay within me like a Merle Haggard song at a French restaurant. [...] I could not tell the girl about the woman of the tollway, of her milk w

A people living under the perpetual menace of war and invasion is very easy to govern. It demands no social reforms. It does not haggle over expenditures on armaments and military equipment. It pays without discussion, it ruins itself, and that is

If the weather is extremely bad, church attendance will be down. If the weather is extremely good, church attendance will be down. If the bulletin covers are in short supply, however, church attendance will exceed all expectations.

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

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

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

The more laws and order are made prominent, the more thieves and robbers there will be.

The great nations have always acted like gangsters and the small nations like prostitutes.

The problem with me is that I am fifty or one hundred years ahead of my time. My speed is very fast. Some ministers have had to drop out of my government because they could not keep up.

You mentioned your name as if I should recognize it, but beyond the obvious facts that you are a bachelor, a solicitor, a freemason, and an asthmatic, I know nothing whatever about you.

Example is not the main thing in influencing others. It is the only thing.

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

The Priest's grey nimbus in a niche where he dressed discreetly. I will not sleep here tonight. Home also I cannot go. A voice, sweetened and sustained, called to him from the sea. Turning the curve he waved his hand. A sleek brown head, a seal's,

I'd just as soon kiss a Wookie.

The brotherhood of man is not a mere poet's dream; it is a most depressing and humiliating reality.

One, with God, is always a majority, but many a martyr has been burned at the stake while the votes were being counted.

Don't despise your poor relations, they may become suddenly rich one day.

Cops never say good-bye. They're always hoping to see you again in the line-up.

"We demand rigidly defined areas of doubt and uncertainty!"

A real diplomat is one who can cut his neighbor's throat without having his neighbour notice it.

An honest politician is one who when he is bought will stay bought.

My problem lies in reconciling my gross habits with my net income.

I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.

If you don't strike oil in twenty minutes, stop boring.

Comparing information and knowledge is like asking whether the fatness of a pig is more or less green than the designated hitter rule."

Men freely believe that what they wish to desire.

If you can't say anything good about someone, sit right here by me.

Well, the handwriting is on the floor.

To use violence is to already be defeated.

The faster I go, the behinder I get.

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.

A place for everything and everything in its place.

Circumstances rule men; men do not rule circumstances.

We cannot do everything at once, but we can do something at once.

It's not Camelot, but it's not Cleveland, either.

Lord, what fools these mortals be!

Man's unique agony as a species consists in his perpetual conflict between the desire to stand out and the need to blend in.

We ARE as gods and might as well get good at it.

If Karl, instead of writing a lot about Capital, had made a lot of Capital, it would have been much better.

Please try to limit the amount of "this room doesn't have any bazingas" until you are told that those rooms are "punched out." Once punched out, we have a right to complain about atrocities, missing bazingas, and such.

If I had a formula for bypassing trouble, I would not pass it around. Trouble creates a capacity to handle it. I don't say embrace trouble; that's as bad as treating it as an enemy. But I do say meet it as a friend, for you'll see a lot of it and y

Beware of mathematicians and all those who make empty prophecies. The danger already exists that the mathematicians have made covenant with the devil to darken the spirit and to confine man in the bonds of hell.

In America, any boy may become president and I suppose that's just one of the risks he takes.

What we see depends on mainly what we look for.

It is often easier to ask for forgiveness than to ask for permission.

Consider well the proportions of things. It is better to be a young June-bug than an old bird of paradise.

A diplomat is a person who can tell you to go to hell in such a way that you actually look forward to the trip.

Truth never comes into the world but like a bastard, to the ignominy of him that brought her birth.

If it takes a bloodbath, lets get it over with. No more appeasement.

Money can't buy love, but it improves your bargaining position.

You can observe a lot just by watching.

Ten years of rejection slips is nature's way of telling you to stop writing.

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

Extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice... moderation in the pursuit of justice is no virtue.

"I can remember when a good politician had to be 75 percent ability and 25 percent actor, but I can well see the day when the reverse could be true."

There is a road to freedom. Its milestones are Obedience, Endeavor, Honesty, Order, Cleanliness, Sobriety, Truthfulness, Sacrifice, and love of the Fatherland.

A fake fortuneteller can be tolerated. But an authentic soothsayer should be shot on sight. Cassandra did not get half the kicking around she deserved.

Old age is always fifteen years old than I am.

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

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.

Nobody knows what goes between his cold toes and his warm ears.

Art is a lie which makes us realize the truth.

Unquestionably, there is progress. The average American now pays out twice as much in taxes as he formerly got in wages.

There is no delight the equal of dread. As long as it is somebody else's.

Steady movement is more important than speed, much of the time. So long as there is a regular progression of stimuli to get your mental hooks into, there is room for lateral movement. Once this begins, its rate is a matter of discretion.

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

[Nuclear war] ... may not be desirable.

A Galileo could no more be elected president of the United States than he could be elected Pope of Rome. Both high posts are reserved for men favored by God with an extraordinary genius for swathing the bitter facts of life in bandages of self-illus

Life is like a 10 speed bicycle. Most of us have gears we never use.

The most costly of all follies is to believe passionately in the palpably not true. It is the chief occupation of mankind.

The so-called lessons of history are for the most part the rationalizations of the victors. History is written by the survivors.

Take your work seriously but never take yourself seriously; and do not take what happens either to yourself or your work seriously.

Every young man should have a hobby: learning how to handle money is the best one.

I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands, one nation, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all.

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,

Were it not for the presence of the unwashed and the half-educated, the formless, queer and incomplete, the unreasonable and absurd, the infinite shapes of the delightful human tadpole, the horizon would not wear so wide a grin.

Hotels are tired of getting ripped off. I checked into a hotel and they had towels from my house.

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

"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."

One man's Mede is another man's Persian.

He who slings mud generally loses ground.

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

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

If I had a plantation in Georgia and a home in Hell, I'd sell the plantation and go home.

The best laid plans of mice and men are usually about equal.

The mosquito is the state bird of New Jersey.

The tree in which the sap is stagnant remains fruitless.

... a thing called Ethics, whose nature was confusing but if you had it you were a High-Class Realtor and if you hadn't you were a shyster, a piker and a fly-by-night. These virtues awakened Confidence and enabled you to handle Bigger Propositions.

It is Mr. Mellon's credo that $200,000,000 can do no wrong. Our offense consists in doubting it.

CF&C stole it, fair and square.

I have seen the future and it is just like the present, only longer.

I BET WHAT HAPPENED was they discovered fire and invented the wheel on the same day. Then that night, they burned the wheel.

For a light heart lives long.

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.

Friends may come and go, but enemies accumulate.

A man is known by the company he organizes.

I know not how I came into this, shall I call it a dying life or a living death?

I shot an arrow in to the air, and it stuck.

Forgive your enemies, but don't forget their names.

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

A journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step.

Yesterday I was a dog. Today I'm a dog. Tomorrow I'll probably still be a dog. Sigh! There's so little hope for advancement.

The first rule of intelligent tinkering is to save all the parts.

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

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

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.

Man is a military animal, glories in gunpowder, and loves parade.

We only acknowledge small faults in order to make it appear that we are free from great ones.

He that is giddy thinks the world turns round.

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

Sensible and responsible women do not want to vote.

In this world, nothing is certain but death and taxes.

I have always noticed that whenever a radical takes to Imperialism, he catches it in a very acute form.

It has been said that man is a rational animal. All my life I have been searching for evidence which could support this.

The error of youth is to believe that intelligence is a substitute for experience, while the error of age is to believe experience is a substitute for intelligence.

Aim for the moon. If you miss, you may hit a star.

The course of true anything never does run smooth.

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.

We should keep the Panama Canal. After all, we stole it fair and square.

Men will fuck mud.

It's a recession when your neighbour loses his job; it's a depression when you lose yours.

To think contrary to one's era is heroism. But to speak against it is madness.

Just once I would like to persuade the audience not to wear any article of blue denim. If only they could see themselves in a pair of brown corduroys like mine instead of this awful, boring blue denim. I don't enjoy the sky or sea as much as I used

I remember once being on a station platform in Cleveland at four in the morning. A black porter was carrying my bags, and as we were waiting for the train to come in, he said to me: "Excuse me, Mr. Cooke, I don't want to invade your privacy, but I h

I'll defend to the death your right to say that, but I never said I'd listen to it!

For myself, I can only say that I am astonished and somewhat terrified at the results of this evening's experiments. Astonished at the wonderful power you have developed, and terrified at the thought that so much hideous and bad music may be put on

You are a wish to be here wishing yourself.

When I hear a man applauded by the mob I always feel a pang of pity for him. All he has to do to be hissed is to live long enough.

Remember that there is an outside world to see and enjoy.

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.