I love treason but hate a traitor.

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

A definition of teaching: casting fake pearls before real swine.

One man's brain plus one other will produce one half as many ideas as one man would have produced alone. These two plus two more will produce half again as many ideas. These four plus four more begin to represent a creative meeting, and the ratio c

"What's the use of a good quotation if you can't change it?"

You're all clear now, kid. Now blow this thing so we can all go home.

I'm always looking for a new idea that will be more productive than its cost.

"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

The Least Successful Equal Pay Advertisement In 1976 the European Economic Community pointed out to the Irish Government that it had not yet implemented the agreed sex equality legislation. The Dublin Government immediately advertised for an equal

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

"You would do well not to imagine profundity," he said. "Anything that seems of momentous occasion should be dwelt upon as though it were of slight note. Conversely, trivialities must be attended to with the greatest of care. Because death is moment

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

L'hazard ne favorise que l'esprit prepare.

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

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

I knew her before she was a virgin.

Coincidences are spiritual puns.

Imagine what we can imagine!

The fact that it works is immaterial.

For thee the wonder-working earth puts forth sweet flowers.

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.

... Our second completely true news item was sent to me by Mr. H. Boyce Connell Jr. of Atlanta, Ga., where he is involved in a law firm. One thing I like about the South is, folks there care about tradition. If somebody gets handed a name like "H.

All hope abandon, ye who enter here!

A sad spectacle. If they be inhabited, what a scope for misery and folly. If they be not inhabited, what a waste of space.

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

The `loner' may be respected, but he is always resented by his colleagues, for he seems to be passing a critical judgment on them, when he may be simply making a limiting statement about himself.

A little inaccuracy saves a world of explanation.

The plot was designed in a light vein that somehow became varicose.

University politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small.

A game can by God repent or we'll punish it. That's how they did it in Salem in the seventeenth century, and that's how we'll do it now.

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

All of us should treasure his Oriental wisdom and his preaching of a Zen-like detachment, as exemplified by his constant reminder to clerks, tellers, or others who grew excited by his presence in their banks: "Just lie down on the floor and keep calm

Everything is possible. Pass the word.

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

"Earth is a great, big funhouse without the fun."

What soon grows old? Gratitude.

That Xanthippe's husband should have become so great a philosopher is remarkable. Amid all the scolding, to be able to think! But he could not write: that was impossible. Socrates has not left us a single book.

You get what you pay for.

What an author likes to write most is his signature on the back of a cheque.

A thing is not necessarily true because a man dies for it.

There's no such thing as an original sin.

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

It'll be just like Beggars' Canyon back home.

The world wants to be deceived.

Time is but the stream I go a-fishing in.

I went into the business for the money, and the art grew out of it. If people are disillusioned by that remark, I can't help it. It's the truth.

Destiny is a good thing to accept when it's going your way. When it isn't, don't call it destiny; call it injustice, treachery, or simple bad luck.

Man must shape his tools lest they shape him.

A sinking ship gathers no moss.

Sweet April showers do spring May flowers.

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

Fortune and love befriend the bold.

Rome was not built in one day.

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

A highly intelligent man should take a primitive woman. Imagine if on top of everything else, I had a woman who interfered with my work.

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

The two most beautiful words in the English language are "Cheque Enclosed."

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

A good plan today is better than a perfect plan tomorrow.

If reporters don't know that truth is plural, they ought to be lawyers.

We rarely find anyone who can say he has lived a happy life, and who, content with his life, can retire from the world like a satisfied guest.

She applies her lipstick in spite of its contents: "greasy rouge, containing crushed and dried insect corpses for coloring, beeswax for stiffness, and olive oil to help it flow - the latter having the unfortunate tendency to go rancid several hours a

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

One picture is worth more than ten thousand words.

To add insult to injury.

Being a miner, as soon as you're too old and tired and sick and stupid to do your job properly, you have to go, where the very opposite applies with the judges.

"I'm dying," he croaked. "My experiment was a success," the chemist retorted . "You can't really train a beagle," he dogmatized. "That's no beagle, it's a mongrel," she muttered. "The fire is going out," he bellowed. "Bad marksmanship," the h

Anything is possible on paper.

Some scholars are like donkeys, they merely carry a lot of books.

Immature poets imitate, mature poets steal.

Never keep up with the Joneses. Drag them down to your level.

Before he became a hermit, Zarathud was a young Priest, and took great delight in making fools of his opponents in front of his followers. One day Zarathud took his students to a pleasant pasture and there he confronted The Sacred Chao while She

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.

The eye is a menace to clear sight, the ear is a menace to subtle hearing, the mind is a menace to wisdom, every organ of the senses is a menace to its own capacity. ... Fuss, the god of the Southern Ocean, and Fret, the god of the Northern Ocean, h

By perseverance the snail reached the Ark.

He that bringeth a present, findeth the door open.

Standards are different for all things, so the standard set by man is by no means the only 'certain' standard. If you mistake what is relative for something certain, you have strayed far from the ultimate truth.

Two heads are better than one.

History is nothing but a collection of fables and useless trifles, cluttered up with a mass of unnecessary figures and proper names.

Language is a virus from another planet.

He that teaches himself has a fool for a master.

The USA is so enormous, and so numerous are its schools, colleges and religious seminaries, many devoted to special religious beliefs ranging from the unorthodox to the dotty, that we can hardly wonder at its yielding a more bounteous harvest of gobb

The course of true anything never does run smooth.

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

Princeton's taste is sweet like a strawberry tart. Harvard's is a subtle taste, like whiskey, coffee, or tobacco. It may even be a bad habit, for all I know.

Mother is far too clever to understand anything she does not like.

I wish there was a knob on the TV to turn up the intelligence. There's a knob called "brightness", but it doesn't seem to work.

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.

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.

A woman who is unfaithful deserves to be shot.

The term "fire" brings up visions of violence and mayhem and the ugly scene of shooting employees who make mistakes. We will now refer to this process as "deleting" an employee (much as a file is deleted from a disk). The employee is simply there o

We were so poor we couldn't afford a watchdog. If we heard a noise at night, we'd bark ourselves.

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

The [Ford Foundation] is a large body of money completely surrounded by people who want some.

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.

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

A committee takes root and grows, it flowers, wilts and dies, scattering the seed from which other committees will bloom.

I recognize terror as the finest emotion and so I will try to terrorize the reader. But if I find that I cannot terrify, I will try to horrify, and if I find that I cannot horrify, I'll go for the gross-out.

No excellent soul is exempt from a mixture of madness.

... 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

Music in the soul can be heard by the universe.

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

One good turn asketh another.

I played lead guitar in a band called The Federal Duck, which is the kind of name that was popular in the '60s as a result of controlled substances being in widespread use. Back then, there were no restrictions, in terms of talent, on who could make

Never try to teach a pig to sing. It wastes your time and annoys the pig.

Lookie, lookie, here comes cookie...

We have nowhere else to go... this is all we have.

There are two ways of disliking art. One is to dislike it. The other is to like it rationally.

Live fast, die young, and leave a flat patch of fur on the highway!

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.

One learns to itch where one can scratch.

"Do you think there's a God?" "Well, ____SOMEbody's out to get me!"

It is easier to resist at the beginning than at the end.

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

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

Trifles make perfection, and perfection is no trifle.

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

I stick my neck out for nobody.

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

Academic politics is the most vicious and bitter form of politics, because the stakes are so low.

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,

She cried, and the judge wiped her tears with my checkbook.

The future is a race between education and catastrophe.

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

He who has the courage to laugh is almost as much a master of the world as he who is ready to die.

Receiving a million dollars tax free will make you feel better than being flat broke and having a stomach ache.

If I love you, what business is it of yours?

What a bonanza! An unknown beginner to be directed by Lubitsch, in a script by Wilder and Brackett, and to play with Paramount's two superstars, Gary Cooper and Claudette Colbert, and to be beaten up by both of them!

Someday, Weederman, we'll look back on all this and laugh... It will probably be one of those deep, eerie ones that slowly builds to a blood-curdling maniacal scream... but still it will be a laugh.

Very few people do anything creative after the age of thirty-five. The reason is that very few people do anything creative before the age of thirty-five.

"Hi, I'm Preston A. Mantis, president of Consumers Retail Law Outlet. As you can see by my suit and the fact that I have all these books of equal height on the shelves behind me, I am a trained legal attorney. Do you have a car or a job? Do you ever

Fame lost its appeal for me when I went into a public restroom and an autograph seeker handed me a pen and paper under the stall door.

Prosperity makes friends, adversity tries them.

Producers seem to be so prejudiced against actors who've had no training. And there's no reason for it. So what if I didn't attend the Royal Academy for twelve years? I'm still a professional trying to be the best actress I can. Why doesn't anyone

The lawgiver, of all beings, most owes the law allegiance. He of all men should behave as though the law compelled him. But it is the universal weakness of mankind that what we are given to administer we presently imagine we own.

We're all in this alone.

The Angels want to wear my red shoes.

God help those who do not help themselves.

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

Mum's the word.

To do two things at once is to do neither.

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

Darth Vader! Only you would be so bold!

Ninety percent of everything is crap.

Ignorance is the Mother of Devotion.

Everyone is in the best seat.

CF&C stole it, fair and square.

If I cannot bend Heaven, I shall move Hell.

The major sin is the sin of being born.

Whatever it is, I fear Greeks even when they bring gifts.

The faster we go, the rounder we get.

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

If little green men land in your back yard, hide any little green women you've got in the house.

I am a deeply superficial person.

No is no negative in a woman's mouth.

As well look for a needle in a bottle of hay.

The individual choice of garnishment of a burger can be an important point to the consumer in this day when individualism is an increasingly important thing to people.

The Worst Jury A murder trial at Manitoba in February 1978 was well advanced, when one juror revealed that he was completely deaf and did not have the remotest clue what was happening. The judge, Mr. Justice Solomon, asked him if he had heard any

Never take a resume seriously. Resumes only make money for the people who write the resumes. No resume ever tells an employer how many times a job applicant has had the clap. Why, indeed, would anyone hire a person based on a resume written by a

It is only by risking our persons from one hour to another that we live at all. And often enough our faith beforehand in an uncertified result is the only thing that makes the result come true.

Someday we'll look back on this moment and plow into a parked car.

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

Ed Sullivan will be around as long as someone else has talent.

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.

Let's say your wedding ring falls into your toaster, and when you stick your hand in to retrieve it, you suffer Pain and Suffering as well as Mental Anguish. You would sue: * The toaster manufacturer, for failure to include, in the instructions

Whatever occurs from love is always beyond good and evil.

The problem with any unwritten law is that you don't know where to go to erase it.

Furious activity is no substitute for understanding.

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

There is no sin but ignorance.

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

Great acts are made up of small deeds.

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

It was the next morning that the armies of Twodor marched east laden with long lances, sharp swords, and death-dealing hangovers. The thousands were led by Arrowroot, who sat limply in his sidesaddle, nursing a whopper. Goodgulf, Gimlet, and the r

Necessity hath no law.

I have often regretted my speech, never my silence.

I don't want to achieve immortality through my work. I want to achieve immortality through not dying.

Between 1950 and 1952, a bored weatherman, stationed north of Hudson Bay, left a monument that neither government nor time can eradicate. Using a bulldozer abandoned by the Air Force, he spent two years and great effort pushing boulders into a single

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

A little inaccuracy sometimes saves tons of explanation.

A snake lurks in the grass.

The Bible says that woman was the last thing God made. Evidently He made her on Saturday night. She reveals his fatigue.

If Beethoven's Seventh Symphony is not by some means abridged, it will soon fall into disuse.

Two wrongs don't make a right, but they make a good excuse.

You can never do just one thing.

He who knows others is wise. He who knows himself is enlightened.

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.

There must be more to life than having everything.

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.

Look ere ye leap.

"It's kind of fun to do the impossible."

There's no such thing as a free lunch.

Kindness is the beginning of cruelty.

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.

I always wake up at the crack of ice.

Satire is what closes Saturday night.

Some people say a front-engine car handles best. Some people say a rear-engine car handles best. I say a rented car handles best.

The greatest griefs are those we cause ourselves.

If I could reach, I'd never leave the house.

A continuing flow of paper is sufficient to continue the flow of paper.

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

I never made a mistake in my life. I thought I did once, but I was wrong.

Paradise is exactly like where you are right now ... only much, much better.

We're only in it for the volume.

I used to be disgusted, now I find I'm just amused.

Ain't no right way to do a wrong thing.

A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.

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

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.

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

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

Confucius say too much.

"What was the worst thing you've ever done?" "I won't tell you that, but I'll tell you the worst thing that ever happened to me... the most dreadful thing."

... [concerning quotation marks] even if we *___did* quote anybody in this business, it probably would be gibberish.

Luke, I'm yer father, eh. Come over to the dark side, you hoser.

No poet or novelist wishes he was the only one who ever lived, but most of them wish they were the only one alive, and quite a number fondly believe their wish has been granted.

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."

To avoid criticism, do nothing, say nothing, be nothing.

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

An investment in knowledge always pays the best interest.

The last vestiges of the old Republic have been swept away.

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

Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration.

If truth is beauty, how come no one has their hair done in the library?

What does education often do? It makes a straight cut ditch of a free meandering brook.

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

The human brain is a wonderful thing. It starts working the moment you are born, and never stops until you stand up to speak in public.

Smartness runs in my family. When I went to school I was so smart my teacher was in my class for five years.

If a fool persists in his folly he shall become wise.

If you have to ask what jazz is, you'll never know.

Many hands make light work.

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

Well, you know, no matter where you go, there you are.

It is the quality rather than the quantity that matters.

I will make you shorter by the head.

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.

The avocation of assessing the failures of better men can be turned into a comfortable livelihood, providing you back it up with a Ph.D.

Try not to have a good time ... This is supposed to be educational.

Never buy from a rich salesman.

Burnt Sienna. That's the best thing that ever happened to Crayolas.

Mirrors should reflect a little before throwing back images.

If any man wishes to be humbled and mortified, let him become president of Harvard.

Work is the crab grass in the lawn of life.

This is the sort of English up with which I will not put.

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.

XXVI: If a sufficient number of management layers are superimposed on each other, it can be assured that disaster is not left to chance. XXVII: Rank does not intimidate hardware. Neither does the lack of rank. XXVIII: It is better to be the r

There are worse things in life than death. Have you ever spent an evening with an insurance salesman?

A woman who is guided by the head and not by the heart is a social pestilence: she has all the defects of the passionate and affectionate woman, with none of her compensations; she is without pity, without love, without virtue, without sex.

What!? Me worry?

Doctors and lawyers must go to school for years and years, often with little sleep and with great sacrifice to their first wives.

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

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.

If you want to get rich from writing, write the sort of thing that's read by persons who move their lips when the're reading to themselves.

"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."

Go away, I'm all right.

I'd be a poorer man if I'd never seen an eagle fly.

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

Life is too short to be taken seriously.

The world has many unintentionally cruel mechanisms that are not designed for people who walk on their hands.

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

The chief enemy of creativity is "good" sense

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

It's all right letting yourself go as long as you can let yourself back.

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

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

Rembrandt is not to be compared in the painting of character with our extraordinarily gifted English artist, Mr. Rippingille.

Superstition, idolatry, and hypocrisy have ample wages, but truth goes a-begging.

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

The old complaint that mass culture is designed for eleven-year-olds is of course a shameful canard. The key age has traditionally been more like fourteen.

Judges, as a class, display, in the matter of arranging alimony, that reckless generosity which is found only in men who are giving away someone else's cash.

You don't have to think too hard when you talk to teachers.

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

If little else, the brain is an educational toy.

Nothing is so firmly believed as that which we least know.

It is easier for a camel to pass through the eye of a needle if it is lightly greased.

Lots of folks confuse bad management with destiny.

Men are superior to women.

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

"We're not talking about the same thing," he said. "For you the world is weird because if you're not bored with it you're at odds with it. For me the world is weird because it is stupendous, awesome, mysterious, unfathomable; my interest has been to

But the greatest Electrical Pioneer of them all was Thomas Edison, who was a brilliant inventor despite the fact that he had little formal education and lived in New Jersey. Edison's first major invention in 1877, was the phonograph, which could soo

"If a camel flies, no one laughs if it doesn't get very far."

"Consequences, Schmonsequences, as long as I'm rich."

The universe is made of stories, not of atoms.

There has been a little distress selling on the stock exchange.

A dead man cannot bite.

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

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

When in doubt, have a man come through the door with a gun in his hand.

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.

Being a woman is a terribly difficult trade, since it consists principally of dealings with men.

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

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

We are governed not by armies and police but by ideas.

One hundred women are not worth a single testicle.

When the ax entered the forest, the trees said, "The handle is one of us!"

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Practice yourself what you preach.

There are three reasons for becoming a writer: the first is that you need the money; the second that you have something to say that you think the world should know; the third is that you can't think what to do with the long winter evenings.

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

It has long been noticed that juries are pitiless for robbery and full of indulgence for infanticide. A question of interest, my dear Sir! The jury is afraid of being robbed and has passed the age when it could be a victim of infanticide.

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

IV. The time required for an object to fall twenty stories is greater than or equal to the time it takes for whoever knocked it off the ledge to spiral down twenty flights to attempt to capture it unbroken. Such an object is inevitably price

There's nothing remarkable about it. All one has to do is hit the right keys at the right time and the instrument plays itself.

Dying is easy. Comedy is difficult.

Walking on water wasn't built in a day.

The price of success in philosophy is triviality.

How do you explain school to a higher intelligence?

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

Divorce is a game played by lawyers.

No small art is it to sleep: it is necessary for that purpose to keep awake all day.

Would ye both eat your cake and have your cake?

Ninety percent of the time things turn out worse than you thought they would. The other ten percent of the time you had no right to expect that much.

Certainly the game is rigged. Don't let that stop you; if you don't bet, you can't win.

Beware of all enterprises that require new clothes, and not rather a new wearer of clothes.

He has not acquired a fortune; the fortune has acquired him.

What sane person could live in this world and not be crazy?

Too much of everything is just enough.

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

Classical music is the kind we keep thinking will turn into a tune.

Look, we trade every day out there with hustlers, deal-makers, shysters, con-men. That's the way businesses get started. That's the way this country was built.