“Rogues are preferable to imbeciles because they sometimes take a rest.”
“The least of learning is done in the classrooms.”
“Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it whether it exists or not, diagnosing it incorrectly, and applying the wrong remedy.”
“Charm is a way of getting the answer yes without asking a clear question.”
“To die is nothing; but it is terrible not to live.”
“Science arose from poetry–when times change the two can meet again on a higher level as friends.”
“Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep.”
“Any clod can have the facts, but having opinions is an art.”
“Life is a fatal complaint, and an eminently contagious one.”
“The most overlooked advantage to owning a computer is that if they foul up there’s no law against wacking them around a little.”
“I just need enough to tide me over until I need more.”
“Riches may enable us to confer favours, but to confer them with propriety and grace requires a something that riches cannot give.”
“First weigh the considerations, then take the risks.”
“To avoid criticism do nothing, say nothing, be nothing.”
“A man may well bring a horse to the water but he cannot make him drink.”
“Acceptance is not a state of passivity or inaction. I am not saying you can’t change the world, right wrongs, or replace evil with good. …
“General principles should not be based on exceptional cases.”
“In all affairs it’s a healthy thing now and then to hang a question mark on the things you have long taken for granted.”
“We can learn much from wise words, little from wisecracks, and less from wise guys.”
“The past is finished. There is nothing to be gained by going over it. Whatever it gave us in the experiences it brought us was …
“The ability to see beauty is the beginning of our moral sensibility. What we believe is beautiful we will not wantonly destroy.”
“By constant self-discipline and self-control you can develop greatness of character.”
“Approach each new problem not with a view of finding what you hope will be there, but to get the truth, the realities that must …
“If life was fair, Elvis would be alive and all the impersonators would be dead.”
“The first half of our lives is ruined by our parents, and the second half by our children.”
“Speak the truth, but leave immediately after.”
“I know that there are people who do not love their fellow man, and I hate people like that!”
“I shall never be ashamed of citing a bad author if the line is good.”
“Any event, once it has occurred, can be made to appear inevitable by a competent historian.”
“Space isn’t remote at all. It’s only an hour’s drive away if your car could go straight upwards.”
“A little inaccuracy sometimes saves tons of explanation.”
“I have been through some terrible things in my life, some of which actually happened.”
“There is no abstract art. You must always start with something. Afterward you can remove all traces of reality.”
“Your life story would not make a good book. Don’t even try.”
“I am a kind of paranoiac in reverse. I suspect people of plotting to make me happy.”
“Every man is wise when attacked by a mad dog; fewer when pursued by a mad woman; only the wisest survive when attacked by a …
“Democracy is a device that ensures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.”
“Competence, like truth, beauty and contact lenses, is in the eye of the beholder.”
“Things are only impossible until they’re not.”
“Isn’t everyone a part of everyone else?”