It is the difference of opinion that makes horse races.

Collective judgement of new ideas is so often wrong that it is arguable that progress depends on individuals being free to back their own judgement despite collective disapproval.

Intellectually I know that America is no better than any other country; emotionally I know she is better than every other country.

Discretion of speech is more than eloquence; and to speak agreeably to him with whom we deal is more than to speak in good words or in good order.

That it shall hold companionship in peace With honour, as in war. -Coriolanus. Act iii. Sc. 2.

Ask me no questions and I'll tell you no lies.

It is during our darkest moments that we must focus to see the light.

It hath been an antient custom among them that none should wear a fether but he who had killed a Turk, to whom onlie yt was lawful to shew the number of his slaine enemys by the number of fethers in his cappe.

The circumstance which gives authors an advantage above all these great masters, is this, that they can multiply their originals; or rather, can make copies of their works, to what number they please, which shall be as valuable as the originals themselves.

Nobody believes a rumor here in Washington until it's officially denied.

Thurber did not write the way a surgeon operates, he wrote the way a child skips rope, the way a mouse waltzes.

The windflower and the violet, they perished long ago, And the brier-rose and the orchis died amid the summer glow; But on the hills the golden-rod, and the aster in the wood, And the yellow sunflower by the brook, in autumn beauty stood, Till fell the first from the clear cold heaven, as falls the plague on men, And the brightness of their smile was gone, from upland glade and glen.

got a frog in your throat?

Getting to the top.

For if I be an offender, or have committed any thing worthy of death, I refuse not to die: but if there be none of these things whereof these accuse me, no man may deliver me unto them. I appeal unto Caesar.

A clown is like aspirin, only he works twice as fast.

It's the good girls who keep the diaries; the bad girls never have the time.

What kind of world is this that can send machines to Mars and does nothing to stop the killing of a human being?

Make it idiot proof and someone will make a better idiot.

A business with an income at its heels.