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Any child can tell you that the sole purpose of a middle name is so he can tell when he's really in trouble.
Necessity, the mother of invention.
Intellectual brilliance is no guarantee against being dead wrong.
Christ died for our sins. Dare we make his martyrdom meaningless by not committing them?
Never settle with words what you can accomplish with a flamethrower.
How easy it is for a man to die rich, if he will but be content to live miserable.
I've been on a diet for two weeks and all I've lost is two weeks.
Never give a sucker an even break.
Some weasel took the cork out of my lunch.
An honorable defeat is better than a dishonorable victory.
When you aim for perfection, you discover it's a moving target.
The essence of war is violence. Moderation in war is imbecility.
Never contradict; never explain; never apologize.
The test of a first rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in mind at the same time and still retain the ability to function.
I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them.
Any man who has $10,000 left when he dies is a failure.
Presence is more than just being there.
Ability will never catch up with the demand for it.
When you are what you want to be, that's happiness.
When things are bad, we take comfort in the thought that they could always be worse. And when they are, we find hope in the thought that things are so bad they have to get better.
If the Government is big enough to give you everything you want, it is big enough to take away everything you have.
If they try to rush me, I always say, "I've only got one other speed--and it's slower."
You can't build a reputation on what you are going to do.
I am looking for a lot of man who have an infinite capacity to not know what can't be done.
Failure is only the opportunity to begin again more intelligently.
We now know that anything which is economically right is also morally right, there can be no conflict between good economics and good morals.
History is more or less bunk.
Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty.
Capital punishment is as fundamentally wrong as a cure for crime as charity is wrong as a cure for poverty.
You don't approach a case with the philosophy of applying abstract justice--you go in to win.
Always hold your head up, but be careful to keep your nose at a friendly level.
Spoon-feeding in the long run teaches us nothing but the shape of the spoon.
If I had to chose between betraying my country and betraying my friend, I hope I should have the guts to betray my country.
Death destroys a man: the idea of Death saves him.
The world is moving so fast these days that the man who says it can't be done is generally interrupted by someone doing it.
Our accepting what we are must always inhibit our being what we ought to be.
Health nuts are going to feel stupid someday lying in hospitals dying of nothing.
The common man, who doesn't know what to do with this life, wants another which shall be endless.
If fifty million people say a foolish thing it is still a foolish thing.
The law, in its majestic equality, forbids the rich as well as the poor to sleep under bridges, to beg in the streets, and to steal bread.
To die for an idea is to place a pretty high price upon conjectures.
Never lend books, for no one ever returns them. The only books I have in my library are books that other folk have lent me.
Everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of human freedoms--to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances.
Well done is better than well said.
We must all hang together, or, most assuredly, we shall all hang seperately.
All the Constitution guarantees is the pursuit of happiness. You have to catch up with it yourself.
They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.
Dost thou love life? Then do not squander time, for that is the stuff life is made of.
Early to bed and early to rise, makes a man healthy, wealthy, and wise.
Never leave that till tomorrow which you can do today.
Experience keeps a dear school, but fools will learn in no other.
Remember that time is money.
There never was a good war or a bad peace.
Our Constitution is in actual operation; everything appears to promise that it will last; but in this world nothing is certain but death and taxes.
There may be two libertarians somewhere who agree with one another, but I am not one of them.
The government solution to a problem is usually as bad as the problem.
Why fear death? It is the most beautiful adventure in life.
Man is the only animal for whom his own existence is a problem which he has to solve.
The successful revolutionary is a statesman, the unsuccessful one a criminal.
The danger of the past was that men became slaves. The danger of the future is that men may become robots.
Don't aim for success if you want it; just do what you love and believe in, and it will come naturally.
By working faithfully eight hours a day you may eventually get to be a boss and work twelve hours a day.
Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence.
I hold it to be the inalienable right of anybody to go to hell in his own way.
To deny the freedom of the will is to make morality impossible.
Wild animals never kill for sport. Man is the only one to whom the torture and death of his fellow-creatures is amusing in itself.
The citizen who criticizes his country is paying it an implied tribute.
Right now I am a passenger on space vehicle Earth zooming about the Sun at 60,000 miles per hour somewhere in the solar system.
Either war is obsolete or men are.
All things are difficult before they are easy.
Two things a man should never be angry at: what he can help, and what he cannot help.
