"Often we have no time for our friends but all the time in the world for our enemies."

"To refuse awards is another way of accepting them with more noise than is normal."

"It is easier to do a job right than to explain why you didn't."

"In order to stand well in the eyes of the community, it is necessary to come up to a certain, somewhat indefinite, conventional standard of wealth."

"Weakness on both sides is, the motto of all quarrels."

"One of the chief misfortunes of honest people is that they are cowardly."

"The true character of liberty is independence, maintained by force."

"Prejudices are what fools use for reason."

"He must be very ignorant for he answers every question he is asked."

"He is a hard man who is only just, and a sad one who is only wise."

"One is never more on trial than in the moment of excessive good fortune."

"They always say that time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself."

"Inconsistencies of opinion, arising from changes of circumstances, are often justifiable."

"Liberty exists in proportion to wholesome restraint."

"To find the exact answer, one must first ask the exact question."

"Ecstasy is not really part of the scene we can do on celluloid."

Nothing except a battle lost can be half so melancholy as a battle won.

"She's the kind of woman who climbed the ladder of success - wrong by wrong."

"The finest woman that ever walked the streets."

"His mother should have thrown him away and kept the stork."

"Simple solutions seldom are. It takes a very unusual mind to undertake analysis of the obvious."

"The deepest definition of youth is life as yet untouched by tragedy."

"Do I contradict myself? Very well then I contradict myself, (I am large, I contain multitudes)."

"The Past -- the dark unfathomed retrospect! The teeming gulf --the sleepers and the shadows! The past! the infinite greatness of the past! For what is the present after all but a growth out of the past?"

"Democracy means simply the bludgeoning of the people by the people for the people."

"Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught."

"To give an accurate description of what has never occurred is not merely the proper occupation of the historian, but the inalienable privilege of any man of parts and culture."

"Imagination is a quality given a man to compensate him for what he is not, and a sense of humor was provided to console him for what he is."

"The mind of the thoroughly well-informed man is a dreadful thing. It is like a bric-à-brac shop, all monsters and dust, with everything priced above its proper value."

"My experience is that as soon as people are old enough to know better, they don't know anything at all."

"Women love us for our defects. If we have enough of them, they will forgive us everything, even our gigantic intellects."

"The only difference between the saint and the sinner is that every saint has a past, and every sinner has a future."

"To have the reputation of possessing the most perfect social tact, talk to every woman as if you loved her, and to every man as if he bored you."

"Man is a rational animal who always loses his temper when called upon to act according with the dictates of reason."

"Wickedness is a myth invented by good people to account for the curious attraction of others."

"Only in your imagination can you revise."

"I hate intellectuals. They are from the top down. I am from the bottom up."

"Give me the children until they are seven and anyone may have them afterwards."

"I have often repented speaking, but never of holding my tongue."

"Never let a day pass that you will have cause to say, I will do better tomorrow."

"A good man, is a good man, whether in this church, or out of it."

"You can't buy love, but you can pay heavily for it."

"If two men on a job agree all the time, then one is useless. If they disagree all the time, then both are useless."

"It is better to die on your feet than to live on your knees!"

"Duct tape is like the force. It has a light side, a dark side, and it holds the universe together."