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Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want, and deserve to get it good and hard.

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Philosophy teaches us to bear with equanimity the misfortunes of others.

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I have given up reading books; I find it takes my mind off myself.

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Golf is a good walk spoiled.

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You can fool too many of the people too much of the time.

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Only dull people are brilliant at breakfast.

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Wit is so shining a quality that everybody admires it; most people aim at it, all people fear it, and few love it unless in themselves.

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Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence.

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It may not be that the race is not always to the swift, nor the battle to the strong - but that is the way to bet.

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California is the only state in the union where you can fall asleep under a rose bush in full bloom and freeze to death.

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