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If God lived on earth, people would break his windows.

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You might as well fall flat on your face as lean over too far backward.

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Aristotle was famous for knowing everything. He taught that the brain exists merely to cool the blood and is not involved in the process of thinking. This is true only of certain persons.

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There is nothing so absurd but some philosopher has said it.

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Patriotism is the willingness to kill and be killed for trivial reasons.

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Democracy substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few.

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The remarkable thing about Shakespeare is that he really is very good, in spite of all the people who say he is very good.

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I know not, sir, whether Bacon wrote the works of Shakespeare, but if he did not it seems to me that he missed the opportunity of his life.

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Every journalist has a novel in him, which is an excellent place for it.

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Horse sense is the thing a horse has which keeps it from betting on people.

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