Behavior was better when cinemas were opulent.

Talk about presidents "taking" the country hither and yon is part of the foam of presidential elections.

There may be arrogance – and the laziness of someone who is indefatigable when doing what he enjoys, but only when doing that.

People who have nothing much in mind for next week speak instead about the next century or millennium.

Time was when much of lawyering consisted (according to turn-of-the-century lawyer and statesman Elihu Root) in "telling would-be clients that they are damned fool's, and should stop.

In this age of 'whatever, ' Americans are becoming slaves to the new tyranny of nonchalance. " James Morris

He was one of the fortunate few for whom there simply was no discernible line between work and play, between creation and recreation.

Liberalism is not fond of fun, or at least of many forms of fun that many people like.

In Gladstone's mature years he lost faith not in God but in the ability of any government or state to act as the agent of God.

Enough anecdotes make a pattern.

Politics is always driven by competing worries.

If this cursed and fallen worldholds such beauty as what I see, Imagine the beauty of paradisethat's gladly waiting for me.

Work is the undoing of nature.

I must say I am not pleased to have to arrange the Senate schedule around the availability of Senators who are running for President.

The last thing in the world my parents would want to do is get on a stage or do a movie. They would probably rather die. But they let me be who I was, and they supported me.

Mend your clothes and you may hold out this year.

[My] worst habit: Drinking too much Budweiser when I get angry.

It's a trip to have a Greatest Hits record. It's a trip.

We learn history not in order to know how to behave or how to succeed, but to know who we are.

You have to take what you could get when you're getting started.

Seven hours to law, to soothing slumber seven, Ten to the world allot, and all to heaven.