DIAPHRAGM, n. A muscular partition separating disorders of the chest from disorders of the bowels.

Speak when you are angry and you will make the best speech you will ever regret.

The most affectionate creature in the world is a wet dog.

War is God's way of teaching Americans geography.

In our civilization, and under our republican form of government, intelligence is so highly honored that it is rewarded by exemption from the cares of office.

Mayonnaise: One of the sauces which serve the French in place of a state religion.

Admiral. That part of a warship which does the talking while the figurehead does the thinking.

Spring beckons! All things to the call respond; the trees are leaving and cashiers abscond.

NEPOTISM, n. Appointing your grandmother to office for the good of the party.

Divorce: a resumption of diplomatic relations and rectification of boundaries.

Clairvoyant, n.: A person, commonly a woman, who has the power of seeing that which is invisible to her patron - namely, that he is a blockhead.

Reciprocal accountability, or criticism [is] the only known antidote to error.

In my imaginary utopian world there would be a greater allegiance between music writers and musicians.

The drive toward the formation of metaphors is the fundamental human drive, which one cannot for a single instant dispense with in thought , for one would thereby dispense with man himself.

All the modelling we do shows that the climate is poised on the jump up to a new hot state. It is accelerating so fast that you could say that we are already in it.

Protesting the color of a man's skin is not a worthy protest.

In war the simplest manoeuvres are the best.

If you can't take the heat, don't tickle the dragon.

Wherever people feel safe — they will be indifferent.

Often the prudent, far from making their destinies, succumb to them. -Francois

At first there is nothing, then there is a profound nothingness, after that a blue profundity.