Erudition - dust shaken out of a book into an empty skull.

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.

Your politics are so far right, They're wrong.

The drinking parent lied to the sober parent

If people knew you, they would love you." He sounds matter-of-fact.Josh, you break my heart. And you're a liar.Because you know me, you know me better than almost anybody, and you don't love me.

She knew that each emotion came and went, knew that she could cope with whatever life threw at her.

People keep saying, 'How'd you get power?' Nobody gives you power. I'll tell you what power is. Power in my estimation is if people will listen to you. That's it.

I'm just not very good at glamour... It doesn't come easily to me.

Our own species evolved under the influence of group selection, as Darwin emphasized when he discussed the evolution of altruism.

Experience is in the fingers and head. The heart is inexperienced.

The defence of democracy must consist in making anti-democratic experiences too costly for those who try them; much more costly than a democratic compromise