If you take an Oriental person and spin him around several times, does he become disoriented?

The early bird gets the worm, but the second mouse gets the cheese

You can't have everything. Where would you put it?

To steal ideas from one person is plagiarism; to steal from many is research.

If toast always lands butter-side down, and cats always land on their feet, what happens if you strap toast on the back of a cat and drop it?

I couldn't repair your brakes, so I made your horn louder.

A lot of people are afraid of heights. Not me, I'm afraid of widths.

If people from Poland are called Poles, why aren't people from Holland called Holes?

The other night I was lying in bed, looking up at the stars, and I wondered, 'Where the hell is my roof?

If a man says something in the woods and there are no women there, is he still wrong?

Right now I’m having amnesia and déjà vu at the same time. I think I’ve forgotten this before.

... we are most of us brought up in the notion that the highest motive for not doing a wrong is something irrespective of the beings who would suffer the wrong.

Duty is the great business of a sea officer; all private considerations must give way to it, however painful it may be.

Remember this: No one is looking at your imperfections; they're all too busy worrying about their own.

I ain't got no quarrel with them Viet Cong.

Prends l'e loquence et tords-lui son cou! Take eloquence and break its neck!

For me, curiosity is life. If you are not curious, you are in your coffin.

the wide discrepancy between reason and feeling may be unreal; it is not improbable that intellect is a high form of feeling - a specialized, intensive feeling about intuitions.

The problem for me is that I look like so many people in my family, so I can't really see anything. Except I could say that I look rather like my father without his mustache.

The last thing Australia needs right now is instability and uncertainty.

I have said many times-if I hadn't been exposed to music as a child I don't think I would have been president.