Men are able to trust one another, knowing the exact degree of dishonesty they are entitled to expect.

Many a man in love with a dimple makes the mistake of marrying the whole girl.

The landlady of a boarding-house is a parallelogram - that is, an oblong angular figure, which cannot be described, but which is equal to anything

Now, the essence, the very spirit of Christmas is that we first make believe a thing is so, and lo, it presently turns out to be so.

It may be those who do most, dream most.

I am a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work the more I have of it.

A half truth, like half a brick, is always more forcible as an argument than a whole one. It carries better.

Advertising: the science of arresting the human intelligence long enough to get money from it.

There are two things in ordinary conversation which ordinary people dislike - information and wit

I detest life-insurance agents: they always argue that I shall some day die, which is not so.

It takes a good deal of physical courage to ride a horse. This, however, I have. I get it at about forty cents a flask, and take it as required.

There is an ocean of silence between us… and I am drowning in it.

Back then, Lisa Lisa was somebody that I liked. She was Puerto Rican, and I related to her somewhat. I was a little bit of a fan.

And the law, that is the perfection of reason, cannot suffer anything that is inconvenient.

So young," said Wyman Manderly, "Though mayhaps this was a blessing. Had he lived he would've grown up to be a Frey.

Because I support the Second Amendment doesn't mean that I want people who shouldn't have guns to be able to threaten you, kill you or members of your family.

The cure for anything is salt water: sweat, tears or the sea.

Anything you can do to protect the public and allow it to have the confidence that our financial controls are good is very, very positive.

Once upon a time, a girl lived in a sandcastle, making monsters to send through a hole in the sky.

You can never really predict how people are going to react, what they're going to think about, whether they care.

You can't buy what is popular and do well.