Satire, being levelled at all, is never resented for an offence by any.

Laws are like cobwebs, which may catch small flies, but let wasps and hornets break through.

We have enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love one another.

For in reason, all government without the consent of the governed is the very definition of slavery.

Vision is the art of seeing things invisible.

That the universe was formed by a fortuitous concourse of atoms, I will no more believe than that the accidental jumbling of the alphabet would fall into a most ingenious treatise of philosophy.

Promises and pie-crust are made to be broken.

When a true genius appears, you can know him by this sign: that all the dunces are in a confederacy against him.

You should never be ashamed to admit you have been wrong. It only proves you are wiser today than yesterday

The sight of you is good for sore eyes.

He was a bold man that first ate an oyster.

If a child cannot place implicit confidence in his parent, most assuredly no confidence can be reposed in the child.

A human being is a being who is constantly 'under construction, ' but also, in a parallel fashion, always in a state of constant destruction.

Success is often a series of small accomplishments that lead to great results.

Onde you bid farewell to discipline you day goodbye to success

A year after Hemingway died on the front page, Faulkner went off after a binge, as if dying was nobody's business but his own.

I'm not a folk-singer. I just sing a certain place.

I wish I could do something else, I wish I was an amazing painter or a brain surgeon or something, but it's just what it's been.

I want people to like me. They don't have to always like my characters, you understand

My parents were very patient with my pretentious little adolescent snobberies. It took me awhile to accept them.

You can either just have fun with the joke or you can have fun with the joke and think about the implication of it. It's totally up to the listener.