The truth is forced upon us very quickly by a foe.

Open your mouth and shut your eyes and see what Zeus will send you.

Youth ages, immaturity is outgrown, ignorance can be educated, and drunkenness sobered, but stupid lasts forever.

A man's homeland is wherever he prospers.

Quickly, bring me a beaker of wine, so that I may wet my mind and say something clever.

Ignorance can be cured, but stupidity is forever

Wise people, even though all laws were abolished, would still lead the same life.

You cannot teach a crab to walk straight.

A man may learn wisdom even from a foe.

Characteristics of a popular politician: a horrible voice, bad breeding, and a vulgar manner.

By words the mind is winged.

When my soul fainted within me ... my prayer came in unto thee.

The human being is a skin-covered petrie dish.

There's never been anybody in the history politics in America that's been so abusive to women. So you can say any way you want to say it, but Bill Clinton was abusive to women.

Most people never have to face the fact that at the right time and the right place they're capable of anything.

I think audiences, producers and directors included, develop crushes on actors (actresses in particular) and then lose interest and move on to the next one.

In order to govern, the question is not to follow out a more or less valid theory but to build with whatever materials are at hand. The inevitable must be accepted and turned to advantage.

Our civilization depends largely on paper.

In a house where there are small children the bathroom soon takes on the appearance of the Old Curiosity Shop.

I will not deny that there are men in the district better qualified than I to go to Congress, but gentlemen, these men are not in the race.

The President needs me at the White House. It's autumn, you know, and the leaves need raking.