The well-known old remark of Cato, who used to wonder how two soothsayers could look one another in the face without laughing.

Politicians are not born; they are excreted.

Poor is the nation that has no heroes, but poorer still is the nation that having heroes, fails to remember and honor them.

It is the peculiar quality of a fool to perceive the faults of others and to forget his own.

Read at every wait; read at all hours; read within leisure; read in times of labor; read as one goes in; read as one goest out. The task of the educated mind is simply put: read to lead.

We learn nothing from history except that we learn nothing from history.

It is not enough to acquire wisdom, it is necessary to employ it.

Times are bad. Children no longer obey their parents, and everyone is writing a book.

Nothing is more unreliable than the populace, nothing more obscure than human intentions, nothing more deceptive than the whole electoral system.

To be ignorant of what occurred before you were born is to remain always a child.

If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need.

The Republicans have their splits right after election and Democrats have theirs just before an election.

Tell me why...... I don't like Mondays.

Don't let any of your good habits get boring.

Lizzing is a combination of laughing and whizzing.

I'm grateful to be an American. I am grateful that we can be angry at the terrorist assault and at the same time be intelligent enough not to hold a grudge against every Arab and every Muslim.

There are days when everyone in the world looks like a Diane Arbus to me. She's a genius but her work is completely different to mine. But on those days I don't use my camera.

All the human beings I met were either sure that there would be no afterlife or else that they would get preferential treatment in the hereafter.

Blasphemy: a law to protect an all-powerful, supernatural deity from getting its feelings hurt.

I'd say the music influences the writing - the music and rhythm of the prose - much more than the writing influences the music.

Unhappy is the fate of one who tries to win his battles and succeed in his attacks without cultivating the spirit of enterprise, for the result is waste of time and general stagnation.