There are only two perfectly useless things in this world. One is an appendix and the other is Poincaré.

In order to act, you must be somewhat insane .A reasonably sensible man is satisfied with thinking.

What can a mere French minister do when associated with Lloyd George, who thinks he is Napoleon, and Woodrow Wilson, who thinks he is Jesus Christ?

If you don't vote Socialist/Communist before you are twenty, you have no heart - if you do vote Socialist/Communist after you are twenty, you have no head.

All that I know I learned after I was thirty.

Americans have no capacity for abstract thought, and make bad coffee.

Liberty is the right to discipline ourselves in order not to be disciplined by others

My home policy: I wage war; my foreign policy: I wage war. All the time I wage war.

I don't know whether war is an interlude during peace, or peace is an interlude during war.

The best time of love, is when one goes up the stairs.

America is the only nation in history which miraculously has gone directly from barbarism to degeneration without the usual interval of civilization.

You know, when it works, love is amazing. It's not overrated.

I crave my mom's Sloppy Joes.

We have elders who [are] misguided and wallowing around in troughs of money with the wrong sort. They're not really good elders for the youth to emulate. The youth rightly don't like them.

Boning is a pain, but it makes such a majestic chicken.

When I heated my home with oil, I used an average of 800 gallons a year. I have found that I can keep comfortably warm for an entire winter with slightly over half that quantity of beer.

Our life contains a thousand springs, And dies if one be gone. Strange! that a harp of thousand strings Should keep in tune so long.

All delay is helpful, but it does produce wisdom.

If ebooks mean that readers' freedom must either increase or decrease, we must demand the increase.

I let the evening unfold. I'm the sort of guy who likes to sit in the chair and look at the wine glass.

People can never work out where they know me from. They just come up and chat with me like mates.