When a private entity does not produce the desired results, it is (certain body parts excepted) done away with. But a public entity gets bigger.

Giving money and power to government is like giving whiskey and car keys to teenage boys.

There are a number of mechanical devices which increase sexual arousal, particularly in women. Chief among these is the Mercedes-Benz 380SL convertible.

Mercedes Benz : A mechanical device that increases sexual arousal in women.

Tabasco sauce is to bachelor cooking what forgiveness is to sin.

A firm, hearty handshake gives a good first impression, and you'll never be forgiven if you don't live up to it.

At the core of liberalism is the spoiled child — miserable, as all spoiled children are, unsatisfied, demanding, ill-disciplined, despotic and useless. Liberalism is a philosophy of sniveling brats.

There's a whiff of the lynch mob or the lemming migration about any overlarge concentration of like-thinking individuals, no matter how virtuous their cause.

Even very young children need to be informed about dying. Explain the concept of death very carefully to your child. This will make threatening him with it much more effective.

Watching Republicans in Washington is like watching lemmings, if lemmings jumped into cesspools instead of off cliffs. Splash! There goes Mark Foley!

Authority has always attracted the lowest elements in the human race

Life is transient and ephemeral so dance in your own way.

Democracy is a small hard core of common agreement surrounded by a rich variety of individual differences.

He laughs best who laughs at the end.

Mistress Mary Quite Contrary

I never hesitate to tell a man that I am bullish or bearish. But I do not tell people to buy or sell any particular stock. In a bear market all stocks go down and in a bull market they go up.

You might drop your heart into me and you'd never hear it touch bottom.

There's always something to occupy the inquiring mind.

Because everyone is someone's child, every woman seems like someone's mother.

The greatest opportunities today are to go into business for yourself as an entrepreneur.

Peeta?" I creep along the bank. "Well, don't step on me.