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Each man is his own prisoner, in solitary confinement for life.
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The supreme irony of life is that hardly anyone gets out of it alive.
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The United States has become a place where entertainers and professional athletes are mistaken for people of importance.
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I've got a twisted sense of humor, and everything amuses me.
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A fool cannot be protected from his folly. If you attempt to do so, you will not only arouse his animosity but also you will be attempting to deprive him of whatever benefit he is capable of deriving from experience. Never attempt to teach a pig to sing; it wastes your time and annoys the pig.
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A poet who reads his verse in public may have other nasty habits.
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A pessimist is correct oftener than an optimist, but an optimist has more fun - and neither can stop the march of events.
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If a country can't save itself through the volunteer service of its own free people, then I say: Let the damned thing go down the drain!
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Specialization is for insects.
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Remind me to write an article on the compulsive reading of news. The theme will be that most neuroses can be traced to the unhealthy habit of wallowing in the troubles of five billion strangers.
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Premenstrual Syndrome: Just before their periods women behave the way men do all the time.
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How you behave toward cats here below determines your status in Heaven.
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Men rarely (if ever) manage to dream up a god superior to themselves. Most gods have the manners and morals of a spoiled child.
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One man's theology is another man's belly laugh.
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No state has an inherent right to survive through conscript troops and in the rong run no state ever has. Roman matrons used to say to their sons: "Come back with your shield, or on it." Later on, this custom declined. So did Rome.
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A generation which ignores history has no past and no future.
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Always listen to experts. They'll tell you what can't be done and why. Then do it.
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Writing is not necessarily something to be ashamed of, but do it in private and wash your hands afterwards.
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The power to tax, once conceded, has no limits; it contains until it destroys.
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Anyone who clings to the historically untrue -- and thoroughly immoral -- doctrine that `violence never settles anything' I would advise to conjure up the ghosts of Napoleon Bonaparte and of the Duke of Wellington and let them debate it. The ghost of Hitler could referee, and the jury might well be the Dodo, the Great Auk, and the Passenger Pigeon. Violence, naked force, has settled more issues in history than has any other factor, and the contrary opinion is wishful thinking at its worst. Breeds that forget this basic truth have always paid for it with their lives and freedoms.
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Theology is never any help; it is searching in a dark cellar at midnight for a black cat that isn't there. Theologians can persuade themselves of anything.
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Violence, naked force, has settled more issues in history than any other factor, and the contrary opinion is wishfull thinking at its worst. Breeds that forget this basic truth have always paid for it with their lives and freedoms.
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Anyone who clings to the historically untrue - and thoroughly immoral - doctrine that violence never settles anything I would advise to conjure up the ghosts of Napoleon Bonaparte and the duke of Wellington and let them debate it. The ghost of Hitler would referee. Violence, naked force, has settled more issues in history than any other factor, and the contrary opinion is wishful thinking at its worst. Breeds that forgot this basic truth have always paid for it with their lives and there freedoms.
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Of course the game is rigged. Don't let that stop you--if you don't play, you can't win.
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Of all the nonsense that twists the world, the concept of 'altruism' is the worst. People do what they want to do, every time.
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