A great city is not to be confounded with a populous one.
A sociologist is a scientist who blames crime on everything and everyone, except the person who commits it.
A Supreme Court ruling is not the Law of the United States. The law of the United Sates is the Constitution, treaties made in accordance with the Constitution, and laws duly enacted by the Congress and signed by the president. And any of those things I would uphold totally with all of my strength, whether I agreed with them or not ... I am bound by the laws of the United States and all 50 states ... [but] I am not bound by any case or any court to which I myself am not a party ... I don't think the Congress of the United States is subservient to the courts ... They can ignore a Supreme Court ruling if they so choose.
All of Gaul is divided into three parts. Latin: Gallia est omnis divisa in partes tres.
Arms and laws do not flourish together.
Democracy means simply the bludgeoning of the people by the people for the people.
Even where sleep is concerned, too much is a bad thing.
Fear secretes acids; but love and trust are sweet juices.
Have the exorbitant profits of the merchants of Cadiz and Lisbon augmented the capital of Spain and Portugal? Have they alleviated the poverty, have they promoted the industries of those two beggarly countries?
I do not regard a broker as a member of the human race.
I gave 'em a sword. And they stuck it in, and they twisted it with relish. And I guess if I had been in their position, I'd have done the same thing.
I would have made a good Pope.
I would prefer to write about everything; what else is there? But one must be selective.
It has been well said that a hungry man is more interested in four sandwiches than four freedoms.
It is a wretched thing to rest upon the fame of others, lest, the supporting pillar being removed, the superstructure should collapse in ruin.
It is remarkable by how much a pinch of malice enhances the penetrating power of an idea or an opinion. Our ears, it seems, are wonderfully attuned to sneers and evil reports about our fellow men.
Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.
Mausoleum: n. The final and funniest folly of the rich.
Men have never loved one another much, for reasons we can readily understand: Man is not a lovable animal.
Most rock journalism is people who can not write interviewing people who can not talk.
Niagara Falls is the bride's second great disappointment.
Of all our possessions, wisdom alone is immortal.
One ought, every day, to hear a song, read a fine poem, and, if possible, to speak a few reasonable words.
Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all other countries because you were born in it.
So in your discussions of the nuclear freeze proposals I urge you to beware the temptation of pride – the temptation to blithely declare yourselves above it all and label both sides equally at fault, to ignore the facts of history and the aggressive impulses of an evil empire, to simply call the arms race a giant misunderstanding and thereby remove yourself from the struggle between right and wrong and good and evil.
Surely all art is the result of one's having been in danger, of having gone through an experience all the way to the end, where no one can go any further.
The biscuits and the syrup never come out even.
The city itself scared the bejesus out of me. Everybody seemed to know where they were going and what they were doing, and I could get lost just looking for a men's room.
The democracy will cease to exist when you take away from those who are willing to work and give to those who would not.
The great advantages of simulation and dissimulation are three. First to lay asleep opposition and to surprise. For where a man's intentions are published, it is an alarum to call up all that are against them. The second is to reserve a man's self a fair retreat: for if a man engage himself, by a manifest declaration, he must go through, or take a fall. The third is, the better to discover the mind of another. For to him that opens himself, men will hardly show themselves adverse; but will fair let him go on, and turn their freedom of speech to freedom of thought.
The play was a great success, but the audience was a disaster.
The political arena leaves one no alternatives, one must be either a dunce or a rogue.
The secret of man's being is not only to live but to have something to live for.
The secret of remaining young is never to have an emotion that is unbecoming.
The true grandeur of humanity is in moral elevation, sustained, enlightened, and decorated by the intellect of man.
The whole thing is so patently infantile, so foreign to reality, that to anyone with a friendly attitude to humanity it is painful to think that the great majority of mortals will never be able to rise above this view of life.
Through clever and constant application of propaganda, people can be made to see Paradise as Hell; and also the other way around, to consider the most wretched sort of life as Paradise.
To become an able and successful man in any profession, three things are necessary, nature, study and practice.
To die for a friend is not so great a difficulty as to find a friend worth dying for.
Truth is always the strongest argument.
We make our friends; we make our enemies; but God makes our next-door neighbour.
What one has not experienced, one will never understand in print.
When we are planning for posterity, we ought to remember that virtue is not hereditary.
Workers of the World Unite! You have nothing to lose but your chains.
