All knowledge which ends in words will die as quickly as it came to life, with the exception of the written word: which is its mechanical part.
It was with deep, idiotic relief that I leaned on that fleshy, humid, barn-yard fool.
Joe Frazier got hit more than me - and he doesn't have Parkinson's.
When the opponent expand, I contract. When he contracts, I expand. And, when there is an opportunity, I do not hit - it hits all by itself.
She's a hypnotist collector; you are a walking antique.
Seriousness is the only refuge of the shallow.
“Carefully compare the opposing army with your own, so that you may know where strength is superabundant and where it is deficient.”
The ancient Romans built their greatest masterpieces of architecture, their amphitheaters, for wild beasts to fight in.
And your very flesh shall be a great poem.
We may find in the long run that tinned food is a deadlier weapon than the machine-gun.
Life doesn't imitate art, it imitates bad television.
Out in hollywood, where the streets are paved with goldwyn....
Thought is the sculptor who can create the person you want to be.
Thinking is the hardest work of all, and that's why so few of us do it.
Nature is pleased with simplicity. And nature is no dummy.
If I have ever made any valuable discoveries, it has been due more to patient attention, than to any other talent.
I didn't get into this to pick up a new hobby. I don't want to just be a golfer. I want to be the best.
An eye for an eye, and the whole world would be blind.
The ideas of the ruling class are in every epoch the ruling ideas, I.E., the class which is the ruling material force of society, is at the same time its ruling intellectual force.
There is never a shortage anywhere of lawyers eager to attack the first amendment, as though it were nothing more than a clause in a lease from a crooked slumlord.
When you disarm the people, you commence to offend them and show that you distrust them either through cowardice or lack of confidence, and both of these opinions generate hatred.
I don't think there will be a woman prime minister in my lifetime.
Naturally, there are times when every woman likes to be flattered... to feel she is the most important thing in someone's world. only a man can paint this picture.
Nothing in all the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity.