[History is] petrified imagination.
A newspaper is a circulating library with high blood pressure.
It was as helpful as throwing a drowning man both ends of the rope.
If you do big things they print your face, and if you do little things they print only your thumbs.
If you demand money from someone in exchange for your silence, it's called 'blackmail'. If your lawyer demands money from someone in exchange for your silence, it's called a settlement. If you do big things they print your face, and if you do little things they print only your thumbs.
An empty cab drove up and Sarah Bernhardt got out.