An optimist is a guy that has never had much experience.

Vibrations are the key to everything. Atoms used to be, but atoms have quite gone out.

If a child shows himself incorrigible, he should be decently and quietly beheaded at the age of twelve, lest he grow to maturity, marry, and perpetuate his kind.

Yes, he's got all them different kinds of thoroughbred blood in him, and he's got other kinds you ain't mentioned and that you ain't slick enough to see.

There is bound to be a certain amount of trouble running any country. If you are president, the trouble happens to you. But if you are a tyrant you can arrange things so that most of the trouble happens to other people.

A certain alloy of expediency improves the gold of morality and makes it wear all the longer.

I would rather start a family than finish one.