The wheels are turning, but the hamsters are all dead. Make it idiot-proof and someone will make a better idiot. I learned long ago, never to wrestle with a pig, you get dirty; and besides, the pig likes it.

The man who has never made a mistake will never make anything else.

We are the masters at the moment, and not only at the moment, but for a very long time to come.

All progress depends on the unreasonable man.

A cigarette is a pinch of tobacco rolled in paper with fire at one end and a fool at the other.

Any man who is not a communist at the age of twenty is a fool. Any man who is still a communist at the age of thirty is an even bigger fool.

There is not one single established religion that an intelligent, educated man can believe.