Women hate revolutions and revolutionists. They like men who are docile, and well-regarded at the bank, and never late at meals.

Bridges would not be safer if only people who knew the proper definition of a real number were allowed to design them.

The only guarantee of the Bill of Rights which continues to have any force and effect is the one prohibiting quartering troops on citizens in time of peace. All the rest have been disposed of by judicial interpretation and legislative whittling.

The most satisfying and ecstatic faith is almost purely agnostic. It trusts absolutely without professing to know at all.

It is difficult to imagine anyone having any real hopes for the human race in the face of the fact that the great majority of men still believe that the universe is run by a gaseous vertebrate of astronomical heft and girth, who is nevertheless interested in the minutest details of the private conduct of even the meanest man.

The war on privilege will never end. Its next grat campaign will be against the special privileges of the underprivileged.

A tin horn politician with the manner of a rural corn doctor and the mien of a ham actor