Don't bother explaining--I've heard all the excuses and the trouble is most of them are true.

There are two kinds of fools. One says, "This is old, and therefore good." And one says, " This is new, and therefore better.

to travel faster than a speeding bullet is not much help if you and it are heading straight towards each other

What people want, mainly, is to be told by some plausible authority that what they are already doing is right. I don't know know of a quicker way to become unpopular than to disagree.

Like living creatures, automobiles expired when their environment became saturated with their own excreta. We ourselves are living creatures. We don't want the same to happen to us.

"Pay him what was promised", said the caliph. "And put out his eyes."

Papa Hegel he say that all we learn from history is that we learn nothing from history. I knew people who can't even learn from what happened this morning. Hegel must have been taking the long view.