What is patriotism but the love of the food one ate as a child?

I have a hankering to go back to the Orient and discard my necktie. Neckties strangle clear thinking.

It is that unoccupied space which makes a room habitable, as it is our leisure hours which make life endurable.

Probably the difference between man and the monkeys is that the monkeys are merely bored, while man has boredom plus imagination.

When small men begin to cast big shadows, it means that the sun is about to set.

I am willing to allow that smoking is a moral weakness, but on the other hand, we must beware of the man without weaknesses. He is not to be trusted. He is apt to be always sober and he cannot make a single mistake. His habits are likely to be regular, his existence more mechanical and his head always maintains its supremacy over his heart. Much as I like reasonable persons, I hate completely rational beings.

When we demand liberty of a person as a constitutional right, we are taking away from the officials their liberty to chop off people's heads.