I can teach anybody how to get what they want out of life. The problem is that I can't find anybody who can tell me what they want.

The motto stated a lie. If this nation has ever trusted in God, that time has gone by; for nearly half a century almost its entire trust has been in the Republican party and the dollar--mainly the dollar. I recognize that I am only making an assertion and furnishing no proof; I am sorry, but this is a habit of mine; sorry also that I am not alone in it; everybody seems to have this disease.

Knowledge becomes wisdom only after it has been put to good use.

Climate is what we expect, weather is what we get.

There are three kinds of liars: liars, damned liars, and statisticians

Good wine needs no bush; a jug is the thing.

The Germans have an inhuman way of cutting up their verbs. Now a verb has a hard time enough of it in this world when it's all together. It's downright inhuman to split it up. But that's just what those Germans do. They take part of a verb and put it down here, like a stake, and they take the other part of it and put it away over yonder like another stake, and between these two limits they just shovel in German. from "Disappearance of Literature