The promises we break are usually such as we are most forward in making.

Man, them engagement rings, boy, they cost a lot. I was looking at 'em. Cost like a thousand bucks, two thousand bucks, y'know. Three thousand bucks. Something like that- four thousand bucks. Big number divisible by a thousand, anyways.

Back in the old days, a man could just get sick and die. Now they have to wage a battle. So my Uncle Bert is waging a courageous battle, which I've seen, because I go and visit him. And this is the battle: he's lying in the hospital bed, with a thing in his arm, watching Matlock on the TV.

The young compliment their greatness on the number of their friends; the old, on the confidence of them.

I don't know anything about politics. I wouldn't put too much into my prediction on politics.

Were there no fools, there would be no flatterers.

There are two things at which most men are grieved: when their faults are exposed, and when their virtues are concealed.