[John Foster Dulles] invented Brinkmanship, the most popular game since Monopoly.

It is all right to hold a conversation but you should let go of it now and then.

Rather than earn money, it was Thoreau's idea to reduce his wants so that he would not need to buy anything. As he went around preaching this ingenious idea, the shopkeepers of Concord hoped he would drop dead.

Shakespeare, who never could think up a plot by himself, found this one [Macbeth] in Holinshed's Chronicles, changing it just enough so that no one would recognize the source. He didn't count on the resourcefulness of modern scholars, who have to discover things like this to become associate professors.

That money talks, I'll not deny, I heard it once: It said, 'Goodbye'.

Good sportsmanship we hail, we sing, It's always pleasant when you spot it. There's only one unhappy thing: You have to lose to prove that you've got it.

[John Foster Dulles] invented Brinkmanship, the most popular game since Monopoly.