"Do you want my honest opinion?" People ask. I say, "Yes," for I'm curious. So they give me their honest opinion, And I - well, I'm always furious.

I love a finished speaker, I really, truly do I don't mean one who's polished, I just mean one who's through.

Retired is being tired twice, I've thought, first tired of working, then tired of not.

If we cannot define stupidity, at least we can trace most human misfortunes and weaknesses to it. Its manifestations are legion, its symptoms are endless.

There is some consolation in the fact that, even though your dreams don't come true, neither do your nightmares.

A rumor is one thing that gets thicker instead of thinner as it is spread.

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.