An ignorant person is one who doesn't know what you have just found out.

Labor leaders don't do much laboring after they are able to lead.

Where I come from, they won't let me play with this rope. They think I might hurt myself.

A man only learns by two things; one is reading and the other is association with smarter people.

I would never make a good economist. You know, an economist is a man that can tell you anything about — well, he will tell you what can happen under any given condition — and his guess is liable to be as good as anybody else's, too.

The fellow that can only see a week ahead is always the popular fellow, for he is looking with the crowd. But the one that can see years ahead, he has a telescope but he can't make anybody believe that he has it.

America is a nation that conceives many odd inventions for getting somewhere but it can think of nothing to do once it gets there.