Things in our country run in spite of government, not by aid of it.

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.

There is one guaranteed formula for failure, and that is to try to please everyone.

If you want to know how a man stands, go among the people who are in his same business.

We know lots of things we didn't use to know but we don't know any way to prevent 'em from happening.

There is nothing so stupid as the educated man if you get him off the thing he was educated in.

In Hollywood the woods are full of people that learned to write but evidently can't read. If they could read their stuff, they'd stop writing.