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.

Under capitalism man exploits man; under socialism the reverse is true.

Rumor travels faster, but it don't stay put as long as truth.

Mothers are the only race of people that speak the same tongue. A mother in Manchuria could converse with a mother in Nebraska and never miss a word.

Congress is going to start tinkering with the Ten Commandments just as soon as they find someone in Washington who has read them.

You have to have a serious streak in you, or you can't see the funny side of the other fellow.

Shrewdness in public life all over the world is always honored, while honesty in public men is generally attributed to dumbness and is seldom rewarded.