Playing golf is like chasing a quinine pill around a cow pasture.

I could not help reflecting that the bullet which had struck the chestnut [horse] had certainly passed within a foot of my head. So at any rate I had been 'under fire.' That was something.

If you're not a liberal at twenty you have no heart, if you're not a conservative at forty, you have no brain.

The old wars were decided by their episodes rather than by their tendencies. In this war, the tendencies are far more important than the episodes.

Are you insinuating that I am a purveyor of terminological inexactitudes?

No idea is so outlandish that it should not be considered with a searching but at the same time a steady eye.

I began my education at a very early age; in fact, right after I left college.