Audacity, always audacity – soundest principal of strategy.
A little more money won’t do you any good – because daughters can use up ten percent more than a man can make in any normal occupation, regardless of the amount.
You got the impression that he never needed to sleep – just ten-thousand-mile checkups and dust him off occasionally.
Under our system every voter and officeholder is a man who has demonstrated through voluntary and difficult service that he places the welfare of the group ahead of personal advantage.
Once a man gets a reputation as a liar, he might as well be struck dumb, for people do not listen to the wind.
I do know that the slickest way to lie is to tell the right amount of truth – then shut up.
The commonest weakness of our race is our ability to rationalize our most selfish purposes.
Certain types of loudmouthism should be a capital offense among decent people.
Come Judgment Day, we may find that Mumbo Jumbo the God of the Congo was the Big Boss all along.
If I don’t start having service I’m going to swap you all for a dog and shoot the dog.
I have spent too much of my life opening doors for cats – I once calculated that, since the dawn of civilization, nine hundred and seventy-eight man-centuries have been used up that way. I could show you figures.
Nothing gives life more zest that running for your life.
Women are amazing creatures-sweet, soft, gentle, and far more savage than we are.
Churches thrive on martyrdom and persecution.
All human behavior, all human motivations, all man’s hopes and fears, were heavily colored and largely controlled by mankind’s tragic and oddly beautiful pattern of reproduction.
The worst that can possibly have happened to him is death and that we are all in for – if not this morning, then in days, or weeks, or years at most.
Many older physicians had gone to their graves calling Pasteur a liar, a fool, or worse – and without examining evidence which their “common sense” told them was impossible.
Random chance was not a sufficient explanation of the Universe – in fact, random chance was not sufficient to explain random chance; the pot could not hold itself.
Anyone who cannot cope with mathematics is not fully human. At best, he is a tolerable subhuman who has learned to wear his shoes, bathe, and not make messes in the house.
Live and learn, or you don’t live long.