Tombs are the clothes of the dead and a grave is a plain suit; while an expensive monument is one with embroidery.
All I claimed was that when a drastic change occurs, it occurs in a relatively small and isolated population.
Patriot: the person who can holler the loudest without knowing what he is hollering about.
We say that we care about the war, but we don't even really know what we're fighting for.
Never neglect details. When everyone's mind is dulled or distracted the leader must be doubly vigilant.
The secret of life is honesty and fair dealing. If you can fake that, you've got it made.
Anyone can be a barbarian; it requires a terrible effort to remain a civilized man.
Money is not an aphrodisiac: the desire it may kindle in the female eye is more for the cash than the carrier.
Facts sometimes have a strange and bizarre power that makes their inherent truth seem unbelievable.
In fact, in lyric poetry, truthfulness becomes recognizable as a ring of truth within the medium itself.
If the Mets can win the World Series, the United States can get out of Vietnam.
When the reviews are bad I tell my staff that they can join me as I cry all the way to the bank.
I believe in the fundamental truth of all great religions of the world.
If we wish to free ourselves from enslavement, we must choose freedom and the responsibility this entails.
The need to exert power, when thwarted in the open fields of life, is the more likely to assert itself in trifles.
It is true that there are few plays of Shakespeare that I haven't done.
Well, actually, I don't consider myself a jazz legend or anything.
So I suppose that means we can actually play the instruments.
No question is so difficult to answer as that to which the answer is obvious.
Nothing can contribute more to peace of soul than the lack of any opinion whatever.