Froth at the top, dregs at bottom, but the middle excellent.

I don’t think the intelligence reports are all that hot. Some days I get more out of the New York Times.

Study men, not historians.

Where every something, being blent together turns to a wild of nothing.

Pure mathematics is, in its way, the poetry of logical ideas.

In no instance have… the churches been guardians of the liberties of the people.

I have not written in vain if I have heretofore done anything towards diminishing the reputation of the Renaissance landscape painting.

The very phrase ‚foreign affairs‘ makes an Englishman convinced that I am about to treat of subjects with which he has no concern.

If it’s good music, it’s good music.

Next to the young, I suppose the very old are the most selfish.

As is a tale, so is life: not how long it is, but how good it is, is what matters.

Hoover was a patriot in his heart, but he definitely exceeded his power.

The most successful war seldom pays for its losses.

Look at situations from all angles, and you will become more open.

What do I think of Western civilization? I think it would be a very good idea.

I think there is only one quality worse than hardness of heart and that is softness of head.

There are two bowlers who I think are very tough to play against – Dale Steyn and Morne Morkel.

Cunning… is but the low mimic of wisdom.

The superpowers often behave like two heavily armed blind men feeling their way around a room, each believing himself in mortal peril from the other, whom he assumes to have perfect vision.

What we achieved was a nuclear pause, not a nuclear halt.

The intelligence of the creature known as a crowd, is the square root of the number of people in it.

Let blockheads read what blockheads wrote.

Although the big word on the left is ‚compassion,‘ the big agenda on the left is dependency.

It pays to be obvious, especially if you have a reputation for subtlety.

Women. They are a complete mystery.

I’m not an expert on the arms race.

Cobb is a prick. But he sure can hit. God Almighty, that man can hit.

I’m not a macroeconomics person.

Every secret of a writer’s soul, every experience of his life, every quality of his mind is written large in his works.

Much that passes as idealism is disguised hatred or disguised love of power.

Today, all physicists know from studying Einstein and Bohr that sometimes an idea which looks completely paradoxical at first, if analyzed to completion in all detail and in experimental situations, may, in fact, not be paradoxical.

I can stand brute force, but brute reason is quite unbearable. There is something unfair about its use. It is hitting below the intellect.

There is no just and serene criticism as yet.

Associate with men of good quality if you esteem your own reputation; for it is better to be alone than in bad company.

For, if a good speaker, never so eloquent, does not see into the fact, and is not speaking the truth of that – is there a more horrid kind of object in creation?

Perhaps there are none more lazy, or more truly ignorant, than your everlasting readers.

Where quality is the thing sought after, the thing of supreme quality is cheap, whatever the price one has to pay for it.

The human brain is an incredible pattern-matching machine.

The story as told in The Odyssey doesn’t hold water. There are too many inconsistencies.

The good ended happily, and the bad unhappily. That is what fiction means.

If the experiments which I urge be defective, it cannot be difficult to show the defects; but if valid, then by proving the theory, they must render all objections invalid.

The Koran shows every sign of being thrown together by human beings, as do all the other holy books.

Criticism is prejudice made plausible.

In the last analysis, even the best man is evil: in the last analysis, even the best woman is bad.

All genuinely intellectual work is humorous.

A commodity appears at first sight an extremely obvious, trivial thing. But its analysis brings out that it is a very strange thing, abounding in metaphysical subtleties and theological niceties.

The political object is the goal, war is the means of reaching it, and the means can never be considered in isolation from their purposes.

The economy’s always been the engine for our national security.

I believe the Republicans have never thought that democracy was anything but a tribal myth.

Books like friends, should be few and well-chosen.

The lady doth protest too much, methinks.

Get your facts first, then you can distort them as you please.

The method of nature: who could ever analyze it?

Politics I supposed to be the second-oldest profession. I have come to realize that it bears a very close resemblance to the first.

If one plays good music, people don’t listen and if one plays bad music people don’t talk.

History, a distillation of rumour.

Pop is totally results-oriented and there is a very strong feedback loop.

Realists do not fear the results of their study.

I’ve analyzed the best I can… and I have not found an impeachable offense, and therefore resignation is not an acceptable course.

Thinking fragments reality – it cuts it up into conceptual bits and pieces.

It’s no wonder that truth is stranger than fiction. Fiction has to make sense.