It’s clearly a budget. It’s got a lot of numbers in it.

The false is nothing but an imitation of the true.

Every philosophical problem, when it is subjected to the necessary analysis and justification, is found either to be not really philosophical at all, or else to be, in the sense in which we are using the word, logical.

It is not how much one makes but to what purpose one spends.

The two enemies of human happiness are pain and boredom.

A bank is a place where they lend you an umbrella in fair weather and ask for it back when it begins to rain.

Watch your finances like a hawk.

Neither a borrower nor a lender be.

I bought a company in the mid-’90s called Dexter Shoe and paid $400 million for it. And it went to zero. And I gave about $400 million worth of Berkshire stock, which is probably now worth $400 billion. But I’ve made lots of dumb decisions. That’s part of the game.

For all right judgment of any man or things it is useful, nay, essential, to see his good qualities before pronouncing on his bad.

A national debt, if it is not excessive, will be to us a national blessing.

Truly fertile Music, the only kind that will move us, that we shall truly appreciate, will be a Music conducive to Dream, which banishes all reason and analysis. One must not wish first to understand and then to feel. Art does not tolerate Reason.

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

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

If a business does well, the stock eventually follows.

Beauties in vain their pretty eyes may roll; charms strike the sight, but merit wins the soul.

People do not understand what a great revenue economy is.

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

In the last analysis, what we are communicates far more eloquently than anything we say or do.

Issues are never simple. One thing I’m proud of is that very rarely will you hear me simplify the issues.

To the wicked, everything serves as pretext.

His lack of education is more than compensated for by his keenly developed moral bankruptcy.

There’s no art to find the mind’s construction in the face.

Politics is the ability to foretell what is going to happen tomorrow, next week, next month and next year. And to have the ability afterwards to explain why it didn’t happen.

Over grown military establishments are under any form of government inauspicious to liberty, and are to be regarded as particularly hostile to republican liberty.

We dissect failure a lot more than we dissect success.

There is no just and serene criticism as yet.

Political necessities sometime turn out to be political mistakes.

When I was researching my book ‚The 33 Strategies of War‘, I studied Napoleon extensively and I found myself wanting to ask Napoleon questions about things he did, and if was I interpreting his actions correctly.

Biography lends to death a new terror.

Realists do not fear the results of their study.

Beware of little expenses. A small leak will sink a great ship.

I read the book of Job last night, I don’t think God comes out well in it.

I’m the first to admit this whole salary thing is getting out of control. In the final analysis, it’s still about the work.

A penny saved is a penny earned.

The Holy Roman Empire is neither Holy, nor Roman, nor an Empire.

Money often costs too much.

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

Time, which alone makes the reputation of men, ends by making their defects respectable.

At ev’ry word a reputation dies.

Many people take no care of their money till they come nearly to the end of it, and others do just the same with their time.

Well, when you come down to it, I don’t see that a reporter could do much to a president, do you?

Experts often possess more data than judgment.

Remember that all financial markets are filled with good but not necessarily innocent people looking after their own self-interests before they look after yours.

The secret of ugliness consists not in irregularity, but in being uninteresting.

The Army will take its lessons learned. They’re excellent at looking into themselves and reflecting on what did we do right, what did we do wrong.

You know people talk about federal money as if it falls from heaven. You know we thank heaven for it, but it came out of people’s pockets – and I’ve driven all over Washington, D.C., I cannot find the money tree.

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

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

Facts do not speak for themselves. They speak for or against competing theories. Facts divorced from theories or visions are mere isolated curiosities.

I’m going to retain a lot of Microsoft’s stock.

For my part, I consider that it will be found much better by all parties to leave the past to history, especially as I propose to write that history myself.

The more you observe politics, the more you’ve got to admit that each party is worse than the other.

Every fact is related on one side to sensation, and, on the other, to morals. The game of thought is, on the appearance of one of these two sides, to find the other: given the upper, to find the under side.

There is nothing in which people more betray their character than in what they laugh at.

A penny saved is two pence clear.

When the sword is once drawn, the passions of men observe no bounds of moderation.

We should not look at terrorism from the nameplates – which group they belong to, what is their geographical location, who are the victims. These individual groups or names will keep changing. Today you are looking at the Taliban or ISIS; tomorrow you might be looking at another name.

Let blockheads read what blockheads wrote.

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

You’ll never have a quiet world till you knock the patriotism out of the human race.