The behavior of the crowd at Churchill Downs is like 100,000 vicious Hyenas going berserk all at once in a space about the size of a 777 jet or the White House lawn.

Pakistan will never be able to match the Indian militarily, and the effort to do so is taking an immense toll on the society.

Just as I wanted to outdo everyone when I played, I had to outdo everyone when we were out on the town.

Things have never been more like the way they are today in history.

In praise there is more obtrusiveness than in blame.

My books are like water; those of the great geniuses are wine. (Fortunately) everybody drinks water.

If you had a million Shakespeares, could they write like a monkey?

The man with a toothache thinks everyone happy whose teeth are sound. The poverty-stricken man makes the same mistake about the rich man.

No matter how long he lives, no man ever becomes as wise as the average woman of forty-eight.

The brain is wider than the sky.

I have found that, in the composition of the human body as compared with the bodies of animals, the organs of sense are duller and coarser. Thus, it is composed of less ingenious instruments, and of spaces less capacious for receiving the faculties of sense.

The difference between a democracy and a dictatorship is that in a democracy you vote first and take orders later; in a dictatorship you don’t have to waste your time voting.

It would be an egregious mistake to ever refer to me in the same breath as most of the people I write about.

Better a diamond with a flaw than a pebble without.

Dictionaries are like watches, the worst is better than none and the best cannot be expected to go quite true.

Immorality: the morality of those who are having a better time.

Writing music is just like writing a book.

As a British driver, you get compared to Lewis and I get that. But when he came to McLaren, they were doing well and had a championship-winning car. I’m in a very different situation so I don’t compare myself to his stats.

Colleges are like old-age homes, except for the fact that more people die in colleges.

The people who are absent are the ideal; those who are present seem to be quite commonplace.

Of Manners gentle, of Affections mild; In Wit a man; Simplicity, a child.

French fries kill more people than guns and sharks, yet nobody’s afraid of French fries.

Can people who hunger so desperately for what other people have ever have enough?

You’d have a hard time finding anything better than Barcelona for food, as far as being a hub. Given a choice between Barcelona and San Sebastian to die in, I’d probably want to die in San Sebastian.

A first-rate soup is more creative than a second-rate painting.

During most of my freelancing, I made what I would have made in charge of the cafeteria at a pretty good junior-high school.

Jesus is ideal and wonderful, but you Christians – you are not like him.

It disturbs me no more to find men base, unjust, or selfish than to see apes mischievous, wolves savage, or the vulture ravenous.

You might say that Lyndon Johnson is a cross between a Baptist preacher and a cowboy.

There is but an inch of difference between a cushioned chamber and a padded cell.

Great and good are seldom the same man.

In the United States, one of the main topics of academic political science is the study of attitudes and policy and their correlation. The study of attitudes is reasonably easy in the United States: heavily-polled society, pretty serious and accurate polls, and policy you can see, and you can compare them.

We’re more popular than Jesus now; I don’t know which will go first, rock ‚n‘ roll or Christianity.

Christianity will go. It will vanish and shrink. I needn’t argue with that; I’m right and I will be proved right. We’re more popular than Jesus now; I don’t know which will go first – rock and roll or Christianity.

Mobile is a lot closer to TV than it is to desktop.

I am a normal guy from the Black Forest, and I do not compare myself with the geniuses.

In some respects, South African apartheid was more vicious than Israeli practices, and in some respects the opposite is true.

One of the most striking differences between a cat and a lie is that a cat has only nine lives.

Apple’s market share is bigger than BMW’s or Mercedes’s or Porsche’s in the automotive market. What’s wrong with being BMW or Mercedes?

Video is growing very quickly on Facebook. A lot of people compare that to YouTube. I think that kind of makes sense. YouTube isn’t the only video service, but I think it’s the biggest, and it probably makes more sense to compare Facebook video to YouTube rather than Netflix because that’s a completely different kind of content.

What an ugly beast the ape, and how like us.

Jealousy is both reasonable and belongs to reasonable men, while envy is base and belongs to the base, for the one makes himself get good things by jealousy, while the other does not allow his neighbour to have them through envy.

I hate what I look like on TV, and I want to look better, and nothing makes the mothers more jealous.

When women kiss it always reminds one of prize fighters shaking hands.

The fact that a believer is happier than a skeptic is no more to the point than the fact that a drunken man is happier than a sober one.

Opera in English is, in the main, just about as sensible as baseball in Italian.

Before you try to keep up with the Joneses, be sure they’re not trying to keep up with you.

I have found far greater enthusiasm for science in America than here in Britain. There is more enthusiasm for everything in America.

Except during the nine months before he draws his first breath, no man manages his affairs as well as a tree does.

In the United States, we can do almost anything we want. It’s not like Egypt, where you’re going to get murdered by the security forces.

Music is like film to me.

People should not make me out to be like Jesus; I don’t walk on water.

Unlike many of its European neighbors, Britain shares many of America’s financial traits.

Why would anyone steal a shopping cart? It’s like stealing a two-year-old.

We believe that according the name ‚investors‘ to institutions that trade actively is like calling someone who repeatedly engages in one-night stands a ‚romantic.‘

Even though the risks of death are higher driving than flying, many people would rather drive simply because they feel they have more control driving. The facts are that only a few hundred people die a year flying, and 44,000 are killed a year driving.

In George Bush you get experience, and with me you get – The Future!

You’re beautiful, like a May fly.

A lot of people have it a lot worse than you do.

In the past there were people who were not rich but contented with their living style, laughing and happy all day. But when the new rich people appear, people look at them and ask, ‚why don’t I have a life like that too, a beautiful house, car and garden,‘ and they abandon their values.

Socialism is the same as Communism, only better English.