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The only difference between death and taxes is that death doesn’t get worse every time Congress meets.

One touch of nature makes the whole world kin.

Go, and never darken my towels again.

Condemn me. It does not matter. History will absolve me.

I don’t care to belong to a club that accepts people like me as members.

The earth laughs in flowers.

Impossible is a word to be found only in the dictionary of fools.

Though she be but little, she is fierce.

I’m not concerned about all hell breaking loose, but that a PART of hell will break loose… it’ll be much harder to detect.

If we lose love and self respect for each other, this is how we finally die.

It’s a good thing we don’t get all the government we pay for.

The devil can cite Scripture for his purpose.

It has been said that politics is the second oldest profession. I have learned that it bears a striking resemblance to the first.

Nothing is more terrible than to see ignorance in action.

Waste brings woe, and sorrow hates despair.

Nothing in life is so exhilarating as to be shot at without result.

A right delayed is a right denied.

Without music, life would be a mistake.

A woman is an occasional pleasure but a cigar is always a smoke.

The smallest feline is a masterpiece.

I like nonsense; it wakes up the brain cells.

Brevity is the soul of wit.

Patriotism is the last refuge of the scoundrel.

If everything isn’t black and white, I say, ‚Why the hell not?‘

Let food be thy medicine and medicine be thy food.

Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent.

When you reach the end of your rope, tie a knot in it and hang on.

I am become death, the destroyer of worlds.

The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.

Water is the driving force of all nature.

Remember, man does not live on bread alone: sometimes he needs a little buttering up.

Alfred Hitchcock once told me, when I was analyzing a lot of things about his pictures, ‚Clint, you must remember, it’s only a movie.‘

You want a friend in Washington? Get a dog.

The only thing worse than being blind is having sight but no vision.

The most interesting thing about a postage stamp is the persistence with which it sticks to its job.

Time you enjoy wasting, was not wasted.

Where love rules, there is no will to power; and where power predominates, there love is lacking. The one is the shadow of the other.

All those who believe in psychokinesis – raise my hand.

A little sincerity is a dangerous thing, and a great deal of it is absolutely fatal.

Whoever thinks of going to bed before twelve o’clock is a scoundrel.

We are so very ‚umble.

Uneasy lies the head that wears a crown.

The worst of madmen is a saint run mad.

There is nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed.

Life is either a great adventure or nothing.

There is no excellent beauty that hath not some strangeness in the proportion.

If an injury has to be done to a man it should be so severe that his vengeance need not be feared.

Clothes make the man. Naked people have little or no influence on society.

Possession isn’t nine-tenths of the law. It’s nine-tenths of the problem.

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

My old drama coach used to say, ‚Don’t just do something, stand there.‘ Gary Cooper wasn’t afraid to do nothing.

Why not invest your assets in the companies you really like? As Mae West said, ‚Too much of a good thing can be wonderful‘.

Ice-cream is exquisite – what a pity it isn’t illegal.

I tried being reasonable, I didn’t like it.

‚Tis education forms the common mind; just as the twig is bent the tree’s inclined.

The bad fortune of the good turns their faces up to heaven; the good fortune of the bad bows their heads down to the earth.

Sleep is the interest we have to pay on the capital which is called in at death; and the higher the rate of interest and the more regularly it is paid, the further the date of redemption is postponed.

We have two ears and one mouth so that we can listen twice as much as we speak.

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

I heard a definition once: Happiness is health and a short memory! I wish I’d invented it, because it is very true.