Womanist is to feminist as purple is to lavender.

The only difference between Benito and Bad Bunny is 16 million followers on Instagram. And the money that Bad Bunny has in the bank. Benito had, like, $7. The numbers are different, but I’m still the same. Even my insecurities remain the same.

Have you ever watched a crab on the shore crawling backward in search of the Atlantic Ocean, and missing? That’s the way the mind of man operates.

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

It’s a nice reader, but there’s nothing on the iPad I look at and say, ‚Oh, I wish Microsoft had done it.‘

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

Obama’s not Jesus. He can’t walk on water.

Government is like a baby. An alimentary canal with a big appetite at one end and no sense of responsibility at the other.

You know those things that you throw the twigs into and it spits them out? That’s what I do. The branches are like life, and I throw them into my head and some of it comes out as humor.

A statesman who confines himself to popular legislation – or, for the matter of that, a playwright who confines himself to popular plays – is like a blind man’s dog who goes wherever the blind man pulls him, on the ground that both of them want to go to the same place.

See that the imagination of nature is far, far greater than the imagination of man.

Life’s a rollercoaster. You’re up one minute; you’re down one minute. But who doesn’t like rollercoasters?

Painting, I think it’s like jazz.

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

I think we’re going to the moon because it’s in the nature of the human being to face challenges. It’s by the nature of his deep inner soul… we’re required to do these things just as salmon swim upstream.

He who loves practice without theory is like the sailor who boards ship without a rudder and compass and never knows where he may cast.

Writers are lampposts and critics are dogs. Ask lampposts what they think about dogs. Does the dog hurt the lamppost?

A great empire, like a great cake, is most easily diminished at the edges.

Persistence is to the character of man as carbon is to steel.

Is it not rather what we expect in men, that they should have numerous strands of experience lying side by side and never compare them with each other?

A countryman between two lawyers is like a fish between two cats.

My life is not unlike Truman’s. I can’t go anywhere.

Our envy always lasts longer than the happiness of those we envy.

Life would pall if it were all sugar; salt is bitter if taken by itself; but when tasted as part of the dish, it savours the meat. Difficulties are the salt of life.

Concede that the new government of Louisiana is only to what it should be, as the egg is to the fowl; we shall sooner have the fowl by hatching the egg than by smashing it.

Thaw with her gentle persuasion is more powerful than Thor with his hammer. The one melts, the other breaks into pieces.

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.

One word from the Lord is like a piece of gold to a believer, who is like a jeweler, shaping and hammering out the promise for a number of weeks.

The more violent the storm, the quicker it passes.

A fly, Sir, may sting a stately horse and make him wince; but, one is but an insect, and the other is a horse still.

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.

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

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.

Marriage is like a game of chess except the board is flowing water, the pieces are made of smoke and no move you make will have any effect on the outcome.

Governing a great nation is like cooking a small fish – too much handling will spoil it.

O wise man! Give your wealth only to the worthy and never to others. The water of the sea received by the clouds is always sweet.

Politics is like football; if you see daylight, go through the hole.

Clothes if they are not well cut, you can kill nobody. A building poorly built can kill people. It’s a much more difficult work. I would not compare myself with that.

The life of an uneducated man is as useless as the tail of a dog which neither covers its rear end, nor protects it from the bites of insects.

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

Hell is a half-filled auditorium.

To some extent I liken slavery to death.

‚Kiss Land‘ is like a horror movie.

This country has come to feel the same when Congress is in session as when the baby gets hold of a hammer.

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.

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.

There is no gambling like politics.

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

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

Noise proves nothing. Often a hen who has merely laid an egg cackles as if she laid an asteroid.

Some day, following the example of the United States of America, there will be a United States of Europe.

A professor must have a theory as a dog must have fleas.

There is no need to worry about mere size. We do not necessarily respect a fat man more than a thin man. Sir Isaac Newton was very much smaller than a hippopotamus, but we do not on that account value him less.

There is only a finger’s difference between a wise man and a fool.

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.

The opera is to music what a bawdy house is to a cathedral.

If I had to choose a superhero to be, I would pick Superman. He’s everything that I’m not.

You’re beautiful, like a May fly.

Madonna and I are very different. Just saying. We’re very different. I wouldn’t make that comparison at all, and I don’t mean to disrespect Madonna: she’s a nice lady, and she’s had a fantastic, huge career – biggest pop star of all time.

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

Particularly Instagram, people look like they have a much better life than they really do. People basically seem like they are way better-looking than they really are, and they are way happier-seeming than they really are.