Academic life is but half life it is a withdrawal from the fight to utter smart things that cost you nothing except the thinking them from a cloister.

A mind that is stretched by a new experience can never go back to its old dimensions.

Success. Is not the position where you are standing, but which direction you are going.

This is a court of law, not a court of justice.

My right to swing my fist ends where your nose begins.

I like to pay taxes. With them, I buy civilization.

Three generations of imbeciles are enough.

The life of the law has not been logic; it has been experience.

Certitude is not the test of certainty.

People talk fundamentals and superlatives and then make some changes of detail.

Fame is the scentless sunflower, with gaudy crown of gold; But friendship is the rose, with sweets in every fold.

So it's true. You can walk in sunlight. I thought perhaps it might have worn off.""If I feel the urge to burst into flames, I'll let you know.

You must be the best judge of your own happiness.

… a Southerner is BORN into the lifestyle, there just ain’t no choice about it.Yer either a Southerner or ya ain’t.

... though mathematics may teach a man how to build a bridge, it is what the Scotch Universities call the humanities, that teach him to be civil and sweet-tempered.

The first nine albums there was never a Synthesiser, never any Orchestra. There was never any other player except us on the albums.

A woman can't be, until a girl dies. . . . I mean the sprites that girls are, so different from us, all their fancies, their illusions, their flower world, the dreams they live in.

Your brand of comfort bears some similarity to your tactical offense.

Personally, I think it's a good way to let a child start right in with the laws of Nature before he's old enough to be surprised at them.

Football is much harder if you don't have the ball.

I'm a creative guy, artistically with graphics.