Nor do they trust their tongue alone, but speak a language of their own; can read a nod, a shrug, a look, far better than a printed book; convey a libel in a frown, and wink a reputation down.

Laws are like cobwebs, which may catch small flies, but let wasps and hornets break through.

We have enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love one another.

For in reason, all government without the consent of the governed is the very definition of slavery.

Vision is the art of seeing things invisible.

That the universe was formed by a fortuitous concourse of atoms, I will no more believe than that the accidental jumbling of the alphabet would fall into a most ingenious treatise of philosophy.

Promises and pie-crust are made to be broken.

When a true genius appears, you can know him by this sign: that all the dunces are in a confederacy against him.

You should never be ashamed to admit you have been wrong. It only proves you are wiser today than yesterday

The sight of you is good for sore eyes.

He was a bold man that first ate an oyster.

Darwin may have been quite correct in his theory that man descended from the apes of the forest, but surely woman rose from the frothy sea, as resplendent as Aphrodite on her scalloped chariot.

There is more simplicity in the man who eats caviar on impulse than in the man who eats Grape-Nuts on principle.

The only thing harder than getting a new idea into the military mind is to get an old one out.

Don’t be afraid to discard work you know isn’t up to standard. Don’t save junk, just because it took you a long time to write it.

The urge to escape our real self is also an urge to escape the rational and the obvious.

According to a new poll, 50 percent of Americans think the country is divided. The other 50 percent think it isn't.

I will not allow my daughters to learn foreign languages because one tongue is sufficient for a woman.

Happiness is knowing and appreciating what you've got. I am very, very, very grateful for what, to me, is dead easy.

Ten years from now, I would like to see myself successful as a brand, like Jessica Simpson, with babies running around and a beautiful husband and my own reality show

I know how to give the meaning of a word but not how to give the intention of a word.