predilection, n. The preparatory stage of disillusion.

Speak when you are angry and you will make the best speech you will ever regret.

The most affectionate creature in the world is a wet dog.

War is God's way of teaching Americans geography.

In our civilization, and under our republican form of government, intelligence is so highly honored that it is rewarded by exemption from the cares of office.

Mayonnaise: One of the sauces which serve the French in place of a state religion.

Admiral. That part of a warship which does the talking while the figurehead does the thinking.

Spring beckons! All things to the call respond; the trees are leaving and cashiers abscond.

NEPOTISM, n. Appointing your grandmother to office for the good of the party.

Divorce: a resumption of diplomatic relations and rectification of boundaries.

Clairvoyant, n.: A person, commonly a woman, who has the power of seeing that which is invisible to her patron - namely, that he is a blockhead.

It is not the possession of truth, but the success which attends the seeking after it, that enriches the seeker and brings happiness to him.

Women worry about the things that men forget

When dark, it's bright, when brightest, it's gone. When gone for good, so will I be.What am I?

Our Scottish theory ... is that every country has need of Scotchmen, but that Scotland has no need of the citizens of any other country.

I enjoy comedic things. People don't understand it's the hardest thing to do. We have a ratio of 25-to-1 between good dramatic actors and people who are considered good comic actors.

Love of others and love of ourselves are not alternatives. On the contrary, an attitude of love towards themselves will be found in all those who are capable of loving others.

Sometimes a mind is like a mouth: you just got to shut it.

The art of one period cannot be approached through the attitudes (emotional or intellectual) of another.

The Holy Roman Empire was neither holy nor Roman nor an empire. Discuss.

To live a life of honesty and integrity is a responsibility of every decent person.