What clever man has ever needed to commit a crime? Crime is the last resort of political half-wits.

Merit, however inconsiderable, should be sought for and rewarded. Methods are the master of masters.

The art of statesmanship is to foresee the inevitable and to expedite its occurrence.

The reputation of a man is like his shadow, gigantic when it precedes him, and pigmy in its proportions when it follows.

What clever man has ever needed to commit a crime? Crime is the last resort of political half-wits.

I am more afraid of an army of 100 sheep led by a lion than an army of 100 lions led by a sheep.

Since the masses are always eager to believe something, for their benefit nothing is so easy to arrange as facts.

Mistrust first impulses; they are nearly always good.

To succeed in the world, it is much more necessary to possess the penetration to discern who is a fool, than to discover who is a clever man.

Show me another pleasure like dinner which comes every day and lasts an hour.

Without freedom of the press, there can be no representative government.

She is such a good friend that she would throw all her acquaintances into the water for the pleasure of fishing them out again.

If we go on explaining we shall cease to understand one another.

Ones reputation is like a shadow, it is gigantic when it precedes you, and a pigmy in proportion when it follows.

Too much sensibility creates unhappiness and too much insensibility creates crime.

Black as the devil, hot as hell, pure as an angel, sweet as love.

War is much too serious a thing to be left to military men.

Love of glory can only create a great hero; contempt of glory creates a great man.

The bold defiance of a woman is the certain sign of her shame, - when she has once ceased to blush, it is because she has too much to blush for.

A court is an assembly of noble and distinguished beggars.

Speech was given to man to disguise his thoughts.

What clever man has ever needed to commit a crime Crime is the last resort of political half wits.

Espresso is to Italy what champagne is to France.

What becomes a crime deserving capital punishment when the tables are turned is a matter of small moment when the negro woman is the accusing party.

The seasons come up undisturbed by crime and war.

Examples one finds in the philosophical literature are somebody who's seen the trial of a child of theirs, where they're being proved guilty of some crime that would drive the parent into a depression, maybe a suicidal depression.

He has committed the crime who profits by it.

Dullness is the only crime for which an editor ought to be hung.

Success in crime always invites to worse deeds.

Crime, to the man of the forties, was an alien monstrous terror.

Rather let the crime of the guilty go unpunished than condemn the innocent.

I will never have a drink and get behind the wheel of a car. It's not illegal to drink and drive, but there becomes a certain point where it does become a crime.

I think there's a lot of naivete and hubris within our mix of personalities. That's probably our worst crime. I keep wondering what a "mature" record means.

The world of crime is a last refuge of the authentic, uncorrupted, spontaneous event.

A shocking crime was committed on the unscrupulous initiative of few individuals, with the blessing of more, and amid the passive acquiescence of all.

The infectiousness of crime is like that of the plague.

I didn't break into comics to write fairytales or crime comics.

Powerful states can maintain themselves only by crime, little states are virtuous only by weakness.

One crime has to be concealed by another.

We got into all the trouble you could ever imagine. We figured that if the Jones boys and all the gangsters ran Chicago, we had our own territory now. All the stores, all the crime, we were in charge of everything, my stepbrother and my brother.

Next to the love of God, the love of country is the best preventive of crime.

The fact that a player is very short of time is, to my mind, as little to be considered an excuse as, for instance, the statement of the law-breaker that he was drunk at the time he committed the crime.

We are not supposed to go out and kill all those we suspect to have committed a crime.

The worst crime is faking it.

The only medicine for suffering, crime, and all other woes of mankind, is wisdom. Teach a man to read and write, and you have put into his hands the great keys of the wisdom box. But it is quite another thing to open the box.

It means working harder to do the research but I don't really mind - I don't think I have what it takes to chase criminals through back alleys and wade through blood at crime scenes.

Since 1994, unemployment rates are lower. Median household income is higher. A greater percentage of Americans are graduating from college. Home ownership rates are higher. And the violent crime rate has decreased.

The head never rules the heart but just becomes its partner in crime.

If movies are causing moral decay, then crime ought to be going up, but crime is going down.