It is always well to accept your own shortcomings with candor but to regard those of your friends with polite incredulity.

In my estimation, the only thing that is more to be guarded against than bad taste is good taste.

It is always well to accept your own shortcomings with candor but to regard those of your friends with polite incredulity.

A truly appreciative child will break, lose, spoil, or fondle to death any really successful gift within a matter of minutes.

Ragtime was a fanfare for the 20th century.

The bungalow had more to do with how Americans live today than any other building that has gone remotely by the name of architecture in our history.

The true snob never rests; there is always a higher goal to attain, and there are, by the same token, always more and more people to look down upon.

Cynicism is the intellectual cripple's substitute for intelligence.

If you can't ignore an insult, top it; if you can't top it, laugh it off; and if you can't laugh it off, it's probably deserved.

A lady is nothing very specific. One man's lady is another man's woman; sometimes, one man's lady is another man's wife. Definitions overlap but they almost never coincide.

Every journalist has a novel in him, which is an excellent place for it.

Camouflage is a game we all like to play, but our secrets are as surely revealed by what we want to seem to be as by what we want to conceal.

When it gets dark enough you can see the stars.

Camouflage is a game we all like to play

Clutter is what happens to things when they become useless but friendly.

If you cant ignore an insult top it if you cant top it laugh it off and if you cant laugh it off its probably deserved.

A truly appreciative child will break lose spoil or fondle to death any really successful gift within a matter of minutes.

Tennis is an addiction that once it has truly hooked a man will not let him go.

There is no diplomacy like candor.

It is always well to accept your own shortcomings with candor but to regard those of your friends with polite incredulity.

In requiring this candor and simplicity of mind in those who would investigate the truth of our religion, Christianity demands nothing more than is readily conceded to every branch of human science.

I want to make it clear publicly that I expect more candor from this Administration during the next four years, particularly with members on the Foreign Relations Committee so that we can maintain a bipartisan foreign policy.

Candor is a proof of both a just frame of mind, and of a good tone of breeding. It is a quality that belongs equally to the honest man and to the gentleman.

Innocence in genius, and candor in power, are both noble qualities.

Candor and generosity, unless tempered by due moderation, leads to ruin.

All faults may be forgiven of him who has perfect candor.

In all candor, the Court fails to perceive any reason for suspending the power of courts to get evidence and rule on questions of privilege in criminal matters simply because it is the president of the United States who holds the evidence.

Candor is a compliment; it implies equality. It's how true friends talk.

There should be a readiness, on our part, to investigate with candor to follow the truth wherever it may lead us, and to submit, without reserve or objection, to all the teachings of this religion, if it be found to be of divine origin.

Your candor is worth everything to your cause. It is refreshing to find a person with a new theory who frankly confesses that he finds difficulties, insurmountable, at least for the present.

In all my public and private acts as your president, I expect to follow my instincts of openness and candor with full confidence that honesty is always the best policy in the end.

Entire generations of Americans have come of age since the ancient time when the president's power was constrained by a duty of candor to the American people.

If modesty and candor are necessary to an author in his judgment of his own works, no less are they in his reader.

We expect candor and transparency from the president, from the administration.

We all respect sincerity in our friends and acquaintances, but Hollywood is willing to pay for it.

Young actors often don't think of the consequences of doing nudity or sex scenes. They want the role so badly that they agree to be exploited, and then end up embarrassing family, friends, and even strangers.

Personally, I'd never seen a graphic novel. I knew they existed because friends of mine like Jonathan Ross collect them and some very literate and intelligent people really rate the graphic novel as a form.

Whether I'm doing music or I'm walking down the street or I'm in a record store buying a record or I walk into a comic store and I'm buying comics or having a drink with my friends, it's the same me.

I'm so happy because today I found my friends - they're in my head.

I didn't tell anybody about my plan because I was convinced my family or friends would stop me. I didn't think much about what would happen afterwards.

I was stuck at home in bed with me and got more and more involved with the Internet. I used it to keep in contact with friends and to make sure I was up to date with everything that was going on in the world.

He who hath many friends hath none.

In high school and college all my friends and my brother wrestled.

I rarely do masks because, if I have any extra time, I'd rather spend it with my friends than on myself.

I don't know the vast majority of you personally, and it may sound kind of corny, but I really feel as if we've become friends through the years. And you've been with me during a lot of good times and some very difficult ones. I can't tell you how grateful I am.

David and Dad didn't get along too well growing up. I mean we all got along, but it was harder on David, because David wasn't going to be the son that Dad wanted. But now they're like best friends.

I just have some restaurants to just go and eat there. Do mean places to watch people? I like to go shopping look for guitars and stuff with my friends. Look at Meyer, great old instruments, talk about pedals and stuff.

With the success of the last three or so years, when a lot of people start treating you differently, there's a danger that you may start to think of yourself differently. You rely on your friends to say, 'Hey, wake up!'

Good books, like good friends, are few and chosen; the more select, the more enjoyable.