Truth is a demure lady, much too ladylike to knock you on your head and drag you to her cave. She is there, but people must want her, and seek her out.

Liberals claim to want to give a hearing to other views, but then are shocked and offended to discover that there are other views.

Truth is a demure lady, much too ladylike to knock you on your head and drag you to her cave. She is there, but people must want her, and seek her out.

It is not a sign of arrogance for the king to rule. That is what he is there for.

I'd rather entrust the government of the United States to the first 400 people listed in the Boston telephone directory than to the faculty of Harvard University.

It had all the earmarks of a CIA operation; the bomb killed everybody in the room except the intended target!

To buy very good wine nowadays requires only money. To serve it to your guests is a sign of fatigue.

I profoundly believe it takes a lot of practice to become a moral slob.

The best defense against usurpatory government is an assertive citizenry.

I would like to electrocute everyone who uses the word "fair" in connection with income tax policies.

One must bear in mind that the expansion of federal activity is a form of eating for politicians.

All adventure is now reactionary.

Some of my instincts are reprehensible.

I won't insult your intelligence by suggesting that you really believe what you just said.

I get satisfaction of three kinds. One is creating something, one is being paid for it and one is the feeling that I haven't just been sitting on my ass all afternoon.

Even if one takes every reefer madness allegation of the prohibitionists at face value, marijuana prohibition has done far more harm to far more people than marijuana ever could.

There is an inverse relationship between reliance on the state and self-reliance.

Back in the thirties we were told we must collectivize the nation because the people were so poor. Now we are told we must collectivize the nation because the people are so rich.

I would like to take you seriously, but to do so would affront your intelligence.

The majority of the senior class of Vassar does not desire my company and I must confess, having read specimens of their thought and sentiments, that I do not desire the company of the majority of the senior class of Vassar.

Life can't be all bad when for ten dollars you can buy all the Beethoven sonatas and listen to them for ten years.

It seems to me that the idea traditionally defended of endeavoring to maintain existing ethnic balances simply doesn't work any more.

Liberals, it has been said, are generous with other peoples' money, except when it comes to questions of national survival when they prefer to be generous with other people's freedom and security.

Idealism is fine, but as it approaches reality, the costs become prohibitive.

The more complicated and powerful the job, the more rudimentary the preparation for it.

A Conservative is a fellow who is standing athwart history yelling 'Stop!'

We love your adherence to democratic principles.

Scientists are people who build the Brooklyn Bridge and then buy it.

One can't doubt that the American objective in Iraq has failed - different plans have to be made. And the kernel here is the acknowledgement of defeat.

I would like to electrocute everyone who uses the word 'fair' in connection with income tax policies.

The academic community has in it the biggest concentration of alarmists, cranks and extremists this side of the giggle house.

A Conservative is a fellow who is standing athwart history yelling.Stop

I am obliged to confess I should sooner live in a society governed by the first two thousand names in the Boston telephone directory than in a society governed by the two thousand faculty members of Harvard University.

The superstition that the hounds of truth will rout the vermin of error seems, like a fragment of Victorian lace, quaint, but too brittle to be lifted out of the showcase.

Grissom is pretty asexual. He's not that interested in anything other than work - except for Lady Heather. She's the closest to getting his heart of anyone.

I want to be the first lady to land a quadruple jump in competition. As I grow older, I know that my skating style will develop and mature.

The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid.

I got sick and tired of my lady wearing ugly underwear to bed, so I turned to the Internet.

Truth is a demure lady, much too ladylike to knock you on your head and drag you to her cave. She is there, but people must want her, and seek her out.

More men than women like 'Strangers With Candy'. Pretty girls don't like the show. They don't like to see an ugly lady.

I didn't hang around films. I don't know if I'd ever seen Hitchcock's The Lady Vanishes.

Accuracy to a newspaper is what virtue is to a lady; but a newspaper can always print a retraction.

I've shut myself inside these walls, and I'm going to be a very lonely old lady if I'm not careful.

I dated a lot of girls all through high school, and in college I dated a young lady for about eight months.

I knew I'd conquered America when Mike Tyson told me I was one mean lady.

To my embarrassment I was born in bed with a lady.

I'd like to think that the boring lady who's talking to me now is a lot sexier and more interesting than the one who's doing NPR. You know, studious and reserved, and - I bet you're a lot of fun at a party.

I could draw Bloom County with my nose and pay my cleaning lady to write it, and I'd bet I wouldn't lose 10% of my papers over the next twenty years. Such is the nature of comic-strips. Once established, their half-life is usually more than nuclear waste.

Teach not thy lip such scorn, for it was made For kissing, lady, not for such contempt.