"The reason why so few good books are written is that so few people who can write know anything."

"If dogs could talk, it would take a lot of the fun out of owning one."

"Women remember the first kiss, men remember the last."

"Now, here, you see, it takes all the running you can do, to keep in the same place. If you want to get somewhere else, you must run at least twice as fast as that!"

"Hold a true friend with both hands."

"Usenet is like Tetris for people who still remember how to read."

"Everybody winds up kissing the wrong person good night."

"The only cure for grief is action."

"Take only pictures, steal only time, leave only footprints."

"The tools of conquest do not necessarily come with bombs and explosions and fallout. There are weapons that are simply thoughts, attitudes, prejudices -- to be found in the minds of men. For the record, prejudices can kill and suspicion can destroy, and a thoughtless, frightened search for a scapegoat has a fallout all its own -- for the children and the children yet unborn. And the pity of it is that these things cannot be confined to the Twilight Zone."

"All dogmas perish the thinking mind, especially ones you agree with."

"Neither Heaven nor Hell. It is simply Purgatory."

"A ceremony in which rings are put on the finger of the lady and through the nose of the gentleman."

"Most affections are habits or duties we lack the courage to end."

"O why was I born with a different face? Why was I not born like rest of my race?"

"During the Samuel Johnson days they had big men enjoying small talk; today we have small men enjoying big talk."

"An institution which is populare because it combines the maximum of temptation with the maximum of opportunity."

"An intelligence service is, in fact, a stupidity service."