All satire is blind to the forces liberated by decay. Which is why total decay has absorbed the forces of satire.
If you talk bad about country music, it's like saying bad things about my momma. Them's fightin' words.
Everyone is born a genius, but the process of living de-geniuses them.
All the perplexities, confusion and distress in America arise, not from defects in their Constitution or Confederation, not from want of honor or virtue, so much as from the downright ignorance of the nature of coin, credit and circulation.
The cure for boredom is curiosity.There is no cure for curiosity.
As long as we believe in absurdities we shall continue to commit atrocities.
Everything is vague to a degree you do not realize till you have tried to make it precise.
I want to sing like the birds sing, not worrying about who hears or what they think.
A moral being is one who is capable of reflecting on his past actions and their motives - of approving of some and disapproving of others
It is a mistake to think you can solve any major problems just with potatoes.
The advantage of a bad memory is that one enjoys several times the same good thing for the first time.
I can see in your eyes, I can see in your faces, I can see you cry. But what I want to say, there's no reason to cry. Do not, in the name of peace, go in the streets and riot.
Most ballet teachers in the United States are terrible. If they were in medicine, everyone would be poisoned.
I like to think of myself at home in the armchair, writing, smoking and occasionally wandering down the shop.
They have formed their own 4-H club - the hopeless, hysterical hypochondriacs of history.
I am dying from the treatment of too many physicians.
I love children, especially when they cry, for then someone takes them away.
If one is to be called a liar, one may as well make an effort to deserve the name.
So many women just don't know how great they really are. They come to us all vogue outside and vague on the inside.
I fully realize that no wealth or position can long endure, unless built upon truth and justice; therefore, I will engage in no transaction which does not benefit all whom it affects.
Patriotism is usually stronger than class hatred, and always stronger than internationalism.