Quotes 3501 till 3520 of 5065.
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The big mistake that men make is that when they turn thirteen or fourteen and all of a sudden they've reached puberty, they believe that they like women. Actually, you're just horny. It doesn't mean you like women any more at twenty-one than you did at ten.
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The biggest compliment I get is that I don't sound like anybody else. I think I value that as the highest compliment.
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The biggest difference between ancient Rome and the USA is that in Rome the common man was treated like a dog. In America he sets the tone. This is the first country where the common man could stand erect.
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The blind conviction that we have to do something about other people's reproductive behavior, and that we may have to do it whether they like it or not, derives from the assumption that the world belongs to us, who have so expertly depleted its resources, rather than to them, who have not.
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The blues was like that problem child that you may have had in the family. You was a little bit ashamed to let anybody see him, but you loved him. You just didn't know how other people would take it.
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The body politic, as well as the human body, begins to die as soon as it is born, and carries itself the causes of its destruction.
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The bonds of matrimony are like any other bonds - they mature slowly.
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The books we think we ought to read are poky, dull, and dry; The books that we would like to read we are ashamed to buy; The books that people talk about we never can recall; And the books that people give us, oh, they're the worst of all.
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The bow cannot always stand bent, nor can human frailty subsist without some lawful recreation.
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The brain is like a muscle. When it is in use we feel very good. Understanding is joyous.
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The brutalities of progress are called revolutions. When they are over we realize this: that the human race has been roughly handled, but that it has advanced.
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The business of the law is to make sense of the confusion of what we call human life - to reduce it to order but at the same time to give it possibility, scope, even dignity.
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The camera does not like acting. The camera is only interested in filming behaviour. So you damn well learn your lines until you know them inside out, while standing on your head!
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The camera makes you forget you're there. It's not like you are hiding but you forget, you are just looking so much.
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The camera relieves us of the burden of memory. It surveys us like God, and it surveys for us. Yet no other god has been so cynical, for the camera records in order to forget.
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The capabilities of the human mind are enormous. There is usually no inherent reason you cannot accomplish whatever goal you set for yourself.
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The capacity for hope is the most significant fact of life. It provides human beings with a sense of destination and the energy to get started.
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The capacity of human beings to bore one another seems to be vastly greater than that of any other animal.
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The Capone era. That was my time. Capone was a big baseball fan. He'd walk into the ballpark like the president walking in today, with bodyguards all around him.
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The care of human life and happiness and not their destruction is the only legitimate object of good government.
Letter to Republicans, 31-03-1809
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