Christ was crucified for preaching without a police permit.

I have never been able to see life as anything but a vast complicated practical joke, and it's better to laugh than cry..

Always tell her she is beautiful, especially if she is not..

Never worry about theory as long as the machinery does what it's supposed to do..

The most noble fate a man can endure is to place his own mortal body between his loved home and the war's desolation..

When it don’t rain, the roof don’t leak; when it rains, I can’t fix it nohow..

Each man is his own prisoner, in solitary confinement for life..

We each have a moral obligation to conserve and preserve beauty in this world; there is none to waste..

A generation which ignores history has no past — and no future..

Between being 'right' and being kind, I know which way I vote..

The commonest weakness of our race is our ability to rationalize our most selfish purposes..

You can go wrong by being too skeptical as readily as by being too trusting..

The country and culture commonly known as "America" had had a badly split personality all through its history. Its overt laws were almost always puri….

A poet who reads his verse in public may have other nasty habits..

Goodness without wisdom always accomplishes evil..

Butterflies are self propelled flowers..

Physicians had gone to their graves calling Pasteur a liar, a fool, or worse—without examining evidence which their “common sense” told them was impo….

Ninety percent of all human wisdom is the ability to mind your own business..

ANYTHING will burn with enough gasoline and dynamite..

It is a truism that almost any sect, cult, or religion will legislate its creeds into law if it acquires the political power to do so, and will follo….

Are you trying to tell all of us we have a bad signal-to-noise ratio?.