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His tribe were God Almighty's gentlemen.

Man should not strive to eliminate his complexes, but to get in accord with them; they are legitimately what directs his contact in the world.

A general flavour of mild decay, but nothing local, as one may say.

The Right Honorable gentleman is indebted to his memory for his jests and to his imagination for his facts.

The nations which have put mankind and posterity most in their debt have been small states - Israel, Athens, Florence, Elizabethan England.

We know no spectacle so ridiculous as the British public in one of its periodical fits of morality.

News is the first rough draft of history.

You are no more exempt from time's inexorable passing than Macbeth. Whether time is your friend or foe depends on how you use it

Time is the author of authors.

At the end of a long introduction: You omitted perhaps one thing - that in 1974 I had a hemorrhoidectomy.

I was chosen to speak today based on my senility.

When I told her we were going to roast her, she said, "Of course, . . . they only crucify the innocent."

We will then hear from the founder of the Mayo Clinic, . . . Dr. Ted Clinic.

I thought I'd begin by reading a poem by Shakespeare, but then I thought, Why should I? He never reads any of mine.

Good evening, ladies and gentlemen. I'm pleased to be with you. (Pause) That concludes my prepared remarks.

Public opinion, though often formed upon a wrong basis, yet generally has a strong underlying sense of justice.

I am not fond of uttering platitudes In stained-glass attitudes.

I intimidate men.... People look a lot, but there's no line outside my door.

Law and love are the same - romantic in concept but the actual practice can give you a yeast infection.

But Shelley had a hyperthyroid face.

The man is either mad or he is making verses.

Villon, our sad bad glad mad brother's name.

An independent is a guy who wants to take the politics out of politics.

The evil of the world is made possible by nothing but the sanction you give it.