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Hain't we got all the fools in town on our side? And ain't that a big enough majority in any town?

It is in the half fools and the half wise that the greatest danger lies.

Platonic Love is a fool's name for the affection between a disability and a frost.

With mere good intentions hell is proverbially paved.

I never took a position we were going to be a good ball club. I took the position we were going to be a winning ball club.

Hating anything in the way of ill-natured gossip ourselves, we are always grateful to those who do it for us and do it well.

While the people retain their virtue and vigilence, no administration, by any extreme of wickedness or folly, can very seriously injure the government in the short space of four years.

A precedent embalms a principle.

The way of the world is to praise dead saints and persecute living ones.

When we ... devote ourselves to the strict and unsparing performance of duty, then happiness comes of itself.

We may not pay Satan reverence, for that would be indiscreet, but we can at least respect his talents.

To help all created things, that is the measure of our responsibility; to be helped by all, that is the measure of our hope.

For I, who hold sage Homer's rule the best, Welcome the coming, speed the going guest.

The total absence of humour from the Bible is one of the most singular things in all literature.

Humour is the most engaging cowardice. With it myself I have been able to hold some of my enemy in play far out of gunshot.

Who stole the livery of the court of Heaven To serve the Devil in.

And here, poor fool, with all my lore I stand no wiser than before.

It's been 25 years now, and truthfully, time sometimes blurs the memory.

Truthfully, I almost avoided 'While You Were Sleeping,' because I find those romantic comedies kind of precious, and they're full of lines that leave you feeling a little bewildered when you say them.

The kinds of truth that art gives us many, many times are small truths. They don't have the resonance of an encyclical from the Pope stating an eternal truth, but they partake of the quality of eternity. There is a sort of timeless delight in them.

They are resilient children, but they are children, and as much as they need help to understand the hard truths in life, they also need what we all need - protection and love.

I'm a big Bruce Lee fan, and if I saw Bruce Lee try to be some namby-pamby lawyer, I'd want my money back.

I'm just trying to approach what I make with as much respect and research as I can, and just make it with a good heart.

I have no interest in trying to manipulate people's emotions or opinions.