Quotes of All Topics . Occasions . Authors
My style has always been to choose the charming and quirky.
Any philosophy that can be put in a nutshell belongs there.
I was never a fan of Barack Obama's bipartisanship routine.
Washington's Alfalfa Club dinner is a populist's nightmare.
A theory accepted by 99 percent of scientists may be wrong.
Life is filled with seasons and this is a different season.
Watergate was a constitutional crisis of the highest order.
Hereditary wealth is in reality a premium paid to idleness.
Books gratify and excite our curiosity in innumerable ways.
Superior virtue must be the fruit of superior intelligence.
Very few people changed the world by sitting on their couch.
The art of politics is to separate actions from consequences
New York is the biggest collection of villages in the world.
Bride: A woman with a fine prospect of happiness behind her.
Patience, n. A minor form of dispair, disguised as a virtue.
Achievement; the death of endeavor and the birth of disgust.
Pun: A form of wit, to which wise men stoop and fools aspire
PITY, n. A failing sense of exemption, inspired by contrast.
Happiness is lost by criticizing it; sorrow by accepting it.
diplomacy, n.: The patriotic art of lying for one's country.
TRICHINOSIS, n. The pig's reply to proponents of porcophagy.
RATTLESNAKE, n. Our prostrate brother, "Homo ventrambulans".
Self-evident, adj. Evident to one's self and to nobody else.
You cannot adopt politics as a profession and remain honest.
Doubt begins only at the last frontiers of what is possible.
Life is a marathon, not a sprint; pace yourself accordingly.
Chelsea Manning attempted to commit suicide twice last year.
Sometimes the things we want to be rescued from can save us.
My mother has been famous for longer than anyone else alive.
Pornography is literature designed to be read with one hand.
What matter is the information, not what you think about it.
Honesty pays dividends both in dollars and in peace of mind.
There are no original ideas. There are only original people.
America's schools and streets are safer than Americans know.
The hater always suffers more than the object of his hatred.
Humor can be an incredible, lacerating and effective weapon.
The rumors of Radziwill fortune have been vastly overstated.
It's a perfect day here in Australia, glorious blue sunshine
The enemies of the future are always the very nicest people.
A man who has never made a woman angry is a failure in life.
[My job is] a very high trapeze act, frequently with no net.
She took a leap of faith and grew her wings on the way down.
I can report from the field with a tiny camera and a laptop.
Journalism is not just a cause, its also a wacky profession.
Those who cannot see Christ in the poor are atheists indeed.
It was a night when London was ringed and stabbed with fire.
Swinging first and swinging to kill is all that matters now.
Breaking news is the most masturbating thing journalists do.
Partly what I'm writing about is the way taboos get toppled.
The smaller the ball used in the sport, the better the book.