It's time to reappreciate the original software: paper.

Who the hell wants to hear actors talk? -- H.M. Warner, Warner Brothers, 1927.

Italians can't win the game against you, but you can lose the game against the Italians.

Love the sinner but hate the sin.

I think complexity is mostly sort of crummy stuff that is there because it's too expensive to change the interface.

The beginning of wisdom is to call things by their right names.

Sometimes gentle, sometimes capricious, sometimes awful, never the same for two months together; almost human in its passions, almost spiritual in its tenderness, almost Divine in its infinity.

Expenditure rises to meet income.

Government, even in its best state, is but a necessary evil; in its worst state, an intolerable one.

Sentimental irony is a dog that bays at the moon while pissing on graves.

We are born at a given moment, in a given place and, like vintage years of wine, we have the qualities of the year and of the season of which we are born. Astrology does not lay claim to anything more.

Faith is love taking the form of aspiration.

The best inheritance a parent can give his children is a few minutes of his time each day.

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Any law that takes hold of a man's daily life cannot prevail in a community, unless the vast majority of the community are actively in favor of it. The laws that are the most operative are the laws which protect life.

You can't do anything, if you believe you can't.

The great man is he who has not lost his child's heart. -Mecius.

Time cuts down all, Both great and small.

Nobody ever went broke underestimating the taste of the American public.

All this talk about equality. The only thing people really have in common is that they are all going to die.