They are ill discoverers that think there is no land, when they can see nothing but sea.
A conference is a gathering of important people who singly can do nothing, but together can decide that nothing can be done.
The people who are regarded as moral luminaries are those who forego ordinary pleasures themselves and find compensation in interfering with the pleasures of others.
I'm all in favor of keeping dangerous weapons out of the hands of fools. Let's start with typewriters.
One of the keys to happiness is a bad memory.
You need only reflect that one of the best ways to get yourself a reputation as a dangerous citizen these days is to go about repeating the very phrases which our founding fathers used in the struggle for independence.
I was not a child prodigy, because a child prodigy is a child who knows as much when it is a child as it does when it grows up.