312 quotes found
“Lawyers spend a great deal of time shovelling smoke.”
“The reward of a general is not a bigger tent - but command.”
“The life of the law has not been logic: it has been experience.”
“The most stringent protection of free speech would not protect a man in falsely shouting fire in a theatre and causing a panic... The question in every case is whether the words used are used in su...”
“Life is action and passion therefore it is required of a man that he should share the passion and action of the time at peril of being judged not to have lived.”
“I am on the side of the unregenerate who affirm the worth of life as an end in itself as against the saints who deny it.”
“Love is the master key which opens the gates of happiness.”
“Life is painting a picture not doing a sum.”
“Logic is logic. That's all I say.”
“Husband and wife come to look alike at last.”
“I firmly believe that if the whole materia medica as now used could be sunk to the bottom of the sea it would be all the better for mankind and all the worse for the fishes.”
“A man must get a thing before he can forget it.”
“A general flavour of mild decay but nothing local as one may say.”
“So long as the body is affected through the mind no audacious device even of the most manifestly dishonest character can fail of producing occasional good to those who yield to it an implicit or...”
“I should like to see any kind of a man distinguishable from a gorilla that some good and even pretty woman could not shape a husband out of.”
“A day's impact is better than a month of dead pull.”
“Pick my left pocket of its silver dime but spare the right-it holds my golden time!”
“Realize life as an end in itself. Functioning is all there is.”
“A man may fulfill the object of his existence by asking a question he cannot answer and attempting a task he cannot achieve.”
“Why can't somebody give us a list of things that everybody thinks and nobody says and another list of things that everybody says and nobody thinks.”
