“People who are brutally honest get more satisfaction out of the brutality than out of the honesty.”

“Love is a fever which marriage puts to bed and cures.”

“People are like birds - from a distance beautiful: from close up those sharp beaks those beady little eyes.”

“God punishes us mildly by ignoring our prayers and severely by answering them.”

“God punishes us mildly by ignoring our prayers and severely by answering them.”

“When a man tells me he's run out of steam in the sex department I'll tell him 'Count your blessings you've escaped from the clutches of a cruel tyrant. Enjoy!'”

“On the night of New Years Day, I thought of a wonderful New Years resolution for the men who run the world: get to know the people who only live in it.”

“The difference between a politician and a statesman is that a politician thinks about the next election while the statesman think about the next generation.”

“He was a consummate politician-- which is to say he was given to expedient speech and lacked even a vestigial spine.”