And what accomplished villains these old engineers were! What diabolical ways to sabotage they found! Nikolai Karlovich von Meck, of the People's Comissariat of Railroads ... would hold forth for hours on end about the economic problems involved in

Naked children have never played in _o_u_r fountains, and I.M. Pei will never be happy on Route 66.

It is wise to keep in mind that neither success nor failure is ever final.

Mother is far too clever to understand anything she does not like.

The politician is someone who deals in man's problems of adjustment. To ask a politician to lead us is to ask the tail of a dog to lead the dog.

It is annoying to be honest to no purpose.

Rome was not built in one day.

Young men think old men are fools; but old men know young men are fools.

Extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice... moderation in the pursuit of justice is no virtue.

You've always made the mistake of being yourself.

It has long been noticed that juries are pitiless for robbery and full of indulgence for infanticide. A question of interest, my dear Sir! The jury is afraid of being robbed and has passed the age when it could be a victim of infanticide.

The idea there was that consumers would bring their broken electronic devices, such as television sets and VCR's, to the destruction centers, where trained personnel would whack them (the devices) with sledgehammers. With their devices thus permanent

Good salesmen and good repairmen will never go hungry.

Three may keep a secret, if two of them are dead.