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- For toddlers I suggest leaving their mittens on year-round, indoors and out. That way they can't get into aspirin bottles, liquor cabinets, or boxes of…
- Freedom is not empowerment. Empowerment is what the Serbs have in Bosnia. Anybody can grab a gun and be empowered. It's not entitlement. An entitlement…
- Collectivism doesn't work because it's based on a faulty economic premise. There is no such thing as a person's "fair share" of wealth. The gross…
- The sport of skiing consists of wearing three thousand dollars worth of clothes and equipment and driving two hundred miles in the snow in order…
- Nothing bad is going to happen to us. If we get fired, it's not failure; its a midlife vocational reassessment.
- You can't get something for nothing. Everybody remembers this except politicians.
- You can't get good chinese takeout in China and cuban cigars are rationed in Cuba. That's all you need to know about communism.
- I can understand why mankind hasn't given up war. During a war you get to drive tanks through the sides of buildings and shoot foreigners…
- If we're going to improve the environment, the first thing we should do is duck the government. The second thing we should do is quit…
- Stay away from girls who cry a lot or who look like they get pregnant easily or have careers.
- A dugout is much superior to a conventional manufactured canoe because you can get soaking wet without bothering to capsize it.
- There are a lot of mysterious things about boats, such as why anyone would get on one voluntarily.
- Think of what big governments have gotten up to in this century : not one, but two world wars, the gulag, the holocaust, aerial bombing…
- Oh, God. The Sixties are coming back. Well I've got a 12-gauge double-barreled duck gun chambered for three-inch Magnum shells. And - speaking strictly for…
- I suppose I should get a VCR, but the only thing I like about television is its ephemerality.
- To really enjoy drugs you've got to want to get out of where you are. But there are some wheres that are harder to get…
- America is not a wily, sneaky nation. We don't think that way. We don't think much at all, thank God. Start thinking and pretty soon…
- The Democrats are the party that says government will make you smarter, taller, richer, and remove the crabgrass on your lawn. The Republicans are the…
- You can't get rid of poverty by giving people money.
- The proper behavior all through the holiday season is to be drunk. This drunkenness culminates on New Year's Eve, when you get so drunk you…
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- Flattery and deceit are the darlings of great men, and so with these men spread the butter on thick, if you want… — Pietro Aretino
- Having been a child actor, I remember how directors would trick me to get good performances out of me. I don't think… — Asia Argento
- I wanted to get back to my style of 20 years ago after a long period of exploring horror and fantasy themes. — Dario Argento
- Jealousy is both reasonable and belongs to reasonable men, while envy is base and belongs to the base, for the one makes… — Aristotle
- Most people would rather give than get affection. — Aristotle
- The faces I see in the modeling industry can get dull. — Kevyn Aucoin
- Get this in mind early: We never grow up. — Richard Bach
- The more I want to get something done, the less I call it work. — Richard Bach