The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it.

Ninety percent of the politicians give the other ten percent a bad reputation.

Democracy is being allowed to vote for the candidate you dislike least.

It has been said that democracy is the worst form of government except all the others that have been tried.

What we choose to call sanity is a big house where the mad have no mothers.

The Holy Roman Empire was neither holy, nor Roman nor an Empire.

I know that poetry is indispensable, but to what I could not say.

Happiness is an imaginary condition, formerly attributed by the living to the dead, now usually attributed by adults to children, and by children to adults.

Man is the only animal that blushes -- or needs to.

Women who seek to be equal with men lack ambition.