Like any young person who gets into a political campaign, I joined out of a highfalutin' desire to change the world. But you start to see the sort of tactics people use. You start to see politics not...

Our aversion to lying is commonly a secret ambition to make what we say considerable, and have every word received with a religious respect.

Difficulty is a coin which the learned conjure with so as not to reveal the vanity of their studies and which human stupidity is keen to accept in payment

A bachelor is one who enjoys the chase but does not eat the game.

Good sociologists have always had an insatiable curiosity about even the trivialities of human behaviour, and if this curiosity leads a sociologist to devote many years to the painstaking exploration...

Think about yourself because selfishness is everywhere

I always splash on the cologne before a blind date because dogs can smell fear

The masses often let themselves down and even those at the forefront who are hoisting the flag of the cause that is intended to alleviate their miseries.

For some reason I was reluctant to ask anybody what had happened. I hate being the person who always doesn't know what's going on and has to ask somebody; it always seems like everybody else knows...

If you smile when you are alone, then you really mean it, or you're up to something.

Mr Hawkins said nothing

In some cases, it is the woman's stomach - not her heart - that has left her man for another.

They say the crazies come out at night. I say the crazies come out during election year: Elections have the power to turn once seemingly normal people into certified loonies.

Sometimes humans just don't listen, they 'take' to fill a space that's missin'!

The bottom line is, insults only hurt when they come from someone I respect.

Wildness in animals is a curious thing to us humans. Isn't that why people watch Animal Planet? Escape. Maybe that's why we watch. Animal behavior is elemental. It takes us back to a simpler time.

Humans will believe anything you say provided you do not exhibit the smallest shadow of diffidence; like animals, they can detect the smallest crack in your confidence before you express it. The trick...

Ridicule was a better defense than truth.

You can do terrible things when you don't know who you are...

Of course, people will laugh at you, but people laugh at a great many things so there is no need to take it personally.

The amorality of nature is accepted, whether it takes the form of a monsoon, an elephant in musth, or a disease; but being subjected helplessly to the will of others is not, for human behavior always...

Who but a drunk, I wonder looking back, could sit on the porch alone and get in an argument?

There are rumors about the depraved and perverted practices of the pulchritudinous protestant puritan plutocratic penis - people priesthood, of shadowy bacchanalian polyamorous practices. ... I...

Left-handed people are born of the devil.

you used to do that. If you hid your face, you thought we couldn't see you just because you couldn't see us.