Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of inert facts.
Knowledge fills a large brain; it merely inflates a small one.
The more money an American accumulates, the less interesting he becomes.
There is no disguise which can hide love for long where it exists, or simulate it where it does not.
Sooner or later I'm going to die, but I'm not going to retire.
Everything happens to everybody sooner or later if there is time enough.
The Vice-Presidency is sort of like the last cookie on the plate. Everybody insists he won't take it, but somebody always does.
The Lincoln Memorial is related to the toga and the civilization that wore it.
When is it too late to say it's still early for the Cubs? Try now. Their magic number is 1998, at least until it becomes 1999, but in lieu of a present, they offer you a future.
It is a scientific fact that your body will not absorb cholesterol if you take it from another person's plate.
My friend has a baby. I'm recording all the noises he makes so later I can ask him what he meant.
There is probably an element of malice in our readiness to overestimate people - we are, as it were, laying up for ourselves the pleasure of later cutting them down to size.
Young people are threatened... by the evil use of advertising techniques that stimulate the natural inclination to avoid hard work by promising the immediate satisfaction of every desire.
There is a huge difference between journalism and advertising. Journalism aspires to truth. Advertising is regulated for truth. I'll put the accuracy of the average ad in this country up against the average news story any time.
Advertising is speech. It's regulated because it's often effective speech.
Good advertising does not just circulate information. It penetrates the public mind with desires and belief.