"Might I trouble you to open the window, for chloroform vapour does not help the palate."
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"I promised myself that if ever I had some money that I would savor a cigar each day after lunch and dinner. This is the only resolution of my youth that I have kept, and the only realized ambition which has not brought disillusion."
"I do not hold that we should rearm in order to fight. I hold that we should rearm in order to parley."
"I have no idea what I am doing but incompetence has never prevented me from plunging in with enthusiasm."
"My brain? It's my second favorite organ!"
"An exotic and irrational entertainment."
""It would seem that you have no useful skill or talent whatsoever" he said. "Have you thought of going into teaching?""
"It is amusing that a virtue is made of the vice of chastity; and it's a pretty odd sort of chastity at that, which leads men straight into the sin of Onan, and girls to the waning of their color."
"One, with God, is always a majority, but many a martyr has been burned at the stake while the votes were being counted."
"Look at airport security now. What started out as definite racial profiling is now where the computer picks a name. That's why you get a seven-month-old getting a pat down. [Imitates a security officer.] "Check the diapers. They're full.""
"The French complain of everything, and always."
"I miss New York. I still love how people talk to you on the street - just assault you and tell you what they think of your jacket."
"It isn't what I do, but how I do it. It isn't what I say, but how I say it, and how I look when I do it and say it."
"Man is a rational animal who always loses his temper when he is called upon to act in accordance with the dictates of reason."
"Don't bother discussing sex with small children. They rarely have anything to add."
"He's too nervous to kill himself. He wears his seat belt in a drive-in movie."
"You're all going to die. I hate to remind you, but it is on your schedule. It probably won't happen when you'd like; generally, it's an inconvenience."
"The owner of a Florida massage parlor has been arrested by police. "There weren't any serious violations," said the officers, "she just rubbed us the wrong way.""
"If I ever lose my mind I hope some honest person will find it and take it to Lost and Found."
"Professional soldiers are people who die for a living."