Who Quotes

The first lesson of economics is scarcity: there is never enough of anything to fully satisfy all those who want it. The first lesson of politics is to disregard the first lesson of economics.

A friend is one who knows you and loves you just the same.

Big jobs usually go to the men who prove their ability to outgrow small ones.

There are a thousand hacking at the branches of evil to one who is striking at the root.

A Buddha is someone who finds freedom in good fortune and bad.

A judge is a law student who marks his own examination papers.

I'm married. Who cares about me?

People who look down on other people don't end up being looked up to.

Statistics show that of those who contract the habit of eating, very few survive.

He who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead; his eyes are closed.

We reserve our deepest respect and admiration for those who volunteer for service and give their lives to help keep our nation secure.

You know the only people who are always sure about the proper way to raise children? Those who've never had any.

Criminals are never very amusing. It's because they're failures. Those who make real money aren't counted as criminals. This is a class distinction, not an ethical problem.

It is hard to interest those who have everything in those who have nothing.

If you read history you will find that the Christians who did most for the present world were precisely those who thought most of the next. It is since Christians have largely ceased to think of the other world that they have become so ineffective in this.

In other words, a democratic government is the only one in which those who vote for a tax can escape the obligation to pay it.

Most of us end up with no more than five or six people who remember us. Teachers have thousands of people who remember them for the rest of their lives.

But communication is two-sided - vital and profound communication makes demands also on those who are to receive it... demands in the sense of concentration, of genuine effort to receive what is being communicated.

He has a right to criticize, who has a heart to help.

This country, with its institutions, belongs to the people who inhabit it. Whenever they shall grow weary of the existing government, they can exercise their constitutional right of amending it, or exercise their revolutionary right to overthrow it.

A man calumniated is doubly injured - first by him who utters the calumny, and then by him who believes it.

I would rather have been shot straight-up in cold blood-but to be set up? By people who you trusted? That's bad.

Too bad all the people who know how to run this country are busy running taxicabs or cutting hair.

Constant development is the law of life, and a man who always tries to maintain his dogmas in order to appear consistent drives himself into a false position.

One night I went over to get some dope from some Hollywood tough guy. After I left, my son Scott, who was only fifteen, went over with a baseball bat to kill him. I was laughing out of one eye and crying out of the other. I thought, Who am I kidding?

I call upon the scientific community in our country, those who gave us nuclear weapons, to turn their great talents now to the cause of mankind and world peace: to give us the means of rendering these nuclear weapons impotent and obsolete.

He is richest who is content with the least, for content is the wealth of nature.

Great leaders are almost always great simplifiers, who can cut through argument, debate and doubt, to offer a solution everybody can understand.

Style is knowing who you are, what you want to say, and not giving a damn.

People who speak in metaphors should shampoo my crotch.