"People seldom become famous for what they say until after they are famous for what they've done."

"There's always somebody who is paid too much, and taxed too little - and it's always somebody else."

"Laughing at our mistakes can lengthen our own life. Laughing at someone else's can shorten it."

"Saying what we think gives us a wider conversational range than saying what we know."

"We may not imagine how our lives could be more frustrating and complex--but Congress can."

"Those who agree with us may not be right, but we admire their astuteness."

"Men are wise in proportion, not to their experience, but to their capacity for experience."

"The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, but wiser people so full of doubts."

"Force without wisdom falls of its own weight."

"It is not white hair that engenders wisdom."

"Those who wish to appear wise among fools, among the wise seem foolish."

"Wisdom is not finally tested in the schools, Wisdom cannot be pass'd from one having it to another not having it, Wisdom is of the soul, is not susceptible of proof, is its own proof."