Life can't be all bad when for ten dollars you can buy all the Beethoven sonatas and listen to them for ten years.

Scientists are people who build the Brooklyn Bridge and then buy it.

To buy very good wine nowadays requires only money. To serve it to your guests is a sign of fatigue.

I mean to live my life an obedient man, but obedient to God, subservient to the wisdom of my ancestors; never to the authority of political truths arrived at yesterday at the voting booth.

I would like to take you seriously, but to do so would affront your intelligence.

I won't insult your intelligence by suggesting that you really believe what you just said.