Incorrigible Observer

"It depends on what the meaning of the word ‘is’ is."

"The airline business from the time of Wilbur and Orville Wright through 1991 made zero money, net. If a capitalist had been present at Kitty Hawk back in the early 1900s, he should have shot Orville Wright. He would have saved his progeny money. But seriously, the airline business has been extraordinary. It has eaten up capital over the past century like almost no other business because people seem to keep coming back to it and putting fresh money in. You've got huge fixed costs, you've got strong labor unions and you've got commodity pricing. That is not a great recipe for success. I have an 800 (free call) number now that I call if I get the urge to buy an airline stock. I call at two in the morning and I say: 'My name is Warren and I'm an aeroholic.' And then they talk me down."

"I don't know of any expedition that ever went looking for the ark and didn't find it."

"And remember, no matter where you go, there you are."

"It ain’t over till it’s over."

"I usually take a two-hour nap from one to four."

"He hits from both sides of the plate. He’s amphibious."

"It ain’t the heat, it’s the humility."

"Slump? I ain’t in no slump … I just ain’t hitting."

"Pair up in threes."

"I always thought that record would stand until it was broken."

"If you don’t know where you’re going, you might wind up someplace else."

"It’s déjà vu all over again."

"Baseball is 90% mental and the other half is physical."

"I only think one move ahead, but it is the right one"

"As we enjoy great advantages from the inventions of others, we should be glad of an opportunity to serve others by any invention of ours, and this we should do freely and generously."

"For having lived long, I have experienced many instances of being obliged, by better information or fuller consideration, to change opinions, even on important subjects, which I once thought right but found to be otherwise."

"He that can have patience can have what he will."

"Guests, like fish, begin to smell after three days."

"Tricks and treachery are the practice of fools, that don't have brains enough to be honest."

"The Constitution only gives people the right to pursue happiness. You have to catch it yourself."

"Savages we call them because their manners differ from ours."

"The art of acting consists in keeping people from coughing"

"It is only when the rich are sick that they fully feel the impotence of wealth."

"It takes many good deeds to build a good reputation, and only one bad one to lose it."

"In this world nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes."

"He that is good for making excuses is seldom good for anything else."

"We are all born ignorant, but one must work hard to remain stupid."

"Ignoranti quem portum petat, nullus suus ventus es.(roughly: If a man does not know to what port he is steering, no wind is favourable to him.)"

"So if it's hidden, and it could be hidden, it's hidden really damn well, even from people who are on the inside."

"There's only one thing worse than growing older. Not growing older."

"You own everything that happened to you. Tell your stories. If people wanted you to write warmly about them, they should have behaved better."

"[We] thought that once we'd climbed the mountain, it was unlikely anyone would ever make another attempt."

"What Jesus fails to appreciate is the meek are the problem."

"All the world is queer save thee and me, and even thou art a little queer."

"I think a man can have two, maybe three, affairs while he is married. But three is the absolute maximum. After that, you’re cheating."

"Never check an interesting fact."

"Treat your inferiors as you would be treated by your betters."

"People will always follow a good example; be the one to set a good example."

"We must believe that we are gifted for something, and that this thing, at whatever cost, must be attained."

"In reality, if you think about it, you go to heaven when you're born."

"The illegal we do immediately. The unconstitutional takes a little longer."

"You are entitled to your own opinion. But you are not entitled to your own facts"

"Space is big. Really big. You just won't believe how vastly, hugely, mind-bogglingly big it is. I mean, you may think it's a long way down the road to the chemist, but that's just peanuts to space."

"The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the dedicated communist, but people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction, true and false, no longer exists."

"As Witnesses we believe the end of the world is approaching and that only 144,000 people will be saved to reign. I do not believe it will be that many."

"Q: And what would he have done?A: He'd have cut him a hickory, sir. A hickory. He'd have flailed the living daylights out of her and then helped put lard on her welts and bought her a diamond brooch. That's what he'd have done, sir, and she'd have loved it."

"O'Hara: Time. Time. What is time? Swiss manufacture it. French hoard it. Italians squander it. Americans say it is money. Hindus say it does not exist. Do you know what I say? I say time is a crook."

"Q: Is there anything you would have done differently? A: "I would have done it in July.""