Clarence Darrow
US defense lawyer (1857 - 1938)
The first half of our lives is ruined by our parents, and the second half by our children.
The first half of our lives is ruined by our parents, and the second half by our children.
Reality is that which refuses to go away when I stop believing in it.
Love your enemies just in case your friends turn out to be a bunch of bastards.
A man is a success if he gets up in the morning and gets to bed at night, and in between he does what he wants to do.
Never judge a book by its movie.
Go ahead, make my day.
People ask for criticism, but they only want praise.
History teaches us that men and nations behave wisely when they have exhausted all other alternatives.
He who lives by the sword, will eventually be wiped out by some bastard with a sawn off shotgun
I hate war as only a soldier who has lived it can, only as one who has seen its brutality, its futility, its stupidity.
It is only the great men who are truly obscene. If they had not dared to be obscene, they could never have dared to be great.
The two most abundant things in the universe are Hydrogren and stupidity.
Sex is hereditary. If your parents never had it, chances are you wont either.
The test of a first-fate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in mind at the same time and still retain the ability to function. One should, for example, be able to see that things are hopeless and yet be determined to make them otherwise.
Bond. James Bond.
Anyone who says businessmen deal in facts, not fiction, has never read old five-year projections.
My best friend is the one who brings out the best in me.