Democracy is more than a ballot box.
The ballplayer who loses his head, who can't keep his cool, is worse than no ballplayer at all.
The French are a smallish, monkey-looking bunch and not dressed any better, on average, than the citizens of Baltimore.
There is no community service in 'Seinfeld.' But rather than lauding that, I think it shows the insane banality of it.
In a neighborhood, as in life, a clean bandage is much, much better than a raw or festering wound.
The narrow bandwidth of TV has made us think that we are stupider than we are.
It is not by augmenting the capital of the country, but by rendering a greater part of that capital active and productive than would otherwise be so, that the most judicious operations of banking can increase the industry of the country.
It is said that the world is in a state of bankruptcy, that the world owes the world more than the world can pay.
His lack of education is more than compensated for by his keenly developed moral bankruptcy.
LOL is rarely OL, or even really L. A real out-loud laugh - not the forced social variety, which is closer to barking than laughing - is uncommon among adults.
Sudden resolutions, like the sudden rise of mercury in a barometer, indicate little else than the variability of the weather.
Since 2006, we have surpassed Alaska, Oklahoma, Louisiana, and California in oil production to become the second largest oil-producing state in the nation, trailing only Texas. In 2012, North Dakota produced more than 245 million barrels of oil and provided nearly 11 percent of all U.S. output.
No padlocks, bolts, or bars can secure a maiden better than her own reserve.
Basic research is very useful, but it should be more geared toward application than it was before.
I've been a dunker for longer than I've been a basketball player.
I actually don't get massages very much. But Epsom salt baths are better than any massage.
One likes people much better when they're battered down by a prodigious siege of misfortune than when they triumph.
The Celts were harder than anyone else, tougher, and rugged. We battered everybody.
The fuel cell is just a fundamentally inferior way of delivering electrical energy to an electric motor than batteries.
Israel is slightly smaller than New Jersey. Moses in effect led the tribes of Israel out of the District of Columbia, parted Chesapeake Bay near Annapolis, and wandered for forty years in Delaware.
