Josh Billings

There are two kinds of fools: those who can't change their opinions and those who won't.

Common sense is the knack of seeing things as they are, and doing things as they ought to be done.

The wheel that squeaks the loudest is the one that gets the grease.

I like villains because there's something so attractive about a committed person - they have a plan, an ideology, no matter how twisted. They're motivated.

My first career ambitions involved turning into a boy; I intended to be either a railway guard or a knight errant.

A free life cannot acquire many possessions, because this is not easy to do without servility to mobs or monarchs.