Selected Quotes

"The future ain’t what it used to be. "

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

"Always go to other people’s funerals, otherwise they won’t come to yours. "

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

"A nickel ain’t worth a dime anymore. "

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

"You can observe a lot by watching. "

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

"Never answer an anonymous letter. "

"It ain’t over till it’s over. "

"I never said most of the things I said. "

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

"Leading people off a cliff is technically leading, but it's also stupid and deadly. "

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

"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. "

"If the other guy wants to kill you and you want to live that's not just a difference of opinion. "

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

"You can't beat a pigeon at chess. Even if you're a grandmaster, the pigeon will just shit all over the board  "

"Nash: You have no respect for cognitive reverie. Roommate: Yes, but pizza, now pizza I have enormous respect for. And of course beer. Nash: I have respect for beer. "

"I saw them; there is nothing beautiful about them, just that they are a little higher than the others. "

"I think, too, that we’ve got to recognize that where the preservation of a natural resource like the redwoods is concerned, that there is a common sense limit. I mean, if you’ve looked at a hundred thousand acres or so of trees — you know, a tree is a tree, how many more do you need to look at? "

"I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work. "

"Did anyone ever tell you you have the face of a Botticelli and the body of a Degas "

"“We are not planning to attack other countries,” he told a Turkish reporter. “We didn’t attack Ukraine, either.”  "

"If there was any constitutional issue resolved by the Civil War, it is that there is no right to secede "