The devil is easy to identify. He appears when you're terribly tired and makes a very reasonable request which you know you shouldn't grant.

I am certain that the good Lord never intended grapes to be made into grape jelly.

It makes no difference if I burn my bridges behind me — I never retreat.

Politics is very much like taxes - everybody is against them, or everybody is for them as long as they don't apply to him.

There is no Democratic or Republican way of cleaning the streets.

When I make a mistake, it's a beaut!
All from Fiorello LaGuardia, 1882 - 1947