But when they began handing out doctorates for comparative folk dancing and advanced fly-fishing, I became too stink in’ proud to use the title. I won’t touch watered whiskey and I take no pride in wa...
Being kissed by Wyoming Knott is more definite than being married to most women.
Anything which is physically possible can always be made financially possible; money is a bugaboo of small minds.
Could dump two Chinee down in one of our maria and they would get rich selling rocks to each other while raising twelve kids. Then a Hindu would sell retail stuff he got from them wholesale--below cos...
Anything free costs twice as much in long run or turns out worthless.
Women talk when they want to. Or don't.
We can be selective, applying precisely the required amount of pressure at the specified point at a designated time—we’ve never been told to go down and kill or capture all left-handed redheads in a p...
War is not violence and killing, pure and simple; war is controlled violence, for a purpose. The purpose of war is to support your government’s decisions by force. The purpose is never to kill the ene...
To permit irresponsible authority is to sow disaster; to hold a man responsible for anything he does not control is to behave with blind idiocy.
Then I glanced at the ring on my finger.The Snake That Eats Its Own Tail, Forever and Ever. I know where I came from—but where did all you zombies come from?I felt a headache coming on, but a headache...
The drive for power is even less logical than the sex urge . . . and stronger.
Take big bites. Anything worth doing is worth overdoing.
Of all the strange crimes that human beings have legislated out of nothing, blasphemy is the most amazing—with obscenity and indecent exposure fighting it out for second and third place.
Many older physicians had gone to their graves calling Pasteur a liar, a fool, or worse---and without examining evidence which their common sense told them was impossible.
If you turn out to be useful as well as ornamental, you can stay forever.
I waited. Women talk when they want to. Or don't.
I told you when you hired him that— When I hired him? Don’t interrupt. —that any man who would take money two ways would take it three ways just as quickly.
I don’t pay attention to politics. You should. It’s barely less important than your own heart beat. I don’t pay attention to that, either.
I came, I saw, she conquered.The original Latin seems to have been garbled.
I am not sentimental about kids. Little monsters, most of them, who don’t civilize until they are grown and sometimes not then.