Jubal waved the man back. Private, he said firmly. Family matter. Go have a drink. Whose family? A death in yours, if you insist. Scat!
It is a truism that almost any sect, cult, or religion will legislate its creed into law if it acquires the political power to do so, and will follow it by suppressing opposition, subverting all educa...
I never do anything I don't want to do. Nor does anyone, but in my case I am always aware of it.
I know where I came from—but where did all you zombies come from?
I don’t pay attention to politics. You should. It’s barely less important than your own heart beat. I
I came, I saw, she conquered.The original Latin seems to have been garbled.
Engineering is the art of the practical and depends more on the total state of the art than it does on the individual engineer. When railroading time comes you can railroad—but not before.
Butterflies are not insects,' Captain John Sterling said soberly. 'They are self-propelled flowers.
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...
Democracy can't work. Mathematicians, peasants, and animals, that's all there is-- so democracy, a theory based on the assumption that mathematicians and peasants are equal, can never work. Wisdom is...
The supreme irony of life is that hardly anyone gets out of it alive.
One of the sanest, surest, and most generous joys of life comes from being happy over the good fortune of others.
Sometimes there just isn't any cure for a situation.
Anything free costs twice as much in long run or turns out worthless.
What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly . . .
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...
Value’ has no meaning other than in relation to living beings. The value of a thing is always relative to a particular person, is completely personal and different in quantity for each living human—‘m...
To support his austerely upholstered nest and its rabble staff he put forth minimum effort for maximum return simply because it was easier to be rich than to be poor - Harshaw merely wished to live ex...
People who are busy and happy don't write diaries; they are too busy living.
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.