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.
Mahmoud, sir. No, Doctor Mahmoud is not well. A—a slight nervous breakdown, sir. Van Tromp reflected that being dead drunk was the moral equivalent thereof.
It does not pay a prophet to be too specific. —L. Sprague de Camp
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 see your point. It irks you to see anyone at all who is able to work permitted to live without working. But why do you consider work a virtue?
His claim to Mars is lawyers' hogwash; as a lawyer myself I need not respect it.
He shall rule them with a rod of iron. —Revelations II:25
Faith strikes me as intellectual laziness, but I don’t argue with it—especially as I am rarely in a position to prove that it is mistaken.
Do not confuse duty with what other people expect of you; they are utterly different. Duty is a debt you owe to yourself to fulfill obligations you have assumed voluntarily. Paying that debt can entai...
Daddy says that, in a dilemma, it is helpful to change any variable, then reexamine the problem.
But one way or another competing and weeding takes place . . . or a race goes downhill.
But goodness alone is never enough. A hard, cold wisdom is required for goodness to accomplish good. Goodness without wisdom always accomplishes evil.
A motion to adjourn is always in order.
Was no such thing as a dangerous weapon, there were only dangerous men.
Joking. A slave needs privileges to keep him quiet.
You really aren't here at all. There isn't anybody but me. Jane, here alone in the dark, I miss you dreadfully!
You have to give an editor something to change, or he gets frustrated. After he pees in it himself, he likes the flavor much better, so he buys it.
To vote is to wield authority; it is the supreme authority from which all other authority derives—such
There is no safety this side of the grave.
Sit back down—and for God’s sake quit trying to be as nasty as I am; you don’t have my years of practice.