Our behavior is different. How often have you seen a headline like this?--TWO DIE ATTEMPTING RESCUE OF DROWNING CHILD. If a man gets lost in the mountains, hundreds will search and often two or three...
No matter what I said they insisted on thinking of God as something outside themselves. Something that yearns to take every indolent moron to His breast and comfort him. The notion that the effort has...
Need I point out that, despite the old saw about uneasy heads and crowns, it is nevertheless safer to be publicly a king than it is to be a pretender in hiding? A king can usually abdicate to save his...
My old man taught me two things: 'Mind own business' and 'Always cut cards'.
Little Brother...precious darling...little imp with lively legs and lovely lewd lascivious lecherous licentious libido...beautiful bumps and pert posterior...with soft voice and gentle hands. My baby...
In the fifteenth century the Pope deeded the entire western hemisphere to Spain and Portugal and nobody paid the slightest attention to the fact that the real estate was already occupied by several mi...
If Satan should ever replace God he would find it necessary to assume the attributes of Divinity.
I don't pay much attention to politics.You should. It's barely less important than your own heart beat.
But, do you know, once you get used to it's rather cute. I mean, if a girl looks alright to start with, she still looks alright with her head smooth.
Be wary of strong drink, it can make you shoot at the tax collector...and miss.
But how, from the viewpoint of a Martian, did man differ from other animals? Would a race that could levitate and god knows what else be impressed by engineering? If so would the Aswan Dam or a thousa...
Writing is not necessarily something to be ashamed of, but do it in private and wash your hands afterwards.
Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own... Jealousy is a disease, love is a healthy condition. The immature mind often mistakes one for the other, or a...
Obscurity is usually the refuge of incompetence
Young man, can you restore my eyesight? Sir? Why, no, sir! You would find it much easier than to instill moral virtue—social responsibility—into a person who doesn’t have it, doesn’t want it, and rese...
You can die anyplace. They’ve never managed to regulate that.
Well, ‘hate’ is the other luxury an instructor can never afford. We must not hate them, we must not like them; we must teach them.
Uh, all right. Boss, you’re infuriating when you’re logical! Yes, a most uncouth way to argue.
There is no way to stop. Writers go on writing long after it becomes financially unnecessary...because it hurts less to write than it does not to write.
The hardest part about gaining any new idea is sweeping out the false idea occupying that niche. As long as that niche is occupied, evidence and proof and logical demonstration get nowhere. But once t...