Everything and anything about a culture can be inferred from the shape of its language—and
Every general prohibition creates its bootleggers.
Dorcas, you already reek like a Marseilles cat house; don't wheedle Mike for more stinkum.
Damnit! Nationalism should stop at the stratosphere!
Congratulations! A desire not to butt into other people’s business is eighty percent of all human wisdom. You
Come Judgment Day, we may find that Mumbo Jumbo the God of the Congo was the Big Boss all along.
Christ was crucified for preaching without a police permit
Children seldom are able to realize that death will come to them personally. One might define adulthood as the age at which a person learns that he must die ... and accepts his sentence undismayed.
But if you didn't have more urgent things to do after supper [in boot camp], you could write a letter, loaf, gossip, discuss the myriad mental shortcomings of sergeants and, dearest of all, talk about...
A woman is not property, and husbands who think otherwise are living in a dreamworld.
Anyone who cannot cope with mathematics is not fully human. At best, he is a tolerable subhuman who has learned to wear his shoes, bathe, and not make messes in the house.
You are not in my debt. You can’t be. Impossible—because I never do anything I don’t want to do. Nor does anyone, but in my case I am always aware of it.
One of the few things I’ve learned is that humans hardly ever learn from the experience of others. They learn—when they do, which isn’t often—on their own, the hard way.
[J]uvenile delinquent' is a contradiction in terms. 'Delinquent' means 'failing in duty.' But duty is an adult virtue--indeed a juvenile becomes an adult when, and only when, he acquires a knowledge a...
Youse guys think this deleted outfit is a blankety-blank nursery. Well, it ain’t! See? —Remark attributed to a Hellenic corporal before the walls of Troy, 1194 B.C.
You know the classification of cultures into ‘Apollonian’ and ‘Dionysian.
You have to have been out on a long patrol to appreciate this properly. You need to have looked forward to your day of guard duty, for the privilege of standing two hours out of each six with your spi...
You got the impression that he never needed to sleep - just ten-thousand-mile checkups and dust him off occasionally.
Winslow says I don't understand plotting and probably I don't - I have been congratulated many times on the skill shown in my plotting when I knew damn well that the story in question had not been plo...
Till the stars grow old and our sun grows cold? Will you fight for us, lie for us, love us - and let us love you?