Here’s to alcoholic brotherhood . . . much more suited to the frail human soul, if any, than any other sort.
Hell, was no military man; was computer technician who had bumbled into wrong field.
He's an honest politician--he stays bought.
He knew vaguely that he did not want the nurse to die at that moment, even though it was certainly its right and possibly its obligation to do so.
Government! Three-fourths parasitic and the rest stupid fumbling - oh, Harshaw concluded that man, a social animal, could not avoid government, any more than an individual could escape bondage to his...
English is the largest of human tongues, with several times the vocabulary of the second largest language -- this alone made it inevitable that English would eventually become, as it did, the lingua f...
Either way, I have no wish to disturb a man sleeping in a gutter; I assume until proved otherwise that he belongs there.
Do not handicap your children by making their lives easy.
Democracy’s worst fault is that its leaders are likely to reflect the faults and virtues of their constituents—a depressingly low level, but what else can you expect?
Captain, that’s not your style; you don’t want to make money, you simply want to have money—in order to spend it.
But in writing your constitution let me invite attention the wonderful virtues of the negative! Accentuate the negative! Let your document be studded with things the government is forever forbidden to...
Ben m’boy, Jubal said gently, as a reporter you are hard-working and sometimes readable.
Being sorry won't get you into heaven. Get happy, son. Get that old spring into your step and stay on your toes.
Becky Vesey always gave good advice and she gave it with great conviction because she always believed it.
Animals can be driven crazy by placing too many in too small a pen. Homo sapiens is the only animal that voluntarily does this to himself.
All revelations are personal, that's why all revelations are suspect.
All men must die, it was their single common heritage. But a book need never die and should not be killed; books were the immortal part of man.
الطيبة وحدها لا تكفي. لا بد من حكمة باردة قاسية للطيبة كي تحقق الخير. الطيبة بلا حكمة تؤدي حتما إلى الشر.
To the everlasting glory of the infantry, shines the name, shines the name of Rodger Young!
The trouble with lessons from history is that we usually read them best after falling flat on our chins.