Comrades, I beg you – do not resort to compulsory taxation. There is no worse tyranny than to force a man to pay for what he does not want merely because you think it would be good for him.
Certain types of loudmouthism should be a capital offense among decent people.
Basic truths cannot change and once a man of insight expresses one of them it is never necessary, no matter how much the world changes, to reformulate them.
Anywhere is home to the man with a fat bank account—the cops leave him alone.
And that was the soft spot which destroyed what was in many ways an admirable culture. The junior hoodlums who roamed their streets were symptoms of a greater sickness; their citizens (all of them cou...
Allie, what do the Stars tell me to do? You know I don't understand the scientific part.
A boy who gets a C- in 'Appreciation of Television' can't be all bad.
The ways of God and government and girls are all mysterious, and it is not given to mortal man to understand them.
That there was never a girl born who ever grew older than eighteen in her heart . . . no matter what the merciless hours have done.
Adult delinquents—people of mature years who either do not know their duty, or who, knowing it, fail.
A juvenile becomes an adult when, and only when, he acquires a knowledge of duty and embraces it as dearer than the self-love he was born with.
Your business, son. Yes. Self. I must grok each cusp myself alone. And so must you . . . and so must each self. Thou art God. I don’t accept the nomination. You can’t refuse it. Thou art God and I am...
When it don’t rain, the roof don’t leak; when it rains, I can’t fix it nohow.
We learned not to waste ammo even on warriors except in self-protection
Want to back out? Jill let out a long breath. No. I’ve always wanted a life of crime. Will you teach me gangster lingo? I want to be a credit to you.
Two bodies attract each other directly as the product of their masses and inversely as the square of their distance.' It sounds like a rule for simple physical facts, does it not? Yet it is nothing of...
The sort of guardian you can hire is worth about as much as the sort of wife you can buy.
The practical reason for continuing our system is the same as the practical reason for continuing anything: It works satisfactorily.
The practical reason for continuing our system is the same as the practical reason for continuing anything: It works satisfactorily. Nevertheless,
The golden sunshine of Italy congealed into tears. Here's to alcoholic brotherhood ... much more suited to the frail human soul, if any, than any other sort.