Yes, Boss?'Dorcas, the last twenty or thirty years I've been a worthless, no-good parasite.'She yawned again. 'Everybody knows that.'Nevermind the flattery. There comes a time in every man's life when...
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.
Adult delinquents—people of mature years who either do not know their duty, or who, knowing it, fail.
Contrary to some opinions, it is better to be a dead hero than a live louse. Dying is messy and inconvenient but even a louse dies someday no matter what he will do to stay alive and he is forever hav...
Doing something constructive at once is better than figuring out the best thing to do hours later.
From George Bernard Shaw’s Caesar and Cleopatra: Pardon him, Theodotus: he is a barbarian, and thinks that the customs of his tribe and island are the laws of nature.
Joking. A slave needs privileges to keep him quiet.
An infantryman can fight only if somebody else delivers him to his zone; in a way I suppose pilots are just as essential as we are.
Be wary of strong drink, it can make you shoot at the tax collector...and miss.
But it’s a hell of a note when you can’t even kill a dragon and feel lighthearted afterwards.
But when I see a black widow, I step on it; I don’t plead with it to be a good little spider and please stop poisoning people.
But you don’t have to take his advice. Whether you use his ideas, or whether they spark some different plan—make your decision and snap out orders. The one thing—the only thing!—that can strike terror...
But, Jill, if a thing is sinful on Sunday, it is sinful on Friday—at least it groks that way to an outsider, myself—or perhaps to a man from Mars.
But, to tell the truth, a soldier doesn’t notice a war much more than a civilian does, except his own tiny piece of it and that just on the days it is happening.
Certain types of loudmouthism should be a capital offense among decent people.
Consider the black widow spider. It's a timid little beastie, useful and, for my taste, the prettiest of the arachnids, with its shiny, patent-leather finish and its red hourglass trademark. But the p...
Customs tell a man who he is, where he belongs, what he must do. Better illogical customs than none; men cannot live together without them.
Death isn't funny. Then why are there so many jokes about death? Jill, with us — us humans — death is so sad that we must laugh at it.
Democracy is a poor system of government at best; the only thing that can honestly be said in its favor is that it is eight times as good as any other method the human race has ever tried.
Do-gooding is like treating hemophilia - the real cure is to let hemophiliacs bleed to death...before they breed more hemophiliacs.
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