The fact that Ben retained Cavendish shows how seriously he took the matter; you don’t hunt rabbits with an elephant gun.
The discovery of life on Mars is something that, politically, they haven’t figured out yet.
The correct way to punctuate a sentence that states: Of course it is none of my business, but -- is to place a period after the word but.
The commonest weakness of our race is our ability to rationalize our most selfish purposes.
The capacity of humans to believe in what seems to me highly improbable- from table tapping to the superiority of their children- has never been plumbed.
The Snake That Eats Its Own Tail, Forever and Ever . . . I know where I came from—but where did all you zombies come from?
The Japanese have five different ways to say ‘thank you’—and every one of them translates literally as resentment, in various degrees. Would that English had the same built-in honesty on this point! I...
The Colorado River was at a record low and the towers in Lake Mead stood high out of the water. But the Angelenos committed communal suicide by watering lawns as usual.
That we were slaves I had known all my life--and nothing could be done about it. True, we weren't bought and sold--but as long as Authority held monopoly over what we had to have and what we could sel...
That was smart, that was engineering: never reinvent something that you can buy down the street.
That old saw about To understand all is to forgive all is a lot of tripe. Some things, the more you understand the more you loathe them. My
Study it yourself. If I told you, you would not know; you simply would have been told.
Straining at gnats and swallowing camels is a required course in all law schools.
Some people insist that ‘mediocre’ is better than ‘best.’ They delight in clipping wings because they themselves can’t fly. They despise brains because they have none. Pfah!
Some people are ants by nature; they have to work, even when it’s useless. Few people have a talent for constructive laziness.
Smith felt distressed at the failure to respond in kind and interpreted it as failure on his own part. He realized miserably that, time after time, he had managed to bring agitation to these other cre...
Seems to be a deep instinct in human beings for making everything compulsory that isn't forbidden.
See here, son, if a deputy sheriff beats a prisoner to death, it’s sweepstakes odds that the county commissioners didn’t order it, didn’t know it, and wouldn’t have permitted it had they known. At wor...
Once a man gets a reputation as a liar, he might as well be struck dumb, for people do not listen to the wind.
No, I hadn’t made any decision; my mouth was leading its own life.