I never do anything I don’t want to. Nor does anyone, but in my case I know it.
I came by my decrepitude the hard way and I propose to enjoy it.
I always get the shakes before a drop.
Hit it! You have to hit it harder than that. Electrons are timid little things but notional; you have to let them know who’s boss.
Heroism' often consists in keeping your head in an emergency and doing the best you can with what you have instead of panicking and being shot in the tail. People who fight this way win more battles t...
He was finding it ruinously expensive to be rich.
Hate always sells well, but for repeat trade and the long pull happiness is sounder merchandise.
Harshaw was working as hard as he ever worked. Most of his mind was occupied with watching pretty girls do pretty things with sun and water;
Happiness consists in getting enough sleep. Just that, nothing more.
Gulliver's Travels sardonically proposed that Irish babies be fattened for English tables;
Gratitude’ is a euphemism for resentment. Resentment from most people I do not mind—but from pretty little girls it is distasteful to me.
Good luck, boys! This time we take ’em!
Getting a problem analyzed is two-thirds of solving it.
From somewhere, back in my youth, heard Prof say, ‘Manuel, when faced with a problem you do not understand, do any part of it you do understand, then look at it again.
From somewhere, back in my youth, heard Prof say, 'Manuel, when faced with a problem you do not understand, do any part of it you do understand, then look at it again.' He had been teaching me somethi...
Freedom begins when you tell Mrs. Grundy to go fly a kite.
Foster had in common with every great religious leader of that planet two traits: he had an extremely magnetic personality, and sexually he did not fall near the human norm. On Earth great religious l...
Everybody is equal. Everybody! That's the law.They are? Only from on top.
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...
Democracy is a poor system; the only thing that can be said for it is that it’s eight times as good as any other method. Its worst fault is that its leaders reflect their constituents—a