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.
Citizenship is an attitude, a state of mind, an emotional conviction that the whole is greater than the part...and that the part should be humbly proud to sacrifice itself that the whole may live.
Citizenship is an attitude, a state of mind, an emotional conviction that the whole is greater than the part . . . and that the part should be humbly proud to sacrifice itself that the whole may live.
Certain types of loudmouthism should be a capital offense among decent people.
Back to these young criminals—They probably were not spanked as babies; they certainly were not flogged for their crimes.
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...
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.
An honest politician is one that stays bought.
An air car was just landing in the garden by the pool and beings under it were complaining of injuries and indignities done them. Perhaps this was the trouble he could feel? Grasses were for walking o...
A woman is not property, and husbands who think otherwise are living in a dreamworld.
A boy who gets a C- in 'Appreciation of Television' can't be all bad.
This has more aspects than a cat has hair.
Sometimes there just isn't any cure for a situation.
Joking. A slave needs privileges to keep him quiet.
Hurry was not a concept that could be symbolized in the Martian language and therefore must be presumed to be unthinkable. Speed, velocity, simultaneity, acceleration, and other mathematical abstracti...
Doing something constructive at once is better than figuring out the best thing to do hours later.
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...
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.
A friend who offers help without asking for explanations is a treasure beyond price.