Never try to outstubborn a cat.
Progress is made by lazy men looking for easier ways to do things.
If we can use an H-bomb--and as you said it's no checker game; it's real, it's war and nobody is fooling around--isn't it sort of ridiculous to go crawling around in the weeds, throwing knives and may...
The less respect an older person deserves the more certain he is to demand it from anyone younger.
The coldest depth of Hell is reserved for people who abandon kittens.
It was all very puzzling—both that Jill could smell still more like Jill… and that Dorcas should wish to smell like Jill when she already smelled like herself… and that Jubal would say that Dorcas sme...
I don't gamble, if you will concede that poker is a game of skill.
I am only an egg.
Don't handicap your children by making their lives easy.
Liberty is never unalienable; it must be redeemed regularly with the blood of patriots or it always vanishes. Of all the so-called natural human rights that have ever been invented, liberty is least l...
The Mother Thing makes our world.
I know where I came from—but where did all you zombies come from?I felt a headache coming on, but a headache powder is one thing I do not take. I did once—and you all went away.So I crawled into bed a...
How is a sincere criminal, trying hard, going to get ahead in his profession if his victim fails to cooperate?
Customs, morals--is there a difference?
Progress isn't made by early risers. It's made by lazy men trying to find easier ways to do something.
It is a truism that almost any sect, cult, or religion will legislate its creed into law if it acquires the political power to do so.
Mother had the social restraint of an ambassador.
Random chance is not sufficient to explain random chance. ~Jubal Harshaw
They didn't want it good, they wanted it Wednesday.
When you read about chemistry and physics, you want to do them too.