Progress is made by lazy men looking for easier ways to do things.
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...
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...
Don't explain computers to laymen. Simpler to explain sex to a virgin.
The coldest depth of Hell is reserved for people who abandon kittens.
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...
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...
Progress isn't made by early risers. It's made by lazy men trying to find easier ways to do something.
Don't handicap your children by making their lives easy.
Butterflies are self propelled flowers.
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.
Random chance is not sufficient to explain random chance. ~Jubal Harshaw
You. What is the moral difference, ifany, between the soldier and the civilian?""The difference," I answered carefully, "lies in the field of civicvirtue. A soldier accepts personal responsibility for...
When you read about chemistry and physics, you want to do them too.
It’s not enough to be able to lie with a straight face; anybody with enough gall to raise on a busted flush can do that. The first way to lie artistically is to tell the truth — but not all of it. The...
The best things in history are accomplished by people who get tired of being shoved around.
That God is in truth the sort of bloodthirsty paranoid Who would rend to bits forty-two children for the crime of sassing one of his priests. Don't ask me about the Front Office's policies; I just wor...
A competent and self-confident person is incapable of jealousy in anything. Jealousy is invariably a symptom of neurotic insecurity.
Think about it. Politics is just a name for the way we get things done ... without fighting. We dicker and compromise and everybody thinks he has received a raw deal, but somehow after a tedious amoun...
I happen to be of an almost extinct breed, an old-fashioned gentleman--which means I can be a real revolving son of a bitch when it suits me.