Nothing uses up alcohol faster than political argument.
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...
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...
I've never been able to understand 'faith' myself, nor to see how a just God could expect his creatures to pick the one true religion out of an infinitude of false ones - by faith alone. It strikes me...
A competent and self-confident person is incapable of jealousy in anything. Jealousy is invariably a symptom of neurotic insecurity.
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...
Yield to temptation. It may not pass your way again.
Never try to out-stubborn a cat.
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...
Secrecy begets tyranny.
Property is not the natural and obvious and inevitable concept that most people think it is.
Library science was the foundation of all sciences.
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.
Harshaw had the arrogant humility of the man who has learned so much that he is aware of his own ignorance and he saw no point in 'measurements' when he did not know what he was measuring.
Everybody lies about sex.
Being a mother is an attitude, not a biological relation.
It's a long story. Want a refill?No, let's start the steak. Where's the button?Right here.Well, push it.Me? You offered to cook.Ben Caxton, I will lie here and starve before I will get up to push a bu...
A hero must hero.
By cultivating the beautiful we scatter the seeds of heavenly flowers, as by doing good we cultivate those that belong to humanity.