How is a sincere criminal, trying hard, going to get ahead in his profession if his victim fails to cooperate?
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.
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...
Property is not the natural and obvious and inevitable concept that most people think it is.
Never try to outstubborn a cat.
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...
The Mother Thing makes our world.
Being a mother is an attitude, not a biological relation.
By cultivating the beautiful we scatter the seeds of heavenly flowers, as by doing good we cultivate those that belong to humanity.
Sex, whatever else it is, is an athletic skill. The more you practice, the more you can, the more you want to, the more you enjoy it, the less it tires you.
You were probably educated in the conventional economic theories of your period which were magnificent and most ingenious, but--if you will pardon my saying so--all wrong.
Nothing uses up alcohol faster than political argument.
I am only an egg.
Victory in defeat, there is none higher. She didn't give up, Ben; she's still trying to lift that stone after it has crushed her. She's a father working while cancer eats away his insides, to bring ho...
The Bible is such a gargantuan collection of conflicting values that anyone can prove anything from it.
If a grasshopper tries to fight a lawnmower, one may admire his courage but not his judgement.
History has the relation to truth that theology has to religion — ie., none to speak of
Never try to out-stubborn a cat.
His older self had taught his younger self a language which the older self knew because the younger self, after being taught, grew up to be the older self and was, therefore, capable of teaching.
The slickest way in the world to lie is to tell the right amount of truth at the right time-and then shut up.