Take big bites. Anything worth doing is worth overdoing.
Man is not a rational animal; he is a rationalizing animal.
I do know that the slickest way to lie is to tell the right amount of truth--then shut up.
Never own more than you can carry in both hands at a dead run.
Anybody can look at a pretty girl and see a pretty girl. An artist can look at a pretty girl and see the old woman she will become. A better artist can look at an old woman and see the pretty girl tha...
When a place gets crowded enough to require ID's, social collapse is not far away. It is time to go elsewhere. The best thing about space travel is that it made it possible to go elsewhere.
Violence, naked force, has settled more issues in history than has any other factor.
Sense is never common.
Oh, Tanstaafl. Means There ain't no such thing as a free lunch. And isn't,' I added, pointing to a FREE LUNCH sign across room, 'or these drinks would cost half as much. Was reminding her that anythin...
Men are always for hire who like dirty work.
Marriage is a young man’s disaster and an old man’s comfort.
Limiting the freedom of news 'just a little bit' is in the same category with the classic example 'a little bit pregnant.
It's up to the artist to use language that can be understood, not hide it in some private code. Most of these jokers don't even want to use language you and I know or can learn . . . they would rather...
If you've got the truth you can demonstrate it. Talking doesn't prove it.
Even Lot might have been mistaken. But that’s what he promised ‘em – his virgin daughters, young and tender and scared – urged this street gang to rape them as much as they wished in any way that they...
English is capable of defining sentiments that the human nervous system is quite incapable of experiencing.
I am free because I know that I alone am morally responsible for everything I do. I am free, no matter what rules surround me. If I find them tolerable, I tolerate them; if I find them too obnoxious,...
. . .and he has nevergiven up his conviction that if you just try all the doors one of them is bound to be the Door intoSummer. You know, I think he is right.
The great trouble with religion - any religion - is that a religionist, having accepted certain propositions by faith, cannot thereafter judge those propositions by evidence. One may bask at the warm...
There is no such thing as a humane war.