Library science was the foundation of all sciences.
Jubal waved the man back. “Private,” he said firmly. “Family matter. Go have a drink.” “Whose family?” “A death in yours, if you insist. Scat!
See here, son, if a deputy sheriff beats a prisoner to death, it’s sweepstakes odds that the county commissioners didn’t order it, didn’t know it, and wouldn’t have permitted it had they known. At worst they shut their eyes to it – afterwards – rather than upset their own applecarts. But assassination has never been an accepted policy in this country.
Men are always for hire who like dirty work.
Being “up to something” was the unnamable and unforgiveable crime for which any American male could be indicted, tried, convicted, and sentenced in one breath. He wondered how things had gotten rigged so that the male half of the race must always behave to suit feminine rules and feminine logic, like a snotty-nosed school boy in front of a stern teacher.
Nope. Gadflies such as yourself are utterly necessary. Nor am I opposed to ‘turning the rascals out’ – it’s usually the soundest rule of politics. But it’s well to take a look at what new rascals you are going to get before you jump at any chance to turn your present rascals out.
Democracy’s worst fault is that its leaders are likely to reflect the faults and virtues of their constituents – a depressingly low level, but what else can you expect?
There’s precious little choice.” “There’s always a choice! This one is a choice between ‘bad’ and ‘worse – ’which is a difference much more poignant than that between ‘good’ and ’better.
Captain, that’s not your style; you don’t want to make money, you simply want to have money – in order to spend it.
Me, I had never been sure – only thing I was sure of was that Dr. Chan would not himself sit on a target. But he might not warn his old mother.
Uh, all right. Boss, you’re infuriating when you’re logical!” “Yes, a most uncouth way to argue.
A hero must hero.
Jill, of all the nonsense that twists the world, the concept of ‘altruism’ is the worst. People do what they want to do, every time.
But, Jill, if a thing is sinful on Sunday, it is sinful on Friday – at least it groks that way to an outsider, myself – or perhaps to a man from Mars.
Easier to get people to hate than to get them to love.
Richard, Bill has the socialist disease in its worst form; he thinks the world owes him a living. He told me sincerely – smugly! – that of course everyone was entitled to the best possible medical and hospital service – free of course, unlimited of course, and of course the government should pay for it.
The only constant thing in these shifting, fairy-chess worlds is human love.
It’s not that easy. You can make omelet from eggs, but not eggs from omelet.
But he described our shortcomings, physical, mental, moral, and genetic, in great and insulting detail.
I made a very important discovery at Camp Currie. Happiness consists in getting enough sleep. Just that, nothing more. All the wealthy, unhappy people you’ve ever met take sleeping pills; Mobile Infantrymen don’t need them. Give a cap trooper a bunk and time to sack out in it and he’s as happy as a worm in an apple – asleep.