Ability is a wonderful thing, but its value is greatly enhanced by dependability. Ability implies repeatability and accountability.
Stinky says women should be obscene but not heard.
If you wanted to teach a baby a lesson, would you cut its head off?
Never appeal to a man’s ‘better nature.’ He may not have one. Invoking his self-interest gives you more leverage.
Anything which is physically possible can always be made financially possible; money is a bugaboo of small minds.
Nothing of value is free. Even the breath of life is purchased at birth only through gasping effort and pain.
If you don’t like yourself, you can’t like other people. – Lazarus Long.
There are things which cannot be taught in ten easy lessons, nor popularized for the masses; they take years of skull sweat.
We learned not to waste ammo even on warriors except in self-protection.
He’s as weird as snake’s suspenders but sweet as a stolen kiss, too.
The 3-legged stool of understanding is held up by history, languages, and mathematics. Equipped with those three you can learn anything you want to learn. But if you lack any one of them you are just another ignorant peasant with dung on your boots.
Stupidity cannot be cured. Stupidity is the only universal capital crime; the sentence is death. There is no appeal, and execution is carried out automatically and without pity.
Autobiography is usually honest but it is never truthful.
Most people can’t think, most of the remainder won’t think, and the small fraction who do think mostly can’t do it very well.
Any group is weaker than a man alone unless they are perfectly trained to work together.
God created men to test the souls of women.
There is no such thing as ‘social gambling.’ Either you are there to cut the other bloke’s heart out and eat it – or you’re a sucker. If you don’t like this choice – don’t gamble.
Certainly the game is rigged. Don’t let that stop you; if you don’t bet you can’t win.
A brute kills for pleasure. A fool kills from hate.
It’s amazing how much ‘mature wisdom’ resembles being too tired.