Anyone who cannot cope with mathematics is not fully human. At best, he is a tolerable subhuman who has learned to wear his shoes, bathe, and not make messes in the house.
Live and learn, or you don’t live long.
When it don’t rain, the roof don’t leak; when it rains, I can’t fix it nohow.
It would take centuries and he must grow and grow and grow, but he was in no hurry – he grokked that Eternity and the ever-beautifully-changing Now were identical.
Taxes are not levied for the benefit of the taxed.
We came here for a small, informal meeting. We find you’ve turned it into a circus. Well, if you’re going to have a circus, you’ve got to have elephants.
Correct morality can only be derived from what man is – not from what do-gooders and well-meaning aunt Nellies would like him to be.
Logic is a feeble reed, friend. “Logic” proved that airplanes can’t fly and that H-bombs won’t work and that stones don’t fall out of the sky. Logic is a way of saying that anything which didn’t happen yesterday won’t happen tomorrow.
But goodness alone is never enough. A hard, cold wisdom is required for goodness to accomplish good. Goodness without wisdom always accomplishes evil.
Don’t explain computers to laymen. Simpler to explain sex to a virgin.
And suddenly I knew I was people and could not stop laughing.
Work is not an end in itself; there must always be time enough for love.
Some people insist that ‘mediocre’ is better than ‘best.’ They delight in clipping wings because they themselves can’t fly. They despise brains because they have none.
What a wonderful world it is that has girls in it!
Neither individuals nor corporations have any right to come into court and ask that the clock of history be stopped, or turned back.
Like every living thing its prime characteristic is a blind, unreasoned instinct to survive.
Straining at gnats and swallowing camels is a required course in all law schools.
I’m always suspicious of disinterested interest.
His was not a small mind bothered by logic and consistency.
Drop dead-but first get permit.