Nursing does not diminish the beauty of a woman’s breasts; it enhances their charm by making them look lived in and happy.
The price of freedom is the willingness to do sudden battle anywhere, any time and with utter recklessness.
Writing is not necessarily something to be ashamed of, but do it in private and wash your hands afterwards.
I scrolled on down to the obituaries. I usually read the obituaries first as there is always the happy chance that one of them will make my day.
A monarch’s neck should always have a noose around it – it keeps him upright.
They didn’t want it good, they wanted it Wednesday.
The supreme irony of life is that hardly anyone gets out of it alive.
One should not attend even the end of the world without a good breakfast.
Being right too soon is socially unacceptable.
No statement should be believed because it is made by an authority.
A competent and self-confident person is incapable of jealousy in anything. Jealousy is invariably a symptom of neurotic insecurity.
A prude is a person who thinks that his own rules of propriety are natural laws.
The hardest part of gaining any new idea is sweeping out the false idea occupying that niche.
Love is what still goes on when you’re not horny.
It may be better to be a live jackal than a dead lion, but it is better still to be a live lion. And usually easier.
Do this. Don’t do that. Stay back in line. Where’s tax receipt? Fill out form. Let’s see license. Submit six copies. Exit only. No left turn. No right turn. Queue up and pay fine. Take back and get stamped. Drop dead – but first get permit.
Your enemy is never a villain in his own eyes. Keep this in mind; it may offer a way to make him your friend. If not, you can kill him without hate – and quickly.
The Earth is just too small and fragile a basket for the human race to keep all its eggs in.
There comes a time in the life of every human when he or she must decide to risk ‘his life, his fortune and his sacred honor’ on an outcome dubious. Those who fail the challenge are merely overgrown children, can never be anything else.
The greatest productive force is human selfishness.