Most people approve of capital punishment, but most people wouldn't do the hangman's job.

In certain kinds of writing, particularly in art criticism and literary criticism, it is normal to come across long passages which are almost completely lacking in meaning.

The heresy of heresies was common sense.

The essential act of war is destruction, not necessarily of human lives, but of the products of human labor.

My best fishing-memory is about some fish that I never caught.

The war is not meant to be won, it is meant to be continuous.

I'm fat, but I'm thin inside. Has it ever struck you that there's a thin man inside every fat man, just as they say there's a statue inside every block of stone?