You know, it's quite all right to give the underdog a hand, but only one hand. Keep the other hand on your pistol - or he'll try to eat the one you gave him!

English is the result of Norman men-at-arms attempting to pick up Saxon barmaids and is no more legitimate than any of the other results.

Take a drink because you pity yourself, and then the drink pities you and has a drink, and then two good drinks get together and that calls for drinks all around.

Apparently, on New Texas, killing a politician was not malum in se, and was mallum prohibitorum only to the extent that what happened to the politician was in excess of what he deserved.

I had a lot of other ideas, now and then, but every time I took a second look at one, it got sick and died.

Keep a goverment poor and weak and it's your servant; when it is rich and powerful it becomes your master.

Sanity, it would seem, was a dangerously contagious disease.