Rise above principal and do what's right.

I've come to look upon death the same way I look upon root-canal work. Everyone else seems to get through it all right, so it couldn't be too difficult for me.

The enemy," retorted Yossarian with weighted precision, "is anybody who's going to get you killed, no matter which side he's on, and that includes Colonel Cathcart. And don't you forget that, because the longer you remember it, the longer you might live.

When I read something saying I've not done anything as good as 'Catch-22' I'm tempted to reply, 'Who has?'

If a man is going to leave one wife to marry another, it's better if he divorces the first before he marries the second.

There are yawning gulfs into which large chunks of me have fallen. I do not always know where I am at present.

But that was war. Just about all he could find in its favor was that it paid well and liberated children from the pernicious influence of their parents.