Nothing of value is free. Even the breath of life is purchased at birth only through gasping effort and pain.

I woke up in bed with a man and a cat. The man was a stranger; the cat was not

Progress is made by lazy men looking for easier ways to do things.

Be wary of strong drink. It can make you shoot at tax collectors... and miss.

Never encourage a man to cook breakfast; it cause him to wonder if women are necessary.

With eternity to draw on there could be no reason for hurrying - 'hurry' was not a concept in Martian.

All societies are based on rules to protect pregnant women and young children. All else is surplusage, excrescence, adornment, luxury, or folly which can - and must - be dumped in emergency to preserve this prime function. As racial survival is the only universal morality, no other basic is possible. Attempts to formulate a "perfect society" on any foundation other than "Women and children first!" is not only witless, it is automatically genocidal. Nevertheless, starry-eyed idealists (all of them male) have tried endlessly - and no doubt will keep trying.