Most 'scientists' are bottle washers and button sorters.

If you do not believe that a man will commit murder for one can of tomatoes, then you have never been hungry.

The less respect an older person deserves the more certain he is to demand it from anyone younger.

One might define adulthood as the age at which a person learns that he must die ...and accepts his sentence undismayed.

A dying culture invariably exhibits personal rudeness. Bad manners. Lack of consideration for others in minor matters. A loss of politeness, of gentle manners, is more significant than is a riot.

Don't tell me violence doesn't solve anything. Look at Carthage.

There is no such thing as luck; there is only adequate or inadequate preparation to cope with a statistical universe.