People who go broke in a big way never miss any meals. It is the poor jerk who is shy a half slug who must tighten his belt.

More people worry themselves to death than bleed to death.

It may be better to be a live jackal than a dead lion, but it is better still to be a live lion. And usually easier.

Nobody ever wins a lawsuit but the lawyers.

Correct morality can only be derived from what man is — not from what do-gooders and well-meaning aunt Nellies would like him to be.

The killer looked up as the bullet hit him. He looked as if he were puzzled by some strange occurence, being too freshly dead to be aware of it.

If God existed (a question concerning which Jubal maintained a meticulous intellectual neutrality) and if He desired to be worshiped (a proposition which Jubal found inherently improbable but conceivably possible in the dim light of his own ignorance), then (stipulating affirmatively both the above) it nevertheless seemed wildly unlikely to Jubal to the point of reductio ad absurdum that a God potent to shape galaxies would be titillated and swayed by the whoop-te-do nonsense the Fosterites offered Him as "worship.