H. Beam Piper Quotes

• English is the product of a Saxon warrior trying to make a date with an Angle bar-maid, and as such is no more legitimate than any of the other products of that conversation.

  H. Beam Piper

  Warrior, Trying, Maids

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• 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!

  H. Beam Piper

  Hands, Giving, Trying

  H. Beam Piper (2010). “A Slave Is a Slave”, p.22, eStar Books

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

  H. Beam Piper

  Powerful, Rich, Poor

  "Lone Star Planet". Book by H. Beam Piper and John J. McGuire, 1958.

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• Only the incompetent wait until the last extremity to use force, and by then, it is usually too late to use anything, even prayer.

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  Prayer, Waiting, Apathy

  H. Beam Piper (2010). “A Slave Is a Slave”, p.5, eStar Books

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• I like it where it gets dark at night, and if you want noise, you have to make it yourself.

  H. Beam Piper

  Dark, Night, Want

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• And when someone makes a statement you don't understand, don't tell him
  he's crazy. Ask him what he means.

  H. Beam Piper

  Crazy, Mean, Statements

  H. Beam Piper (2015). “Space Viking: Science Fiction Stories”, p.46, 谷月社

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

  H. Beam Piper

  Disease, Sanity, Contagious

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• 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.

  H. Beam Piper

  Men, Arms, Barmaids

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• Vengeance is a strange human motivation --- it can drive a man to do things which he neither would nor could achieve without it ... and because of that it lies behind some of the greatest sagas of human literature!

  H. Beam Piper

  Motivation, Lying, Men

  H. Beam Piper (2011). “Space Viking”, p.4, The Floating Press

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• 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.

  H. Beam Piper

  Texas, Excess, Killing

  "Lone Star Planet". Book by H. Beam Piper, 1958.

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• 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.

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  Two, Alcohol, Together

  H. Beam Piper (2015). “Little Fuzzy: Science Fiction Stories”, p.21, 谷月社

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• 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.

  H. Beam Piper

  Ideas, Sick, Looks

  H. Beam Piper (2015). “Four-Day Planet: Science Fiction Stories”, p.9, 谷月社

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