Girls marry for love. Boys marry because of a chronic irritation that causes them to gravitate in the direction of objects with certain curvilinear properties.
Hell has been described as a pocket edition of Chicago.
In teaching it is the method and not the content that is the message.
The Good Book - one of the most remarkable euphemisms ever coined.
Today, while the titular head of the family may still be the father, everyone knows that he is little more than chairman, at most, of the entertainment committee.
One goes through school, college, medical school and one's internship learning little or nothing about goodness but a good deal about success.
The doctor has been taught to be interested not in health but in disease. What the public is taught is that health is the cure for disease.
Scientists do not believe in fundamental and absolute certainties. For the scientist, certainty is never an end, but a search; not the ordering of certainty, but its exploration. For the scientist, certainty represents the highest degree of probability.
The original mixed ancestry of the Jews and their subsequent history of intermixture with every people among whom they have lived and continue to live.
Ircumcision, an archaic ritual mutilation that has no justification whatever and no place in a civilized society.
Man is the only 150 pound nonlinear servomechanism that can be wholly reproduced by unskilled labor.
The indications are that swearing preceded the development of cursing. That is, expletives, maledictions, exclamations, and imprecations of the immediately explosive or vituperative kind preceded the speechmaking and later rituals involved in the deliberate apportioning of the fate of an enemy. Swearing of the former variety is from the lips only, but the latter is from the heart. Damn it! is not that same as Damn you!
You certainly can't tell anything from the microscopic structure of the brain whether the person was an idiot or a genius.
The Eskimos live among ice all their lives but have no single word for ice.
The cultured man is an artist, an artist in humanity.
In Victorian times the purpose of life was to develop a personality once and for all and then stand on it.
No one should be required to see America for the first time.
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