Anyone who considers protocol unimportant has never dealt with a cat.
The power to tax, once conceded, has no limits; it continues until it destroys.
A child's life is like a piece of paper on which every person leaves a mark.
Moving parts in rubbing contact require lubrication to avoid excessive wear. Honorifics and formal politeness provide lubrication where people rub together. Often the very young, the untravelled, the naive, the sophisticated deplore these formalities as 'empty,' 'meaningless,' or 'dishonest,' and scorn to use them. No matter how 'pure' their motives, they thereby throw sand into machinery that does not work too well at best.
You live and learn. Or you don't live long.
The supreme irony of life is that hardly anyone gets out of it alive.
Ayn Rand is a bloody socialist compared to me.
There ain't no such thing as a free lunch.
I'll give you an exact definition. When the happiness of another person becomes as essential to yourself as your own, then the state of love exists.
...I am opposed to all attempts to license or restrict the arming of individuals... I consider such laws a violation of civil liberty, subversive of democratic political institutions, and self-defeating in their purpose.
Never tease an old dog; he might have one bite left.
Death is the lot of us all, and the only way that the human race has ever conquered death is by treating it with contempt. By living every golden minute as if one had all Eternity.
How anybody expects a man to stay in business with every two-bit wowser in the country claiming a veto over what we can say and can't say and what we can show and what we can't show - it's enough to make you throw up. The whole principle is wrong; it's like demanding that grown men live on skim milk because the baby can't eat steak.
The first principle of freedom is the right to go to hell in your own handbasket.
First you must learn to control your self. The rest follows. Blessed is he who knows himself and commands himself, for the world is his and love and happiness and peace walk with him wherever he goes.
Figure out for yourself what you want to be really good at, know that you'll never really satisfy yourself that you've made it, and accept that that's okay.
Touch is the most fundamental sense. A baby experiences it, all over, before he is born and long before he learns to use sight, hearing, or taste, and no human ever ceases to need it. Keep your children short on pocket money but long on hugs
Money problems can always be solved by a man not frightened by them.
I am free, no matter what rules surround me. If I find them tolerable, I tolerate them; if I find them too obnoxious, I break them.
Fulfillment in life is loving a good woman and killing a bad man.
Money is truthful. If a man speaks of his honor, make him pay cash.
If you've got the truth you can demonstrate it. Talking doesn't prove it.
I came, I saw, she conquered." The original Latin seems to have been garbled.
- I'm so busy doing what I must do that I don't have time for what I ought to do... and I never get a chance to do what I want to do! - Son, that's universal. The way to keep that recipe from killing you is occasionally to do what you want to do anyhow.
I have never been able to see life as anything but a vast complicated practical joke, and it's better to laugh than cry.
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