You are a coward when you even seem to have backed down from a thing you openly set out to do |
You can go to heaven if you want. I'd rather stay in Bermuda. |
You can straighten a worm, but the crook is in him and only waiting |
You can't depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus. |
You can't depend on your judgment when your imagination is out of focus |
You can't depend on your judgment when your imagination is out of focus |
You can't pray a lie. |
You can't reason with the heart; it has its own laws, and thumps about things which the intellect scorns. |
You know about transmigration of souls; do you know about transposition of epochs--and bodies? |
You may have noticed that the less I know about a subject the more confidence I have, and the more new light I throw on it. |
You ought never to "sass" old people- unless they "sass" you first |
You perceive I generalize with intrepidity from single instances. It is the tourist's custom. |
You see, he was going for the Holy Grail. The boys all took a flier at the Holy Grail now and then. It was a several years' cruise. They always put in the long absence snooping around, in the most conscientious way, though none of them had any idea where the Holy Grail really was, and I don't think any of them actually expected to find it, or would have known what to do with it if he had run across it. |
You should never do anything wicked and lay it on your brother, when it is just as convenient to lay it on some other boy |
You shouldn't try to teach a pig to sing. You waste your time and it annoys the pig. |