A generation which ignores history has no past and no future. |
A generation which ignores history has no past and no future. |
A government-supported artist is an incompetent whore! Robert A |
A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, cone a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyze a new problem, pitch manure, program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight efficiently, die gallantly. |
A poet who reads his own verse in public may have other nasty habits. |
All's fair in love and war-what a contemptible lie! Notebooks of Lazarus Long, Robert A |
Always listen to experts. They'll tell you what can't be done and why. Then do it. |
Another ingredient in a happy marriage: Budget the luxuries first! Notebooks of Lazarus Long, Robert A |
But goodness alone is never enough. A hard cold wisdom is required, too, for goodness to accomplish good. Goodness without wisdom invariably accomplishes evil. |
Do steers sign treaties with meat packers? Robert A |
Everything is theoretically impossible, until it is done. One could write a history of science in reverse by assembling the solemn pronouncements of highest authority about what could not be done and could never happen. |
History does not record anywhere at any time a religion that has any rational basis. Religion is a crutch for people not strong enough to stand up to the unknown without help. But, like dandruff, most people do have a religion and spend time and mo |
How we behave toward cats here below determines our status in heaven. |
Human beings hardly ever learn from the experience of others. They learn; when they do, which isn't often, on their own, the hard way. |
I don't see how an article of clothing can be indecent. A person, yes. |