How many does it take to metamorphose wickedness into righteousness? One man must not kill. If he does, it is murder.... But a state or nation may kill as many as they please, and it is not murder. It is just, necessary, commendable, and right. Only get people enough to agree to it, and the butchery of myriads of human beings is perfectly innocent. But how many does it take?
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Dentist: a prestidigitator who, putting metal into your mouth, pulls coin out of your pocket.
~quotes on Dental by Ambrose Bierce Widespread caffeine use explains a lot about the twentieth century.
~sayings on Society by Greg Egan, Distress The devil can cite Scripture for his purpose.
~quotations on Perspective by William Shakespeare, The Merchant of Venice Talk doesn't cook rice.
~lost friendship quotes by Chinese Proverb Try not to become a man of success, but rather try to become a man of value
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I have my own little world, but it's okay - they know me here.
~quote about Sanity by Author Unknown A new friendship is like an unripened fruit - it may become either an orange or a lemon
~quotes on Friendship by Emma Stacey Climb the mountains and get their good tidingsNature's peace will flow into you as sunshine flows into treesThe winds will blow their own freshness into you, and the storms their energy, while cares will drop off like autumn leaves
~sayings on Earth Day by John Muir First you forget names; then you forget faces; then you forget to zip up your fly; and then you forget to unzip your fly
~quotations on Retirement by Branch Rickey If you press me to say why I loved him, I can say no more than because he was he, and I was I.
~lost friendship quotes by Michel de Montaigne The man who doesn't relax and hoot a few hoots voluntarily, now and then, is in great danger of hooting hoots and standing on his head for the edification of the pathologist and trained nurse, a little later on
~saying about lost friendship by Elbert Hubbard I always give my grandkids a couple of quarters when they go home. It's a bargain.
~quote about Grandparents by Gene Perret I believe that the Good Lord gave us a finite number of heartbeats and I'm damned if I'm going to use up mine running up and down a street.
~quotes on Exercise by Neil Armstrong on jogging, in an interview with Walter Cronkite Guilt is a rope that wears thin.
~sayings on Happiness by Ayn Rand Spread the diaper in the position of the diamond with you at bat. Then fold second base down to home and set the baby on the pitcher's mound. Put first base and third together, bring up home plate and pin the three together. Of course, in case of rain, you gotta call the game and start all over again.
~quotations on Baseball by Jimmy Piersal, on how to diaper a baby, 1968 Call it a clan, call it a network, call it a tribe, call it a family. Whatever you call it, whoever you are, you need one.
~lost friendship quotes by Jane Howard Whether he likes it or not, a man’s character is stripped at the poker table; if the other players read him better than he does, he has only himself to blame. Unless he is both able and prepared to see himself as others do, flaws and all, he will be a loser in cards, as in life.
~saying about lost friendship by Anthony Holden Live as long as you may, the first twenty years are the longest half of your life.
~quote about Age by Robert Southey, The Doctor Love is an act of endless forgiveness, a tender look which becomes a habit.
~quotes on Love by Peter Ustinov Courage is knowing what not to fear.
~sayings on Courage by Plato He that uses many words for the explaining any subject doth, like the cuttlefish, hide himself for the most part in his own ink.
~quotations on Writing by John Ray The drops of rain make a hole in the stone not by violence but by oft falling.
~lost friendship quotes by Lucretius The good writing of any age has always been the product of someone's neurosis, and we'd have a mighty dull literature if all the writers that came along were a bunch of happy chuckleheads.
~saying about lost friendship by William Styron, interview, Writers at Work, 1958 It is not sex that gives the pleasure, but the lover.
~quote about Sex by Marge Piercy You must not know too much, or be too precise or scientific about birds and trees and flowers and water-craft; a certain free margin, and even vagueness - perhaps ignorance, credulity - helps your enjoyment of these things...
~quotes on Nature by Walt Whitman, Specimen Days, Birds - And a Caution (Thank you, Corinne.) One of the lessons of history is that nothing is often a good thing to do and always a clever thing to say.
~sayings on Speaking by Will Durant If... the machine of government... is of such a nature that it requires you to be the agent of injustice to another, then, I say, break the law.
~quotations on Civil Disobedience by Henry David Thoreau, On the Duty of Civil Disobediance, 1849 Formerly, when religion was strong and science weak, men mistook magic for medicine; now, when science is strong and religion weak, men mistake medicine for magic.
~lost friendship quotes by Thomas Szasz, The Second Sin, 1973 We shall be inclined to pronounce the voyage that led to the way to this New World as the most epoch-making event of all that have occurred since the birth of Christ
~saying about lost friendship by John Fiske The difference between false memories and true ones is the same as for jewels: it is always the false ones that look the most real, the most brilliant.
~quote about Jewelry by Salvador Dalí Why assume so glibly that the God who presumably created the universe is still running it? It is certainly conceivable that He may have finished it and then turned it over to lesser gods to operate.
~quotes on Perspective by H.L. Mencken I kissed my first girl and smoked my first cigarette on the same day. I haven't had time for tobacco since.
~sayings on Smoking by Arturo Toscanini Religion seems to have a way of making people abandon logic.
~quotations on Religion by Amanda Baxter They throw their clubs backwards, and that's wrong. You should always throw a club ahead of you so that you don't have to walk any extra distance to get it.
~lost friendship quotes by Tommy Bolt, about the tempers of modern players Whatever thrift is, it is not avarice. Avarice is not generous; and, after all, it is the thrifty people who are generous.
~saying about lost friendship by Lord Rosebery If you're going through hell, keep going
~quote about Adversity by Winston Churchill How can I believe in God when just last week I got my tongue caught in the roller of an electric typewriter?
~quotes on God by Woody Allen, Selections from the Allen Notebooks, Without Feathers, 1975
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