A three year old child is a being who gets almost as much fun out of a fifty-six dollar set of swings as it does out of finding a small green worm.
One murder makes a villain, millions often a hero.
Flattery, if judiciously administered, is always acceptable, however much we may despise the flatterer.
Thinking in words slows you down and actually decreases comprehension in much the same way as walking a tightrope too slowly makes one lose one's balance.
Can the cannibal speak in the name of those he ate?
Meditating means bringing the mind back to something again and again. Thus, we all meditate, but unless we direct it in some way, we meditate on ourselves and on our own problems, reinforcing our self-clinging.
Perhaps God chose me to be an atheist?
A learned man is a tank; a wiser man is a spring.
Material civilization, nay, even luxury, is necessary to create work for the poor. Bread! Bread! I do not believe in a God who cannot give me bread here, giving me eternal bliss in heaven!
Men do not mirror themselves in running water; they mirror themselves in still water.
IF you torture a single chicken and are caught, you're likely to be arrested. If you scald thousands of chickens alive, you're an industrialist who will be lauded for your acumen.
I'm not convinced that the world is in any worse shape than it ever was. It's just that in this age of almost instantaneous communication, we bear the weight of problems our forefathers only read about after they were solved.
Economists report that a college education adds many thousands of dollars to a man's lifetime income - which he then spends sending his son to college.
In foreign affairs, the president can do what he wants unless Congress says no. In domestic policy, the president can't do anything unless Congress says yes.
The easiest books are generally the best; for, whatever author is obscure and difficult in his own language, certainly does not think clearly.
Books are delightful when prosperity happily smiles; when adversity threatens, they are inseparable comforters. They give strength to human compacts, nor are grave opinions brought forward without books. Arts and sciences, the benefits of which no mind can calculate. depend upon books.
Middle age is when you realize that you'll never live long enough to try all the recipes you spent thirty years clipping out of newspapers and magazines.
Kids are not driving themselves to McDonalds. It's not about kids and their choices. It's about parents and their choices.
The Vice-Presidency is sort of like the last cookie on the plate. Everybody insists he won't take it, but somebody always does.
Where are the rough brave Britons to be found With Hearts of Oak, so much of old renowned?
Never seem wiser or more learned than the people you are with.
Economics is the science which studies human behaviour as a relationship between ends and scarce means which have alternative uses.
When it is not necessary to amend the Constitution, it is necessary not to amend the Constitution.
Doing leads more surely to talking than talking to doing.
What a pity that the only way to heaven is in a hearse.
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