“In a serious struggle there is no worse cruelty than to be magnanimous at an inopportune time.”
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Angry Quotes — page 157 of 1190
“The grinding of the intellect is for most people as painful as a dentists drill.”
“Capital punishment is as fundamentally wrong as a cure for crime as charity is wrong as a cure for poverty.”
“Neither we, nor any other people, will ever be respected till we respect ourselves and we will never respect ourselves till we have the means to live respectfully.”
“I am a veteran of the War on Christmas. I am just emerging from a battlefield strewn with dead trees and torn shreds of brightly colored wrapping paper.”
“Sarcasm: the last refuge of modest and chaste-souled people when the privacy of their soul is coarsely and intrusively invaded.”
“When I was younger I could remember anything, whether it happened or not.”
“There are two times in a man's life when he should not speculate: when he can't afford it, and when he can.”
“Somewhere in the world there is a defeat for everyone. Some are destroyed by defeat, and some made small and mean by victory. Greatness lives in one who triumphs equally over defeat and victory.”
“[American Communist Party] legally exists in the U.S.A., it nominates its candidates in the elections, including Presidential elections.”
“It is wrong to wear diamonds before luncheon, except on one’s marriage rings. Before, after, and during breakfast, luncheon and dinner, it is vulgar to wear a mixture of colored precious stones. It is always a comfort to know that so many things one can’t afford to do anyway are vulgar.”
“Do not suppose that abuses are eliminated by destroying the object which is abused. Men can go wrong with wine and women. Shall we then prohibit and abolish women?”
“People gave ear to an upstart astrologer who strove to show that the earth revolves, not the heavens or the firmament, the sun and the moon....This fool wishes to reverse the entire science of astronomy; but sacred scripture tells us [Joshua 10:13]that Joshua commanded the sun to stand still, and not the earth.”
“The public weal requires that men should betray, and lie, and massacre.”
“I'm a nice guy, but I like to get into trouble.”
“Everyone has a plan 'till they get punched in the mouth.”
“Jails and prisons are the complement of schools; so many less as you have of the latter, so many more must you have of the former.”
“The art of angling, the cruelest, the coldest and the stupidest of pretended sports.”
“The reason that adulation is not displeasing is that, though untrue, it shows one to be of consequence enough, in one way or other, to induce people to lie.”
“A friend is nothing but a known enemy.”