“They defend their errors as if they were defending their inheritance.”
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“A secret, if it's kept, can be sweet and comforting, but once it leaks out it can turn on you with a vengeance.”
“A dictator must fool all the people all the time and there's only one way to do that, he must also fool himself.”
“The only emperor is the emperor of ice cream.”
“The fox condemns the trap, not himself.”
“It's a shame that the only thing a man can do for eight hours a day is work. He can't eat for eight hours; he can't drink for eight hours; he can't make love for eight hours. The only thing a man can do for eight hours is work.”
“A man. All men. He will pass up a hundred chances to do good for one chance to meddle where meddling is not wanted. He will overlook and fail to see chances, opportunities, for riches and fame and welldoing, and even sometimes for evil. But he won't fail to see a chance to meddle.”
“I have no message to give the politicians of the world. They're all completely addicted to promiscuous verbalization and I'm quite sure they would not be at all interested in hearing about cut-ups and hieroglyphics and still less interested to hear about silence.”
“The junk merchant doesn't sell his product to the consumer, he sells the consumer to his product. He does not improve and simplify his merchandise. He degrades and simplifies the client.”
“what a horrible loutish planet this is. the dominant species consists of sadistic morons, faces bearing the hideous lineaments of spiritual famine swollen with stupid hate. hopeless rubbish.”
“O thou invisible spirit of wine, if thou has no name to be known by, let us call thee devil....O God, that men should put an enemy in their mouths to steal away their brains! that we should, with joy, pleasance revel and applause, transform ourselves into beasts!”
“A horse, a horse, my kingdom for a horse!”
“The brain may devise laws for the blood, but a hot temper leaps o'er a cold decree.”
“To say the truth, so Judas kissed his master And cried, 'All hail!' when as he meant all harm.”
“The horn, the horn, the lusty horn Is not a thing to laugh to scorn.”
“where civil blood makes civil hands unclean”
“It will have blood, they say; blood will have blood.”
“You can't hang a man for shooting a woman who was trying to steal his horse.”
“There is no such thing as a good tax.”
“Any man who is under 30, and is not a liberal, has no heart; and any man who is over 30, and is not a conservative, has no brains.”