Heroes, whatever high ideas we may have of them, are mortal and not divine. We are all as God made us and many of us much worse.
Use your health, even to the point of wearing it out. That is what it is for. Spend all you have before you die; do not outlive yourself.
A fool's brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry. Hence University education.
With mirth and laughter let old wrinkles come.
Many a good hanging prevents a bad marriage.
Uneasy lies the head that wears a crown.
How sharper than a serpent's tooth it is to have a thankless child!
I say there is no darkness but ignorance.
A child's spirit is like a child, you can never catch it by running after it; you must stand still, and, for love, it will soon itself come back.
Impropriety is the soul of wit.
Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it.
You use a glass mirror to see your face; you use works of art to see your soul.
There are two tragedies in life. One is to lose your heart's desire. The other is to gain it.
The Red Lion was a four-ale bar with a handful of lowbrowed sons of toil who looked as though they...
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If I turned towards books, it was because they were the only sanctuary I knew, one I needed in order...
We all had to pay, but not for the crimes we were accused of. There were other scores to settle.
Hope for some means its loss for others; when the hopeless regain some hope, those in power--the...
It isn't even good grammar. What the hell does it mean when they disappear somebody?
Why are they going to disappear him? I don't know. It doesn't make sense. It isn't even good...
Havermeyer was a lead bombardier who never missed. Yossarian was a lead bombardier who had been...
Read me back the last line. 'Read me back the last line,' read back the corporal who could take...