However, on religious issues there can be little or no compromise. There is no position on which people are so immovable as their religious beliefs. There is no more powerful ally one can claim in a debate than Jesus Christ, or God, or Allah, or wha

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Many of the characters are fools and they are always playing tricks on me and treating me badly.

Perhaps no person can be a poet, or even enjoy poetry without a certain unsoundness of mind.

The penalty for laughing in a courtroom is six months in jail; if it were not for this penalty, the jury would never hear the evidence.

Pereant, inquit, qui ante nos nostra dixerunt. [Confound those who have said our remarks before us.] or [May they perish who have expressed our bright ideas before us.]

The executioner is, I hear, very expert, and my neck is very slender.

Executive ability is deciding quickly and getting somebody else to do the work.

Even the best of friends cannot attend each other's funeral.

France is a country where the money falls apart and you can't tear the toilet paper.

If I had a formula for bypassing trouble, I would not pass it around. Trouble creates a capacity to handle it. I don't say embrace trouble; that's as bad as treating it as an enemy. But I do say meet it as a friend, for you'll see a lot of it and y

I stick my neck out for nobody.

Maternity pay? Now every Tom, Dick and Harry will get pregnant.

All phone calls are obscene.

The most costly of all follies is to believe passionately in the palpably not true. It is the chief occupation of mankind.

The closest to perfection a person ever comes is when he fills out a job application form.

Reality is bad enough, why should I tell the truth?

... "fire" does not matter, "earth" and "air" and "water" do not matter. "I" do not matter. No word matters. But man forgets reality and remembers words. The more words he remembers, the cleverer do his fellows esteem him. He looks upon the great

"I'm in Pittsburgh. Why am I here?"

Always do right. This will gratify some people and astonish the rest.