IV. The time required for an object to fall twenty stories is greater than or equal to the time it takes for whoever knocked it off the ledge to spiral down twenty flights to attempt to capture it unbroken. Such an object is inevitably price

"...The name of the song is called 'Haddocks' Eyes'!" "Oh, that's the name of the song, is it?" Alice said, trying to feel interested. "No, you don't understand," the Knight said, looking a little vexed. "That's what the name is called. The nam

"Elves and Dragons!" I says to him. "Cabbages and potatoes are better for you and me."

You have all eternity to be cautious in when you're dead.

Execute every act of thy life as though it were thy last.

When we jumped into Sicily, the units became separated, and I couldn't find anyone. Eventually I stumbled across two colonels, a major, three captains, two lieutenants, and one rifleman, and we secured the bridge. Never in the history of war have s

Nothing succeeds like excess.

It is so stupid of modern civilisation to have given up believing in the devil when he is the only explanation of it.

The college graduate is presented with a sheepskin to cover his intellectual nakedness.

Nothing so needs reforming as other people's habits.

New Jersey is not the armpit of the nation; it's the asshole of the universe.

Fame is a vapor; popularity an accident; the only earthly certainty is oblivion.

Christianity has not been tried and found wanting; it has been found difficult and not tried.

"A Mormon is a man that has the bad taste and the religion to do what a good many other people are restrained from doing by conscientious scruples and the police."