Ten years of rejection slips is nature's way of telling you to stop writing.

If one inquires why the American tradition is so strong against any connection of State and Church, why it dreads even the rudiments of religious teaching in state-maintained schools, the immediate and superficial answer is not far to seek. ... The

Judges, as a class, display, in the matter of arranging alimony, that reckless generosity which is found only in men who are giving away someone else's cash.

Asking a working writer what he thinks about critics is like asking a lamp-post how it feels about dogs.

A word to the wise is enough.

War hath no fury like a non-combatant.

Love may laugh at locksmiths, but he has a profound respect for money bags.

A verbal contract isn't worth the paper it's written on.

We can embody the truth, but we cannot know it.

were found to be wearing neckwear that was tighter than their neck circumference. The visual discrimination of the 22 subjects was evaluated using a critical flicker frequency (CFF) test. Results of the CFF test indicated that tight neckwear signifi

CF&C stole it, fair and square.

There is no fool to the old fool.

Likewise, the national appetizer, brine-cured herring with raw onions, wins few friends, Germans excepted.

Even if you do learn to speak correct English, whom are you going to speak it to?

In "King Henry VI, Part II," Shakespeare has Dick Butcher suggest to his fellow anti-establishment rabble-rousers, "The first thing we do, let's kill all the lawyers." That action may be extreme but a similar sentiment was expressed by Thomas K. Co

From the cradle to the coffin underwear comes first.

For the first time we have a weapon that nobody has used for thirty years. This gives me great hope for the human race.

This was the most unkindest cut of all.

The naked truth of it is, I have no shirt.

Democracy is a device that insures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.

Fanaticism consists of redoubling your effort when you have forgotten your aim.

The control of the production of wealth is the control of human life itself.

As to Jesus of Nazareth... I think the system of Morals and his Religion, as he left them to us, the best the World ever saw or is likely to see; but I apprehend it has received various corrupting Changes, and I have, with most of the present Dissent

The only "ism" Hollywood believes in is plagiarism.

There's nothing worse for your business than extra Santa Clauses smoking in the men's room.

I understand why you're confused. You're thinking too much.

The mosquito is the state bird of New Jersey.

I reverently believe that the maker who made us all makes everything in New England, but the weather. I don't know who makes that, but I think it must be raw apprentices in the weather-clerks factory who experiment and learn how, in New England, fo

No good deed goes unpunished.

Time as he grows old teaches all things.

No-one would remember the Good Samaritan if he had only had good intentions. He had money as well.

When the going gets tough, everyone leaves.

A real diplomat is one who can cut his neighbor's throat without having his neighbour notice it.

An actor's a guy who if you ain't talkin' about him, ain't listening.

Those who profess to favor freedom, and yet deprecate agitation, are men who want rain without thunder and lightning. They want the ocean without the roar of its many waters.

Most general statements are false, including this one.

A journey of a thousand miles starts under one's feet.

The first Rotarian was the first man to call John the Baptist "Jack."

Free Speech Is The Right To Shout 'Theater' In A Crowded Fire.

Mental power tended to corrupt, and absolute intelligence tended to corrupt absolutely, until the victim eschewed violence entirely in favor of smart solutions to stupid problems.

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

History is the version of past events that people have decided to agree on.

If you are of the opinion that the contemplation of suicide is sufficient evidence of a poetic nature, do not forget that actions speak louder than words.

The superior man understands what is right; the inferior man understands what will sell.

The Public is merely a multiplied "me."

... it still remains true that as a set of cognitive beliefs about the existence of God in any recognizable sense continuous with the great systems of the past, religious doctrines constitute a speculative hypothesis of an extremely low order of prob

Suspicion always haunts the guilty mind.

Only those who leisurely approach that which the masses are busy about can be busy about that which the masses take leisurely.

Ignorance is never out of style. It was in fashion yesterday, it is the rage today, and it will set the pace tomorrow.

No man's ambition has a right to stand in the way of performing a simple act of justice.

An atom-blaster is a good weapon, but it can point both ways.

It is the business of the future to be dangerous.

April 1 This is the day upon which we are reminded of what we are on the other three hundred and sixty-four.

We should have a Vollyballocracy. We elect a six-pack of presidents. Each one serves until they screw up, at which point they rotate.

Small things make base men proud.

The very ink with which all history is written is merely fluid prejudice.

You have to run as fast as you can just to stay where you are. If you want to get anywhere, you'll have to run much faster.

Conscience doth make cowards of us all.

So many men, so many opinions; every one his own way.

What a bonanza! An unknown beginner to be directed by Lubitsch, in a script by Wilder and Brackett, and to play with Paramount's two superstars, Gary Cooper and Claudette Colbert, and to be beaten up by both of them!

The only cultural advantage LA has over NY is that you can make a right turn on a red light.

The error of youth is to believe that intelligence is a substitute for experience, while the error of age is to believe experience is a substitute for intelligence.

Nothing in life is so exhilarating as to be shot at without result.

If you would know the value of money, go try to borrow some.

It'll be just like Beggars' Canyon back home.

"I'd like to start a new religion. One that doesn't use a dead young man as its logo."

According to my best recollection, I don't remember.

Don't everyone thank me at once!

Superstition, idolatry, and hypocrisy have ample wages, but truth goes a-begging.

Water, taken in moderation cannot hurt anybody.

God instructs the heart, not by ideas, but by pains and contradictions.

I know on which side my bread is buttered.

A game can by God repent or we'll punish it. That's how they did it in Salem in the seventeenth century, and that's how we'll do it now.

Extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice... moderation in the pursuit of justice is no virtue.

Don't talk to me about naval tradition. It's nothing but rum, sodomy and the lash.

Force has no place where there is need of skill.

Necessity hath no law.

A racially integrated community is a chronological term timed from the entrance of the first black family to the exit of the last white family.

If you sell diamonds, you cannot expect to have many customers. But a diamond is a diamond even if there are no customers.

We were young and our happiness dazzled us with its strength. But there was also a terrible betrayal that lay within me like a Merle Haggard song at a French restaurant. [...] I could not tell the girl about the woman of the tollway, of her milk w

Rome was not built in one day.

If Beethoven's Seventh Symphony is not by some means abridged, it will soon fall into disuse.

He thought of Musashi, the Sword Saint, standing in his garden more than three hundred years ago. "What is the 'Body of a rock'?" he was asked. In answer, Musashi summoned a pupil of his and bid him kill himself by slashing his abdomen with a knife.

The eye is a menace to clear sight, the ear is a menace to subtle hearing, the mind is a menace to wisdom, every organ of the senses is a menace to its own capacity. ... Fuss, the god of the Southern Ocean, and Fret, the god of the Northern Ocean, h

A people living under the perpetual menace of war and invasion is very easy to govern. It demands no social reforms. It does not haggle over expenditures on armaments and military equipment. It pays without discussion, it ruins itself, and that is

... but as records of courts and justice are admissible, it can easily be proved that powerful and malevolent magicians once existed and were a scourge to mankind. The evidence (including confession) upon which certain women were convicted of witch

When we are planning for posterity, we ought to remember that virtue is not hereditary.

In the Spring, I have counted 136 different kinds of weather inside of 24 hours.

For courage mounteth with occasion.

I think we're in trouble.

I see where we are starting to pay some attention to our neigbors to the south. We could never understand why Mexico wasn't just crazy about us; for we have always had their good will, and oil and minerals, at heart.

It's not easy, being green.

Americans' greatest fear is that America will turn out to have been a phenomenon, not a civilization.

By protracting life, we do not deduct one jot from the duration of death.

All the big corporations depreciate their possessions, and you can, too, provided you use them for business purposes. For example, if you subscribe to the Wall Street Journal, a business-related newspaper, you can deduct the cost of your house, beca

If you catch a man, throw him back.

It is by the fortune of God that, in this country, we have three benefits: freedom of speech, freedom of thought, and the wisdom never to use either.

Anything that is worth doing has been done frequently. Things hitherto undone should be given, I suspect, a wide berth.

Fortune's Guide to Freshman Notetaking: WHEN THE PROFESSOR SAYS: YOU WRITE: Probably the greatest quality of the poetry John Milton

Let's say your wedding ring falls into your toaster, and when you stick your hand in to retrieve it, you suffer Pain and Suffering as well as Mental Anguish. You would sue: * The toaster manufacturer, for failure to include, in the instructions

The good Christian should beware of mathematicians and all those who make empty prophecies. The danger already exists that mathematicians have made a covenant with the devil to darken the spirit and confine man in the bonds of Hell.

Nullum magnum ingenium sine mixtura dementiae fuit. [There is no great genius without some touch of madness.]

IF I HAD A MINE SHAFT, I don't think I would just abandon it. There's got to be a better way.

It is impossible to enjoy idling thoroughly unless one has plenty of work to do.

Business will be either better or worse.

Comparing information and knowledge is like asking whether the fatness of a pig is more or less green than the designated hitter rule."

Toto, I don't think we're in Kansas anymore.

Better tried by twelve than carried by six.

The root of all superstition is that men observe when a thing hits, but not when it misses.

The faster I go, the behinder I get.

Mum's the word.

He who fears the unknown may one day flee from his own backside.

If it were thought that anything I wrote was influenced by Robert Frost, I would take that particular work of mine, shred it, and flush it down the toilet, hoping not to clog the pipes. A more sententious, holding- forth old bore who expected every

Being a woman is a terribly difficult trade, since it consists principally of dealings with men.

As to the Adjective: when in doubt, strike it out.

A kind of Batman of contemporary letters.

Show business is just like high school, except you get paid.

This is an especially good time for you vacationers who plan to fly, because the Reagan administration, as part of the same policy under which it recently sold Yellowstone National Park to Wayne Newton, has "deregulated" the airline industry. What t

In charity there is no excess.

Silence is the element in which great things fashion themselves.

What we wish, that we readily believe.

I go on working for the same reason a hen goes on laying eggs.

An Englishman never enjoys himself, except for a noble purpose.

The typewriting machine, when played with expression, is no more annoying than the piano when played by a sister or near relation.

When a fellow says, "It ain't the money but the principle of the thing," it's the money.

Wrinkles should merely indicate where smiles have been.

Learning without thought is labor lost; thought without learning is perilous.

Who goeth a-borrowing goeth a-sorrowing.

Television is now so desperately hungry for material that it is scraping the top of the barrel.

What we cannot speak about we must pass over in silence.

About the time we think we can make ends meet, somebody moves the ends.

Cutting the space budget really restores my faith in humanity. It eliminates dreams, goals, and ideals and lets us get straight to the business of hate, debauchery, and self-annihilation."

War is like love, it always finds a way.

All this wheeling and dealing around, why, it isn't for money, it's for fun. Money's just the way we keep score.

A team effort is a lot of people doing what I say.

It took me fifteen years to discover that I had no talent for writing, but I couldn't give it up because by that time I was too famous.

No poet or novelist wishes he was the only one who ever lived, but most of them wish they were the only one alive, and quite a number fondly believe their wish has been granted.

You can build a throne out of bayonets, but you can't sit on it for very long.

Look, we trade every day out there with hustlers, deal-makers, shysters, con-men. That's the way businesses get started. That's the way this country was built.

If you live long enough, you'll see that every victory turns into a defeat.

The Bible says that woman was the last thing God made. Evidently He made her on Saturday night. She reveals his fatigue.

The graveyards are full of indispensable men.

Hard work never killed anybody, but why take a chance?

Television is a medium because anything well done is rare.

TO THOSE OF YOU WHO DESIRE IT, I GRANT YOU MADRAK'S BLESSING: Insofar as I may be heard by anything, which may or may not care what I say, I ask, if it matters, that you be forgiven for anything you may have done or failed to do which requires for

The lawgiver, of all beings, most owes the law allegiance. He of all men should behave as though the law compelled him. But it is the universal weakness of mankind that what we are given to administer we presently imagine we own.

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.

I used to be disgusted, now I find I'm just amused.

If I had a plantation in Georgia and a home in Hell, I'd sell the plantation and go home.

The secret of success is sincerity. Once you can fake that, you've got it made.

A fake fortuneteller can be tolerated. But an authentic soothsayer should be shot on sight. Cassandra did not get half the kicking around she deserved.

One hundred women are not worth a single testicle.

Confucius say too much.

It's not Camelot, but it's not Cleveland, either.

Satire is tragedy plus time.

Watch your mouth, kid, or you'll find yourself floating home.

Naked children have never played in _o_u_r fountains, and I.M. Pei will never be happy on Route 66.

I went to a Grateful Dead Concert and they played for SEVEN hours. Great song.

If ever the pleasure of one has to be bought by the pain of the other, there better be no trade. A trade by which one gains and the other loses is a fraud.

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

Every why hath a wherefore.

In breeding cattle you need one bull for every twenty-five cows, unless the cows are known sluts.

I consider a new device or technology to have been culturally accepted when it has been used to commit a murder.

Nothing matters very much, and few things matter at all.

Nothing succeeds like the appearance of success.

A journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step.

A society in which women are taught anything but the management of a family, the care of men, and the creation of the future generation is a society which is on its way out.

The smallest worm will turn being trodden on.

The two most beautiful words in the English language are "Cheque Enclosed."

I try to keep an open mind, but not so open that my brains fall out.

She was good at playing abstract confusion in the same way a midget is good at being short.

Don't go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first.

The best case: Get salary from America, build a house in England, live with a Japanese wife, and eat Chinese food. Pretty good case: Get salary from England, build a house in America, live with a Chinese wife, and eat Japanese food. The wo

He played the king as if afraid someone else would play the ace.

Leave no stone unturned.

In childhood a woman must be subject to her father; in youth to her husband; when her husband is dead, to her sons. A woman must never be free of subjugation.

If two wrongs don't make a right, try three.

I have never understood this liking for war. It panders to instincts already catered for within the scope of any respectable domestic establishment.

In America, any boy may become president and I suppose that's just one of the risks he takes.

When you're in command, command.

Nonsense and beauty have close connections.

Work is the crab grass in the lawn of life.

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

"What the hell are you getting so upset about? I thought you didn't believe in God." "I don't," she sobbed, bursting violently into tears, "but the God I don't believe in is a good God, a just God, a merciful God. He's not the mean and stupid Go

The past always looks better than it was. It's only pleasant because it isn't here.

"If a camel flies, no one laughs if it doesn't get very far."

Advertising is a valuable economic factor because it is the cheapest way of selling goods, particularly if the goods are worthless.

Alea iacta est. [The die is cast]

Arrakis teaches the attitude of the knife - chopping off what's incomplete and saying: "Now it's complete because it's ended here."

Anything is possible on paper.

Crucifixes are sexy because there's a naked man on them.

My experience with government is when things are non-controversial, beautifully co-ordinated and all the rest, it must be that not much is going on.

It is imperative when flying coach that you restrain any tendency toward the vividly imaginative. For although it may momentarily appear to be the case, it is not at all likely that the cabin is entirely inhabited by crying babies smoking inexpensiv

A sad spectacle. If they be inhabited, what a scope for misery and folly. If they be not inhabited, what a waste of space.

The more I want to get something done, the less I call it work.

And they mainly want to teach them not to question, not to imagine, but to be obedient and behave well so that they can hold them forever as children to their bosom as the second millennium lurches toward its panicky close.

"World conquerors sometimes become fools, but fools never become world conquerors."

If I had any humility I would be perfect.

America is a melting pot. You know, where those on the bottom get burned, and the scum rises to the top.

The Law, in its majestic equality, forbids the rich, as well as the poor, to sleep under the bridges, to beg in the streets, and to steal bread.

Never promise more than you can perform.

Hard reality has a way of cramping your style.

This is the sort of English up with which I will not put.

Mandrell: "You know what I think?" Doctor: "Ah, ah that's a catch question. With a brain your size you don't think, right?"

We have nowhere else to go... this is all we have.

Nothing recedes like success.

The human race is a race of cowards; and I am not only marching in that procession but carrying a banner.

Beware of mathematicians and all those who make empty prophecies. The danger already exists that the mathematicians have made covenant with the devil to darken the spirit and to confine man in the bonds of hell.

The polite thing to do has always been to address people as they wish to be addressed, to treat them in a way they think dignified. But it is equally important to accept and tolerate different standards of courtesy, not expecting everyone else to ad

A good question is never answered. It is not a bolt to be tightened into place but a seed to be planted and to bear more seed toward the hope of greening the landscape of idea.

Fortune Documents the Great Legal Decisions: We think that we may take judicial notice of the fact that the term "bitch" may imply some feeling of endearment when applied to a female of the canine species but that it is seldom, if ever, so used whe

If a man stay away from his wife for seven years, the law presumes the separation to have killed him; yet according to our daily experience, it might well prolong his life.

The public is an old woman. Let her maunder and mumble.

Adde parvum parvo manus acervus erit. [Add little to little and there will be a big pile.]

"You can't survive by sucking the juice from a wet mitten."

Optimism is the content of small men in high places.

In this world, nothing is certain but death and taxes.

They sentenced me to twenty years of boredom for trying to change the system from within. I'm coming now I'm coming to reward them. First we take Manhattan, then we take Berlin. I'm guided by a signal in the heavens. I'm guided by this birthmark

If a thing's worth having, it's worth cheating for.

If at first you don't succeed, try, try again.

Credit ... is the only enduring testimonial to man's confidence in man.

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Divorce is a game played by lawyers.

Ever get the feeling that the world's on tape and one of the reels is missing?

I will make you shorter by the head.

My dear People. My dear Bagginses and Boffins, and my dear Tooks and Brandybucks, and Grubbs, and Chubbs, and Burrowses, and Hornblowers, and Bolgers, Bracegirdles, Goodbodies, Brockhouses and Proudfoots. Also my good Sackville Bagginses that I w

It is through symbols that man consciously or unconsciously lives, works and has his being.

"I don't know whether God exists or not, but it makes no difference to me." "It's not like He's passing out free money or anything."

You can no more win a war than you can win an earthquake.

Women of genius commonly have masculine faces, figures and manners. In transplanting brains to an alien soil God leaves a little of the original earth clinging to the roots.

Patch griefs with proverbs.

Practice is the best of all instructors.

In case of fire, stand in the hall and shout "Fire!"

Honesty's the best policy.

The problem with any unwritten law is that you don't know where to go to erase it.

The Anglo-Saxon conscience does not prevent the Anglo-Saxon from sinning, it merely prevents him from enjoying his sin.

There's nothing in the middle of the road but yellow stripes and dead armadillos.

To be or not to be.

People never lie so much as after a hunt, during a war, or before an election.

Time is a great teacher, but unfortunately it kills all its pupils.

If someone had told me I would be Pope one day, I would have studied harder.

When asked by an anthropologist what the Indians called America before the white men came, an Indian said simply "Ours."

"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."

The chief cause of problems is solutions.

The trouble is, there is an endless supply of White Men, but there has always been a limited number of Human Beings.

There's no such thing as a free lunch.

Blessed are the young, for they shall inherit the national debt.

Laws are like sausages. It's better not to see them being made.

It is the quality rather than the quantity that matters.

Being a miner, as soon as you're too old and tired and sick and stupid to do your job properly, you have to go, where the very opposite applies with the judges.

Gay shlafen: Yiddish for "go to sleep". Now doesn't "gay shlafen" have a softer, more soothing sound than the harsh, staccato "go to sleep"? Listen to the difference: "Go to sleep, you little wretch!" ... "Gay shlafen, darling." Obvious, isn't

The less a statesman amounts to, the more he loves the flag.

If you want to know what god thinks of money, just look at the people he gave it to.

Everything is possible. Pass the word.

Inglish Spocken Hier: some mangled translations Sign on a cabin door of a Soviet Black Sea cruise liner: Helpsavering apparata in emergings behold many whistles! Associate the stringing apparata about the bosums and meet behind, flee then t

The pollution's at that awkward stage. Too thick to navigate and too thin to cultivate.

The better the state is established, the fainter is humanity. To make the individual uncomfortable, that is my task.

A university is what a college becomes when the faculty loses interest in students.

History shows that the human mind, fed by constant accessions of knowledge, periodically grows too large for its theoretical coverings, and bursts them asunder to appear in new habiliments, as the feeding and growing grub, at intervals, casts its too

A straw vote only shows which way the hot air blows.

Prisons are built with stones of Law, brothels with bricks of Religion.

For certain people, after fifty, litigation takes the place of sex.

It's all right letting yourself go as long as you can let yourself back.

Two wrongs are only the beginning.

It is easier to resist at the beginning than at the end.

Certainly the game is rigged. Don't let that stop you; if you don't bet, you can't win.

You see, I consider that a man's brain originally is like a little empty attic, and you have to stock it with such furniture as you choose. A fool takes in all the lumber of every sort he comes across, so that the knowledge which might be useful to

Crito, I owe a cock to Asclepius; will you remember to pay the debt?

The trouble with superheros is what to do between phone booths.

If I could drop dead right now, I'd be the happiest man alive!

A morgue is a morgue is a morgue. They can paint the walls with aggressively cheerful primary colors and splashy bold graphics, but it's still a holding place for the dead until they can be parted out to organ banks. Not that I would have cared nor

Honesty pays, but it doesn't seem to pay enough to suit some people.

If you laid all of our laws end to end, there would be no end.

For thee the wonder-working earth puts forth sweet flowers.

The capacity of human beings to bore one another seems to be vastly greater than that of any other animals. Some of their most esteemed inventions have no other apparent purpose, for example, the dinner party of more than two, the epic poem, and the

Misery no longer loves company. Nowadays it insists on it.

Whoever has lived long enough to find out what life is, knows how deep a debt of gratitude we owe to Adam, the first great benefactor of our race. He brought death into the world.

Or you or I must yield up his life to Ahrimanes. I would rather it were you. I should have no hesitation in sacrificing my own life to spare yours, but we take stock next week, and it would not be fair on the company.

If I could reach, I'd never leave the house.

A sect or party is an elegant incognito devised to save a man from the vexation of thinking.

"Spare no expense to save money on this one."

Sho' they got to have it against the law. Shoot, ever'body git high, they wouldn't be nobody git up and feed the chickens. Hee-hee.

"I understand this is your first dead client," Sabian was saying. The absurdity of the statement made me want to laugh but they don't call me Deadpan Allie and lie.

When in doubt, tell the truth.

The introduction of a new kind of music must be shunned as imperiling the whole state, for styles of music are never disturbed without affecting the most important political institutions. ... The new style, gradually gaining a lodgement, quitely ins

The price of success in philosophy is triviality.

Learning French is trivial: the word for horse is cheval, and everything else follows in the same way.

If you don't strike oil in twenty minutes, stop boring.

Perfection is reached, not when there is no longer anything to add, but when there is no longer anything to take away.

It has long been noticed that juries are pitiless for robbery and full of indulgence for infanticide. A question of interest, my dear Sir! The jury is afraid of being robbed and has passed the age when it could be a victim of infanticide.

Whenever anyone says, "theoretically," they really mean, "not really."

Gauls! We have nothing to fear; except perhaps that the sky may fall on our heads tomorrow. But as we all know, tomorrow never comes!!

The time spent on any item of the agenda [of a finance committee] will be in inverse proportion to the sum involved.

Live fast, die young, and leave a good looking corpse.

My own life has been spent chronicling the rise and fall of human systems, and I am convinced that we are terribly vulnerable. ... We should be reluctant to turn back upon the frontier of this epoch. Space is indifferent to what we do; it has no fe

The only really good place to buy lumber is at a store where the lumber has already been cut and attached together in the form of furniture, finished, and put inside boxes.

It's not a sin not to be Irish, but it is a great shame.

"After I asked him what he meant, he replied that freedom consisted of the unimpeded right to get rich, to use his ability, no matter what the cost to others, to win advancement."

"What's the use of a good quotation if you can't change it?"

Nothing is so firmly believed as that which we least know.

Instead of giving money to found colleges to promote learning, why don't they pass a constitutional amendment prohibiting anybody from learning anything? If it works as good as the Prohibition one did, why, in five years we would have the smartest r

Who dat who say "who dat" when I say "who dat"?

Yesterday I was a dog. Today I'm a dog. Tomorrow I'll probably still be a dog. Sigh! There's so little hope for advancement.

Nice guys finish last, but we get to sleep in.

I'll turn over a new leaf.

If there is a sin against life, it consists perhaps not so much in despairing of life as in hoping for another life and in eluding the implacable grandeur of this life.

Facts are the enemy of truth.

Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.

A yawn is a silent shout.

I remember when legal used to mean lawful, now it means some kind of loophole.

The only thing that stops God from sending a second Flood is that the first one was useless.