Occupation: Science Writer Birth: July 7, 1907 Death: May 8, 1988
Men are not potatoes!.
Anything free costs twice as much in the long run or turns out worthless..
The golden sunshine of Italy congealed into tears. Here's to alcoholic brotherhood ... much more suited to the frail human soul, if any, than any oth….
If you don't like yourself, you can't like other people. -- Lazarus Long..
Any priest or shaman must be presumed guilty until proved innocent..
May you live as long as you wish and love as long as you live..
No matter where or what, there are makers, takers, and fakers..
Being a mother is an attitude, not a biological relation..
Whoring is like military service...okay in the upper brackets, not so good lower down..
An invention is something that was "impossible" up to then that's why governments grant patents..
My old man taught me two things: 'Mind own business' and 'Always cut cards.'.
You were probably educated in the conventional economic theories of your period which were magnificent and most ingenious, but--if you will pardon my….
Premenstrual Syndrome: Just before their periods women behave the way men do all the time..
Thinking doesn't pay. Just makes you discontented with what you see around you..
Beware of altruism. It is based on self-deception, the root of all evil..
To stay young requires unceasing cultivation of the ability to unlearn old falsehoods..
Secrecy is the keystone to all tyranny. Not force, but secrecy and censorship. When any government or church for that matter, undertakes to say to it….
Audacity, always audacity - soundest principal of strategy..
Never attempt to teach a pig to sing; it wastes your time and annoys the pig..
My folks tried to make a preacher of me and missed by a narrow margin… I would have made a good one if I hadn’t fallen into the fatal folly of readin….
Autobiography is usually honest but it is never truthful..