He was one of those men who possess almost every gift, except the gift of the power to use them.
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He was one of those men who possess almost every gift, except the gift of the power to use them.
Love built on beauty, soon as beauty, dies.
I don't make jokes. I just watch the government and report the facts.
His face is livid, gaunt his whole body, his breath is green with gall; his tongue drips poison.
Here’s a bumper sticker I’d like to see: “We are the proud parents of a child who’s self-esteem is sufficient that he doesn’t need us promoting his minor scholastic achievements on the back of our car."
Bureaucracy defends the status quo long past the time when the quo has lost its status.
There is nothing funny about Halloween. This sarcastic festival reflects, rather, an infernal demand for revenge by children on the adult world.
I have seen slower people than I am and more deliberate... and even quieter, and more listless, and lazier people than I am. But they were dead.
Musical people always want one to be perfectly dumb at the very moment when one is longing to be perfectly deaf.
His ignorance covers the world like a blanket, and there's scarcely a hole in it anywhere.
Arguments are to be avoided: they are always vulgar and often convincing.
Their demeanor is invariably morose, sullen, clownish and repulsive. I should think there is not, on the face of the earth, a people so entirely destitute of humor, vivacity, or the capacity for enjoyment.
Curse the blasted, jelly-boned swines, the slimy, the belly-wriggling invertebrates, the miserable soddingrotters, the flaming sods, the sniveling, dribbling, dithering, palsied, pulse-less lot that make up England today. They've got white of egg in their veins, and their spunk is that watery it's a marvel they can breed.
Only the shallow know themselves.
According to most studies, people's number one fear is public speaking. Number two is death. Death is number two. Does that sound right? This means to the average person, if you go to a funeral, you're better off in the casket than doing the eulogy.
The universe we observe has precisely the properties we should expect if there is, at bottom, no design, no purpose, no evil, no good, nothing but blind, pitiless indifference.
Today's public figures can no longer write their own speeches or books, and there is some evidence that they can't read them either.
In some families, please is described as the magic word. In our house, however, it was sorry.
He was distinguished for ignorance; for he had only one idea, and that was wrong.
Making others happy, through kindness of speech and sincerity of right advice, is a sign of true greatness. To hurt another soul by sarcastic words, looks, or suggestions, is despicable.
In Russia a man is called reactionary if he objects to having his property stolen and his wife and children murdered.
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