You have heard that it was said, An eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth.' But I say to you, Do not resist an evildoer. But if ...anyone strikes you on the right cheek, turn the other also; and if anyone wants to sue you and take your coat, give your cloak as well...LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
'What is truth?' said jesting Pilate, and would not stay for an answer. Pilate was in advance of his time. For 'truth' itself is a...n abstract noun, a camel, that is, of a logical construction, which cannot get past the eye even of a grammarian. We approach it cap and categories in hand: we ask ourselves whether Truth is a substance ... or a quality ... or a relation.... But philosophers should take something more nearly their own size to strain at. What needs discussing rather is the use, or certain uses, of the word 'true.' In vino, possibly, 'veritas,' but in a sober symposium 'verum.'LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
It is far easier for the proverbial camel to pass through the needle's eye, hump and all, than for an erstwhile colonial administr...ation to give sound and honest counsel of a political nature to its liberated territory.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
A plane is a bad place for an all-out sleep, but a good place to begin rest and recovery from the trip to the faraway places you'v...e been, a decompression chamber between Here and There. Though a plane is not the ideal place really to think, to reassess or reevaluate things, it is a great place to have the illusion of doing so, and often the illusion will suffice.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The Reverend Samuel Peters ... exaggerated the Blue Laws, but they did include "Capital Lawes" providing a death penalty for any c...hild over sixteen who was found guilty of cursing or striking his natural parents; a death penalty for an incorrigible son; a law forbidding smoking except in a room in a private house; another law declaring smoking illegal except on a journey five miles away from home,...LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I will keep America moving forward, always forward--for a better America, for an endless enduring dream and a thousand points of l...ight.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Oh, a capital ship for an ocean trip, Was the Walloping Window Blind;... No gale that blew dismayed her crew Or troubled the captain's mind.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Nothing in nature is exhausted in its first use. When a thing has served an end to the uttermost, it is wholly new for an ulterior... service. In God, every end is converted into new means.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I shall never love England till she sues to us for help; and, in the meantime, the fewer triumphs she obtains, the better for all ...the parties. An Englishman in adversity is a very respectable character; he does not lose his dignity, but merely comes to a proper conceit of himself.... I seem to myself like a spy or a traitor, when I meet their eyes, and am conscious that I neither hope nor fear in sympathy with them, although (unless they detect me for an American by my aspect) they look at me in full confidence of sympathy.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I cannot consent that my mortal body shall be laid in a repository prepared for an Emperor or a King--my republican feelings and p...rinciples forbid it--the simplicity of our system of government forbids it.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »