Being offended is the natural consequence of leaving one's home. I do not like after- shave lotion, adults who roller-skate, child...ren who speak French, or anyone who is unduly tan. I do not, however, go around enacting legislation and putting up signs.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The essence of science is that it is always willing to abandon a given idea, however fundamental it may seem to be, for a better o...ne; the essence of theology is that it holds its truths to be eternal and immutable. To be sure, theology is always yielding a little to the progress of knowledge, and only a Holy Roller in the mountains of Tennessee would dare to preach today what the popes preached in the Thirteenth Century, but this yielding is always done grudgingly, and thus lingers a good while behind the event.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
To believe that Russia has got rid of the evils of capitalism takes a special kind of mind. It is the same kind of mind that belie...ves that a Holy Roller has got rid of sin.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
And thus Snow White became the prince's bride. The wicked queen was invited to the wedding feast... and when she arrived there were red-hot iron shoes, in the manner of red-hot roller skates, clamped upon her feet.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I used to think I was poor. Then they told me I wasn't poor, I was needy. Then they told me it was self-defeating to think of myse...lf as needy, I was deprived. Then they told me deprived was a bad image, I was underprivileged. Then they told me underprivileged was overused, I was disadvantaged. I still don't have a dime. But I sure have a great vocabulary.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The dream of reason produces monsters. Imagination deserted by reason creates impossible, useless thoughts. United with reason, im...agination is the mother of all art and the source of all its beauty.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »