I ... really think I should consider my own throat and those of my children well cut if some night the people were to take it into... their head to clear off scores in that fashion.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Now look, Winocki. There are two other men on this ship who washed up as pilots. But Martin's a bombardier and Hauser went in for ...navigation. And they're both good. You're a good gunner or you wouldn't have the rating you've got. We need you just like we need the whole gang. It takes all of us to make this ship function. Now get this into your head. We all belong to this airplane. Every man has got to rely on every other man to do the right thing at the right time. You played football, Winocki. You know how one man can gum up the works. You gotta play ball with us and play the game, or I'm gonna have to get rid of you.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Never, my dear Sir, do you take it into your head that I do not love you; you may settle yourself in full confidence both of my lo...ve and my esteem; I love you as a kind man, I value you as a worthy man, and hope in time to reverence you as a man of exemplary piety.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
... fain would I turn back the clock and devote to French or some other language the hours I spent upon algebra, geometry, and tri...gonometry, of which not one principle remains with me. Stay! There is one theorem painfully drummed into my head which seems to have inhabited some corner of my brain since that early time: "The square on the hypotenuse of a right-angled triangle is equal to the sum of the squares on the other two sides!" There it sticks, but what of it, ye gods, what of it?LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
If marriages were made by putting all the men's names into one sack and the women's names into another, and having them taken out ...by a blindfolded child like lottery numbers, there would be just as high a percentage of happy marriages as we have here in England.... If you can tell me of any trustworthy method of selecting a wife, I shall be happy to make use of it.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I, who have preached and pamphleteered like any Encyclopedist, have to confess that my methods are of no use, and would be no use ...if I were Voltaire, Rousseau, Bentham, Marx, Mill, Dickens, Carlyle, Ruskin, Butler, and Morris all rolled into one, with Euripides, More, Montaigne, Molière, Baumarchais, Swift, Goethe, Ibsen, Tolstoy, Jesus, and the prophets all thrown in (as indeed in some sort I am, standing as I do on all their shoulders). The problem being to make heroes out of cowards, we paper apostles and artist-magicians have succeeded only in giving cowards all the sensations of heroes whilst they tolerate every abomination, accept every plunder, and submit to every oppression.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The Tragi-Comedy, which is the Product of the English Theatre, is one of the most monstrous Inventions that ever entered into a Po...et's Thoughts. An Author might as well think of weaving the Adventures of Aeneas and Hudibras into one Poem, as of writing such a motly [sic] Piece of Mirth and Sorrow.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Facts can't be recounted; much less twice over, and far less still by different persons. I've already drummed that thoroughly into... your head. What happens is that your wretched memory remembers the words and forgets what's behind them.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
We have done scant justice to the reasonableness of cannibalism. There are in fact so many and such excellent motives possible to ...it that mankind has never been able to fit all of them into one universal scheme, and has accordingly contrived various diverse and contradictory systems the better to display its virtues.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
That thing of hell and eternal punishment is the most absurd, as well as the most disagreeable thought that ever entered into the ...head of mortal man.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »