You have attributed conditions to villainy that simply result from stupidity.
cf. Hanlon
Intangibles are the most honest merchandise anyone can sell. They are always worth whatever you are willing to pay for them and they never wear out. You can take them to your grave untarnished.
Companionship, partnership, mutual reassurance, someone to laugh with and grieve with, loyalty that accepts foibles, someone to touch, someone to hold your hand -- these things are marriage, and sex is but the icing on the cake.
Goodness without wisdom always accomplishes evil.
To be matter of fact about the world is to blunder into fantasy -- and dull fantasy at that, as the real world is strange and wonderful.
Stupidity cannot be cured with money, or through education, or by legislation.
If you can't change your mind, are you sure you still have one?
It's amazing how much mature judgment resembles being too tired.
A miracle that takes place again and again and again is no longer a miracle; it's just a nuisance.
Violence, naked force, has settled more issues in history than has any other factor, and the contrary opinion is wishful thinking at its worst. Breeds that forget this basic truth have always paid for it with their lives and freedoms.
At least once every human should have to run for his life, to teach him that milk does not come from supermarkets, that safety does not come from policemen, that "news" is not something that happens to other people.
Don't ever become a pessimist; a pessimist is correct oftener than an optimist, but an optimist has more fun -- and neither can stop the march of events.
Age does not bring wisdom. Often it merely changes simple stupidity into arrogant conceit.
A thousand reasoned opinions are never equal to one case of diving in and finding out. Galileo proved that and it may be the only certainty we have.
Good intentions are no substitute for knowing how a buzz saw works.
A person who takes smug pride in telling the blunt truth is a sadist, not a saint.
They didn’t want it good, they wanted it Wednesday.
Asked about writing for pulp magazines.
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