Never for me the lowered banner, never the last endeavour.
Genealogy is based on the obviously silly idea that there is no such thing as a bastard.
The headline reads, “Docs say patients make them prescribe useless antibiotics.” This puts a physician in roughly the same predicament as a serial killer. The latter says, “Stop me before I kill again, while the former says, “Stop me before I prescribe again.”
When a dog acts viciously we assume the reason is poor treatment and training by its owner. When a person acts criminally we look for the explanation in his brain, blood, and urine. When will psychiatrists begin testifying to the incompetence of schizophrenic pit bulls?
Most men pursue pleasure with such breathless haste that they hurry past it.
May your service of love a beautiful thing; want nothing else, fear nothing else and let love be free to become what love truly is.
The wit makes fun of other persons; the satirist makes fun of the world; the humorist makes fun of himself.
The greatest of faults, I should say, is to be conscious of none.