In a free society, intellectuals are among the under-privileged. What they offer - as schoolteachers, university lecturers, writers - is not greatly wanted. If they threaten to withdraw their labour, nobody is going to be much disturbed. To refuse to publish a volume of free verse or take a class in structural linguistics - that's not like cutting off the power supplies or stopping the buses
Nobody can be just like me. Even I have trouble.
Hard work never killed anybody, but why take a chance?
Nobody ever goes there, it's too crowded.
Youth has a body in search of a wisdom, and with age the wisdom gained is in search of a body.
Difficulties strengthen the mind, as labor does the body.
Nobody realizes that some people expend tremendous energy merely to be normal.
When I hear somebody sigh, "Life is hard," I am always tempted to ask, "Compared to what?" -Sydney J. Harris
Do you know what a pessimist is? A person who thinks everybody as nasty as himself, and hates them for it.
Hard work never killed anybody, but why take a chance?
No wonder nobody comes here--it's too crowded.
Difficulties strengthen the mind, as labor does the body.
To my mind, the life of a lamb is no less precious than that of a human being. I should be unwilling to take the life of the lamb for the sake of the human body. I hold that, the more helpless a creature, the more entitled it is to protection by man from the cruelty of man.
No wonder nobody comes here--it's too crowded.
Do you know what a pessimist is? A person who thinks everybody as nasty as himself, and hates them for it.
No wonder nobody comes here--it's too crowded.
Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body.
No wonder nobody comes here--it's too crowded.
If you want to get rid of somebody, just tell them something for their own good.
When I was a boy I was told that anybody could become President; I'm beginning to believe it.
On the Internet, nobody knows you're a dog.
Do you know what a pessimist is? A person who thinks everybody is as nasty as himself, and hates them for it.
Making the decision to have a child is momentousâit is to decide forever to have your heart go walking around outside your body.
To my mind, the life of a lamb is no less precious than that of a human being. I should be unwilling to take the life of the lamb for the sake of the human body. I hold that, the more helpless a creature, the more entitled it is to protection by man from the cruelty of man.
Life: a spiritual pickle preserving the body from decay.