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Conscience is the inner voice that warns us that someone might be looking.

For centuries, theologians have been explaining the unknowable in terms of the-not-worth-knowing.

The penalty for laughing in a courtroom is six months in jail; if it were not for this penalty, the jury would never hear the evidence.

In war the heroes always outnumber the soldiers ten to one.

Morality is the theory that every human act must be either right or wrong, and that 99 % of them are wrong.

There is a saying in Baltimore that crabs may be prepared in fifty ways and that all of them are good.

In the duel of sex woman fights from a dreadnought and man from an open raft.

The opera is to music what a bawdy house is to a cathedral.

Whenever you hear a man speak of his love for his country, it is a sign that he expects to be paid for it.

Temptation is a woman's weapon and man's excuse.

Have you ever watched a crab on the shore crawling backward in search of the Atlantic Ocean, and missing? That's the way the mind of man operates.

The penalty for laughing in a courtroom is six months in jail; if it were not for this penalty, the jury would never hear the evidence.

Women always excel men in that sort of wisdom which comes from experience. To be a woman is in itself a terrible experience.

A bad man is the sort who weeps every time he speaks of a good woman.

The most dangerous man to any government is the man who is able to think things out... without regard to the prevailing superstitions and taboos. Almost inevitably he comes to the conclusion that the government he lives under is dishonest, insane, intolerable.

Whenever a husband and wife begin to discuss their marriage they are giving evidence at a coroner's inquest.

Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them good.

Man weeps to think that he will die so soon; woman, that she was born so long ago.

Whenever you hear a man speak of his love for his country, it is a sign that he expects to be paid for it.

The one permanent emotion of the inferior man is fear - fear of the unknown, the complex, the inexplicable. What he wants above everything else is safety.