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Random chance is not sufficient to explain random chance. ~Jubal Harshaw
Beware of altruism. It is based on self-deception, the root of all evil.
Work is not an end in itself; there must always be time enough for love.
One should not attend even the end of the world without a good breakfast.
Government! Three fourths parasitic and the other fourth Stupid fumbling.
If you don't like yourself, you can't like other people. -- Lazarus Long.
Anything free costs twice as much in the long run or turns out worthless.
If you've got the truth you can demonstrate it. Talking doesn't prove it.
A man who marries at my age isn't taking a wife, he's indenturing a nurse.
If I had a Boy Scout I could make a fire by rubbing his hind legs together.
The more you love, the more you can love - and the more intensely you love.
Time is your total capital, and the minutes of your life are painfully few.
A child's life is like a piece of paper on which every person leaves a mark.
Once you get to earth orbit, you're halfway to anywhere in the solar system.
A monarch's neck should always have a noose around it. It keeps him upright.
You can go wrong by being too skeptical as readily as by being too trusting.
My old man taught me two things: 'Mind own business' and 'Always cut cards.'
A skunk is better company than a person who prides himself on being 'frank'.
Ninety percent of all human wisdom is the ability to mind your own business.
People who are busy and happy don't write diaries; they are too busy living.
You do not truly own anything that you can't carry in both arms at a dead run
I came, I saw, she conquered." The original Latin seems to have been garbled.
When it don’t rain, the roof don’t leak; when it rains, I can’t fix it nohow.
Be wary of strong drink. It can make you shoot at tax collectors... and miss.
You have attributed conditions to villainy that simply result from stupidity.
Straining at gnats and swallowing camels is a required course in law schools.
Only a sadistic scoundrel-or a fool-tells the bald truth on social occasions.
In a mature society, 'civil servant' is semantically equal to 'civil master.'
Never attempt to teach a pig to sing; it wastes your time and annoys the pig.
When you're rich, you don't have friends; you just have endless acquaintances.
Of all the creatures on this planet none is more dangerous than a human being.
The best thing about space travel is that it made it possible to go elsewhere.
Contemplation must bring forth right action in order to permit further growth.
Specialization is for insects... The race of man? He's a whole other creature.
Money is the sincerest of all flattery. Women love to be flattered. So do men.
Women will forgive anything. Otherwise, the race would have died out long ago.
I woke up in bed with a man and a cat. The man was a stranger; the cat was not
Stupidity cannot be cured with money, or through education, or by legislation.
One man's 'magic' is another man's engineering. 'Supernatural' is a null word.
Certain types of loudmouthism should be a capital offense among decent people.
Oh, you have to charge 'em, Jubal. The marks won't pay attention if it's free.
A committee is the only known form of life with a hundred bellies and no brain.
Thinking doesn't pay. Just makes you discontented with what you see around you.
Aside from a cold appreciation of my own genius I felt that I was a modest man.
The power to tax, once conceded, has no limits; it continues until it destroys.
Free will is a golden thread running through the frozen matrix of fixed events.
Who is more real? Homer or Ulysses? Shakespeare or Hamlet? Burroughs or Tarzan?
In a dilemma, it is helpful to change any variable, then reexamine the problem.
Sex should be friendly. Otherwise stick to mechanical toys; it's more sanitary.
The greatest fallacy of democracy is that everyone's opinion is worth the same.