The Japanese have five different ways to say 'thank you' — and every one of them translates literally as resentment, in various degrees.
Stranger in a Strange Land, by Robert Heinlein
An innocent man is ... someone who bleeds a lot.
King James Bible
Sometimes church gets in the way of praising God.
Heard in casual conversation
Criminals are the price we must pay for rebels, heretics, and geniuses.
Golan Trevize, in Foundation and Earth
I don't trust anyone. It's the God in them that I trust.
The Italian Job's Charlie Croker restated
A man's reach should exceed his grasp, or what's a heaven for?
The real trick is finding those calibrated rain-clouds.
Hydrology Course
Measure with a micrometer; mark with a chalk; cut with an axe.
Commonly known as "Ray's Rule of Precision"
Philosophers are people who have nothing else to do.
Casual conversation
There is a way that seemeth right unto a man, but the end thereof (because the woman is going to kill him for it) are the ways of death.
Random thoughts
