Dutton Peabody: Liberty Valance defeated. D-E-F-E-E... T-E-D? The unsteady hand betrays. What's the matter, Mr. Peabody? Are you afraid? The answer is indub... yes. No courage left. Well, courage can be purchased at yon tavern. But have we credit? Th...
William of Baskerville: I too was an Inquisitor, but in the early days, when the Inquisition strove to guide, not to punish. And once I had to preside at a trial of a man whose only crime was to have translated a Greek book that conflicted with the H...
The Impressive Clergyman: Mawage. Mawage is wot bwings us togeder today. Mawage, that bwessed awangment, that dweam wifin a dweam... [cut to Westley, Inigo, and Fezzik] The Impressive Clergyman: And wuv, tru wuv, will fowow you foweva... [cut to the ...
Young Suited Man #1: Good afternoon ma'am. I hope this isn't an inconvenient time. Eva: Good afternoon ma'am. I hope this isn't an inconvenient time. Well, it is actually. Young Suited Man #1: Well, we just had a couple of quick questions for you. Ev...
Hudson: [reading a motion detector] I got signals. I got readings, in front and behind. Frost: Where, man? I don't see shit. Hicks: He's right. There's nothin' back here. Hudson: Look, I'm telling ya, there's somethin' movin' and it ain't us! Tracker...
He enjoys much who is thankful for little.
Expert: a man who makes three correct guesses consecutively.
A man who was always complaining was quite rightly sent to hell. "Why are you burning damp wood?" was his first comment.
Do you see a man who is wise in his own eyes? There is more hope for a fool than for him. Proverbs 26.12
I am dead. It is as if everybody were dead. Let the man left behind shut the door if he wants to.
The right time to dine is: for the rich man, when he is hungry; and for the poor, when he has something to eat.
If ye had as little money as ye have manners, ye would be the poorest man of all your kin.
Wine has been with civilized man from the beginning.
Women's liberation is the liberation of the feminine in the man and the masculine in the woman.
To keep something, you must take care of it. More, you must understand just what sort of care it requires. You must know the rules and abide by them. She could do that. She had been doing it all the months, in the writing of her letters to him. There...
One day many years ago a man walked along and stood in the sound of the ocean on a cold sunless shore and said, "We need a voice to call across the water, to warn ships; I'll make one. I'll make a voice like all of time and all of the fog that ever w...
I've never had sex," repeated Artemis. "Never wanted to." It was her turn not to look at him as she spoke. "Not with a man or with a woman, or with an animal, though my family joke about it. And I never will. The thought of it disgusts me. But the ot...
If we lived for ever, what you say would be true. But we have to die, we have to leave life presently. Injustice and greed would be the real thing if we lived for ever. As it is, we must hold to other things, because Death is coming. I love death - n...
THE MYTH OF THE GOOD OL BOY AND THE NICE GAL The good of boy myth and the nice gal are a kind of social conformity myth. They create a real paradox when put together with the "rugged individual" part of the Success Myth. How can I be a rugged individ...
Would it not be better if they spent more money on wholesome things like oranges and wholemeal bread or if they even, like the writer of the letter to the New Statesman, saved on fuel and ate their carrots raw? Yes, it would, but the point is that no...
There was a movement to my right, and I snuck a quick glance to see Zee and Gabriel coming out the garage door. They must have gone back around. Zee had a crowbar in one hand and held it like another man might hold a sword. Gabriel had— “Zee,” ...
