"What can you do by killing? Nothing. You kill one dog, the master buys another-that's all there is to it."

-- Maxim Gorky

#Dog Quotes #Killing Quotes #Masters Quotes

“Define the limits of your vision: Having this, you will not be poorer Than a man who rules a dukedom.”
“"Le gÃ©nie n'est qu'une longue patience", a dit Buffon. Cela est bien incomplet. Le gÃ©nie, c'est l'impatience dans les idÃ©es et la patience dans les faits : une imagination vive et un jugement calme; quelque chose comme un liquide en Ã©bullition dans un vase qui reste toujours froid. "Genius is just enduring patience," said Buffon. This is far from complete. Genius is impatience in ideas and patience with the facts: a lively imagination and a calm judgment, rather like a liquid boiling in a cup that remains cold.”
“A one-time tax does not get figured into people's investment decisions.”
“The Lord said 'let there be wheat' and Saskatchewan was born”

Source : Stephen Leacock, Gerald Lynch (2002). “Leacock on Life”, p.46, University of Toronto Press
“Why were so many Americans treated by their government as though their lives were as disposable as facial tissues? Because that was the way authors customarily treated bit-part players in their made-up tales.”
“The pious pretense that evil does not exist only makes it vague, enormous and menacing.”
“I'm trying to play the truth of what I am. The reason it's difficult is because I'm changing all the time.”

Source : Charles Mingus' statement to Nat Hentoff as quoted in Anthony Fawcett "California Rock, California Sound: The Music of Los Angeles and Southern California" (p. 56), 1979, and in "Jazz: Beyond Time and Nations" in Nat Hentoff "The Nat Hentoff Reader" (p. 99), October 17, 2001.
“The thing that I try to remember is that in the briefing room it's not a debate. I'm not supposed to go in there and win a debate with the press corps. If that's what I try to do, then I'm going to lose.”

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