Common sense should tell us that positively reinforcing sadistic behavior, as these games do, cannot be good for our children.
Faith may have removed mountains way off somewhere, a long time ago, but it won't remove a wart at home this week.
A man has a right to think lots of things he has no right to say.
Men are a good deal better collectively than they are individually. Many a man will do that privately which he will denounce in a crowd.
Good manners do more for a man that good looks.
The sounder your argument, the more satisfaction you get out of it.
Probably you have noted the resemblance of the critic to the crank.
The fly ought to be used as the symbol of impertinence and audacity; for whilst all other animals shun man more than anything else, and run away even before he comes near them, the fly lights upon his very nose.
There are amusing people who do not interest, and interesting people who do not amuse
The desire for story is very, very deep in human beings. We are the only creature in the world that does this; we are the only creature that tells stories, and sometimes those are true stories and sometimes those are made up stories. Then there are the larger stories, the grand narratives that we live in, which are things like nation and family and clan and so on. Those stories are considered to be treated reverentially. They need to be part of the way in which we conduct the discourse of our lives and to prevent people from doing something very damaging to human nature.
The confident artist is a fool.