For the greatest fool and rascal in creation there is yet a worse condition; and that is, not to know it, but to think himself a respectable man.
why haven't we seventy lives? One is no use.
Teachers have power. We may cripple them by petty economics; by Government regulations, by the foolish criticism of an uninformed press; but their power exists for good or evil.
the ruder lecturers are, and the louder their voices, the more converts they make to their opinions.
Remorse. . . is one of the many afflictions for which time finds a cure.
The greatest mercy, I have often thought, of the Mediterranean coast lies in its mosquitoes. Did we not suffer from their unwelcome attention, we could not bear our holidays to end.
Everybody's tragedy is somebody's nuisance.
Politics is opposed to morality, as philosophy to naïveté.
In all advanced industrial societies, education has become the single most important vehicle of upward mobility.
So long as our land is occupied it is the right of the Palestinian people and their factions to combine resistance and political activities. Resistance and its arms are directed against the occupation while political activity is part of re-arranging the Palestinian home.
I would like to thank the people who encouraged me to draw army cartoons at a time when the gag man's conception of the army was one of mean ole sergeants and jeeps which jump over mountains.