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H. Beam Piper

" Vengeance is a strange human motivation --- it can drive a man to do things which he neither would nor could achieve without it ... and because of that it lies behind some of the greatest sagas of human literature! "

Men , Lying , Motivation

related quotes

" English is the product of a Saxon warrior trying to make a date with an Angle bar-maid, and as such is no more legitimate than any of the other products of that conversation. "

Trying , Warrior

" You know, it's quite all right to give the underdog a hand, but only one hand. Keep the other hand on your pistol - or he'll try to eat the one you gave him! "

Giving , Hands , Trying

" Keep a goverment poor and weak and it's your servant; when it is rich and powerful it becomes your master. "

Powerful , Poor , Rich

" Only the incompetent wait until the last extremity to use force, and by then, it is usually too late to use anything, even prayer. "

Prayer , Waiting

" I like it where it gets dark at night, and if you want noise, you have to make it yourself. "

Want , Night , Dark

" And when someone makes a statement you don't understand, don't tell him he's crazy. Ask him what he means. "

Mean , Crazy

" Sanity, it would seem, was a dangerously contagious disease. "

Sanity , Disease

" English is the result of Norman men-at-arms attempting to pick up Saxon barmaids and is no more legitimate than any of the other results. "

Men

" Vengeance is a strange human motivation --- it can drive a man to do things which he neither would nor could achieve without it ... and because of that it lies behind some of the greatest sagas of human literature! "

Men , Lying , Motivation

" Apparently, on New Texas, killing a politician was not malum in se, and was mallum prohibitorum only to the extent that what happened to the politician was in excess of what he deserved. "

Killing , Excess

" Take a drink because you pity yourself, and then the drink pities you and has a drink, and then two good drinks get together and that calls for drinks all around. "

Alcohol , Two , Together

" I had a lot of other ideas, now and then, but every time I took a second look at one, it got sick and died. "

Ideas , Looks , Sick