#pun

Capital punishment is our society's recognition of the sanctity of human life. ↗

— Orrin Hatch

#capital punishment #human #human life #life #our

Few things tend more to alienate friendship than a want of punctuality in our engagements. I have known the breach of a promise to dine or sup to break up more than one intimacy. ↗

— William Hazlitt

#breach #break #break up #dine #engagements

Understand this law and you will then know, beyond room for the slightest doubt, that you are constantly punishing yourself for every wrong you commit and rewarding yourself for every act of constructive conduct in which you indulge. ↗

— Napoleon Hill

#beyond #commit #conduct #constantly #constructive

Muhammad could take a very good punch. He was slick, he could move, he could hit, make you miss, good hand speed and combinations and one of the greatest fighters of all time in my opinion. ↗

— Larry Holmes

#could #fighters #good #greatest #hand

The guys today are just too strong and back then they would take many hard punches to land one. ↗

— Larry Holmes

#guys #hard #just #land #many

Those guys were made for me and Muhammad because they come straight in and don't back up but you had to watch out for his punching power but if we could have neutralized that then we would have been fine. ↗

— Larry Holmes

#back up #because #been #come #could

A pun does not commonly justify a blow in return. But if a blow were given for such cause, and death ensued, the jury would be judges both of the facts and of the pun, and might, if the latter were of an aggravated character, return a verdict of justifiable homicide. ↗

— Oliver Wendell Holmes

#blow #both #cause #character #commonly

They have shrunk from inquiry, though they have strained after punishment. I have in every shape dared the one, that I might, so far as lay in my power, be able to secure the other. ↗

— Joseph Howe

#after #dared #every #far #i

War should be made a crime, and those who instigate it should be punished as criminals. ↗

— Charles Evans Hughes

#criminals #made #punished #should #those

I saw a guy being really abusive to his girlfriend. She was asking people to help, but no one would. When he grabbed her, I tried to separate them, but he turned on me. I punched him and knocked him down. It wasn't a scandal; I was just doing what anybody should. ↗

— Timothy Hutton

#asking #being #doing #down #girlfriend