#than

Speech and silence. We feel safer with a madman who talks than with one who cannot open his mouth. ↗

— Emile M. Cioran

#feel #his #madman #mouth #open

The U.S. Military is us. There is no truer representation of a country than the people that it sends into the field to fight for it. The people who wear our uniform and carry our rifles into combat are our kids, and our job is to support them, because they're protecting us. ↗

— Tom Clancy

#carry #combat #country #field #fight

There used to be this country called the Soviet Union; it's not there anymore. Our technology was better than theirs. ↗

— Tom Clancy

#better #called #country #our #soviet

A blind bloke walks into a shop with a guide dog. He picks the Dog up and starts swinging it around his head. Alarmed, a shop assistant calls out: 'Can I help, sir?' 'No thanks,' says the blind bloke. 'Just looking.' ↗

— Tommy Cooper

#around #assistant #blind #bloke #calls

Fortunately New Zealand doesn't have land borders so we are able to be somewhat more rigorous on who gets in and out of our country than perhaps some people. ↗

— Helen Clark

#borders #country #fortunately #gets #land

Great joy, especially after a sudden change of circumstances, is apt to be silent, and dwells rather in the heart than on the tongue. ↗

— Henry Fielding

#apt #change #circumstances #dwells #especially

There is not in the universe a more ridiculous, nor a more contemptible animal, than a proud clergyman. ↗

— Henry Fielding

#clergyman #contemptible #more #nor #proud

Fashion is the science of appearance, and it inspires one with the desire to seem rather than to be. ↗

— Henry Fielding

#desire #fashion #inspires #rather #science

Experience alone can give a final answer. The knowledge gained in a few years by a commission of the kind suggested would be worth more than volumes of mere assertions and contradictions. ↗

— John Bates Clark

#answer #assertions #commission #contradictions #experience

The world have payed too great a compliment to critics, and have imagined them men of much greater profundity than they really are. ↗

— Henry Fielding

#critics #great #greater #imagined #men