H. Beam Piper Quotes

You know what English is? The result of the efforts of Norman men-at-arms to make dates with Saxon barmaids.

Keep a government poor and weak and it's your servant; let it get rich and powerful and it's your master.

I suppose there's always a place for Judas, at any table." *

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

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.

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Everything has to be at once for six-month-old puppies, six-year-old children, and reformers of any age.

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

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

You have ability and people who don't never forgive you for it. Your very existence is a constant reproach to them.

Well, if a Little Fuzzy finds a door open, I'd like to know why he shouldn't come in and look around.

Then the Yo-Yo was coming around again, and Vann Larch was saying, "Gehenna with this fooling around! I'll fix the expurgated unprintability!

Well, our operations are definable as robbery and murder," he agreed. "Space Vikings are professional robbers and murderers.

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

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.

On Aditya, such would be unthinkable; on Aditya, everybody respects authority. Whether it's respectable or not.

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

People have to learn to live with newly-discovered facts; if they don't, they die of them.

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