Pastoral Resources

I appeal to my fellow scientists to remember their responsibility to humanity.

I saw science as being in harmony with humanity.

I did not imagine that the second half of my life would be spent on efforts to avert a mortal danger to humanity created by science.

Well, I think first it was rare for me to do anything that had any kind of a romantic note to it.

Marriage is one of the most sacred human institutions. I asked our Senators, as many South Dakotans have done, to protect marriage as a union between a man and a woman.

Those that are most slow in making a promise are the most faithful in the performance of it.

He who is most slow in making a promise is the most faithful in performance of it.

It was important to have a similar energy in my performance. To make the character too different would have just been about my ego because it didn't need to be drastically different.

And verily, a woman need know but one man well, in order to understand all men; whereas a man may know all women and understand not one of them.

To be happy with a man you must understand him a lot and love him a little. To be happy with a woman you must love her a lot and not try to understand her at all.

Wedding: the point at which a man stops toasting a woman and begins roasting her.

When a man makes a woman his wife, it's the highest compliment he can pay her, and it's usually the last.

No man can understand why a woman shouldn't prefer a good reputation to a good time.

A man never knows how to say goodbye; a woman never knows when to say it.

The woman who appeals to a man's vanity may stimulate him, the woman who appeals to his heart may attract him, but it is the woman who appeals to his imagination who gets him.

It takes one woman twenty years to make a man of her son - and another woman twenty minutes to make a fool of him.

Some women can be fooled all of the time, and all women can be fooled some of the time, but the same woman can't be fooled by the same man in the same way more than half of the time.

There's so much saint in the worst of them, and so much devil in the best of them, that a woman who's married to one of them, has nothing to learn of the rest of them.

After marriage, a woman's sight becomes so keen that she can see right through her husband without looking at him, and a man's so dull that he can look right through his wife without seeing her.

After a few years of marriage a man can look right at a woman without seeing her and a woman can see right through a man without looking at him.