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“Indulge not thyself in the passion of anger; it is whetting a sword to wound thine own breast, or murder thy friend.”
Akhenaton
“Seeing a murder on television can help work off one's antagonisms. And if you haven't any antagonisms, the commercials will give you some.”
Alfred Hitchcock
“AIDS obliges people to think of sex as having, possibly, the direst consequences: suicide. Or murder.”
Susan Sontag
“Someone once told me that every minute a murder occurs, so I don't want to waste your time, I know you want to go back to work.”
“Ye hypocrites! are these your pranks? To Murder men, and give God thanks? Desist for same! proceed no further: God won't accept your thanks for Murther!”
Robert Burns
“I think one way the cops could make money would be to hold a murder weapons sale. Many people could really use used ice picks.”
Jack Handy
“One has to be a lowbrow, a bit of a murderer, to be a politician, ready and willing to see people sacrificed, slaughtered, for the sake of an idea, whether a good one or a bad one.”
Henry Miller
“There are 4 kinds of Homicide: felonious, excusable, justifiable, and praiseworthy.”
Ambrose Bierce
“Better murder an infant in its cradle than nurse an unacted desire.”
William Blake
“To murder character is as truly a crime as to murder the body: the tongue of the slanderer is brother to the dagger of the assassin”
Tryon Edwards