Subject: Conflict (Page 7)

One failed attempt at a shoe bomb and we all take off our shoes at the airport; thirty-one school shootings since Columbine and no change in our regulation of guns.

(1977 – ) British political comedian & television host

All I know is, finally I get to kill somebody.

American actor

True friends stab you in the front.

(1854 – 1900) Irish dramatist, novelist & poet

Tracers work BOTH ways.

[After a fight] Yeah, I’m fine. I snapped my chin down onto some guy’s fist and hit another one in the knee with my nose.

(1935 – ) movie actor, director & comedian

All five-second grenade fuses will burn down in three seconds.

Marriage, in life, is like a duel in the midst of a battle.

(1828 – 1885) French novelist, publicist & journalist

Outside of the killings, [Washington] has one of the lowest crime rates in the country.

(1936 – ) American politician, Mayor of Washington, D.C.

Murderers – stop murdering; everyone will die eventually… just sit down and be patient.

(1975 – ) English comedian, actor & writer

Give him an inch and he'll screw you.

Nowadays, the perfect crime is getting caught and selling your story to T.V.!

fictional mascot and cover boy of Mad, an American humor magazine

I’m really a timid person – I was beaten up by Quakers.

(1935 – ) movie actor, director & comedian

I know we were buddies because he threatened to kill me on no fewer than three occasions, and he did that only to his friends.

(1935) British film director, producer & food critic

The Falklands incident was a quarrel between two bald men over a comb.

(1899 – 1986) Argentine writer, essayist, poet & translator

I thought I had an appetite for destruction, but all I wanted was a club sandwich.

cartoon character in The Simpsons (Dan Castellaneta)

Man Is Fatally Slain

In a war of ideas it is people who get killed.

(1909 – 1966) Polish poet, writer & aphorist

Behind every great fortune there is a crime.


(1799 – 1850) French novelist & playwright

I went to a fight the other night, and a hockey game broke out.

(1924 – 1987) American stand-up ‘deadpan’ comedian and actor

I thoroughly disapprove of duels; if a man would challenge me, I would take him kindly and forgivingly by the hand and lead him to a quiet place and kill him.

Samuel Clemens (1835 – 1910) author & humorist

He has committed every crime that does not require courage.

(1804 – 1881) British prime minister, politician & author