The infectiousness of crime is like that of the plague.

A great empire, like a great cake, is most easily diminished at the edges.

Crime when it succeeds is called virtue.

He who loves practice without theory is like the sailor who boards ship without a rudder and compass and never knows where he may cast.

A correct answer is like an affectionate kiss.

I think the FBI is the premier law enforcement agency in all of human history.

The life of an uneducated man is as useless as the tail of a dog which neither covers its rear end, nor protects it from the bites of insects.

As a member of the Senate Judiciary Committee, I’m concerned about the recklessness of public policy that endangers people’s lives, especially in minority communities, where crime often is such a scourge.

The common argument that crime is caused by poverty is a kind of slander on the poor.

Making music is like shopping for me. Every song is like a new pair of shoes.

I strongly believe that for serious and violent criminals, we must absolutely hold them accountable for their crimes and send them to prison.

Governing a great nation is like cooking a small fish – too much handling will spoil it.

Politics is like football; if you see daylight, go through the hole.

That which is not good for the bee-hive cannot be good for the bees.

Writers are lampposts and critics are dogs. Ask lampposts what they think about dogs. Does the dog hurt the lamppost?

How accurately can the law fix the crime? There has to be a mechanism for very fast action. The law is like this: catch them and punish them.

Cutting the deficit by gutting our investments in innovation and education is like lightening an overloaded airplane by removing its engine. It may make you feel like you’re flying high at first, but it won’t take long before you feel the impact.

Technological progress is like an axe in the hands of a pathological criminal.

There is a blessed necessity by which the interest of men is always driving them to the right; and, again, making all crime mean and ugly.

Writing free verse is like playing tennis with the net down.

Rebellion without truth is like spring in a bleak, arid desert.

The spread of civilisation may be likened to a fire; first, a feeble spark, next a flickering flame, then a mighty blaze, ever increasing in speed and power.

I love crime, I love mysteries, and I love ghosts.

Well, if crime fighters fight crime and fire fighters fight fire, what do freedom fighters fight? They never mention that part to us, do they?

We have wasted History like a bunch of drunks shooting dice back in the men’s crapper of the local bar.

Concede that the new government of Louisiana is only to what it should be, as the egg is to the fowl; we shall sooner have the fowl by hatching the egg than by smashing it.

Abortion isn’t a lesser evil, it’s a crime. Taking one life to save another, that’s what the Mafia does. It’s a crime. It’s an absolute evil.

Going to trial with a lawyer who considers your whole life-style a Crime in Progress is not a happy prospect.

Talking is a hydrant in the yard and writing is a faucet upstairs in the house. Opening the first takes the pressure off the second.

A man who says that no patriot should attack the war until it is over… is saying no good son should warn his mother of a cliff until she has fallen.

He has committed the crime who profits by it.

The biggest crime in England is to rise above your station. It’s fine to be a pop star. ‚Oh, it’s great, lots of fun, aren’t they sweet, these pop stars! But to think you have anything to say about how the world should work? What arrogance!‘

Never think that war, no matter how necessary, nor how justified, is not a crime.

As you heat the planet up, it’s just like boiling a pot.

You know those things that you throw the twigs into and it spits them out? That’s what I do. The branches are like life, and I throw them into my head and some of it comes out as humor.

If you want to deal with an epidemic – crime or health – the smartest and most effective and cheapest way to deal with it is prevention first.

Fear follows crime and is its punishment.

One word from the Lord is like a piece of gold to a believer, who is like a jeweler, shaping and hammering out the promise for a number of weeks.

The worst crime is faking it.

I tell people, and it’s the truth, I could sit in my garage for a week and it won’t make me a car. And you can sit in church till your bottom is flat and that won’t make you a servant of Christ.

The feeling of friendship is like that of being comfortably filled with roast beef; love, like being enlivened with champagne.

House guests should be regarded as perishables: Leave them out too long and they go bad.

Government is like a baby. An alimentary canal with a big appetite at one end and no sense of responsibility at the other.

The more laws and order are made prominent, the more thieves and robbers there will be.

Life’s a rollercoaster. You’re up one minute; you’re down one minute. But who doesn’t like rollercoasters?

Poverty is the mother of crime.

It is incontestable and deplorable that Negroes have committed crimes; but they are derivative crimes. They are born of the greater crimes of the white society.

The newspapers of the twenty-first century will give a mere ‚stick‘ in the back pages to accounts of crime or political controversies, but will headline on the front pages the proclamation of a new scientific hypothesis.

An evil person is like a dirty window, they never let the light shine through.

I tend to approach things from a physics framework. And physics teaches you to reason from first principles rather than by analogy.

A hospital bed is a parked taxi with the meter running.

Capital punishment is as fundamentally wrong as a cure for crime as charity is wrong as a cure for poverty.

One crime has to be concealed by another.

Rather leave the crime of the guilty unpunished than condemn the innocent.

O wise man! Give your wealth only to the worthy and never to others. The water of the sea received by the clouds is always sweet.

He who does not prevent a crime when he can, encourages it.

Painting, I think it’s like jazz.

I think we’re going to the moon because it’s in the nature of the human being to face challenges. It’s by the nature of his deep inner soul… we’re required to do these things just as salmon swim upstream.

The Church is like a great tree whose roots must be energetically anchored in the earth while its leaves are serenely exposed to the bright sunlight. In this way, she sums up a whole gamut of beats in a single living and all-embracing act, each one of which corresponds to a particular degree or a possible form of spiritualisation.

My head’s never really quiet. The only time I can get it to turn off is if I watch ‚CSI‘ or ‚Law & Order,‘ where I have to follow the crime. If I can’t turn my head off during that, I know I’ve really got a problem.

A statesman who confines himself to popular legislation – or, for the matter of that, a playwright who confines himself to popular plays – is like a blind man’s dog who goes wherever the blind man pulls him, on the ground that both of them want to go to the same place.