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Calvin Trillin

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CARL REINER When a dramatic actor does a funny film, people are like, 'Wonderful! I didn't know he was f...
WILL FERRELL I'm not doing no more 'Flavor of Loves.' I'm trying to grow. I don't want to sta...
FLAVOR FLAV Sometimes, comics will make the observation that it's not jokes that are funny, it's charact...
DAVID MITCHELL It's just my natural way - to be funny. I don't know why that is. But as I've said, humo...
T. C. BOYLE The muse holds no appointments. You can never call on it. I don't understand people who get up a...
GLEN HANSARD Do I like being thought of as attractive? I don't know anyone on Earth who doesn't, but I do...
BENEDICT CUMBERBATCH People often can't separate, or can't understand, that to be funny is to be serious; it'...
NICK CAVE We've just got to find some way to get it all on the same page. If we can get it going on the same d...
BRITTANY WILKINS I think it's so funny when people think they can't control a movie star. They can. We're...
ESTHER WILLIAMS I'm quite sarcastic, and I'm funny, but not kind of funny. It's a weird funny, and some ...
MILLIE BOBBY BROWN It's really irritating. Even people who like my work sometimes come up to me and say, 'I usu...
CHELSEA PERETTI I know what it feels like to represent clients who can't get restraining orders on abusive partn...
KATE BROWN I consider writing practice a true Zen practice because it all comes back at you. You can't fool...
NATALIE GOLDBERG If there is a Like button in a page, Facebook knows who visited that page. And it can get IP address...
RICHARD STALLMAN I write funny. If I can make my wife laugh, I know I'm on the right track. But yes, I don't ...
GENE WILDER I've met people who didn't even know there was a Calvin Klein; they thought it was just the ...
CALVIN KLEIN When you don't have a laugh track, you can make the clothes funny. We can make a sign funny. We ...
MITCHELL HURWITZ There's lots of things that can't make it in the world that are worth making. There are lots...
DANA SPIOTTA You can't be funny for funny's sake. You try to get as outrageous situation as you can but i...
HANK AZARIA I can play a cat lady. I can't put my foot down and refuse to play anything but playing the perf...
SARAH BAKER I'd been auditioning for parts for years. I never got any better at it. I'm crap at audition...
JAMIE DORNAN I think it's funny how excited people can get about things I say that don't have anything to...
RON POPE On radio and television, magazines and the movies, you can't tell what you're going to get. ...
BIL KEANE Many writers who have had to deal with the subject of atrocity can't face it head-on.
SALMAN RUSHDIE I think all good drama is funny. All the best drama is ultimately very funny. Life is funny. You can...
THOMAS JANE A lot of reality shows tend to harp on the negative. The person isn't pretty enough or can't...
BRUCE NASH I had to agree with one ex-boyfriend of one crackhead complainant who'd gone missing, when he told m...
EDWARD CONLON I can't imagine actually singing on this show like I did on 'Felicity', but it would be ...
AMY JO JOHNSON I've never met a funny person who wasn't smart. I've met a lot of dramatic people who we...
ROB LOWE I can always get better. A lot of my ex-girlfriends don't think I'm funny.
DANE COOK The experienced writer says to the anguished novice: 'Just do it; get something, anything, on to...
HILARY MANTEL Good acting is all in the writing. If it isn't on the page, then it really won't make any di...
LARRY HAGMAN For me, the game would be to assume a very intelligent reader who can extrapolate a lot from a littl...
GEORGE SAUNDERS Yeah, people following me down the street and at the airport and all that. I can't imagine what ...
ELLEN PAGE It doesn't matter who scores the points, it's who can get the ball to the scorer.
LARRY BIRD I can't watch other people doing comedy. As soon as somebody starts being funny I have to turn o...
JENNY ECLAIR I don't know if you know you're funny, but you enjoy being funny. I know I'm funny becau...
GREG BEHRENDT You know, Lincoln was funny. I don't think F.D.R. was very funny. But Lincoln was funny. Lincoln...
AL FRANKEN It's funny: most people who recognize me on the subway and stuff - it's much more they think...
PAUL GIAMATTI It's funny; people get so doctrinaire about music. It should be the last thing you don't hav...
RANDY NEWMAN The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they wa...
GEORGE BERNARD SHAW With my boyfriend, we can make sexist jokes to each other because we know it's absolutely not tr...
EMILY BROWNING Pretty people don't keep comedies on the air. Funny people keep comedies on the air.
ALLISON JONES The whole point about laughter is it's like mercury: you can't catch it, you can't catch...
MIKE NICHOLS We can't let people down when they can't get any medical care, when they're sick and don...
DONALD TRUMP Our solution on 'The Simpsons' is to do jokes that people who have an education, or some fra...
MATT GROENING You are an adult and you don't understand me and what are the differences between the adult and the ...
DEYTH BANGER A fellow who has a funny bone can learn to hone his skills, but I don't think you can develop a funn...
CARL REINER Anything you can do to get more people to come to your live shows is good, because that's where ...
NATASHA LEGGERO 'Down on Me' can't showcase my true talent. 'Birthday Sex' was robotic. When I p...
JEREMIH But you can't focus on things that matter if all you've been is asleep for forty years. Funn...
CHARLIE SHEEN You can give some kind of spark of life to a comic that a photograph doesn't really have. A phot...
DANIEL CLOWES You might not write well every day, but you can always edit a bad page. You can't edit a blank p...
JODI PICOULT You can't be funny if you don't have good material.
MATT LEBLANC I can't be funny if my feet don't feel right.
BILLY CRYSTAL I don't care who you are. When you sit down to write the first page of your screenplay, in your ...
NORA EPHRON I think people should have fun. And don't get so down on yourself. Enjoy life and be the best pe...
KEKE PALMER It's hard to run from checkmate, checkmate is like the dead... but it's possible to block it. Unfort...
DEYTH BANGER If there's a good screenplay, there's a chance that something good is going to happen. If yo...
AYELET ZURER How can you analyse what is funny? What's funny to one isn't funny to another... What's ...
LES DAWSON Most rock journalism is people who can't write, interviewing people who can't talk, for peop...
FRANK ZAPPA I can't go on to page two until I can get page one as perfect as I can make it, ... That might mean ...
DEAN KOONTZ You know the funny thing, I don't get along with rich people. I get along with the middle class ...
DONALD TRUMP If the part isn't always there on the page, I've had good relationships with writers where t...
FELICITY JONES I'm not a natural researcher, and I don't get bogged down in it, but I think if you get it r...
SARAH PINBOROUGH A romantic is someone who believes that something is valuable even if it doesn't last. And a non...
SEBASTIAN FAULKS Girls don't poop, so don't claim you do. You can fart - because farting is funny - but we do...
RYAN HANSEN I can't get enough of 'Call of Duty.' I'm the oldest guy who plays on PlayStation.
STEVE JONES My favorite role is mommy. I know that sounds cheesy to people who don't have kids, or there are...
VANESSA LACHEY I don't think you can teach people how to be funny. You can make suggestions about how to speak ...
GEORGE CUKOR To my irritation, you still can't flick through an ebook properly; you can't riffle the page...
NICK HARKAWAY I love improvisation. You can't blame it on the writers. You can't blame it on direction. Yo...
JONATHAN WINTERS As long as my face is on page one, I don't care what they say about me on page seventeen.
MICK JAGGER I just write what I think is funny. I don't care who watches it.
IAN HECOX You are talking to a man who can only play a plastic keyboard. Give me anything weighted and I'v...
MIDGE URE There aren't too many people out there who can start one of my books and not finish it. I don...
JOY FIELDING I don't know. I think it's funny! I think it's funny! I go, what? It's so absurd. I&...
DANNY DEVITO I don't hate humanity and I'm not interested in people who do. Although, it's funny, act...
ELIZABETH GILBERT You can't get anywhere without the people who have come into your life.
IAN SOMERHALDER If House Republicans can't get border security right, who will trust them on the other bills?
TOM TANCREDO If I can't see the humor in it, how am I going to be funny?
CASEY AFFLECK You want to know my real pleasure? Food. I love chocolate. I can't get enough chocolate. I can&#...
BRIAN WILSON I don't know anyone male or female who can quote-unquote have it all. It's a made-up idea. M...
CALLIE KHOURI I find a lot of things kind of funny and I often say what's on my mind, and then get nine texts ...
KATE BECKINSALE If you get all the facts, your judgment can be right; if you don't get all the facts, it can'...
BERNARD BARUCH Animation tends to have several different writers who serve different functions. I think, on a lot o...
KELLY ASBURY When you see things upside down, the ego can be extraordinarily funny; it's absurd. But it's...
ALEJANDRO GONZALEZ INARRITU Successful people have a bigger fear of failure than people who've never done anything because i...
JAY-Z Love is easy! Kindness is easy. So I try on my Twitter page to acknowledge everyone that reaches out...
YVETTE NICOLE BROWN I don't have this weird, natural funny bone that constantly comes out. It's not like my ever...
RACHAEL HARRIS Some of the greatest writers in our industry can't get work.
KENT MCCORD In terms of being vulgar, I don't think you need to be violent unless it's slapstick, violen...
ANDY DICK Funny how possibility can lift you. Funny how reality can slam you down.
CAT PATRICK I get called all these horrible names by Lindsey Graham, who I don't even know.
DONALD TRUMP I've had tons of bullies who would call me retarded, even on my Facebook page. It's sad and ...
LAUREN POTTER Frankly, most of my friends hold very different political beliefs. It's just a funny thing in th...
PATRICIA HEATON Gamer humor ranges all over the place. What it comes down to is taking a lot of what we see in gamin...
FREDDIE WONG As a comedian, I don't know if they're laughing because it's funny or if they're lau...
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CALVIN TRILLIN There's always a source for humor.
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CALVIN TRILLIN When it comes to rapacious 19th century capitalism, my family's hands are clean.
CALVIN TRILLIN I do remember in high school I wanted to be a disc jockey.
CALVIN TRILLIN What interests me is what you might call vernacular writing, writing that connects you to a place.
CALVIN TRILLIN The shelf life of the average trade book is somewhere between milk and yogurt.
CALVIN TRILLIN When you're writing, you are robbed of your delivery.
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CALVIN TRILLIN I never eat in a restaurant that's over a hundred feet off the ground and won't stand still.
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CALVIN TRILLIN Health food makes me sick.
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CALVIN TRILLIN Canadians are very well behaved, they don't throw their food.
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CALVIN TRILLIN Before I go out to take a picture of someone, I just stop at the city desk and say, 'Do you want him...
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CALVIN TRILLIN I don't care where I sit, as long as I get fed.
CALVIN TRILLIN Anybody caught selling macrame in public should be dyed a natural color and hung out to dry.
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CALVIN TRILLIN Marriage is part of a sort of 50's revival package that's back in vogue along with neckties and nake...
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CALVIN TRILLIN Following the Rumanian tradition, garlic is used in excess to keep the vampires away.
CALVIN TRILLIN Ross begat Shawn. He handed down the crown of St Peter to Shawn.
CALVIN TRILLIN I don't mind being compared to Tolstoy literarily, but when it comes to Fun Stats it's a little humi...
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CALVIN TRILLIN Someone who managed to navigate the tricky waters between living a life you could be proud of and st...
CALVIN TRILLIN Why in the world are you a Republican?
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CALVIN TRILLIN I don't mind being interviewed on television or radio.
CALVIN TRILLIN Being on a book tour is a lot easier than reporting.
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JOHN CALVIN The best thing is to look natural, but it takes makeup to look natural.
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CALVIN COOLIDGE Don't expect to build up the weak by pulling down the strong.
CALVIN COOLIDGE To throw a shoe at a man in Dundee is the equivalent of a kiss on the cheek and an embrace in London...
CALVIN HARRIS However many blessings we expect from God, His infinite liberality will always exceed all our wishes...
JOHN CALVIN I have legendary massive breakfasts at hotels. I don't hold back. I'll get there at 7A.M. an...
CALVIN HARRIS I personally would not have plastic surgery. What the hell for? It looks ridiculous.
CALVIN KLEIN Traditionally, the sample is always better than the stock you deliver to the store.
CALVIN KLEIN I don't always want my opinion known. What little privacy I have left I'd like to maintain.
CALVIN KLEIN It seems there's always another rumor about my life; some people are simply talked about more th...
CALVIN KLEIN I'm more offended when someone's killed on television than when there's something that&#...
CALVIN KLEIN I don't think about my fame very much.
CALVIN KLEIN AIDS is an absolutely tragic disease. The argument about AIDS' being some kind of divine retribu...
CALVIN KLEIN I certainly feel that an adult woman has a right to determine what happens to her life and body.
CALVIN KLEIN Levi's can produce many more Western jeans than we can and make them at a better price.
CALVIN KLEIN I love women. I'm trying to do beautiful things with them. I'm not trying to insult them. My...
CALVIN KLEIN I still drink vodka; I'm not an advocate of drinking, but I'm no angel. I don't like gra...
CALVIN KLEIN I'm in a business where no one cares about anything except how well your last collection sold.
CALVIN KLEIN I've been strong and determined all my life about many things I've wanted.
CALVIN KLEIN I think there's something incredibly sexy about a woman wearing her boyfriend's T-shirt and ...
CALVIN KLEIN I won't allow myself to have tremendous fear.
CALVIN KLEIN If you really love someone and care about him, you can survive many difficulties.
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CALVIN KLEIN You don't only worry about the people who hate or resent you; in a way, you're more worried ...
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CALVIN KLEIN Commercials capture your attention, that's all.
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CALVIN KLEIN I'm crazy, and I don't pretend to be anything else.
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CALVIN JOHNSON You know what's funny? There's times when you catch a ball and really didn't even see th...
CALVIN JOHNSON I'm just a worker.
CALVIN JOHNSON I don't feel like sitting around doing nothing would benefit me.
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CALVIN JOHNSON I was a baseball guy. Mom wouldn't let me play football when I was little because she was scared...
CALVIN JOHNSON Any time you have an injury, it's going to be tough.
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CALVIN JOHNSON I know where my body's at, know how it feels, you know.
CALVIN JOHNSON I have my own people that make my clothes because it's hard for me to find stuff that fits.
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CALVIN JOHNSON Retired life's good, man.
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CALVIN JOHNSON Anything negative that comes at me throughout the week, you just take it and put it in that box over...
CALVIN JOHNSON The thing I don't miss is waking up in the morning, hurting, the grind of the game.
CALVIN JOHNSON Four-fifths of all our troubles would disappear, if we would only sit down and keep still.
CALVIN COOLIDGE Any man who does not like dogs and want them about does not deserve to be in the White House.
CALVIN COOLIDGE You can't know too much, but you can say too much.
CALVIN COOLIDGE In the discharge of the duties of this office, there is one rule of action more important than all o...
CALVIN COOLIDGE I've met people who didn't even know there was a Calvin Klein; they thought it was just the ...
CALVIN KLEIN There is no worse screen to block out the Spirit than confidence in our own intelligence.
JOHN CALVIN From the age of 14 to about 20, I bombarded record companies and DJs with my demos. I was desperate ...
CALVIN HARRIS There is not one blade of grass, there is no color in this world that is not intended to make us rej...
JOHN CALVIN Do the days work. If it be to protect the rights of the weak, whoever objects, do it. If it be to he...
CALVIN COOLIDGE When a great many people are unable to find work, unemployment results.
CALVIN COOLIDGE After all, the chief business of the American people is business.
CALVIN COOLIDGE The two great political parties of the nation have existed for the purpose, each in accordance with ...
CALVIN COOLIDGE It is necessary to have party organization if we are to have effective and efficient government. The...
CALVIN COOLIDGE Nothing in the World can take the place of persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than...
CALVIN COOLIDGE If there has been any crime, it must be prosecuted. If there has been any property of the United Sta...
CALVIN COOLIDGE I favor the policy of economy, not because I wish to save money, but because I wish to save people. ...
CALVIN COOLIDGE Nothing is easier than spending the public money. It does not appear to belong to anybody. The tempt...
CALVIN COOLIDGE The appropriation of public money always is perfectly lovely until some one is asked to pay the bill...
CALVIN COOLIDGE Parties do not maintain themselves. They are maintained by effort. The government is not self-existe...
CALVIN COOLIDGE Nothing in this world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common tha...
CALVIN COOLIDGE What we need in appointive positions are men of knowledge and experience with sufficient character t...
CALVIN COOLIDGE Nothing in the world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than...
CALVIN COOLIDGE Nothing in this world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common th...
CALVIN COOLIDGE I sometimes wish that people would put a little more emphasis on the observance of the law than they...
CALVIN COOLIDGE The business of America is business and the chief ideal of the American people is idealism.
CALVIN COOLIDGE A dog barks when his master is attacked. I would be a coward if I saw that God's truth is attacked a...
JOHN CALVIN When people are bewildered they tend to become credulous.
CALVIN COOLIDGE No man ever listened himself out of a job.
CALVIN COOLIDGE Each eye can have its vision separately; but when we are looking at anything our vision, which in it...
JOHN CALVIN Prosperity is only an instrument to be used, not a deity to be worshipped.
CALVIN COOLIDGE Changing a college curriculum is like moving a graveyard--you never know how many friends the dead h...
CALVIN COOLIDGE I have found it advisable not to give too much heed to what people say when I am trying to accomplis...
CALVIN COOLIDGE You can't know too much, but you can say too much.
CALVIN COOLIDGE If you see 10 troubles coming down the road, you can be sure that 9 will run into the ditch before t...
CALVIN COOLIDGE No man is excluded from calling upon God, the gate of salvation is set open unto all men: neither is...
JOHN CALVIN Don't expect to build up the weak by pulling down the strong.
CALVIN COOLIDGE The government of the United States is a device for maintaining in perpetuity the rights of the peop...
CALVIN COOLIDGE Men speak of natural rights, but I challenge any one to show where in nature any rights existed or w...
CALVIN COOLIDGE Ultimately property rights and personal rights are the same thing.
CALVIN COOLIDGE Civilization and profits go hand in hand.
CALVIN COOLIDGE My own participation in the campaign was delayed by the death of my son Calvin, which occurred on th...
CALVIN COOLIDGE Perhaps one of the most important accomplishments of my administration has been minding my own busin...
CALVIN COOLIDGE The collection of any taxes which are not absolutely required, which do not beyond reasonable doubt ...
CALVIN COOLIDGE Patriotism is easy to understand in America; it means looking out for yourself by looking out for yo...
CALVIN COOLIDGE The nation which forgets its defenders will be itself forgotten.
CALVIN COOLIDGE It takes a great man to be a good listener.
CALVIN COOLIDGE No one every listened themselves out of a job.
CALVIN COOLIDGE The right thing to do never requires any subterfuge, it is always simple and direct.
CALVIN COOLIDGE There is no force so democratic as the force of an ideal.
CALVIN COOLIDGE Heroism is not only in the man, but in the occasion.
CALVIN COOLIDGE Those who can, do, those who can't teach; and those who can do neither, administer.
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CALVIN COOLIDGE Those who trust to chance must abide by the results of chance.
CALVIN COOLIDGE Little progress can be made by merely attempting to repress what is evil. Our great hope lies in dev...
CALVIN COOLIDGE It is only when men begin to worship that they begin to grow.
CALVIN COOLIDGE Wherever we find the Word of God surely preached and heard, and the sacraments administered accordin...
JOHN CALVIN If you don't say anything, you won't be called on to repeat it.
CALVIN COOLIDGE No enterprise can exist for itself alone. It ministers to some great need, it performs some great se...
CALVIN COOLIDGE Economy is the method by which we prepare today to afford the improvements of tomorrow
CALVIN COOLIDGE The business of America is business.
CALVIN COOLIDGE Patriotism is easy to understand in America - it means looking out for yourself by looking out for y...
CALVIN COOLIDGE Those who trust to chance must abide by the results of chance.
CALVIN COOLIDGE All growth depends upon activity. There is no development physically or intellectually without effo...
CALVIN COOLIDGE Civilization and profit go hand in hand.
CALVIN COOLIDGE Education will not (take the place of persistence); the world is full of educated derelicts. Persist...
CALVIN COOLIDGE There's more, much more, to Christmas Than candlelight and cheer; It's the spirit of sweet friendshi...
CALVIN COOLIDGE Nothing in this world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common tha...
CALVIN COOLIDGE One with the law is a majority.
CALVIN COOLIDGE The Constitution is the sole source and guaranty of national freedom.
CALVIN COOLIDGE Advertising is the life of trade.
CALVIN COOLIDGE The economy depends about as much on economists as the weather does on weather forecasters.
CALVIN COOLIDGE As NFL players, we have such a platform to spread the Word of God. And that is an area I don't m...
CALVIN JOHNSON To live under the American Constitution is the greatest political privilege that was ever accorded t...
CALVIN COOLIDGE Nothing in this world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not: nothing is more common tha...
CALVIN COOLIDGE Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers. It may not be difficult to store up in the mind a vast quantity...
CALVIN COOLIDGE All growth depends upon activity. There is no development physically or intellectually without effor...
CALVIN COOLIDGE Patriotism is easy to understand in America. It means looking out for yourself by looking out for yo...
CALVIN COOLIDGE Collecting more taxes than is absolutely necessary is legalized robbery.
CALVIN COOLIDGE Christmas is not a time nor a season, but a state of mind. To cherish peace and goodwill, to be plen...
CALVIN COOLIDGE The only way to advertise is by not focusing on the product.
CALVIN KLEIN I have noticed that nothing I never said ever did me any harm.
CALVIN COOLIDGE No person was ever honored for what he received. Honor has been the reward for what he gave.
CALVIN COOLIDGE There is no dignity quite so impressive, and no one independence quite so important, as living withi...
CALVIN COOLIDGE Advertising ministers to the spiritual side of trade. It is great power that has been entrusted to y...
CALVIN COOLIDGE Every one of us is, even from his mother's womb, a master craftsman of idols.
JOHN CALVIN Augustine does not disagree with this when he teaches that it is a faculty of the reason and the wil...
JOHN CALVIN God preordained, for his own glory and the display of His attributes of mercy and justice, a part of...
JOHN CALVIN There has been a change in men's attitudes toward their clothes. Men are more aware of fashion; ...
CALVIN KLEIN I have found it advisable not to give too much heed to what people say when I am trying to accomplis...
CALVIN COOLIDGE For each of us who appear to have had a successful experiment there are many to whom their own exper...
MELVIN CALVIN A dog barks when his master is attacked. I would be a coward if I saw that God's truth is attack...
JOHN CALVIN