What do you do when it rains?" The captain answered frankly. "I g... by Joseph Heller

What do you do when it rains?" The captain answered frankly. "I get wet.

Joseph Heller

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Rise above principal and do what's right. by Joseph Heller

Rise above principal and do what's right.

principal rise-above

where are the snowdens of yesteryear? by Joseph Heller

where are the snowdens of yesteryear?

yesteryear snowden

From men motivated by moral certitude, history teaches, no lastin... by Joseph Heller

From men motivated by moral certitude, history teaches, no lasting good ever comes.

motivated moral men

Her own body was such a familiar and unremarkable thing to her that she was puzzled by the convulsive ecstasy men could take from it, by the intense and amusing need they had merely to touch it, to reach out urgently and press it, squeeze it, pinch it, rub it. She did not understand Yossarian's lust; but she was willing to take is word for it.

lust men needs

How did I get here? Somebody pushed me. Somebody must have set me off in this direction and clus-ters of other hands must have touched themselves to the controls at various times, for I would not have picked this way for the world.

hands way world

In short, Clevinger was one of those people with lots of intelligence and no brains, and everyone knew it except those who soon found it out.

brain people

"Surely so many countries can't all be worth dying for." "Anything worth living for," said Nately, "is worth dying for." "And anything worth dying for," answered the sacrilegious old man, "is certainly worth living for."

dying men country

The Lord gave us farmers two strong hands so we could grab as muc... by Joseph Heller

The Lord gave us farmers two strong hands so we could grab as much as we could with both of them.

humorous strong work

I couldn't see much point in tying myself down to a middle-aged woman with four children, even though the woman was my wife and the children were my own.

marriage wife children

Sure, that's what I mean,' Doc Daneeka said. 'A little grease is what makes this world go round. One hand washes the other. Know what I mean? You scratch my back, I'll scratch yours.' Yossarian knew what he meant. That's not what I meant,' Doc Daneeka said, as Yossarian began scratching his back.

grease mean hands

But how can one be warm alone? by Joseph Heller

But how can one be warm alone?

ecclesiastes warm bible

... there is wisdom in madness and strong probability of truth in all accusations, for people are complete, and everyone is capable of everything.

madness strong people

Let's take a drive into the middle of nowhere with a packet of Marlboro lights and talk about our lives.

middle-of-nowhere middle light

That's some catch, that Catch-22," he observed. It's the best the... by Joseph Heller

That's some catch, that Catch-22," he observed. It's the best there is," Doc Daneeka agreed.

yossarian catch-22-important

I am miracle ingredient Z-247. I'm immense. I'm a real, slam-bang, honest-to-goodness, three-fisted humdinger. I'm a bona fide supraman.

bangs miracle real

Everybody is as unstable as water. by Joseph Heller

Everybody is as unstable as water.

unstable water

If character is destiny, the good are damned. by Joseph Heller

If character is destiny, the good are damned.

destiny ifs character

Gold was not altogether certain what, anatomically, a gorge was,... by Joseph Heller

Gold was not altogether certain what, anatomically, a gorge was, but he knew that his was rising.

gorges luck gold

If a man is going to leave one wife to marry another, it's better if he divorces the first before he marries the second.

divorce wife men

There are yawning gulfs into which large chunks of me have fallen. I do not always know where I am at present.

yawning fallen knows