Jacob M. Appel Quotes.
The cold, cruel reality is that with one current justice now approaching ninety, and four others over seventy, the day will inevitably arrive when a sitting justice lies in an intensive care unit, both unable to resign and unable to resume his or her duties.
Choose old people for enemies. They die. You win.
Much as constitutional guarantees of press freedom do little good for prospective publishers if they do not have access to paper or ink, the right to aid in dying is strikingly useless if nobody is willing to help.
Catholic extremism should be resisted as fiercely at home as we oppose the Taliban abroad.
Nothing sells tombstones like a Girl Scout in uniform.
Always warm up the audience with a joke….If you are not a particularly funny person, make sure that you inform them that it’s a joke.
Depression and hopelessness are not the only reasons terminally ill patients wish to end their lives. Many individuals see nothing undignified about choosing to end their lives at the time and manner of their choosing – and many view such a choice as the meaningful culmination of a good life.
If you give a man a hammer, he thinks he can solve all problems by pounding. Well, God gave men penises.
Be optimistic. Always put on clean underwear if you’re going on a date.
There is a fundamental difference, however, between asking to be permitted to keep a vegetative relative on costly machinery, and asking the taxpayers or society as a whole to pay for such machinery.
Even a poor tour guide is entitled to some happiness.
The only thing more difficult than persuading someone else to start having sex with you is persuading yourself to stop.
Maybe life involves the pairing of unsuitable people, those who wait and those who keep others waiting, and the key to happiness is finding the one person with whom you share the same internal chronometer.
Victory [over homophobia] may require five or maybe 20 years. Yet I have no doubt that “don’t ask, don’t tell” and same-sex adoption bans will be as unspeakable and inexplicable to my grandchildren as counting a slave as three-fifths of a human being.
If God wanted teenagers to be abstinent, puberty would begin at twenty.
