Quotations
The ability to simplify means to eliminate the unnecessary so that the necessary
may speak. (Hans Hofmann)
After the first death, there is no other. (Dylan Thomas)
Alone I came into the world, alone I shall go from it. (Anonymous)
Always do right. This will gratify some
people, and astonish the rest.
(Mark Twain)
Anarchism is not a romantic fable but the hardheaded realization, based on
five thousand years of experience, that we cannot entrust the management
of our lives to kings, priests, politicians, generals, and county commissioners.
(Edward Abbey)
Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.
(Arthur C. Clarke)
Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from a rigged demo.
(Anonymous)
As democracy is perfected, the office of president represents, more and
more closely, the inner soul of the people. On some great and glorious day
the plain folks of the land will reach their heart's desire at last and the
White House will be adorned by a downright moron. (H.L. Mencken)
The average bloke . . . hates and fears all freedom, not only for others but
for himself, and stamps it out wherever possible. (Robert A. Heinlein)
Bad politicians like it when you don't vote. (Anonymous)
Baloney baffles brains. (Eric Frank Russell)
Beer is proof that God loves us and wishes us to be happy. (Benjamin Franklin)
Beer is proof that God does destructive testing. (Anonymous)
Be fruitful and increase in number; fill the earth and subdue it. (Genesis 1:28)
Behind the anger is the fear. What are you afraid of? (Anonymous)
A board is long, hard, and narrow. It is made of wood. (Mark Twain)
Build a fire for a man and you'll warm him for an evening. Set fire to him and
you'll warm him for the rest of his life. (Terry Pratchett)
Care about other people's approval and you will be their prisoner. Do your work,
then step back. (Lao Tse)
Chance favors the prepared mind. (Louis Pasteur)
Comfort is antipathetic to change and the most comfortable
are the dead. (Alexei Panshin)
Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen.
(Albert Einstein)
Compassion is the evolutionarily selected trait that allows the human species
to survive its own nature. (Anonymous)
A computer is like God without mercy. (Anonymous)
Denial is not a survival strategy. (Anonymous)
The early bird may get the worm, but the second mouse
always gets
the cheese. (Steven Wright)
Even monkeys fall from trees. (Japanese proverb)
Everybody's got to die of something. It's shameful to die of stupidity.
(Anonymous)
Failure to plan is planning to fail. (Winston Churchill)
For some people, being free means being free to keep
their
feet on someone else's chest. (Mike Royko, paraphrased)
Formal courtesy between husband and wife is even
more important
than it is between strangers. (Robert Heinlein)
Freedom is hammered out on the anvil of
discussion,
dissent, and debate.
(Hubert H. Humphrey)
Give guilt -- the gift that lasts forever. (Garrison Keillor)
God is an Englishman. (Ronald Frederick Delderfield)
Governance is what people do while politicians aren't paying
attention. (Anonymous)
Happiness is kind of a bovine thing. They get it, we don't. (Sting)
History is written by the victors. (Winston Churchill)
How to load a mule: Pile it on until he collapses, take 10 pounds off,
and whip him until he gets up. (Anonymous)
Human beings are creatures that use the powers of gods to further
the ambitions of apes. (Anonymous)
An ideologue is someone who knows the solution before he knows
the problem. (Anonymous)
I do not believe I am naive, but I am proud to say that I am not cynical.
(Elliot Lee Richardson)
I don't want no pickle. Just want to ride my motorcycle. (Bob Dylan)
I'd put my money on the sun and solar energy. What a source of power!
I hope we don't have to wait until oil and coal run out before we tackle that.
(Thomas Edison)
If conservatives want to preserve the best of the past, why do they
promote oil drilling in nature preserves? (Anonymous)
If it's worth doing, it's worth overdoing, right? (Tory Bellechi)
If the law is against you, argue the facts. If the facts are against you,
argue the law. And if the law and the facts are against you, pound on
the table and yell. (Anonymous)
If we supervised our children the way we supervise our politicians,
we would bring them into the world, ignore them until they did
something wrong, and then throw them out on the street.
(Anonymous)
Ignorance is bold and knowledge reserved. (Thucydides)
Illegitimis non carborundum est. (Anonymous)
In nature, there are neither rewards nor punishments -- there are
consequences. (Robert Green Ingersoll)
In the kingdom of the blind, the one-eyed man is king. (Erasmus)
In the kingdom of the blind, the one-eyed man is in the looney bin. (Anonymous)
I reject your reality and substitute my own. (Adam Savage)
It is better to have no opinion about
God at all than to hold beliefs that are
not worthy of Him. (Francis Bacon)
It is the function of the Church to oppose all original experience,
because this can only be unorthodox. (C.G. Jung)
It's hard to learn anything if you know in advance what the answer is.
(Anonymous)
It's not what you don't know that'll hurt you, it's what you do know that
ain't so. (Anonymous)
It sucks, getting old. (Anonymous)
I used to think that I was helping humanity -- and I gloried in the thought.
Presently I found that humanity not only doesn't want to be helped,
it actively resents any attempt to help it.
(Robert A. Heinlein)
The Leaden Rule is: shoot first, aim second, think later. (Pierre Dac)
A man's gotta do what a man's gotta do. (John Wayne, attrib.)
The marks won't listen if it's free. (Robert A. Heinlein)
Meetings are places where dead ideas rise from their graves and eat the
brains of the living. (Dave Barry, paraphrased)
The modern conservative is engaged in one of man's oldest exercises in moral
philosophy; that is, the search for a superior moral
justification for selfishness.
(John K. Galbraith)
The most difficult of enterprises is to secure the cooperation of others in
enterprises those others did not think of first. (Murray Leinster)
Mr. Fast Lane sez, "Ship It!" (Anonymous)
Never argue with a fool. People might not know the difference.
(Mark Twain)
Never ascribe to malice that which is
adequately explained by incompetence.
(Napoleon Bonaparte)
Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change
the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has. (Margaraet Mead)
Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake. (Napoleon
Bonaparte)
Never let your sense of morals prevent you from doing what is right.
(Isaac Asimov)
Nothing in all the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance
and conscientious stupidity. (Martin Luther King Jr.)
Nothing is more admirable than the fortitude with which millionaires
tolerate the disadvantages of their wealth. (Rex Stout)
Nowadays people know the price of everything but the value of nothing.
(Oscar Wilde)
Once you've got 'em by the balls, their
hearts and minds will follow.
(Lyndon B. Johnson)
Only the ignorant can be pure. (Anonymous)
The one most concerned about who's a team player is the one who isn't.
(Anonymous)
The only difference between men and boys is the size of their toys.
(Anonymous)
Paranoia is the ultimate in egotism. (Anonymous)
Paranoids make their own enemies. (Anonymous)
The peasant wants only to be left alone to prosper in peace. (Niccolo Machiavelli)
People who need people are the luckiest people in the world (Barbara Streisand)
Neediness is unattractive. (Anonymous)
Political behavior equals waste. (Anonymous)
Politics is not the art of the possible. It consists of choosing between the
disastrous and the unpalatable. (John Kenneth Galbraith)
Politics is organized and systematized bitchiness. (Anonymous)
Politics is the art of the possible. (Otto Von Bismarck)
Politics is the systematic cultivation of hatred. (Attrib. Talleyrand)
Poor people have sh*tty lobbyists. (Jon Stewart)
A positive attitude may not solve all your problems, but it will annoy
enough people to make it worth the effort. (Herm Albright)
The probability that we may fail in the struggle ought not to deter us
from the support of a cause we believe to be just. (Abraham Lincoln)
The problem is, nuclear power is a technology for grownups, and we
ain't grownups. (Anonymous)
The problem is that people think that problems can be solved
magically. (Umaru Yar'Adua)
Puritanism: the haunting fear that someone, somewhere may be happy.
(H.L. Mencken)
Quack, damn you. (Jaime Heinemann)
Reality is always “out of model.” (Anonymous)
Reality is what is still there after you stop believing in it. (Philip K. Dick)
Religion is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as false,
and by the rulers as useful. (Seneca the Younger)
Remembering that you are going to die is the best way I know to avoid the
trap of thinking you have something to lose. (Steve Jobs)
The root of all superstition is that men observe when a thing hits, but not
when it misses. (Sir Francis Bacon)
A ruler, in choosing his instruments, must remember that they, too,
choose him. (Houjou Soun)
A salesman is got to dream, boy. It comes with the territory. (Arthur Miller)
Show up or shut up. (Anonymous)
Since the masses are always eager to believe something, for their benefit nothing
is so easy to arrange as facts. (Charles Talleyrand)
Solutions to tough problems should be made as simple as possible -- and no
simpler. (Albert Einstein)
Some people insist that 'mediocre' is better than 'best'. They delight in clipping
wings because they themselves can't fly. (Robert Heinlein)
Sometimes "empowerment" just means, "Give me your power and I'll throw
you a fish." (Anonymous)
Specialization is for insects. (Robert A. Heinlein)
Sometimes it’s things that take the joy out of life, like a blowout when you’re
hitting sixty or a button coming off of a shirt when you’re in a hurry, but usually
it’s people. (Rex Stout)
Success is never final. Failure is seldom fatal. It's courage that counts.
(Winston Churchill)
The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the
mind at the same time, and still retain the ability to function. (F. Scott Fitzgerald)
That's one small can for a man, one
giant heap for mankind.
(Anonymous)
There's a sucker born every minute. (David Hannum, err. attrib. P.T. Barnum)
To be conservative is to be afraid. (Anonymous)
To be is to do. (Socrates) To do is to be. (Sartre) Do be do be do. (Frank Sinatra)
Yaba daba doo! (Fred Flintstone)
The wages of stupidity are death. (Anonymous)
War doesn't mature men; it merely pickles them in the brine of
disgust and dread. (Rex Stout)
We get the government we deserve. (Anonymous)
We have to improve life, not just for those who know how to
manipulate the system, but also for and with those who often
have so much to give but never get the opportunity. (Dorothy Height)
We put a President up there, and then we set fire to him because
he's not solving all our problems. (John Lennon)
When I go down into the ground at last, as God is my judge, I pray my
best-beloved may have better to say of me than, "He didn't hit me."
(Lois McMaster Bujold)
When the facts change, I change my mind. What do you do, sir?
(John Maynard Keynes)
Work hard. Tell everyone everything you know. Close a deal
with a handshake. Have fun! (Harold Edgerton)
"Working class free market conservative" is spelled S-U-C-K-E-R.
(Anonymous)
The world is made by the people who show up for the job.
(Lois McMaster Bujold)
Work is for saps. (Henry Miller)
Xenophobia forever! (Anonymous)
You can always count on Americans to do the right thing after they've tried
everything else. (Winston Churchill)
You cannot evade quantity. You may fly to poetry and music, and quantity and
number will face you in your rhythms and your octaves. (Alfred North Whitehead)
You have a perfect right to smoke. That doesn't give you
the
right
to
blow smoke in my face. (Anonymous)
You've got to give an editor something to change, or he gets frustrated. After he
p**s in it, he likes the flavor better, so he buys it. (Robert A. Heinlein)
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