| Even if you persuade me, you still won't persuade me. | |
| -Aristophanes | |
| At one time it had merely been d epressing in its lifelessness, but over the last several months the Legionnaires had stopped picking up after themselves, and a litter of moldy, half-eaten food added a new air to the environ. More simply put, it stank. | |
| -Robert Asprin | |
| There's a time to fight and a time to hide out. | |
| -B. Cassidy | |
| A string that has one end also has another. | |
| -Finangle's First Fundamental Finding | |
| It's amazing how far you can jump when there's a dragon breathing down your neck. | |
| -The Force of Buddha's Palm | |
| The mice who helplessly find themselves between the cats teeth acquire no merit from their enforced sacrifices. | |
| -Mahatma Gandhi | |
| I am always at a loss to know how much to believe of my own stories. | |
| -Washington Irving | |
| The truth is that the beginning of anything and its end are alike touching. | |
| -Yoshida Kenko | |
| The dead don't die. They look on and help. | |
| -D. H. Lawrence | |
| He wouldn't remember me. I was in the back row at court waiting to give my first imperial performance, and this wicked old man kowtowed to the emperor, got to his feet, whipped a knife from his sleeve, and cut the throat of the Minister of Trade. Blood all over the place. When the emperor learned the motive for thte mayhem, he couldn't decide whether to boil Master Li in oil or make him a duke, but it was academic because the old man had already escaped to Turkestan. | |
| -Moon Boy | |
| Some police forces would believe anything. Not the Metropolitan
police, though. The Met was the hardest, most cynically pragmatic, most stubbornly
down-to-earth police force in Britain. It would take a lot to faze a copper from the Met. It woudl take, for example, a huge, battered car that was nothingn more nor less than a fireball, a blazing, roaring, twisted metal lemon from Hell, driven by a grinning lunatic in sunglasses, sitting amid the flames, trailing thick, black smoke, coming straight at them through the elashing rain and the wind at eighty miles per hour. That would do it every time. | |
| -Terry Pratchett & Neil Gaiman | |
| History is a nightmare from which none of us can awaken. | |
| -Stephen Prometus | |
| Register capitalists, not guns. | |
| -Schrodinger's Cat Trilogy | |
| Save the whales- Harpoon a honda! | |
| -Schrodinger's Cat Trilogy | |
| The universe may be not only queerer than we think but queerer than we can think. | |
| -Schrodinger's Cat Trilogy. | |
| Arguing is one of life's greatest pleasures, even if you have to argue with yourself. 'Course, I could enjoy the other side of that arguement. | |
| -Walter Slovotsky | |
| Figure it out fast and so what if you're wrong? You might get lucky and implement the wrong one so it works. | |
| -Walter Slovotsky | |
| Give me a place to stand and I'll probably move along anyways. | |
| -Walter Slovotsky | |
| I find that we all get more legendary as time goes on. "Legend" means, basically, "Bullshit." | |
| -Walter Slovotsky | |
| Serendipity isn't just when you're overrewarded for a reasonable tak, like when you dig for worms and strike gold. It's also when you're cleaning your gun, and you've stupidly forgotten to unload it, and it goes off unexpectedly, hitting the burglar you didn't see square between the eyes. | |
| -Walter Slovotsky | |
| Travel, it seems to me, has always done more for flattening the arches, callusing the feet, and irritating the hemorrhoids than broadening the mind. | |
| -Walter Slovotsky | |
| Waiting around isn't an annoyance. In the right hands it's an artform. | |
| -Walter Slovotsky | |
| Wanting it doesn't make it so. If it did, we'd all learn to want a lot harder. I can already want quite vigorously, thank you very much. | |
| -Walter Slovotsky | |
| You find you can afford things you never could before. You know- like rent. | |
| -Skeet Ulrich on getting a first good role in a movie | |
| The Gentle Art of Making Enemies AS PLEASINGLY EXEMPLIFIED IN THE MANY INSTANCES, WHEREIN THE SERIOUS ONES OF THIS EARTH, CAREFULLY EXASPERATED, HAVE BEEN PRETTILY SPURRED TO UNSEEMLINESS AND INDISCRETION, WHILE OVERCOME BY AN UNDUE SENSE OF RIGHT. | |
| -Whistler: full title of his autobiography | |
| To the rare Few who, early in Life, have rid Themselves of the Friendship of the Many, these pathetic Papers are inscribed. | |
| -Whistler, dedication in The Gentle Art of Making Enemies | |
| Everything should be as simple as possible, but no simpler. | |
| -Unknown | |
| It's hard to be nostalgic when you can't remember anything. | |
| -Unknown | |
| It's your turn to go insane.. | |
| -Unknown | |
| Men are created by earth, earth is created by the universe, the universe is created by Nature's Process, and Nature's Process just happened. | |
| -Unknown | |
| Nostalgia isn't what it used to be. | |
| -Unknown | |
| Someone who thinks logically is a nice contrast to the real world. | |
| -Unknown | |
| The present is never real. Only the past. Sometimes the future. | |
| -Unknown | |
| Things are more like they are today than they ever have been before. | |
| -Unknown | |