| I don't see why it matters what is written. Not when it's about people. It can always be crossed out. | |
| -Adam | |
| Only a fool is never afraid. | |
| -Anonymous | |
| It is easy to fly into a passion - anybody can do that - but to be angry with the right person, and at the right time, and with the right object, and in the right way- that is not easy and it is not everybody who can do it. | |
| -Aristotle | |
| What I consider an agreeable person is someone who agrees with me. | |
| -Hugo Barhun (Benjamin Disraeli) | |
| In war more than anywhere else things happen differently from what we had expected. | |
| -Karl von Clauswitz | |
| Whom they fear, they hate. | |
| -Quintus Enius | |
| Every man is like the company he is wont to keep. | |
| -Euripides | |
| Whoever said "As easy as taking candy from a baby," has obviously never tried to take candy from a baby before. | |
| -R. Hood | |
| Abba Thophilus, the archbishop, came to Scetis one day. The Brethren who were assembled said to Abba Pambo, "Say something to the Archbishop, so that he may be edified." The old man said to them: "If he is not edified by my silence, he will not be edified by my speech." | |
| -Apaphthegmata Patrum | |
| It wasn't a dark and stormy night. It should have been, but that's the weather for you. For every mad scientist who's had a convenient thunderstorm just on the enight his Great Work is finished and lying on the slab, there have been dozens who've sat around aimlessly under the peaceful stars while Igor clocks up the eovertime. | |
| -Terry Pratchett & Neil Gaiman | |
| The trouble with trying to find a brown-covered book among brown leaves and brown water at the bottom of a ditch of brown earth in the brown, well, grayish light of dawn, was that you couldn't. | |
| -Terry Pratchett & Neil Gaiman | |
| Politics ain't worryin' this country one tenth as much as where to ind a parking space. | |
| -Will Rogers | |
| It is not the critic who counts' not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and mud. | |
| -Theodore Roosevelt | |
| Nine tenths of wisdom consists of being wise in time. | |
| -Theodore Roosevelt | |
| Being right all the time can be a real expensive habit. | |
| -Walter Slovotsky | |
| I've always figured that talking beats fighting. And talking's only about my third favorite thing. | |
| -Walter Slovotsky | |
| Peer pressure is a pain in the ass. | |
| -Walter Slovotsky | |
| Sometimes it's good to be wrong. | |
| -Walter Slovotsky | |
| Only the brave know how to forgive. | |
| -Lawrence Sterne | |
| In a well-governed country poverty is something to be ashamed of. In a poorly-goverened country wealth is something to be ashamed of. | |
| -Kung-Fu-Tze | |
| To fight and conquer in all battles is not extreme excellence. Supreme excellence consists in breaking the enemy's resistance without fighting. | |
| -Sun Tze | |