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I thought I was in love once, and then later I thought maybe it was just an inner-ear imbalance.
-- Fraser (Due South)

Maybe cybergoths are just cyberpunks who get laid.
-- Sourcerer

They say that every man has a price at which he'll do anything. I like to think it's the other way around; every man has a line, a line he won't cross over, no matter what the cost.
-- Fraser Sr. (Due South)

"You can only fuck your way to the middle."
-- Sharon Stone

The course of true love never did run smooth.
-- Shakespeare

In case of doubt, make it sound convincing.

Old age and treachery will beat youth and skill every time.
(A coffee cup)

pride is not the opposite of shame, but its source

The soul would have no rainbow had the eyes no tears.

"To many, total abstinence is easier than perfect moderation."
-- St. Augustine

If the mind were exercised as much as the mouth, we would be a race of geniuses.

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So many idiots, so few meteors.

It's strange that men should take up crime when there are so many legal ways to be dishonest.
-- Sunshine magazine

"The first thing to remember about Unix is that nothing is ever spelled correctly."
-- Steve Lidie

"Your food stamps will be stopped effective March 1992 because we received notice that you passed away. May God bless you. You may reapply if there is a change in your circumstances."
(Department of Social Services, Greenville, South Carolina)

Nowadays, originality is the art of concealing your source.

'Everything that can be invented has been invented.'
-- Charles H. Duell (Commissioner, U.S. Office of Patents, 1899.)

It is a fool's prerogative to utter truths that no one else will speak.
-- Shakespeare ("A Midsummer Night's Dream")

"Grand ennui" sounds so much nicer than "annoyance."
-- Eric P. Scott

I'd love to change the world, but they won't give me the source code.

Thinking: The talking of the soul with itself.
-- Plato

...problems continue in the South African black townships. Four people were killed in violent clashes yesterday. A black spokesman said - this situation is a tragedy for our people; we get no help from the government; blacks are dying and all the whites can do is talk about cricket. [very brief pause] last night at the Sydney Cricket Ground, the South African cricket team defeated Australia in the day-night match...
(A(ustralian)BC-FM news)

Science is to computer science as hydrodynamics is to plumbing.
-- Stan Kelly-Bootle ("Computer Language," Oct 90)

The sweetest of all sounds is praise.
-- Xenophon

Libert�, �galit�, anxi�t�
(someone on tumblr)

It is better to waste one's youth, than to do nothing at all with it.
-- Courteline

No job is so simple that is can't be done wrong.

Art is a lie that makes us realize the truth.
-- Pablo Picasso

"We have enough youth, how about a fountain of smart?"
-- Bumper sticker

Nothing is so smiple that it can't be screwed up.

"I hate it when people quote the Bible to defend themselves, because it's not like Jesus wrote the Bible. His friends did. And you know how your friends always fuck up stories. Jesus is probably like, 'I didn't walk on water. You were drunk, and I was in a puddle.'"
-- S.L. Pouthier

The chief enemy of creativity is 'good' taste.
-- Pablo Picasso

God must love assholes--she made so many of them.

"If Today Was a Fish, I'd Throw It Back In."
(Song Title)

Words skittered out of his mouth like cartoon dogs on fresh-waxed linoleum, frantically going nowhere.
-- Amy Tan

"Quidquid latine dictum sit, altum viditur." (Whatever is said in Latin sounds profound.)

Brevity is the soul of lingerie.
-- Dorothy Parker

Frisbeetarianism: the belief that when you die, your soul goes up on the roof and gets stuck.

A man said to the universe, "Sir, I exist."
"However," replied the universe, "the fact has not created in me a sense of obligation."

-- Stephan Crane ("War is Kind," 1899)

Work is a necessity for man. Man invented the alarm clock.
-- Pablo Picasso

Only a mediocre person is always at his best.
-- Somerset Maugham

"I do sound like the Little Mermaid on acid."
-- Tori Amos (Newsweek, 1996)

"Do not seek to follow in the footsteps of the wise. Seek what they sought"
-- Basho

"The tragedy of life is not that it ends so soon, but that we wait so long to begin it."

"Words sound stupid--look into my eyes."
-- Michael Stipe

Light travels faster than sound. This is why some people appear bright until you hear them speak.

Marriage means commitment. Of course, so does insanity.

Computers are useless. They can only give you answers.
-- Pablo Picasso (1881-1973)

I have yet to meet a C compiler that is more friendly and easier to use than eating soup with a knife.

The defect of equality is that we only desire it with our superiors.
-- Henry Becque

The writer is the engineer of the human soul.
-- Joseph Stalin

Life is just a chance to grow a soul.
-- A. Powell Davies

Music is the science of manipulating emotion through sound.
-- Angus Gray

Ask anything of men. Ask them to achieve wealth, fame, love, brutality, murder, self-sacrifice. But don't ask them to achieve self-respect. They will hate your soul.
-- Dominique (The Fountainhead, by Ayn Rand)