Quotes

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(as The Spice Girls play in background)
"What are they doing?"
"Psychological warfare."
(Small Soldiers)

The sweetest of all sounds is praise.
-- Xenophon

History, n. An account, mostly false, of events mostly unimportant, which are brought about by rulers, mostly knaves, and soldiers, mostly fools.
-- Ambrose Bierce

Sanity is a small price to pay for happiness.
-- Marabeth Madsen

It's a small world, but I wouldn't want to have to paint it.
-- Steven Wright

I'll say it again for the logic impaired.
-- Larry Wall

"Guilt was the grease in which the wheels of the authority turned."
-- Terry Pratchett (Small Gods)

All sunshine makes the desert.
-- Arab proverb

"It's a small apartment, I've barely enough room to lay my hat and a few friends."
-- Dorothy Parker

Give a small boy a hammer and he will find that everything he encounters needs pounding.
-- Abraham Kapla

"And if you give us any more trouble, I shall visit you in the small hours and put a bat up your nightdress."
-- Basil Fawlty

'He says gods like to see an atheist around. Gives them something to aim at.'
-- Terry Pratchett (Small Gods)

"Character may be manifested in the great moments, but it is made in the small ones."
-- Phillips Brooks

Basically, to learn Unix you learn to understand and apply a small set of key ideas and achieve expertise by expanding both the set of ideas and your ability to apply them
-- Paul Murphy

The trouble was that he was talking in philosophy, but they were listening in gibberish.
-- Terry Pratchett (Small Gods)

What lies behind us and what lies before us are small matter compared to what lies within us.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson

They came. They saw. They did a little shopping.
(Graffiti on the Berlin Wall shortly after it opened)