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The sweetest of all sounds is praise.
-- Xenophon
Never moon a werewolf.
On a toilet door: "Q2P"
Eloquence is logic on fire.
Subduction leads to orogeny!
I've tried relaxing, but--I don't know--I feel more comfortable tense.
-- Caption for Hamilton cartoon
War on common sense - I think we actually won that one...
"One person can trigger a million thoughts."
I have never seen anything fill up a vacuum so fast and still suck.
-- Rob Pike (on X)
All colors agree in the dark.
-- Francis Bacon
Manners are one of the truly lost causes.
-- John Simon
"Solutions are not the answer."
-- Richard Nixon
The guns and the bombs, the rockets and the warships, are all symbols of human failure.
-- Lyndon B Johnson
There is a superstition in avoiding superstition.
-- Francis Bacon
Terror: A female Klingon with PMS.
The definition of a beautiful woman is one who loves me.
-- Sloan Wilson
Dead men tell no tales, but then, neither do mimes.
-- Wade Kwon
"Conviction is a luxury for those on the sidelines."
Ignorance is the Mother of Devotion.
-- Robert Burton
Fighting for peace is like fucking for virginity.
-- Paul Biron
"You can only fuck your way to the middle."
-- Sharon Stone
There is no snooze button on a cat who wants breakfast.
All true wisdom is found on T-shirts.
There's a nut loose on your keyboard.
The revolution will NOT be televised.
Fanfiction is just fixing things in post-post-production
For every credibility gap, there is a gullibility fill.
-- R. Clopton
Domestication is the enemy of romance.
Procrastination will rule one day, OK?
If I can make just one person laugh, then it must've been a pretty good eulogy.
-- Wade Kwon
Coincidences are spiritual puns.
-- G. K. Chesterton
Success is simply a matter of luck. Ask any failure.
-- Earl Wilson
"Don't apply a Star Trek solution to a Babylon 5 problem."
Q: How do you keep a moron in suspense?
"All Bibles are man-made."
-- Thomas Alva Edison
Back of tranquility lies conquered unhappiness.
-- David Grayson
"Alcohol is the cause and the solution to many of life's problems."
-- Homer Simpson
"I was not lying. I said things that later on seemed to be untrue."
-- Richard Nixon
"What are our schools for if not indoctrination against Communism?"
-- Richard Nixon
Forget regret, or life is yours to miss.
-- Jonathan Larson
Pokemon (n), a Rastafarian proctologist.
Libert�, �galit�, anxi�t�
(someone on tumblr)
'It's no longer a question of staying healthy. It's a question of finding a sickness you like.'
-- Jackie Mason
Life is too short not to be horny on main
An idea isn't responsible for the people who believe in it.
-- Don Marquis
'Be yourself' is about the worst advice you can give to people.
-- Tom Masson
"Television is to news as bumperstickers are to philosophy."
-- Richard M. Nixon
Talk is cheap because supply exceeds demand.
-- Laura Creighton
After 16 years, MTV has finally completed its de-evolution into the shiny things network.
-- The Onion
Absence of proof is not proof of absence.
-- Michael Crichton
Dissent is the highest form of patriotism.
-- Thomas Jefferson
The two most common elements in the Universe are hydrogen and stupidity.
-- Harlan Ellison
Why am I so soft in the middle when the rest of my life is so hard?
-- Paul Simon
The sooner you start to code, the longer the program will take.
-- Roy Carlson
"The poets have been mysteriously silent on the subject of cheese."
-- G. K. Chesterton
The first casualty when war comes is truth.
-- Hiram Johnson (U.S. Senate, 1917)
Friendship is Love without its wings. (l'Amiti� est l'amour sans ailes.)
-- Lord Byron
Serving drinks on aircraft causes turbulence.
I tried marijuana once. I did not inhale.
-- William J. Clinton
It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them.
-- Emerson
I'm desperately trying to figure out why kamikaze pilots wore helmets.
-- Dave Edison
A child is a person who can't understand why someone would give away a perfectly good kitten.
-- Doug Larson
Fame is proof that people are gullible.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson
A free society is one where it is safe to be unpopular.
-- Adlai Stevenson
Depression is merely anger without enthusiasm.
Machine learning, n: Automation of your biases
The skin of civilization is only 7 meals thick
A little knowledge may be a dangerous thing, but a little carnal knowledge rules.
-- Wade Kwon
Come to think of it, there are already a million monkeys on a million typewriters, and Usenet is nothing like Shakespeare.
-- Blair Houghton
I used to have a handle on life, then it broke.
Be the person you needed when you were younger.
"I hate quotations. Tell me what you know."
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Cornflakes are not the innocent critters they seem!
-- Sterling Morrison
"If we'd stop trying to be happy we could have a pretty good time."
-- Edith Wharton
"Opportunity may knock only once, but temptation leans on the doorbell."
Wreckless Driving -- You'd think that would be a good thing.
-- Chris Sampson
"Public opinion sets bounds to every government, and is the real sovereign in every free one."
-- James Madison
The eye sees only what the mind is prepared to comprehend.
-- Robertson Davies
"Most bad government has grown out of too much government."
-- Thomas Jefferson
Beware by whom you are called sane.
-- Walter Inglis Anderson
I don't say we all ought to misbehave, but we ought to look as if we could.
-- Orson Welles
If stupidity was a crime, honey, you'd get a life sentence.
-- Chris Stephenson
People do not seem to realize that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson
It is the test of a good religion whether you can joke about it.
-- Gilbert K. Chesterton
If you think nobody cares if you're alive, try missing a couple of car payments.
-- Earl Wilson
"Art, like morality, consists of drawing the line somewhere."
-- G. K. Chesterton
"Make lots of money", "enjoy the work", "operate within the law": choose 2
-- Brian Anderson
"Psychoanalysis is confession without absolution."
Don’t speak unless you can improve on the silence.
In mathematics you don't understand things. You just get used to them.
-- J. von Neumann
Sometimes a scream is better than a thesis.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882)
"The laws of probability, so true in general, so fallacious in particular."
-- Edward Gibbon
2, 3, 3, 37 - the prime factorization of the beast.
"Truth is beautiful, without doubt; but so are lies."
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson
"The cat could very well be man's best friend but would never stoop to admitting it."
-- Doug Larson
"There comes a time in every man's education when he arrives at the conviction that envy is ignorance; that imitation is suicide."
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson
"All dogmas perish the thinking mind, especially ones you agree with."
-- Adam Richardson
Headline: Reagan Wins on Budget, But More Lies Ahead
In America, anybody can be president. That's one of the risks you take.
-- Adlai Stevenson
"Any idiot can face a crisis - it's this day-to-day living that wears you out."
-- Anton Chekhov
Headline: Arson Suspect is Held in Massachusetts Fire
I have a firm grip on reality. Now I can strangle it.
Reality is an illusion created by alcohol deficiency.
Q: Why did the tachyon cross the road?
A: Because it was on the other side.
What is the nature of God? His nature is entirely dependent upon the age or culture that has reinvented him.
-- Solomon Skink
"No one has ever loved anyone the way everyone wants to be loved."
-- Mignon McLaughlin
"Reading maketh a full man, conference a ready man, and writing an exact man."
-- Francais Bacon
Documentation is like sex: when it is good, it is very, very good; and when it is bad, it is better than nothing.
-- Dick Brandon
I think it's adorable that our fans call me Shirl. It's preferrable to asshole.
-- Shirley Manson
"There is nobody so irritating as somebody with less intelligence and more sense than we have."
-- Don Herold
We are all inclined to judge ourselves by our ideals; others by their acts.
-- Harold Nicolson
Landing: a controlled mid-air collision with a planet.
Secret, n: Something you tell to one person at a time.
"Many a man's reputation would not know his character if they met on the street."
"Success in almost any field depends more on energy and drive than it does on intelligence. This explains why we have so many stupid leaders."
-- Sloan Wilson
"The problem with post-modernism is that you like it more if you're innumerate or illiterate; both is best."
-- Graydon
"A successful tool is one that was used to do something undreamed of by its author."
-- S. C. Johnson
"Good food, good meat, good god - let's eat!"
-- Prayer by Homer Simpson
Nothing will ever be attempted if all possible objections must be first overcome.
-- Samuel Johnson
'Impossible' tends to be an opinion rather than a fact.
Sleep deprivation is fun -- you see such pretty colors.
'Truth' never set anyone free. It is only doubt which will bring mental emancipation.
-- Anton LaVey
Imagination was given to man to compensate him for what he is not; a sense of humor to console him for what he is.
-- Francis Bacon
"I'd like to meet the person who invented sex and see what they're working on now."
They are ill discoverers that think there is no land, when they can see nothing but sea.
-- Francis Bacon
There are lots of things I'd like to be someday, but "normal" is definitely not one of them.
-- Nelson Minar
There are two ways spreading the light: to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it.
-- Edith Wharton
"For some part, genius is but an embellishment on focus"
Headline: Never Withhold Herpes Infection from Loved One
"The chains of habit are too weak to be felt until they are too strong to be broken."
-- Samuel Johnson
True friendship comes when silence between two people is comfortable.
-- David Tyson Gentry
"A fanatic is one who can't change his mind and won't change the subject."
-- Winston Churchill
God has no place within these walls, just as facts have no place within organized religion.
-- Homer Simpson
If men could get pregnant, abortion would be a sacrament.
Persuasion rules, OK? - just this once?
(graffiti in Brighton)
Our families have values, but our government doesn't.
-- Bill Clinton (Democratic National Convention, 1992)
People never lie so much as after a hunt, during a war or before an election.
-- Otto von Bismarck
"There ain't no rules around here, we're trying to accomplish something."
-- Thomas Alva Edison
I love you not because of who you are, but because of who I am when I am with you.
-- Sara-Jane Linton
Thinking is not a panacea, but to paraphrase Gandhi, maybe it would be a good idea to try some.
-- Jess Anderson
Never ascribe to malice that which is adequately explained by incompetence.
-- Napoleon Bonaparte