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Never run from anything immortal. It only attracts their attention. (The Last Unicorn)
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"Consistency is the last refuge of the unimaginative."-- Oscar Wilde
"Simple pleasures are the last refuge of the complex."-- Oscar Wilde
He flung himself flat on the swaying roof, held out the crossbow, shut his eyes and fired.
In accordance with ancient narrative practice, the shot ricocheted off someone's helmet and brought down an innocent bird some distance away, whose only role was to expire with a suitable humorous squawk.-- Terry Pratchett (The Last Continent)
Theists think all gods but theirs are false. Atheists simply don't make an exception for the last one.
Only when the last tree has died, and the last river been poisoned, and the last fish been caught, will we realize that we cannot eat money.-- 19th Century Cree Indian
The ability to ask questions like `Where am I and who is the "I" that is asking?' is one of the things that distinguishes mankind from, say, cuttlefish. [Footnote: Although of course it's not the most obvious thing and there are, in fact, some beguiling similarities, particularly the tendency to try to hide behind a big cloud of ink in difficult situations]-- Terry Pratchett (The Last Continent)
The last good thing written in C was Franz Schubert's Symphony #9.-- Erwin Dietrich
Pigslice, n: The last unclaimed piece of pizza that everyone is secretly dying for.-- Rich Hall ("Sniglets")
Dessert is probably the most important stage of the meal, since it will be the last thing your guests remember before they pass out all over the table.-- The Anarchist Cookbook
When I see a jogger I swerve my car towards him and pretend I passed out while I was driving. I miss him at the last minute but I bet it adds some excitement to his workout.-- Chris Smith
The public seems incapable of distinguishing between your garden variety idiot and your genuine lunatic. It is the same confusion the public has had over the last five Presidents.-- Mark Leeper
The law should make men free. The problem is making the law free.
"You know how sometimes the last sentence you said, like, echoes in your brain, and it just keeps sounding stupider? and you have to say something else, just to make it stop?"-- Angela Chase (my so-called life)
He who laughs last found the dirty meaning.
The question is not so much whether there is life on Mars as whether it will continue to be possible to live on Earth.
On emulating hormones and long-range neurotransmitters:
"If your job is delivering packages and all the packages are very small and your boss doesn't care who you give them to as long as it's on the correct continent and you have until the next ice age to get the work done, then you don't have a very difficult profession. I see no reason why simulating that anachronism would present the slightest difficulty."-- John K. Clark
Adventure: The land between entertainment and panic.
He who laughs last probably didn't understand the joke.
The problem with reality is the lack of background music.
I save about twenty drafts -- that's ten meg of disc space -- and the last one contains all the final alterations. Once it has been printed out and received by the publishers, there's a cry here of 'Tough shit, literary researchers of the future, try getting a proper job!' and the rest are wiped.-- Terry Pratchett (alt.fan.pratchett)
Jack Benny played Mendelssohn last night. Mendelssohn lost.
We are continually faced with a series of great opportunities brilliantly disguised as insoluble problems.-- John Gardner
In the end, man is not entirely guilty — he did not start history. Nor is he wholly innocent — he continues it.-- Albert Camus
Man will occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of the time he will pick himself up and continue on.-- Winston Churchill
C++, the language in which only friends can access your private members.