Quotes - Favorites

"The rule is perfect: in all matters of
opinion our adversaries are insane."
- Mark Twain

Never interrupt your enemy
when he is making a mistake.
- Napoleon Bonaparte

"The trouble with the rat race is that
even if you win, you're still a rat."
- Lily Tomlin

Words ought to be a little wild for
they are the assaults of thought on
the unthinking.
- John Maynard Keynes

Paucis verbis, quid est deconstructionismus?
What, in a nutshell, is deconstructionism?

There is nothing new under the sun but there
are lots of old things we don't know.
- Ambrose Bierce

Quotaria - Favorites

"The sea, once it casts its spell, holds
one in its net of wonder forever."
- Jacques Yves Cousteau

"The reverse side also has a reverse side."
- Japanese Proverb

Whatever you can do or dream you can, begin it.
Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it.
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Certain flaws are necessary for
the whole. It would seem strange
if old friends lacked certain quirks.
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

We do not have to visit a madhouse to
find disordered minds; our planet is
the mental institution of the universe.
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Cogito cogito ergo cogito sum
(I think that I think, therefore I think that I am.)
- Ambrose Bierce

Quotaria - Ambrose Bierce

Armor: The kind of clothing worn by
a man whose tailor is a blacksmith.
- Ambrose Bierce

Opposition: In politics the party that prevents the
Government from running amuck by hamstringing it.
- Ambrose Bierce

Opportunity: A favorable occasion
for grasping a disappointment.
- Ambrose Bierce

Cynic: A blackguard whose faulty vision sees
things as they are, not as they ought to be.
- Ambrose Bierce

"Politics, n. Strife of interests
masquerading as a contest of principles."
- Ambrose Bierce

To be positive: To be mistaken
at the top of one's voice.
- Ambrose Bierce

Quotes

"The right to be heard does not
automatically include the right
to be taken seriously."
- Hubert H. Humphrey

"Painting: The art of protecting
flat surfaces from the weather
and exposing them to the critic."
- Ambrose Bierce

"Bureaucracy defends the status
quo long past the time when the
quo has lost its status."
- Laurence J. Peter

If we were to wake up some morning and
find that everyone was the same race,
creed and color, we would find some
other cause for prejudice by noon.
- George Aiken

An author is a fool who, not content with boring those
he lives with, insists on boring future generations.
- Charles de Montesquieu

If there were no God, there
would be no Atheists.
- G. K. Chesterton

Quotaria

"I have never made but one prayer to God,
a very short one: 'O Lord, make my enemies
ridiculous.' And God granted it."
- Voltaire

Optimism: The doctrine, or belief, that
everything is beautiful, including what
is ugly, everything good, especially the
bad, and everything right that is wrong.
- Ambrose Bierce

You are not permitted to kill a woman who
has wronged you, but nothing forbids you
to reflect that she is growing older every
minute. You are avenged 1440 times a day.
- Ambrose Bierce

"There are 10^11 stars in the galaxy. That used to
be a huge number. But it's only a hundred billion.
It's less than the national deficit! We used to
call them astronomical numbers. Now we should
call them economical numbers."
- Richard Feynman

"Always and never are two words you
should always remember never to use."
- Wendell Johnson

"The effort to understand the universe is one
of the very few things that lifts human life
a little above the level of farce, and gives
it some of the grace of tragedy."
- Steven Weinberg

Quotaria - Ambrose Bierce

Ocean: A body of water occupying
about two-thirds of a world made
for man - who has no gills.
- Ambrose Bierce

Future: That period of time in which
our affairs prosper, our friends are
true and our happiness is assured.
- Ambrose Bierce

Alliance: In international politics, the
union of two thieves who have their hands
so deeply inserted in each other's pocket
that they cannot separately plunder a third.
- Ambrose Bierce

Orthography: The science of spelling
by the eye instead of the ear.
- Ambrose Bierce

All are lunatics, but he who can
analyze his delusion is called a
philosopher.
- Ambrose Bierce

Historian: A broad-gauge gossip.
- Ambrose Bierce

Quotes - Ambrose Bierce

Hand: A singular instrument worn at the end of the
human arm and commonly thrust into somebody's pocket.
- Ambrose Bierce

Marriage: The state or condition of a community consisting
of a master, a mistress and two slaves, making in all, two.
- Ambrose Bierce

Philosophy: A route of many roads leading from nowhere to nothing.
- Ambrose Bierce

Mad: Affected with a high degree of intellectual independence; not
conforming to standards of thought, speech, and action derived by
the conformants [sic] from study of themselves; at odds with the
majority; in short, unusual. It is noteworthy that persons are
pronounced mad by officials destitute of evidence that they
themselves are sane.
- Ambrose Bierce

Inventor: A person who makes an ingenious
arrangement of wheels, levers and springs,
and believes it civilization.
- Ambrose Bierce

Quotes

Scotty: Diplomats! The best diplomat I know is a fully activated phaser bank.
- Star Trek TOS, "Taste of Armageddon

In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.
- Albert Einstein (1879-1955)

"In matters of style, swim with the current;
in matters of principle, stand like a rock."
- Thomas Jefferson

Calamities are of two kinds: misfortunes
to ourselves, and good fortune to others.
- Ambrose Bierce

Day: A period of twenty-four hours, mostly misspent.
- Ambrose Bierce

Meekness: Uncommon patience in planning
a revenge that is worth while.
- Ambrose Bierce