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