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The stars have run their fiery courses to their proper places, positioned with
elegant cunning, possessed of noble portent.
I made a big decision a little while ago. I don't remember what it was, which prob'ly goes to show That many times a simple choice can prove to be essential Even though it often might appear inconsequential.
I think animal testing is a terrible idea; they get all nervous and give the wrong answers.
If you must choose between two evils, pick the one you've never tried before.
If you can keep your head while all those around you are loosing theirs, then perhaps you have misunderstood the situation.
Duct tape is like the Force. It has a light side, a dark side, and it holds the universe together.
Mutate the Immutable, Solve the Insoluble, Screw the Inscrutable.
To steal ideas from one person is plagiarism; to steal from many is research.
With every passing hour our solar system comes forty-three thousand miles closer to globular cluster 13 in the constellation Hercules, and still there are some misfits who continue to insist that there is no such thing as progress.
My opinions may have changed, but not the fact that I am right.
During the celebrations, a dispute had broken out concerning a horse-deal, and knives had quickly appeared; whereupon the bride and her attendant maidens had laughed delightedly and applauded, and had encouraged the disputants to settle the matter there and then. However, when the bride, who belonged to a well-known local family, saw her uncle's eye gouged out by one of the bridegroom's kinsmen, she seized a torch from the wall and hit her bridegroom over the head with it, so that his hair caught fire. One of the bridesmaids had, with great presence of mind, forced her petticoat over his head and twisted it tight, thereby saving his life, though he screamed fearfully and his head, whien it appeared again, was burned black and raw. Meanwhile, the fire had caught the straw on the floor, and eleven drunken or wounded men lying in it had been burned to death; so that this wedding was generally agreed to have been one of the best they had had for years in Finnveden, and one that would be long remembered. The bride and bridegroom were now living together in blissful happiness, although he had not been able to grow new hair to replace that which he had lost in the fire.
Applying computer technology is simply finding the right wrench to pound in the correct screw.
This little piggy went to Hades, This little piggy stayed home This little piggy ate raw and steaming human flesh This little piggy violated virgins And this little piggy clambered over a heap of dead bodies to get to the top
G: "If we do happen to step on a mine, Sir, what do we do?" EB: "Normal procedure, Lieutenant, is to jump 200 feet in the air and scatter oneself over a wide area."
Prayer is the signpost of helplessness and failure.
The graduate with a Science degree asks, "Why does it work?" The graduate with an Engineering degree asks, "How does it work?" The graduate with an Accounting degree asks, "How much will it cost?" The graduate with a Liberal Arts degree asks, "Do you want fries with that?"
'Anyway, if you stopped tellin' people it's all sorted out after they're dead, they might try sorting it all out while they're alive.'
I'm astounded by people who want to 'know' the universe when it's hard enough to find your way around Chinatown.
I am not a vegetarian because I love animals; I am a vegetarian because I hate plants.
Sacred cows make the best hamburger.
Once at a social gathering, Gladstone said to Disraeli, "I predict, Sir, that you will die either by hanging or of some vile disease". Disraeli replied, "That all depends, sir, upon whether I embrace your principles or your mistress."
And if the assumption of responsibility for one's own discourse leads to the conclusion that all conclusions are genuinely provisional and therefore inconclusive, that all origins are similarly unoriginal, that responsibility itself must cohabit with frivolity, this need not be a cause for gloom....
"Time's fun when you're having flies."
Because we must deal with the unknown, whose nature is by definition speculative and outside the flowing chain of language, whatever we make of it will be no more than probalility and no less than error. The awerness of possible error in speculation and of a continued speculation regardless of error is an event in the history of modern rationalism whose importance, I think cannot be overemphasized... Nevertheless, the subject of how and when we become certain that what we are doing is quite possible wrong but at least a beginning has to be studied in its full historical and intellectual richness.
A great many people think they are thinking when they are merely rearranging their prejudices.
If you sit down and think about it sensibly, you come up with some very funny ideas, Like: why make people inquisitive, and then put some forbidden fruit where they can see it with a big neon finger flashing on and off saying "THIS IS IT!"?
We should be careful to get out of an experience only the wisdom that is in it - and stop there; lest we be like the cat that sits down on a hot stove-lid. She will never sit down on a hot stove-lid again, and that is well; but also she will never sit down on a cold one anymore.
We were somewhere around Barstow on the edge of the desert when the drugs began to take hold. I remember saying something like "I feel a bit lightheaded; maybe you should drive...." And suddenly there was a terrible roar all around us and the sky was full of what looked like huge bats, all swooping and screeching and diving around the car, which was going about a hundred miles an hour with the top down to Las Vegas. And a voice was screaming: "Holy Jesus! What are those goddamn animals?"
Unto each man is given the key that will open the door to Heaven. The same key unlocks the gates of Hell.
668: The Neighbor of the Beast
At night my mind does not much care If what it thinks is here or there. It tells me stories it invents And makes up things that don't make sense. I don't know why it does this stuff. The real world seems quite weird enough.
Some mornings, it's just not worth chewing through the leather straps.
You should do things because they're right. Not because the gods say so. They might say something different another time.
Experience is that marvelous thing that enables you recognize a mistake when you make it again.
There is no Right. There is only Power.
"[...] since you know as well as we do that right, as the world goes, is only in question between equals in power, while the strong do what they can and the weak suffer what they must."
It's not murder if you do it for a god.
Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of others, are also remarkable for their apparent disinclination to do so.
I think that all right-thinking people in this country are sick and tired of being told that ordinary, decent people are fed up in this country with being sick and tired. I'm certainly not! But I'm sick and tired of being told that I am!
Life may have no meaning. Or even worse, it may have a meaning of which I disapprove.
Time is a road, but it doesn't roll up behind you. Things aren't over just because they're
When you are a Bear of Very Little Brain, and you Think of Things, you find sometimes that a Thing which seemed very Thingish inside you is quite different when it gets out into the open and has other people looking at it.
Work was impossible. The geeks had broken my spirit. They had done too many things wrong. It was never like this for Mencken. He lived like a Prussian gambler--sweating worse than Bryant on some nights and drunker than Judas on others. It was all a dehumanized nightmare...and these raddled cretins have the gall to complain about my deadlines.
Diplomacy is saying "Nice Doggy" until you can find a big enough rock.
A man's greatest work is to break his enemies, to drive them before him, to take from them all the things that have been theirs, to hear the weeping of those who cherished them, to take their horses between his knees and to press in his arms the most desirable of their women.
"Quidquid latine dictum sit, altum viditur."
Sometimes I lie awake at night, and I ask, "Where have I gone wrong?" Then a voice says to me, "This is going to take more than one night."
In Courts and Palaces he also Reigns And in luxurious Cities, where the noyse Of riot ascends above thir loftiest Towrs, And injury and outrage: And when Night Darkens the Streets, then wander forth the Sons Of Belial, flown with insolence and wine.
Das Hochste ware zu begreifen, dass alles Faktische schon Theorie ist.
Eagles may soar, but weasels don't get sucked into jet engines.
Rome did not create a great empire by having meetings, they did it by killing all those who opposed them.
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