Quotations

Anyone who is capable of getting themselves made President should on no account be allowed to do the job.
-- Douglas Adams, "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy"

Absolute liberty is absence of restraint; responsibility is restraint; therefore, the ideally free individual is responsible to himself.
-- Henry Brooks Adams

Foxes prefer rabbits with short claws.
-- Nadja Adolf

"You're a bright boy, Muhammad."
-- Howard Cosell
"You're not as dumb as you look."
-- Muhammad Ali

You will become as small as your controlling desire; as great as your dominant aspiration.
-- James Allen

I'm not afraid to die. I just don't want to be there when it happens.
-- Woody Allen

I'm a practicing heterosexual...but bisexuality immediately doubles your chances for a date on Saturday night.
-- Woody Allen

If only God would give me some clear sign! Like making a large deposit in my name at a Swiss bank.
-- Woody Allen

Is sex dirty? Only if it's done right.
-- Woody Allen

Many a person seems to think it isn't enough for the government to guarantee him the pursuit of happiness. He insists it also run interference for him.
-- Anonymous

So live that you can look any man in the eye and tell him to go to hell.
-- Anonymous

Love is the only game that is not called on account of darkness!
-- Anonymous

A diplomat is a person who can tell you to go to Hell in such a way that you actually look forward to the trip.
-- Anonymous

A diplomat is a man who remembers a lady's birthday but forgets her age.
-- Anonymous

An idea is not responsible for the people who believe in it.
-- anon.

An unloaded gun is a stick, and a gun in the other room is furniture.
-- anon.

A person is just about as big as the things that make them angry.
-- anon.

Subtlety is the art of saying what you think and getting out of the way before it is understood.
--anon.

Finagle's Second Law: No matter what the anticipated result, there will always be someone eager to (a) misinterpret it, (b) fake it, or (c) believe it happened according to his own pet theory.
-- anon.

You can make it illegal, but you can't make it unpopular.
--anon.

Military Intelligence: A highly refined organization of overwhelming generalities based on vague assumptions and debatable figures drawn from undisclosed activities pursued by persons of diverse motivation, doubtful reliability, and questionable mentality in the midst of unimaginable confusion.
-- anon.

Human war has been the most successful of all our cultural traditions.
-- Robert Ardrey

The gods are too fond of a joke.
-- Aristotle (384-322 BC)

Back in the good old days of gaming, there were no rules -- only a referee with a gun and a chair.
-- David L. Arneson

The Earth is degenerating these days. Bribery and corruption abound. Children no longer mind their parents, every man wants to write a book, and it is evident that the end of the world is fast approaching.
-- Assyrian Stone Tablet, c.2800BC

I have never understood why it should be necessary to become irrational in order to prove that you care. Or indeed why it should be necessary to prove it at all.
-- Avon (to Vila) from Blake 7

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