I can't understand why a person will take a year to write a novel when he can easily buy one for a few dollars. (Fred Allen)
I speak BASIC to clients, 1-2-3 to management, and mumble to myself. (Anon.)
One's own self conquered is better than all other people. (The Dhammapada)
Nobody ever died of laughter. (Max Beerbohm)
Let not a man guard his dignity, but let his dignity guard him. (Ralph Waldo Emerson)
Arguments are like fire-arms which a man may keep at home but should not carry about with him. (Samuel Butler)
ARCHITECTURE, n The art of how to waste space. (Philip Johnson)
Training is everything. The peach was once a bitter almond cauliflower is nothing but cabbage with a college education. (Mark Twain)
There's no business like show business, but there are several businesses like accounting. (David Letterman)
Outer space is no place for a person of breeding. (Lady Violet Bonham Carter)
Keep on going and the chances are you will stumble on something, perhaps when you are least expecting it. I have never heard of anyone stumbling on something sitting down. (Charles F. Kettering)
This is courage in a man to bear unflinchingly what heaven sends. (Euripides)
Exile, for no other motive than ease, would be the last defeat, with no seed of future victory in it. (Lois McMaster Bujold)
Change is the end result of all true learning. Change involves three things First, a dissatisfaction with self-a felt void or need second, a decision to change-to fill the void or need and third, a conscious dedication to the process of growth and change-the willful act of making the change Doing Something. (Dr.)
Ahhh. A man with a sharp wit. Someone ought to take it away from him before he cuts himself. (Peter da Silva)
Our problems are man-made, therefore they may be solved by man. No problem of human destiny is beyond human beings. (John Fitzgerald Kennedy)
Correction does much, but encouragement does more. (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe)
Absence is to love what wind is to fire it extinguishes the small, it enkindles the great. (Comte DeBussy-Rabutin)
The rich are the scum of the earth in every country. (G. K. Chesterton)
I think we have a need to know what we do not need to know. (William Safire)