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tiny.ag/nqhblasx · submitted 1997
It is perfectly true that the government is best which governs least. It is equally true that the government is best which provides most.
tiny.ag/wtukmszr · submitted 1997
A bank is a place where they lend you an umbrella in fair weather and ask for it back when it begins to rain.
tiny.ag/8d5pktgj · submitted 1997
A continuing flow of paper is sufficient to continue the flow of paper.
Dyer, Dyer's Law, in Work and Recreation
tiny.ag/d3ttj2ag · submitted 1997
You can lead a boy to college, but you cannot make him think.
tiny.ag/iilw7mtc · submitted 1997
He is happiest who hath power to gather wisdom from a flower.
tiny.ag/asaliq9g · submitted 1997
I live for books.
Thomas Jefferson, in Art and Literature and Wisdom and Ignorance
tiny.ag/5x9cvfxv · submitted 1997
I wouldn't mind dying -- it's that business of having to stay dead that scares the shit out of me.
tiny.ag/ircejxuc · submitted 1997
You can get more of what you want with a kind word and a gun than you can with just a kind word.
tiny.ag/pu94ynqw · submitted 1997
You're not drunk if you can lie on the floor without holding on.
tiny.ag/vmqykh2c · submitted 1997
The Lord gave us farmers two strong hands so we could grab as much as we could with both of them.
Joseph Heller, Catch-22, in Work and Recreation
tiny.ag/fed8pqej · submitted 1997 by David Epstein
Disorder increases with time because we measure time in the direction in which disorder increases.
tiny.ag/i5ba47dl · submitted 1997
It gets late early out there.
Yogi Berra, (on Yankee Stadium in the fall), in Work and Recreation
tiny.ag/fznv6alr · submitted 1997
I never think of the future -- it will come soon enough.
tiny.ag/kgnpd9wc · submitted 1998
Even thinking is participation.
tiny.ag/pbhm4rie · submitted 1997
Man is the only animal that can remain on friendly terms with the victims he intends to eat until he eats them.
tiny.ag/36xg9wvl · submitted 1997
An expert is one who knows more and more about less and less until he knows absolutely everything about nothing.
Nicholas Murray Butler, in Science and Religion and Success and Failure
tiny.ag/poggndv0 · submitted 1997
Be polite to all, but intimate with few.
tiny.ag/6y7nwgkt · submitted 1999 by Brian J. Dent
Too much of a good thing is just that.
tiny.ag/o7yghtxb · submitted 1999
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two equals four. If that is granted, all else follows.
George Orwell, 1984, in Happiness and Misery