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tiny.ag/hoklinq4 · submitted 1997
Middle age is youth without levity. And old age without decay.
tiny.ag/r3davdhl · submitted 1997
In war, there is no substitute for victory.
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/6qzazlkw · submitted 1997
Silence is argument carried out by other means.
tiny.ag/pxnbu4ey · submitted 1997
A woman is only a woman, but a good cigar is a smoke.
tiny.ag/jcg8ibwt · submitted 1997
Sometimes a scream is better than a thesis.
tiny.ag/2ohv3gf8 · submitted 1997
The reward of a thing well done is to have done it.
Ralph Waldo Emerson, in Success and Failure and Work and Recreation
tiny.ag/lmbiznpc · submitted 1997
It's not over until it's over.
tiny.ag/dlefcimh · submitted 1997
Comedy is tragedy plus time.
tiny.ag/d3ttj2ag · submitted 1997
You can lead a boy to college, but you cannot make him think.
tiny.ag/koexwc3k · submitted 1997
Man is able to do what he is unable to imagine. His head trails a wake through the galaxy of the absurd.
tiny.ag/g9nfhw0y · submitted 1997
Nobody realizes that some people expend tremendous energy merely to be normal.
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/fed8pqej · submitted 1997 by David Epstein
Disorder increases with time because we measure time in the direction in which disorder increases.
tiny.ag/gu6tloek · submitted 1997
An honest politician is one who, when he is bought, will stay bought.
Simon Cameron, in Altruism and Cynicism and Law and Politics
tiny.ag/dnj7czjw · submitted 1998
Mankind must give up war in the Atomic Era. What is at stake is the life or death of humanity.
tiny.ag/cgjakfr4 · submitted 1997
So of cheerfulness, or a good temper, the more it is spent, the more it remains.
tiny.ag/yqo9cx7w · submitted 1997
Good ideas are a dime a dozen, bad ones are free.
tiny.ag/yuezt1iy · submitted 1997
A painting in a museum probably hears more foolish remarks than anything else in the world.
tiny.ag/1zzynlyn · submitted 1997
These are not books, lumps of lifeless paper, but minds alive on the shelves.