- A beer delayed is a beer denied
- A candle loses none of its light by lighting another candle
- A cynic is not merely one who reads bitter lessons from the past, he is one who is prematurely disappointed in the future -- Sidney J. Harris
- A little ignorance can go a long way
- A little nonsense now and then, is cherished by the wisest men
- A man is in love is when he divorces his wife
- A prisoner of war is a man who tries to kill you and fails, and then asks you not to kill him -- Sir Winston Churchill, 1952
- A psychiatrist has learned how to live with it
- Accept people for what they are -- completely unacceptable
- Action is the enemy of thought
- An honest politician is one who when he's bought, stays bought -- Simon Cameron
- Any fool can paint a picture, but it takes a wise person to sell it
- Any idiot can die for a cause. What takes a real genius is living for one
- Any sufficiently advanced bug is indistinguishable from a feature
- As far as we know, our computer has never had an undetected error
- Bad taste is timeless
- Be not anxious about what you have, but about what you are -- Pope St. Gregory I
- Be not sick too late, nor well too soon -- Benjamin Franklin
- Be prepared to leave everything and run!
- Better be paranoid than dead
- Better to be hated for the truth than to be loved for a lie -- cfr. Herman Teirlinck
- Beware the fury of a patient man
- Booze is the answer. I do not remember the question
- Bread always falls butter-side down. If it doesn't you buttered it on the wrong side
- Building a better mousetrap merely results in smarter mice -- Charles Darwin
- Careers are not made by backing up losers
- Chaos, panic, & disorder - my work here is done
- Consulting is the combination of "con" and "insult" and heck, I can do that -- Steve (Hamster) Ball
- Controlled apathy it is the solution
- Cure the disease: kill the patient
- Damaged people are dangerous. Survival makes them so. They have no pity. They know others can survive, as they did -- Josephine Hart
- Damaged people are dangerous. They know they can survive -- Louis Malle
- Dawn, n.: the time when men of reason go to bed
- Defeat is worse than death: one has to live with defeat
- Do good and care not to whom -- Italian Proverb
- Do I look like a people person?
- Do not forget until too late that the business of life is not business but living -- Barry C. Forbes
- Do not have good ideas if you are not willing to be responsible for them
- Do not read everything you believe
- Do not take life too seriously -- one never gets out of it alive
- Don't believe in miracles -- rely on them
- Don't kid yourself. Little is relevant, and nothing lasts forever
- Every man is given the key to the gates of heaven. The same key opens the gates of hell
- Everything comes too late for those who only wait
- Everything is bad if you remember it -- Homer Simpson
- Everything on this list may be wrong
- Everything that can be invented, has been invented
- Everything that you know is wrong, but you can be straightened out
- Expecting the worst is the least you can do
- Famous last words: Don't worry, I can handle it
- Famous last words: I have just had eighteen whiskeys in a row. I do believe that is a record
- For good, return good. For evil, return justice
- Forgiving is God's function. Our job is to arrange the meeting
- Fortune provides questions for the great answers: #21 A: Dr. Livingston I. Presume. Q: What's Dr. Presume's full name?
- Friends come and go. Enemies accumulate
- God grant me the serenity to accept the things I can not change. Courage to change the things I can. And the wisdom to know the difference
- Good advice is one of those insults that ought to be forgiven
- Good artists copy; great artists steal -- Pablo Picasso
- Happiness is what you remember
- Have your cake and eat it
- He knows not how to know who knows not also how to unknow
- He that composes himself is wiser than he that composes a book -- B. Franklin
- He who is scrupulously honest, frank, and straightforward has few friends
- He who lives by the sword shall die by the sword -- j.c.
- He who minds his own business is never unemployed
- Hell hath no fury like a pacifist
- History is written by the survivors
- Hope is a good breakfast, but it is a bad supper -- Francis Bacon
- How about never? Is never good for you?
- Human beings were created by water to transport it uphill
- I am out of my mind, but feel free to leave a message
- I am really easy to get along with once you people learn to see it my way
- I bring not peace, I bring a sword -- God
- I can resist everything except temptation -- Oscar Wilde
- I do not know what your problem is, but I would bet it is hard to pronounce
- I do not suffer from insanity. I enjoy every minute of it
- I do not work here. I am a consultant
- I don't think they could put him in a mental hospital. On the other hand, if he were already in, I don't think they'd let him out
- I have been on a diet for two weeks and all I have lost is two weeks -- Totie Fields
- I have learned. I will rise. And you'll see me return. Being what I am -- S.O'C.
- I have never let my schooling interfere with my education -- Mark Twain
- I have noticed several design suggestions in your code
- I know I am paranoid, but I worry about whether I am paranoid enough
- I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones -- Albert Einstein
- I like you. You remind me of myself when I was young and stupid
- I miss the dinosaurs
- I mostly stay calm in crisis situations. I am usually the cause of it...
- I never made a mistake in my life. I thought I did once, but I was wrong
- I started out with nothing and still have most of it left
- I used to be an agnostic, but now I'm not so sure
- I will always cherish the initial misconceptions I had about you
- If a man has a strong faith he can indulge in the luxury of scepticism -- Friedrich Nietzsche
- If at first you don't succeed, try, try again. Then quit. No use being a damn fool about it -- W. C. Fields
- If in a fight, hit first and hit hard
- If one tells the truth, one is sure, sooner or later, to be found out -- Oscar Wilde
- If the thunder don't get you, then the lightning will
- If you are a fatalist, what can you do about it?
- If you cannot convince them, confuse them -- Harry S. Truman
- If you have to think twice about it, you're wrong
- If you think things can't get worse you probably lack sufficient imagination
- In theory, there should be no difference between theory and practice, but in practice, there is -- William T. Harbaugh
- Indifference will certainly be the downfall of mankind, but who cares?
- Insert clever phrase here
- It has been a business doing pleasure with you
- It is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit -- Harry S. Truman
- It is better to be lucky than to be good! -- Louis H. Albert
- It is better to have tried and failed than to have failed to try -- the result is the same
- It is better to learn late than never
- It is better to regret something you have done, than to regret something you haven't done
- It is easier to get forgiveness than permission
- It is no good to continue blaming yourself. Blame yourself once and move on -- Bart Simpson
- It is not about reality, it is about perception
- It is not worth the bother of killing yourself, since you always kill yourself too late
- It takes a clever man to turn cynic and a wise man to be clever enough not to -- Fannie Hurst
- Just because the message may never be received does not mean it is not worth sending
- Just because your are paranoid does not mean they are not after you -- K. Cobain
- Justice -- A decision in your favor
- Kindness is a language which the deaf can hear and the blind can read -- Mark Twain
- Late children are early orphans
- Law of the Jungle: he who hesitates is lunch
- Let me put it this way: today is going to be a learning experience
- Liever gehaat voor de waarheid, dan bemind voor een leugen -- cfr. Herman Teirlinck
- Live never to be ashamed if anything you do or say is published around the world -- even if what is published is not true -- Messiah's Handbook, Reminders for the Advanced Soul
- Love cannot be much younger than the lust for murder -- Sigmund Freud
- Many pages make a thick book
- Marriage is like a cage; one sees the birds outside desperate to get in, and those inside desperate to get out -- Montaigne
- Marriage is the process of finding out what kind of man your wife would have preferred
- Mediocrity - It takes a lot less time and most people won't notice the difference until it's too late
- Money talks -- it usually says: Bend over
- Mumble a few words in church and you get married -- Mumble a few words in your sleep and get divorced
- Never get into fights with ugly people -- They have nothing to lose
- Never laugh at live dragons
- Never reveal your best argument
- Never underestimate the power of a small tactical nuclear weapon
- No matter what goes wrong, it will probably look right
- No negotiations in times of war -- No compromises in times of peace
- No one leaves without paying
- Nobody ever ruined their eyesight by looking at the dark side of something
- Of course there is no reason for it: this is the company policy...
- One gets much further with a kind word and a gun than with a kind word alone -- Al Capone
- One must be a wise reader to quote wisely and well
- One teaches best what one most needs to learn
- Organizing is what you do before you do something, so that when you do it, it's not all mixed up -- A. A. Milne
- Pandora's Rule: Never open a box you didn't close
- Paranoia: a healthy understanding of the way the universe works
- People prefer certainty to truth
- Please keep your hands off the secretary's reproducing equipment
- Predestination was doomed from the start
- Punctuality is the art of guessing how late the other fellow is going to be
- Rules are made for strict obedience of the fools, and guidance of the wise
- Sarcasm is just one more service we offer
- Say what you mean, mean what you say -- Madonna
- Short people get rained on last
- Some marriages are made in heaven -- but so are thunder and lightning
- Somebody should have warned the Trojans: beware of gifts bearing Greeks
- Sure, drinking kills brain cells, but only the weak ones
- Tact is the art of making a point without making an enemy
- Take my word for it, the silliest woman can manage a clever man, but it needs a very clever woman to manage a fool -- Kipling
- Thank you. We are all refreshed and challenged by your unique point of view
- The best prophet of the future is the past
- The finest eloquence is that which gets things done
- The future isn't what it used to be
- The generation of random numbers is too important to be left to chance
- The hard part about being a bartender is figuring out who is drunk and who is just stupid -- Richard Braunstein
- The hottest places in hell are reserved for those who in time of great moral crises maintain their neutrality -- Dante Alighieri
- The light at the end of the tunnel may be an oncoming dragon
- The most important vi key sequence: `ESC q !`: exit and save the file -- from being corrupted
- The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it -- George Bernard Shaw
- The secret of happiness is total disregard of everybody
- The secret source of humor is not joy but sorrow; there is no humor in Heaven -- Mark Twain
- The truth you speak has no past and no future. It is, and that's all it needs to be
- Theory is important, at least in theory -- Keith Martin
- There are no winners in life -- only survivors
- There's never time to do it right, but there's always time to do it over
- This sentence does in fact not have the property it claims not to have
- To err is human -- forgiving is against company policy
- Today could just as easily be the last day of the rest of your miserable life
- Today is the first miserable day of the rest of your life
- Today is the tomorrow you worried about yesterday
- Trespassers will be shot. Survivors will be executed
- Truly great madness can not be achieved without significant intelligence -- Henrik Tikkanen
- Trust is good, control is better -- Winston Churchill
- Try to have as good a life as you can under the circumstances
- War has started now, and truth will win -- S.O'C.
- We are born crying, live complaining, and die disappointed -- Thomas Fuller, M.D
- We do not have time to stop for gas - we are already late
- We don't spy on you, but we do keep an eye on those that do
- Well, I would not complain about you...
- What garlic is to food, insanity is to art
- When in doubt tell the truth -- Mark Twain
- When things just can't possibly get any worse, they will
- Writing is turning one's worst moments into money -- J.P. Donleavy
- You are a very redundant person, that's what kind of person you are
- You are as I am with You
- You are definitely on their list. The question to ask next is what list it is
- You are only young once, but you can be immature for ever -- Solomon Short
- You are only young once, but you can stay immature forever
- You are the free lunch
- You cannot be late until you show up
- You definitely intend to start living sometime soon
- You deserve the gods you worship
- You have many friends and very few living enemies
- You look like a million dollars. All green and wrinkled
- You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough
- You will experience a strong urge to do good; but it will pass
- You will pay for your sins. If you have already paid, please disregard this message
- You will remember something that you should not have forgotten
- You work very hard. Do not try to think as well