Sayings

When buying and selling are controlled by legislation, the first things to be bought and sold are legislators.
- PJ O'Rourke

You wake me up early in the morning to tell me I am right? Please wait until I am wrong.
- Johann von Neumann

I finally figured out the only reason to be alive is to enjoy it.
- Rita Mae Brown

People who work sitting down get paid more than people who work standing up.
- Ogden Nash

Never knock on Death's door: ring the bell and run away! Death really hates that!
- Matt Frewer

The reason lightning doesn't strike twice in the same place is that the same place isn't there the second time.
- Willie Tyler

Politics is the art of preventing people from taking part in affairs which properly concern them.
- Paul Valery

Society, my dear, is like salt water, good to swim in but hard to swallow.
- Arthur Stringer

If a cluttered desk is the sign of a cluttered mind, what is the significance of a clean desk?
- Laurence J. Peter

Women are like MOON, which looks beautiful from a distance. But if you go closer and closer, more dirty spots will start visible
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Laughing at our mistakes can lengthen our own life. Laughing at someone else's can shorten it.
- Cullen Hightower

In democracy it's your vote that counts; In feudalism it's your count that votes.
- Mogens Jallberg

Another flaw in the human character is that everybody wants to build and nobody wants to do maintenance.
- Kurt Vonnegut

When everyone is against you, it means that you are absolutely wrong-- or absolutely right.
- Albert Guinon

Women love only two things: 1.Herself 2.Wealth

The only way to discover the limits of the possible is to go beyond them into the impossible.
- Arthur C. Clarke

What if nothing exists and we're all in somebody's dream? Or what's worse, what if only that fat guy in the third row exists?
- Woody Allen

It only takes 20 years for a liberal to become a conservative without changing a single idea.
- Robert Anton Wilson

Happiness makes up in height for what it lacks in length.
- Robert Frost

There's a fine line between fishing and just standing on the shore like an idiot.
- Steven Wright
To get something done, a committee should consist of no more than three men, two of whom are absent.
- Robert Copeland

There is nothing more dreadful than imagination without taste.
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
We rarely think people have good sense unless they agree with us.
- Francois de La Rochefoucauld
There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness.
- Friedrich Nietzsche

It is a paradoxical but profoundly true and important principle of life that the most likely way to reach a goal is to be aiming not at that goal itself but at some more ambitious goal beyond it.
- Arnold Toynbee

Instead of giving a politician the keys to the city, it might be better to change the locks.
- Doug Larson

There's an old saying about those who forget history. I don't remember it, but it's good.
- Stephen Colbert

Never believe anything until it has been officially denied.
- Claud Cockburn

Being defeated is often a temporary condition. Giving up is what makes it permanent.
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Talent hits a target no one else can hit; Genius hits a target no one else can see.
- Arthur Schopenhauer