The Quotes Basement

'Nothing is forever'

"Leave no stone unturned."
-Euripides

'Great minds think alike'

'Silence is the other side'

If you're happy, you're successful.

'Prototype designs always work.'
-Don Vonada

'I want to be alone.'
-Greta Garbo

'Music should never be harmless'
-Robbie Robertson

'Overspecialisation breeds weakness'
-Ghost in the shell

I am I plus my circumstances.

'War is the science of destruction'
-John Abbott

'Time will take what time has given'
-Pendragon

'Rhyming is the first sign of madness'

'Pictures always lie. Music does everything but.'
-Dalwitz

'Musicians..own music becuause music owns them.'
-Igor Stravinsky

'Flowers grow out of dark moments'
-Corita Kent

'Dead and gone but life churns on'

Make sure your code does nothing gracefully.

Break into jail and claim police brutality.

"the unexamined life is not worth living"
-Socrates

'Philosophy will clip an Angel's wings.'
-John Keats

'Man knows so much and does so little'

Art means to dare-and to have been right.

An intellectual is someone whose mind watches itself.

"The chief cause of problems is solutions."
-Eric Sevareid

Satire is the most aggressive form of flattery.

'..i tried to contain myself but i escaped...'

'I can resist everything except temptation'
- Oscar Wilde

"Neo, was it the SAME black cat??"
-The Matrix

I'd give my right arm to be ambidextrous.

When all else fails, read the instructions.
-Allen's Axiom

'Rainy days and Mondays always get me down.'

'The enemy of my enemy is my friend'

'The more you say the less people remember'
-Francis Fenelon

'Wouldn't it be nice if everyone would just die?'

'We are mad in a very different way'
-Max Ernst

'Gods in his heaven. All's right with the world'

'A true friend stabs you in the heart'
-Oscar Wilde

All things truly wicked start from innocence.
-Sydney J Harris

'Everybody lies, but it doesn't matter since nobody listens.'

Complex system:
One with real problems and imaginary profits.

'A poem should not mean, But be.'
- Archibald MacLeish

Who Wills;
Can
Who Tries;
Does
Who Loves;
Lives.

Genius is of no country.
-Charles Churchill (The Rosciad)

"Who's scruffy-looking?"
-Han Solo

'Be different: conform.'

'Madness takes its toll.'

"Piece of cake!"
-G.S. Koblas

Functionality breeds Contempt.
-Fine's Corollary

Biology grows on you.

'Because the wine remembers.'

Life is not for everyone.

'Happiness can't get you money.'

'Too much is never enough.'

He who hesitates is last.

Nobody expects the spanish inquisition!

'Life is like an analogy.'

'They just buzzed and buzzed...buzzed.'

"The only constant is change."

"Mum's the word."
-Miguel de Cervantes

'To be is to program.'

'This is now. Later is later.'

"It's been Monday all week today."
-QOTD

byob, v:
Believing Your Own Bull

Don't get even -- get odd!

"The medium is the message."
-Marshall McLuhan

Accordion, n.:
A bagpipe with pleats.

'The eternal feminine draws us upward.'
-Goethe Could I have a drug overdose?

"I ain't broke, but I'm badly bent."
-QOTD

"Statistics are no substitute for judgement."
-Henry Clay

"No skis take rocks like rental skis!"

All the good ones are taken.
-Harris's Lament

'Women are just like men, only different.'

'Support Bingo. Keep Grandma off the streets.'

'To be is to be related.'
-C.J. Keyser.

Prosperity makes friends, adversity tries them.
-Publilius Syrus

"The ends justify the means."
-after Matthew Prior

Any program which runs right is obsolete.

'Walk softly and carry a megawatt laser.'

'"Life is both difficult and time consuming."

"Don't force it, get a larger hammer."
-Anthony

"If it ain't broke, don't fix it."

He who slings mud generally loses ground.
-Adlai Stevenson

The ripest fruit falls first.
-William Shakespeare ("Richard II")

"Facts are stubborn, but statistics are more pliable."

'All extremists should be taken out and shot.'

"Age before beauty; and pearls before swine."
-Dorothy Parker

"Too much is just enough."
-Mark Twain (on whiskey)

'Good leaders being scarce, following yourself is allowed.'

'Disease can be cured; fate is incurable.'
-Chinese proverb

Never stow away on a kamikaze plane.
-Spence's Admonition

'One good suit is worth a thousand resumes.'

'Good day to avoid cops. Crawl to school.'

'To make an enemy, do someone a favor.'

"There's no heavier burden than a great potential."

"Wagner's music is better than it sounds."
-Mark Twain

'There is an exception to all laws.'
-Government's Law

"Don't mind him; politicians always sound like that."

'Chicken Little only has to be right once.'

Reliable source, n.:
The guy you just met.

"Winning isn't everything. It's the only thing."
-Vince Lombardi

My computer can beat up your computer.
-Karl Lehenbauer

"I wonder if there's anything good on tonight?"

Rarely do people communicate; they just take turns talking.

Anything anybody can say about America is true.
-Emmett Grogan

"Arguments with furniture are rarely productive."
-Kehlog Albran ("The Profit")

You are in the hall of the mountain king.

Somewhere, just out of sight, the unicorns are gathering.

"It is bad luck to be superstitious."
-Andrew W. Mathis

"Man belongs wherever he wants to go."
-Wernher von Braun

"I have five dollars for each of you."
-Bernhard Goetz

'The reverse side also has a reverse side.'
-Japanese proverb

'Power tends to corrupt, absolute power corrupts absolutely.'
-Lord Acton

'The only reward of virtue is virtue.'
-Ralph Waldo Emerson

"When Marriage is Outlawed, Only Outlaws will have Inlaws."

'Never call a man a fool. Borrow from him.'

He who minds his own business is never unemployed.

'Words can never express what words can never express.'

"After Goliath's defeat, giants ceased to command respect."
-Freeman Dyson

'Do not count your chickens before they are hatched.'
-Aesop

We are the people our parents warned us about.

"Faith: not *wanting* to know what is true."
-Friedrich Nietzsche

"When childhood dies, its corpses are called adults."
-Brian Aldiss

"Marry in haste and everyone starts counting the months."

Experience varies directly with equipment ruined.
-Horner's Five Thumb Postulate

'If it's worth doing, it's worth doing for money.'

'What one fool can do, another can.'
-Ancient Simian Proverb

"Fortunately, the second-to-last bug has just been fixed."
-Ray Simard

"All the men on my staff can type."
-Bella Abzug

"There's no such thing as a free lunch."
-Milton Friendman

"Like this rose, our love will wilt and die."
-QOTD

"I drink to make other people interesting."
-George Jean Nathan

'Worth seeing? Yes, but not worth going to see.'

'Sanity is the trademark of a weak mind.'
-Mark Harrold

"Lack of skill dictates economy of style."
-Joey Ramone

Teutonic:
Not enough gin.

"Nil sapientiae odiosius acumine nimio."
-Seneca

"Pestis eram vivus - moriens tua mors ero."
-Martin Luther

'Itself, by itself, solely ONE everlastingly, and single.'
-Plato (Sympos)

"Sub conservatione formae specificae salva anima."
-Raymond Lully

'Ce grand malheur, de ne pouvoir etre seul.'
-La Bruyere

"Television: Chewing gum for the eyes."
-Frank Lloyd Wright

"Human relations are something we always wish we had."
-P.K.Shaw

"Individuals are occasionally guided by reason, crowds never."
-Dean Inge

"Cleverness is not wisdom."
-Euripides

"Love built on beauty, soon as beauty, dies."
-John Donne

Think outside the circle.

'If your gonna be great, there's gonna be hate.'

'Stop whining. Make Snoopy stand up'

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