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Man is the only animal that can remain on friendly terms with the victims he intends to eat until he eats them.

 Samuel Butler, in  Altruism and Cynicism

Iron rusts from disuse, stagnant water loses its purity, and in cold weather becomes frozen, even so does inaction sap the vigors of the mind.

 Leonardo Da Vinci, in  Work and Recreation

I live for books.

 Thomas Jefferson, in  Art and Literature and  Wisdom and Ignorance

Never try to out-stubborn a cat.

 Robert A. Heinlein, The Notebooks of Lazarus Long, in  Success and Failure

Politics is like a race horse. A good jockey must know how to fall with the least possible damage.

 Edouard Herriot, (from Politicians and Other Scoundrels by Ferdinand Lundberg), in  Law and Politics

Delay is preferable to error.

 Thomas Jefferson, in  Success and Failure

Jesus may love you, but I think you're garbage wrapped in skin.

 Doug Kenney, in  Love and Hate

Men like to pursue an elusive woman like a cake of wet soap -- even men who hate baths.

 Gelett Burgess, in  Men and Women

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

Therefore do not be anxious about tomorrow, for tomorrow will be anxious for itself. Sufficient unto the day is its own troubles.

 Jesus Christ, (Matthew 6:34), in  Wisdom and Ignorance

If we fight a war and win it with H-bombs, what history will remember is not the ideals we were fighting for but the methods we used to accomplish them. These methods will be compared to the warfare of Genghis Khan who ruthlessly killed every last inhabitant of Persia.

 Hans A. Bethe, in  War and Peace

Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away.

 Philip K. Dick, in  Science and Religion

The end of the human race will be that it will eventually die of civilization.

 Ralph Waldo Emerson, in  War and Peace

The Puritans hated bear-baiting, not because it gave pain to the bear, but because it gave pleasure to the spectators.

 Thomas Macaulay, History of England, I, in  Vice and Virtue

Education is a better safeguard of liberty than a standing army.

 Edward Everett, in  War and Peace and  Wisdom and Ignorance

Leemans' Law: Junk expands to fill the space allotted.

 Ron Leemans, in  Work and Recreation

Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.

 Albert Einstein, in  Science and Religion and  Success and Failure

I don't necessarily agree with everything I say.

 Marshall McLuhan, in  Science and Religion

Mankind must give up war in the Atomic Era. What is at stake is the life or death of humanity.

 Albert Einstein, in  War and Peace

An eye for an eye would make the whole world blind.

 Mahatma Gandhi, in  Vice and Virtue