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tiny.ag/nvdb2cfz · submitted 1997
Burning desire is the eternal flame.
tiny.ag/2xwphyb8 · submitted 1997
Mistakes are the portals of discovery.
tiny.ag/tldrjftc · submitted 1997
Riot: A popular entertainment given to the military by innocent bystanders.
Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, in War and Peace
tiny.ag/soebrnq6 · submitted 1997
Never offend people with style when you can offend them with substance.
Sam Brown, (Washington Post, 1977), in Wisdom and Ignorance
tiny.ag/odq1svy5 · submitted 1997
We spend the first twelve months of our children's lives teaching them to walk and talk and the next twelve telling them to sit down and shut up.
tiny.ag/iqolobqc · submitted 1997
In order to preserve your self-respect, it is sometimes necessary to lie and cheat.
tiny.ag/toiqhdlg · submitted 1997
Anybody who wants the presidency so much that he'll spend two years organizing and campaigning for it is not to be trusted with the office.
tiny.ag/04lm8ot1 · submitted 1997
Passionate hatred can give meaning and purpose to an empty life.
tiny.ag/ajjiywbg · submitted 1997
It costs to be stupid. The stupider you are, the more it costs.
tiny.ag/jgjax6rp · submitted 1999
Take a chance and you may lose. Take not a chance and you have lost already.
tiny.ag/oqpuijzx · submitted 1997
Hell, there are no rules here -- we're trying to accomplish something.
tiny.ag/5rylx71v · submitted 1997
Efficiency is intelligent laziness.
tiny.ag/pu94ynqw · submitted 1997
You're not drunk if you can lie on the floor without holding on.
tiny.ag/iilw7mtc · submitted 1997
He is happiest who hath power to gather wisdom from a flower.
tiny.ag/wtukmszr · submitted 1997
A bank is a place where they lend you an umbrella in fair weather and ask for it back when it begins to rain.
tiny.ag/ndewfsya · submitted 1997
The great question -- which I have not been able to answer -- is, "What does a woman want?"
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/pxnbu4ey · submitted 1997
A woman is only a woman, but a good cigar is a smoke.
tiny.ag/qh2wpltu · submitted 1997
All mankind loves a lover.
tiny.ag/2cctxyhg · submitted 1997
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.