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Whatever is not nailed down is mine. What I can pry loose is not nailed down.

Collis P. Huntington, in Altruism and Cynicism

I got a simple rule about everybody. If you don't treat me right, shame on you.

Louis Armstrong, in Vice and Virtue

An expert is one who knows more and more about less and less until he knows absolutely everything about nothing.

Nicholas Murray Butler, in Science and Religion and Success and Failure

Imagination is more important than knowledge.

Albert Einstein, in Science and Religion and Wisdom and Ignorance

Sometimes a scream is better than a thesis.

Ralph Waldo Emerson, in Wisdom and Ignorance

A diet is when you watch what you eat and wish you could eat what you watch.

Hermione Gingold, in Food and Drink

Kindness is the beginning of cruelty.

Frank Herbert, Dune, in Altruism and Cynicism

Never offend people with style when you can offend them with substance.

Sam Brown, (Washington Post, 1977), in Wisdom and Ignorance

All these nervous breakdowns are driving me crazy.

Lee Hawkins, in Health and Disease

Delay is preferable to error.

Thomas Jefferson, in Success and Failure

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

Philip K. Dick, in Science and Religion

Women who seek to be equal with men lack ambition.

Timothy Leary, in Men and Women

Egoist: A person of low taste, more interested in themselves than in me.

Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, in Altruism and Cynicism

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

Don't wait for the last judgment; it takes place every day.

Albert Camus, in Vice and Virtue

I have sworn upon the altar of God eternal hostility against every form of tyranny over the mind of man.

Thomas Jefferson, in Law and Politics

I don't necessarily agree with everything I say.

Marshall McLuhan, in Science and Religion

Character is what you know you are, not what others think you have.

Marva Collins, in Vice and Virtue

Happiness isn't something you experience; it's something you remember.

Oscar Levant, in Happiness and Misery

I am become death, shatterer of worlds.

Robert J. Oppenheimer, (quoting the Bhagavadgita after witnessing the first nuclear explosion), in War and Peace