Audacity, always audacity - soundest principal of strategy.
A society that gets rid of all its troublemakers goes downhill.
Cheops' Law: Nothing ever gets built on schedule or within budget.
I woke up in bed with a man and a cat. The man was a stranger; the cat was not
It's amazing how much 'mature wisdom' resembles being too tired.
One man's 'magic' is another man's engineering. 'Supernatural' is a null word.
The Earth is just too small and fragile a basket for the human race to keep all its eggs in.
Limiting the freedom of news 'just a little bit' is in the same category with the classic example 'a little bit pregnant.
Stupidity cannot be cured with money, or through education, or by legislation.
I remembered a time when my grandmother had asked me to explain television to her - the guts, not the funny pictures. There are things which cannot be taught in ten easy lessons, nor popularized for the masses; they take years of skull sweat. This be treason in an age when ignorance has come into its own and one man's opinion is as good as another's. But there it is. As Star says, the world is what it is - and doesn't forgive ignorance.
A family reunion is an effective form of birth control.
Coffee comes in five descending stages: Coffee, Java, Jamoke, Joe, and Carbon Remover.
To permit irresponsible authority is to sell disaster.
Writing is not necessarily something to be ashamed of, but do it in private and wash your hands afterwards.
I don't see why human people make such a heavy trip out of sex. It isn't anything complex, it is simply the best thing in life, even better than food.
Nothing of value is free. Even the breath of life is purchased at birth only through gasping effort and pain... The best things in life are beyond money; their price is agony and sweat and devotion... and the price demanded for the most precious of all things in life is life itself--ultimate cost for perfect value
God split himself into a myriad parts that he might have friends. This may not be true, but it sounds good, and is no sillier than any other theology.
Faith strikes me as intellectual laziness.
Of all the nonsense that twists the world, the concept of 'altruism' is the worst. People do what they want to, every time. If it pains them to make a choice - if the choice looks like a 'sacrifice' - you can be sure that it is no nobler than the discomfort caused by greediness... the necessity of deciding between two things you want when you can't have both.
I do know that the slickest way to lie is to tell the right amount of truth--then shut up.
Marriage is a psychological condition, not a civil contract and a license. Once a marriage is dead, it is dead, and it begins to stink faster than a dead fish.
Sin is cruelty and injustice, all else is peccadillo.
Every general prohibition creates its bootleggers.
The faith in which I was brought up assured me that I was better than other people; I was saved, they were damned.... Our hymns were loaded with arrogance - self-congratulation on how cozy we were with the Almighty and what a high opinion he had of us, what hell everybody else would catch come Judgment Day.
Consider the black widow spider. It's a timid little beastie, useful and, for my taste, the prettiest of the arachnids, with its shiny, patent-leather finish and its red hourglass trademark. But the poor thing has the fatal misfortune of possessing enormously too much power for its size. So everybody kills it on sight.
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