Today Quotes
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For animals, the entire universe has been neatly divided into things to (a) mate with, (b) eat, (c) run away from, and (d) rocks.Terry Pratchett, Equal Rites
One of the universal rules of happiness is: always be wary of any helpful item that weighs less than its operating manual.Terry Pratchett, Jingo
A marriage is always made up of two people who are prepared to swear that only the other one snores.Terry Pratchett, The Fifth Elephant
All government -- indeed, every human benefit and enjoyment, every virtue and every prudent act -- is founded on compromise and barter.Edmund Burke, Speech on the Conciliation of America
When the least they could do to you was everything, then the most they could do to you suddenly held no terror.Terry Pratchett, Small Gods
He says gods like to see an atheist around. Gives them something to aim at.Terry Pratchett, Small Gods
No. Men should die for lies. But the truth is too precious to die for.Terry Pratchett, Small Gods
My father always told me that all businessmen were sons of bitches, but I never believed it till now. -- (Comment made 10 April 1962 in reaction to news that U.S. Steel was raising prices by $6 per ton, right after the unions negotiated a modest new contract under pressure from JFK to keep inflation down.)John F. Kennedy, "A Thousand Days," by Arthur Schlesinger Jr. [1965]
One ought to seek out virtue for its own sake, without being influenced by fear or hope, or by any external influence. Moreover, that in that does happiness consist.Diogenes Laertius, Zeno
Airplanes are interesting toys but of no military value.Marshal Ferdinand Foch (1851-1929), French military strategist, 1911, July 18 2005 Information Week, P.72