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The different branches of Arithmetic - Ambition, Distraction, Uglification, and Derision. ~Lewis Carroll



Dig the well before you are thirsty. ~Chinese Proverb



Life is what we make it, always has been, always will be. ~Grandma Moses



We have forty million reasons for failure, but not a single excuse. ~Rudyard Kipling



If you should rear a duck in the heart of the Sahara, no doubt it would swim if you brought it to the Nile. ~Mark Twain



"Recycling and speed limits are bullshit," Tyler said. "They're like someone who quits smoking on his deathbed." ~Chuck Palahniuk, Fight Club, Chapter 16



Alimony is like buying oats for a dead horse. ~Arthur Baer



Sometimes I think it should be a rule of war that you have to see somebody up close and get to know him before you can shoot him. ~M*A*S*H, Colonel Potter



Did you ever walk into a room and forget why you walked in? I think that is how dogs spend their lives. ~Sue Murphy



You have freedom when you're easy in your harness. ~Robert Frost



The world is full of people whose notion of a satisfactory future is, in fact, a return to the idealized past. ~Robertson Davies, A Voice from the Attic



Winter is an etching, spring a watercolor, summer an oil painting and autumn a mosaic of them all. ~Stanley Horowitz



Industry executives and analysts often mistakenly talk about strategy as if it were some kind of chess match. But in chess, you have just two opponents, each with identical resources, and with luck playing a minimal role. The real world is much more like a poker game, with multiple players trying to make the best of whatever hand fortune has dealt them. In our industry, Bill Gates owns the table until someone proves otherwise. ~David Moschella



When they start the game, they don't yell, "Work ball." They say, "Play ball." ~Willie Stargell, 1981



It is not the strongest of the species that survive, nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change. ~Author unknown, commonly misattributed to Charles Darwin



The American reading his Sunday paper in a state of lazy collapse is perhaps the most perfect symbol of the triumph of quantity over quality.... Whole forests are being ground into pulp daily to minister to our triviality. ~Irving Babbitt



How we spend our days is, of course, how we spend our lives. ~Annie Dillard, The Writing Life



Time is making fools of us again. ~J.K. Rowling, "The Secret Riddle," Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, 2005, spoken by the character Albus Dumbledore



There is more logic in humor than in anything else. Because, you see, humor is truth. ~Victor Borge, London Times, 3 January 1984



A spark neglected makes a mighty fire. ~Robert Herrick