PERSONS attempting to find a motive in this narrative will be prosecuted; persons attempting to find a moral in it will be banished; persons attempting to find a plot in it will be shot. BY ORDER OF THE AUTHOR, Per G.G., Chief of Ordnance. — Mark Twain
L’homme se découvre quand il se mesure avec l’obstacle. — Antoine De Saint Exupery
They told me to change the sign, so I did.
As for me and my mouse, we will serve the Lord.
I always felt that the value of a really good education is you can take more risks. Ultimately, if I really need a job, if I’ve got to pay the bills, I’m going to be able to find one.
[Entrepreneurs have the same mindset, except they aren’t looking for a “job.”] — Barack Obama
Liquor is wicked. Therefore it must repent.
:Prays for Liquor: — Kamikaze; Forum Post
In fact, that is one of the characteristics of a bureaucrat. Once the purpose for which their agency has been created is gone, they must find a new purpose. — Rufus J. Fears
I started early teaching my kids the value of a dollar. From then on, they demanded their allowances in gold.
Amicus Plato, sed magis amica veritas. — Aristotle
Go not to the elves for counsel, for they will say both yes and no. — J.R.R. Tolkien
You cannot count friends that are all packed up in barrels. — Bilbo’s First Law
There are 10 types of people in this world, those who understand binary and those who don’t.
Those of you who think you know everything are very annoying to those of us who do.
The Lord Jesus Christ came to earth to save us from that eternal hell. This is why, if you count up the passages of the Scriptures, it is Jesus that speaks more of hell more than anybody else because he came to deliver us from it. — Gervaise Nicholas Edward Charmley
Let us remember that we differ as much from other men as they differ from us. — Bishop Butler
[After a long exposition by Travis Smith that the fruit Adam and Eve sinfully ate was the grape, someone dared to say:] Grapes don’t grow on trees. — A Mr. Spurgeon (not Charles)
Wherever Law ends, Tyranny begins. — John Locke
As witnesses not of our intentions but of our conduct, we can be true or false, and the hypocrite’s crime is that he bears false witness against himself. — Hannah Arendt
Men are not hanged for stealing horses, but that horses may not be stolen. — George Savile
The only reason the crime rate was so low in rural areas such as this was the close-knit social structure. When everyone knows everyone else, crime was either difficult or desperate — John Fowles