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WYNN CATLIN
Democracy is a way of saying 'Nice doggie' until you can find
a rock.
NICOLAS CHAMFORT
The only thing that stops God sending a second Flood is that
the first one was useless.
In great affairs men show themselves as they wish to be seen;
in small things they show themselves as they are.
MAURICE CHAPELAIN
Conscience is a cur that does not stop us from passing but that
we cannot prevent from barking.
The final delusion is the belief that one has lost all delusions.
CHARLIE CHAPLIN
Nothing is permanent in this wicked world - not even our troubles.
JOHN CHEKE
I am of this opinion* that our tongue should be written clean
and pure*, unmixed* and unmangled* with borrowings of other tongues,
wherein if we take not heed by time, ever borrowing and never
paying*, she shall be fain to keep her house as bankrupt*. For
then doth our tongue naturally* and praisably utter her meaning,
when she borroweth no counterfeitness* of other tongues to attire*
herself withal.
- a letter to Sir Thomas Hoby, 1540. Words of non-Germanic origin
have been marked with asterisks.
LORD CHESTERFIELD
Modesty is the only sure bait when you angle for praise.
Be wiser than other people, if you can, but do not tell them
so.
Never seem more learned than the people you are with. Wear your
learning like a pocket watch and keep it hidden. Do not pull it
out to count the hours, but give the time when you are asked.
Choose your pleasures for yourself, and do not let them be imposed
upon you.
DR. BROCK CHISHOLM
Conscience is what your mother told you before you were six years
old.
SIR WINSTON CHURCHILL
Men occasionally stumble on the truth, but most of them pick
themselves up and hurry off as if nothing had happened.
A fanatic is one who can't change his mind and won't change the
subject.
An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile - hoping it will eat
him last.
History will be kind to me for I intend to write it.
I like pigs. Dogs look up to us. Cats look down on us. Pigs treat
us as equals.
It's not enough that we do our best; sometimes we have to do
what's required.
Never, never, never believe any war will be smooth and easy,
or that anyone who embarks on the strange voyage can measure the
tides and hurricanes he will encounter. The statesman who yields
to war fever must realize that once the signal is given, he is
no longer the master of policy but the slave of unforeseeable
and uncontrollable events.
There are a terrible lot of lies going around the world, and
the worst of it is half of them are true.
MARCUS TULLIUS CICERO
There is no opinion so absurd that some philosopher will not
express it.
- Ad Familiares
Advice is judged by results, not by intentions.
Everyone has the obligation to ponder well his own specific traits
of character. He must also regulate them adequately and not wonder
whether someone else's traits might suit him better. The more
definitely his own a man's character is, the better it fits him.
CHRISTOPHER CLAREMONT
Professor Xavier: "I feel so... ashamed."
Cyclops: "To be proven only human, as flawed and vulnerable as
the rest of us? Where is the shame in that?"
- God Loves, Man Kills
ARTHUR C. CLARKE
When a distinguished but elderly scientist states that something
is possible, he is almost certainly right. When he states that
something is impossible, he is very probably wrong.
The only way to discover the limits of the possible is to go beyond
them into the impossible.
Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistiguishable from
magic.
- Profile of the Future
Politicians should read science fiction, not westerns and detective
stories.
JEAN COCTEAU
We must believe in luck. For how else can we explain the success
of those we don't like?
The worst tragedy for a poet is to be admired through being misunderstood.
CYRIL CONNALLY (Palinurus)
We must select the illusion which appeals to our temperament
and embrace it with passion, if we want to be happy.
The greatest problem with women is how to contrive that they
should seem our equals.
Better to write for yourself and have no public, than to write
for the public and have no self.
There are many who dare not kill themselves for fear of what
the neighbors will say.
STORM CONSTANTINE
Love means guilt means trouble.
- Pellaz, in The Enchantments of Flesh and Spirit
CRACKRABBIT.NET
Q: What's the point?
A: All existance is negated by the essential futility of being;
therefore, the only way one can break free of essential egoism,
the soul's apocalypse, is to write crack. The impossibility of
ever truly knowing anyone but yourself, and the cyclical nature
of memory which tends to visit upon us the reiteration of seasons
and friends past, means that we can only communicate with each
other through ASCII diagrams and Qabbalistic chanting. In the
timeless poetry of Dante Alighieri:
Considerate la vostra semenza:
Fatti non foste a viver come bruti,
Ma per seguir pr0n e crackrabbitry.
- FUQ (Frequently Unasked Questions)
ELLEN CRANE
My view is that if a thing works, it is magic; if it doesn't
work, it's superstition.
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