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  • His mother had often said, When you choose an action, you choose the consequences of that action. She had emphasized the corollary of this axiom even more vehemently: when you desired a consequence you had damned well better take the action that would create it.
        Lois McMaster Bujold   Best?
  • Greatness is not in were we stand, but in what direction we are moving. We must sail sometimes with the wind, and somtimes agaisnt it - but sail we must. And not drift, nor lie at anchor.
        Oliver Wendell Holmes   Best?
  • Do not turn back when you are just at the goal.
        Publilius Syrus   Best?
  • Seize from every moment its unique novelty, and do not prepare your joys.
        Andre Gide   Best?
  • Get this (economic plan) passed. Later on, we can all debate it.
        George W. Bush   Best?
  • It takes a wonderful brain and exquisite senses to produce a few stupid ideas.
        George Santayana   Best?
  • I've had nothing yet", Alice replied in an offended tone: "so I ca'n't take more.
        The Mad Hatter   Best?
  • Clergyman, n. - A man who undertakes the management of our spiritual affairs as a method of bettering his temporal ones.
        Ambrose Bierce   Best?
  • USAGE, n. The First Person of the literary Trinity, the Second and Third being Custom and Conventionality. Imbued with a decent reverence for this Holy Triad an industrious writer may hope to produce books that will live as long as the fashion.
        Ambrose Bierce   Best?
  • TYPE, n. Pestilent bits of metal suspected of destroying civilization and enlightenment, despite their obvious agency in this incomparable dictionary.
        Ambrose Bierce   Best?
  • If you must speak ill of another, do not speak it, write it in the sand near the water's edge
        Napolean Hill   Best?
  • Because women live creatively, they rarely experience the need to depict or write about that which to them is a primary experience and which men know only at a second remove. Women create naturally, men create artificially.
        Ashley Montague   Best?
  • Perception is strong and sight weak. In strategy it is important to see distant things as if they were close and to take a distanced view of close things.
        Miyamoto Musashi   Best?
  • Justice cannot be for one side alone, but must be for both.
        Eleanor Roosevelt   Best?
  • It isn't the mountains ahead that wear you out, it's the grain of sand in your shoe.
        Unknown   Best?
  • A nation or civilization that continues to produce soft-minded men purchases its own spiritual death on an installment plan.
        Martin Luther King Jr.   Best?
  • From the sublime to the ridiculous is but a step.
        Napoleon Bonaparte   Best?
  • If you are out to describe the truth, leave elegance to the tailor.
        Albert Einstein   Best?
  • The trick is to make sure you don't die waiting for prosperity to come.
        Lee Iacocca   Best?
  • Live each season as it passes; breathe the air, drink the drink, taste the fruit, and resign yourself to the influences of each.
        Henry David Thoreau   Best?
  • Put even the plainest woman into a beautiful dress and unconsciously she will try to live up to it.
        Lady Duff-Gordon   Best?
  • Write down the advice of him who loves you, though you like it not at present.
        English Proverb   Best?
  • If we had no winter, the spring would not be so pleasant: if we did not sometimes taste of adversity, prosperity would not be so welcome.
        Anne Bradstreet   Best?
  • This is my answer to the gap between ideas and action - I will write it out.
        Hortense Calisher   Best?
  • You can't build a reputation on what you are going to do.
        Henry Ford   Best?
  • Our constitution protects aliens, drunks and U.S. Senators.
        Will Rogers   Best?
  • Honesty is the best image.
        Tom Wilson   Best?
  • Write a wise saying and your name will live forever.
        Muriel Strode   Best?
  • Ah, this is obviously some strange usage of the word 'safe' that I wasn't previously aware of.
        Douglas Adams   Best?
  • The reason there are so few female politicians is that it is too much trouble to put makeup on two faces.
        Maureen Murphy   Best?
  • On the plus side, death is one of the few things that can be done just as easily lying down.
        Woody Allen   Best?
  • Let him who expects one class of society to prosper into highest degree, while the other is in distress, try whether one side of his face can smile while the other is pinched.
        Thomas Fuller   Best?
  • TIGHTS, n. An habiliment of the stage designed to reinforce the general acclamation of the press agent with a particular publicity. Public attention was once somewhat diverted from this garment to Miss Lillian Russell's refusal to wear it, and many were the conjectures as to her motive, the guess of Miss Pauline Hall showing a high order of ingenuity and sustained reflection. It was Miss Hall's belief that nature had not endowed Miss Russell with beautiful legs. This theory was impossible of acceptance by the male understanding, but the conception of a faulty female leg was of so prodigious originality as to rank among the most brilliant feats of philosophical speculation! It is strange that in all the controversy regarding Miss Russell's aversion to tights no one seems to have thought to ascribe it to what was known among the ancients as "modesty." The nature of that sentiment is now imperfectly understood, and possibly incapable of exposition with the vocabulary that remains to us. The study of lost arts has, however, been recently revived and some of the arts themselves recovered. This is an epoch of _renaissances_, and there is ground for hope that the primitive "blush" may be dragged from its hiding-place amongst the tombs of antiquity and hissed on to the stage.
        Ambrose Bierce   Best?
  • IMPALE, v.t. In popular usage to pierce with any weapon which remains fixed in the wound. This, however, is inaccurate; to imaple is, properly, to put to death by thrusting an upright sharp stake into the body, the victim being left in a sitting position. This was a common mode of punishment among many of the nations of antiquity, and is still in high favor in China and other parts of Asia. Down to the beginning of the fifteenth century it was widely employed in "churching" heretics and schismatics. Wolecraft calls it the "stoole of repentynge," and among the common people it was jocularly known as "riding the one legged horse." Ludwig Salzmann informs us that in Thibet impalement is considered the most appropriate punishment for crimes against religion; and although in China it is sometimes awarded for secular offences, it is most frequently adjudged in cases of sacrilege. To the person in actual experience of impalement it must be a matter of minor importance by what kind of civil or religious dissent he was made acquainted with its discomforts; but doubtless he would feel a certain satisfaction if able to contemplate himself in the character of a weather-cock on the spire of the True Church.
        Ambrose Bierce   Best?
  • The idea of hunting and gathering as the best way for life has become quite popular recently, much more populare in some circles than the idea of simple farming as the best way of life. Many of the new primitives regard the beginnings of agriculture as one of humanity's major steps in the wrong direction. Most of the people who are drawn to such ideas do their actual hunting and gathering in grocery stores, but the *feeling* is there; it takes the form of a religion...expressed by particpating in American Indian rituals - or primitive-style rituals that are created anew.
        Walter Truett Anderson   Best?
  • Fallacies do not cease to be fallacies because they become fashions.
        G. K. Chesteron   Best?
  • Art is a selective re-creation of reality according to an artist's metaphysical value judgments.
        Ayn Rand   Best?
  • lovers alone wear sunlight
        e. e. cummings   Best?
  • Men may seem detestable as joint stock-companies and nations; knaves, fools, and murderers there may be; men may have mean and meagre faces; but man, in the ideal, is so noble and so sparkling, such a grand and glowing creature, that over any ignominious blemish in him all his fellows should run to throw their costliest robes.
        Herman Melville   Best?
  • We are tied down to a language that makes up in obscurity what it lacks in style.
        Tom Stoppard   Best?

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