The only thing that sustains one through life is the consciousness of the immense inferiority of everybody else, and this is a feeling that I have always cultivated.
- Oscar Wilde
If there is anything the nonconformist hates worse than a conformist, it’s another nonconformist who doesn’t conform to the prevailing standard of nonconformity.
- Bill Vaughan
The world is a tragedy to those who feel, but a comedy to those who think.
- Horace Walpole
Being in politics is like being a football coach. You have to be smart enough to understand the game, and dumb enough to think it’s important.
- Eugene McCarthy
To see a world in a grain of sand
and a heaven in a wild flower,
hold infinity in the palm of your hand
and eternity in an hour.
-William Blake
Man had always assumed that he was more intelligent than dolphins because he had achieved so much… the wheel, New York, wars, and so on, whilst all the dolphins had ever done was muck about in the water having a good time. But conversely the dolphins believed themselves to be more intelligent than man for precisely the same reasons.
-Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy
Linux is only free is your time is worthless.
- Anon.
Poets have been mysteriously silent on the subject of cheese.
- G. K. Chesterton
Opera is when a guy gets stabbed in the back and, instead of bleeding, he sings.
- Ed Gardner
He was a great patriot, a humanitarian, a loyal friend; provided, of course, he really is dead.
- Voltaire
After I’m dead I’d rather have people ask why I have no monument than why I have one.
- Cato the Elder (234-149 B.C.)