Favorite Quotes

I give full credit to the quotes of others by stating their names right after stealing their material. I expect the same consideration.
-- Terrance Howl

Never underestimate the work that can be done between bedtime and waking.
-- Terrance Howl

Attracting a woman with a foul belly is as likely as befriending a cat with a vacuum cleaner.
-- Terrance Howl

Just cause we paranoid, don’t mean they ain’t after us.
--Joseph Heller

Character is destiny
--John McCain

Being right too soon is socially unacceptable.
--Robert A. Heinlein

Don't handicap your children by making their lives easy.
--Robert A. Heinlein

Everything is theoretically impossible, until it is done.
--Robert A. Heinlein

Never underestimate the power of human stupidity.
--Robert A. Heinlein

One man's theology is another man's belly laugh.
--Robert A. Heinlein

Sex without love is merely healthy exercise.
--Robert A. Heinlein

Theology is never any help; it is searching in a dark cellar at midnight for a black cat that isn't there. Theologians can persuade themselves of anything.
--Robert A. Heinlein

Women and cats will do as they please, and men and dogs should relax and get used to the idea.
--Robert A. Heinlein

Writing is not necessarily something to be ashamed of, but do it in private and wash your hands afterwards.
--Robert A. Heinlein

Yield to temptation. It may not pass your way again.
--Robert A. Heinlein

You can have peace. Or you can have freedom. Don't ever count on having both at once.
--Robert A. Heinlein

Do not compute the totality of your poultry population until all the manifestations of incubation have been entirely completed.
-- William Jennings Bryan

Look not mournfully into the Past. It comes not back again. Wisely improve the Present. It is thine. Go forth to meet the shadowy Future, without fear, and with a manly heart.
-- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

You've no idea of what a poor opinion I have of myself, and how little I deserve it.
-- W.S. Gilbert

However, never daunted, I will cope with adversity in my usual manner...sulking and nausea.
-- Tom K. Ryan

Stung by the splendour of a sudden thought.
-- Robert Browning

It is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit.
-- Harry Truman

Cliches should be avoided like the plague.
-- Anon.

Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.
-- Ernest Hemingway

Happiness is nothing more than health and a poor memory.
-- Albert Schweitzer

No laws, however stringent, can make the idle industrious, the thriftless provident, or the drunken sober.
-- Samuel Stiles

We have a criminal jury system which is superior to any in the world; and its efficiency is only marred by the difficulty of finding twelve men every day who don't know anything and can't read.
-- Mark Twain

Whatever a man prays for, he prays for a miracle.
Every prayer reduces itself to this:
Great God, grant that two and two be not four.
-- Ivan Turgenev

No comment is a splendid expression. I am using it again and again.
-- Charles De Gaulle

Whatever America hopes to bring to pass in the world must first come to pass in the heart of America.
-- Dwight D Eisenhower

You cannot shake hands with a clenched fist.
-- Indira Gandhi