Overviews
“Harpists spend 90 percent of their lives tuning their harps and 10 percent playing out of tune.”
“Pompeii was destroyed by an overflow of saliva from the Vatican.”
“The Jews were a proud people but always had trouble with unsympathetic genitals.”
“Vacuums are nothing. We only mention them to let them know we know they are there… “
“Am I proud of me? I gave my life to become the person I am right now! Was it worth what I paid?”
“…the question is not ‘what is the meaning of life?’ but what meaning do you choose to give yours?”
“Well, I’ll tell you something, my lad; when you’re walking home tonight and some homicidal maniac comes after you with a bunch of loganberries, don’t come crying to me!”
“He who ceases to be better, ceases to be good.”
“Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration.”
“The society which scorns excellence in plumbing because is is a humble activity, and tolerates shoddiness in philosophy because philosophy is an exalted activity will have neither good plumbing nor good philosophy. Neither its pipes nor its theories will hold water.”
“No, no, Donald, you haven’t been an idiot. You have been a mouse-brained, senseless horse’s bottom; a category A dribbling, drooling maniac; you have shamed 3 millenia of human progress; you have shown all the foresight and intelligence of a fence-post. You would be favouring yourself with an extremely generous compliment if you were to label yourself ‘an idiot’. Donald, you are a Tabloid Newspaper.”
Yet it is not our part to master all the tides of the world [but to do what is in us for the succour of those years wherein we are set] uprooting the evil in the fields that we know, so that those who live after may have clean earth to till. What weather they shall have is not ours to rule.”