When you have eliminated all that is impossible, whatever remains must be the truth, no matter how improbable

Sir Conan Doyle, as Sherlock Holmes

When love is gone, there's always justice.
And when justice is gone, there's always force.
And when force is gone, there's always Mom.
Hi, Mom!

Laurie Anderson, “O Superman”

Was mich nicht umbringt, macht mich stärker.

What doesn't kill me makes me stronger.

Friedrich Nietzsche

No two persons ever read the same book.

Edmund Wilson

A polar bear is a rectangular bear after a coordinate transform.

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Anyone who considers arithmetical methods of producing random numbers is, of course, in a state of sin.

John Von Neumann

Wit has truth in it; wisecracking is simply calisthenics with words.

Dorothy Parker

Jesus is coming! Everybody look busy!

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

Robert A. Heinlein

A kiss is a lovely trick, designed by nature, to stop speech when words become superfluous.

Ingrid Bergman

I love mankind, it's people I can't stand.

Charles M. Schulz

The Internet is so big, so powerful and pointless that for some people it is a complete substitute for life.

Andrew Brown

I find television very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go into the other room and read a book.

Groucho Marx

If one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again, there is no use in reading it at all.

Oscar Wilde

Time is nature's way to keep everything from happening all at once.

John Wheeler

Always tell the truth. That way, you don't have to remember what you said.

Mark Twain

It isn't even wrong.

Wolfgang Pauli, aghast at a bad physics theory

Everybody wants to go to heaven, but nobody wants to die.

The Main Street Saints

If God had not meant man to eat pussy, why did he make it look so much like a taco?

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There's the South Pole, said Christopher Robin, and I expect there's an East Pole and a West Pole, though people don't like talking about them.

A.A. Milne, “Winnie-the-Pooh”

There are no rules for good photographs, there are only good photographs.

Ansel Adams

There must be better songs to sing than this.

Film “Educating Rita”

It is difficult to love a woman and do anything else.

Lev Tolstoy, “Anna Karenina”

Fighting for peace is like fucking for virginity.

Emma S. Riches

The day Microsoft makes something that doesn't suck is probably the day they start making vacuum cleaners.

Ernst Jan Plugge