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Be your own hero, it's cheaper than a movie ticket.

Doug Horton, in Altruism and Cynicism

Change occurs in direct proportion to dissatisfaction, but dissatisfaction never changes.

Doug Horton, in Success and Failure

A woman is only a woman, but a good cigar is a smoke.

Rudyard Kipling, in Men and Women and Vice and Virtue

I live for books.

Thomas Jefferson, in Art and Literature and Wisdom and Ignorance

Hell, there are no rules here -- we're trying to accomplish something.

Thomas Alva Edison, in Work and Recreation

The Puritans hated bear-baiting, not because it gave pain to the bear, but because it gave pleasure to the spectators.

Thomas Macaulay, History of England, I, in Vice and Virtue

Sometimes a scream is better than a thesis.

Ralph Waldo Emerson, in Wisdom and Ignorance

Whenever anyone says anything he is indulging in theories.

Alfred Korzybski, in Science and Religion and Wisdom and Ignorance

Money may be the husk of many things, but not the kernel. It buys you food, but not appetite; medicine, but not health; acquaintances, but not friends; servants, but not loyalty; days of joy, but not peace or happiness.

Henrik Ibsen, in Wealth and Poverty

The more you wrestle with a turd, the more shit gets on you.

Shelly Horton, in Success and Failure

Boring people are a reflection of boring people.

Doug Horton, in Altruism and Cynicism

Religion has done love a great service by making it a sin.

Anatole France, in Vice and Virtue

Nobody realizes that some people expend tremendous energy merely to be normal.

Albert Camus, in Work and Recreation

Always read stuff that will make you look good if you die in the middle of it.

P. J. O'Rourke, in Art and Literature

A lot of people mistake a short memory for a clear conscience.

Doug Larson, in Vice and Virtue

I do not want my house to be walled in on all sides and my windows to be stuffed. I want the cultures of all the lands to be blown about my house as freely as possible. But I refuse to be blown off my feet by any.

Mahatma Gandhi, in Law and Politics

The difference between fiction and reality is that fiction has to make sense.

Tom Clancy, in Art and Literature

I will answer anything I can with honor, but not about others.

John Brown, in Vice and Virtue

So of cheerfulness, or a good temper, the more it is spent, the more it remains.

Ralph Waldo Emerson, in Happiness and Misery

Egotism is the anesthetic given by a kindly nature to relieve the pain of being a damned fool.

Bellamy Brooks, in Altruism and Cynicism