"Definition of courage: 'Grace under pressure.'"
--Ernest Hemingway (1899-1961)
"But what we suffer from to-day is humility in the wrong place. Modesty has moved from the organ of ambition. Modesty has settled upon the organ of conviction; where it was never ment to be. A man was ment to be doubtful about himself, but undoubting about truth; this has been exactly reversed."
-- G. K. Chesterton
"A man can never have too much red wine, too many books, or too much ammunition"
-- Rudyard Kipling
"The history of things that didn't happen has never been written."
-- Henry Kissinger
"The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two
opposed ideas in mind at the same time and still retain the ability to
function."
-- F. Scott Fitzgerald
"The man who never looks into a newspaper is better informed than he who
reads them; inasmuch as he who knows nothing is nearer to truth than he
whose mind is filled with falsehoods and errors."
-- Thomas Jefferson
"Everyone who comes in here wants three things:
(1) They want it quick.
(2) They want it good.
(3) They want it cheap.
I tell 'em to pick two and call me back.
-- sign on the back wall of a small printing company (taken off an email
sig)