A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyze a new problem, pitch manure, program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight efficiently, die gallantly. Specialization is for insects. |
An elephant is a mouse built to government specifications. |
Be wary of strong drink. It can make you shoot at tax collectors and miss. |
Being intelligent is not a felony, but most societies evaluate it as at least a misdemeanor. |
Certainly the game is rigged. Don't let that stop you; if you don't bet, you can't win. |
Courage is the complement of fear. A man who is fearless cannot be courageous.(He is also a fool.) |
Do not handicap your children by making their lives easy. |
If it can't be expressed in figures, it is not science; it is opinion. |
If it can't be expressed in figures, it's not science it's opinion. |
Money is a powerful aphrodisiac. But flowers work almost as well. |
Never try and teach a pig to sing. It wastes your time and annoys the pig. |
No storyteller has ever been able to dream up anything as fantastically unlikely as what really does happen in this mad Universe. |