It is well that war is so terrible, or we should get too fond of it.

Robert E. Lee

Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.

Soren Kierkegaard

Politics is not a bad profession. If you succeed there are many rewards, if you disgrace yourself you can always write a book.

Ronald Reagan

Space isn't remote at all. It's only an hour's drive away if your car could go straight upwards.

Fred Hoyle

The idea of all-out nuclear war is unsettling.

Walter Goodman

War is much too serious a matter to be entrusted to the military.

Georges Clemenceau (1841 - 1929)

I say beware of all enterprises that require new clothes, and not rather a new wearer of clothes.

Henry David Thoreau (1817 - 1862), Walden

You can no more win a war than you can win an earthquake.

Jeannette Rankin (1880 - 1973)

You cannot simultaneously prevent and prepare for war.

Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955)

I believe we are on an irreversible trend toward more freedom and democracy - but that could change.

Dan Quayle, 5/22/89

We don't want to go back to tomorrow, we want to go forward.

Dan Quayle

You might as well fall flat on your face as lean over too far backward.

James Thurber (1894 - 1961)

Howard Hughes was able to afford the luxury of madness, like a man who not only thinks he is Napoleon but hires an army to prove it.

Ted Morgan

I would rather be a coward than brave because people hurt you when you are brave.

E. M. Forster, as a small child

Ah, this is obviously some strange usage of the word 'safe' that I wasn't previously aware of.

Douglas Adams, Arthur Dent in "The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy"

War is a series of disasters which result in a winner.

Georges Clemenceau (1841 - 1929)

Programming today is a race between software engineers striving to build bigger and better idiot-proof programs, and the Universe trying to produce bigger and better idiots. So far, the Universe is winning.

Rich Cook

Writing is not necessarily something to be ashamed of, but do it in private and wash your hands afterwards.

Robert Heinlein

The only winner in the War of 1812 was Tchaikovsky

Solomon Short

In our civilization, and under our republican form of government, intelligence is so highly honored that it is rewarded by exemption from the cares of office.

Ambrose Bierce (1842 - 1914), The Devil's Dictionary

War is a series of catastrophes that results in a victory.

Georges Clemenceau (1841 - 1929)

I loathe people who keep dogs. They are cowards who haven't got the guts to bite people themselves.

August Strindberg

I was a vegetarian until I started leaning toward the sunlight.

Rita Rudner

What I look forward to is continued immaturity followed by death.

Dave Barry

War is not nice.

Barbara Bush

The words _figure_ and _fictitious_ both derive from the same Latin root _fingere_. Beware!

M.J. Moroney

The avoidance of taxes is the only intellectual pursuit that carries any reward.

John Maynard Keynes (1883 - 1946)

I have given two cousins to war and I stand ready to sacrifice my wife's brother.

Artemus Ward (1834 - 1867)

Wars teach us not to love our enemies, but to hate our allies.

W. L. George

The more original a discovery, the more obvious it seems afterwards.

Arthur Koestler

CNN is one of the participants in the war. I have a fantasy where Ted Turner is elected president but refuses because he doesn't want to give up power.

Arthur C. Clarke

We seem to believe it is possible to ward off death by following rules of good grooming.

Don Delillo

Thanksgiving is a typically American holiday...The lavish meal is a symbol of the fact that abundant consumption is the result and reward of production.

Ayn Rand

Cheese - milk's leap toward immortality.

Clifton Fadiman

It is a mistake to regard age as a downhill grade toward dissolution. The reverse is true. As one grows older, one climbs with surprising strides.

George Sand

People fail forward to success.

Mary Kay Ash

Hold a picture of yourself long and steadily enough in your mind's eye, and you will be drawn toward it.

Harry Emerson Fosdick

I simple cannot understand the passion that some people have for making themselves thoroughly uncomfortable and then boasting about it afterwards.

Patricia Moyes

It has been my experience that one cannot, in any shape or form, depend on human relations for lasting reward. It is only work that truly satisfies.

Bette Davis, The Lonely Life, 1962

I need no warrant for being, and no word of sanction upon my being. I am the warrant and the sanction.

Ayn Rand, Anthem, 1946

It never pays to deal with the flyweights of the world. They take far too much pleasure in thwarting you at every turn.

Sue Grafton, 'H' Is for Homicide, 1991

The heights by great men reached and kept were not attained by sudden flight, but they while their companions slept, were toiling upward in the night.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

We succeed only as we identify in life, or in war, or in anything else, a single overriding objective, and make all other considerations bend to that one objective.

Dwight D. Eisenhower (1890 - 1969), speech, April 2, 1957

The reward of a thing well done is to have done it.

Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882), The Conduct of Life, 'Fate,' 1860

The highest reward for a person's toil is not what they get for it, but what they become by it.

John Ruskin (1819 - 1900)

The reward of one duty is the power to fulfill another.

George Eliot (1819 - 1880)

Experience is a hard teacher because she gives the test first, the lesson afterwards.

Vernon Sanders Law

Be wary of the man who urges an action in which he himself incurs no risk.

Joaquin Setanti

Self-reliance is the only road to true freedom, and being one's own person is its ultimate reward.

Patricia Sampson

Be aware that a halo has to fall only a few inches to be a noose.

Dan McKinnon