Get crazy?

Balance is overrated.
 

Thomas Leonard

More is less?

The length of this document defends it well against the risk of its being read.

Winston Churchill

That's the whole problem with science.

You've got a bunch of empiricists trying to describe things of unimaginable wonder.

Bill Watterson

Think again

Never answer an anonymous letter.
 

Yogi Berra

Sometimes it doesn't matter

The glass can be half empty or half full so long as there is whiskey in it.

Anon.

Conflicted?

Commercial break during The View: hair-dye, chocolate, Walmart, chocolate, anti-depressant, Nutella, & we're back.  

Sarah Silverman

A delusion

 ... is a fixed belief held in the presence of strong contradictory evidence. 

Jerrold M. Post

Problem averted?

Did you ever stop to think, and forget to start again?   

Winnie the Pooh (A. A. Milne)

Consider the alternative?

Two possibilities exist: Either we are alone in the Universe or we are not. Both are equally terrifying.

Arthur C. Clarke

No such thing as a recovered Catholic

She could never be a saint, but she thought she could be a martyr if they killed her quick.

Flannery O'Connor

The new binary?

When action grows unprofitable, gather information; when information grows unprofitable, sleep. 

Ursula K. LeGuin

Better left unread?

It is not a bad idea to get in the habit of writing down one's thoughts. It saves one having to bother anyone else with them.  

Isabel Colegate 

Double talk?

Your manuscript is both good and original, but the part that is good is not original and the part that is original is not good.  

Samuel Johnson

My definition of an expert

... is a person who knows enough about what's really going on to be scared. 

P. J. Plauger

 

Science in daily life

If you're not part of the solution, you're part of the precipitate.  

Henry J. Tillman

Applied physics?

Nothing travels faster than the speed of light, with the possible exception of bad news, which obeys its own set of laws.

Douglas Adams

What's new?

The New York Times editorial page is like a Ouija board that has only three answers, no matter what the question. The answers are: higher taxes, more restrictions on political speech and stricter gun control.   Ann Coulter

Dressed down?

It has always been the prerogative of children and half-wits to point out that the emperor has no clothes. But the half-wit remains a half-wit, and the emperor remains an emperor.
 

Neil Gaiman

True reflection?

A satirist is a wo/man who discovers unpleasant things about her/himself and then says them about other people. 

Peter McArthur

Ticked off?

A deadline is negative inspiration. Still, it's better than no inspiration at all. 

Rita Mae Brown

Well positioned?

The art of writing is the art of applying the seat of the pants to the seat of the chair.

Mary Heaton Vosse

Crack this?

And that's the world in a nutshell, an appropriate receptacle.

Stan Dunn

Wisdom of the ages?

A sympathetic Scot summed it all up very neatly in the remark, "You should make a point of trying every experience once, excepting incest and folk dancing."
Sir Arnold Bax

Who knew?

I love Mickey Mouse more than any woman I have ever known.

Walt Disney

Toasted?

She has many rare and charming  qualities, but Sobriety is not one of them.

Jane Austen

Be careful what you wish for

The best way to keep children home is to make the home atmosphere pleasant--and let the air out of the tires. 

Dorothy Parker

     

Blind spot?

I can’t take a well-tanned person seriously. 

Cleveland Amory

Sit tight?

How much of human life is lost in waiting.  

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Setting a good example for children

... takes all the fun out of middle age.

William Feather

Remember this

... if you feel guilty when you eat cake. Somewhere, someone is having a birthday.

Anon.