21 Sarcastic Zen Sayings to carry you thru Life

[Bernardo de La Paz]

10. Some more for y'all

"Extraordinary how potent cheap music is." -- Noel Coward (1899-1973).

The difference between America and Europe is, the Europeans think 100 kilometres is a long distance and Americans think 100 years is a long time.

"A bank is a place where they lend you an umbrella in fair weather and ask for it back when it begins to rain." -- Robert Frost

"Candy is dandy, but liquor is quicker" -- Ogden Nash.

"Love wouldn't be blind if the braille weren't so damned much fun." -- Armistead Maupin, "Maybe the Moon".

"If you are the smartest person in the room, you are in the wrong room." -- internet

"Whatever you can do, or dream you can, begin it.
Boldness has genius, power and magic in it." -- Goethe

"Artificial Intelligence is better than natural stupidity." -- Casey Hamilton, seen on net 1995-3-17.

"Difficile est saturam non scribere." (It is difficult not to write satire) -- Juvenal (60-130).

"Man makes plans, God laughs." -- The Q'uran.

"Adding people to a late software project makes it later." F.P. Brooks: The Mythical Man-Month

"The best way to get a bad law repealed is to enforce it strictly." -- Abraham Lincoln

"Television? The word is half Latin and half Greek. No good can come of it." -- attr. C.P. Scott (1846-1932).

"Being gay is natural, hating people for being gay is a 'lifestyle choice'." -- John Fugelsang

"Alcohol, taken in sufficient quantities, may produce all the effects of drunkenness." -- Oscar Wilde

"I am not young enough to know everything." -- Oscar Wilde

"America is the only country that went from barbarism to decadence without civilization in between." -- Oscar Wilde

"Education is what remains after one has forgotten what one has learned in school". -- Einstein.

"I prefer someone who burns the flag and then wraps themselves up in the Constitution over someone who burns the Constitution and then wraps themselves up in the flag." -- Molly Ivins

"Any philosophy that can be put 'in a nut-shell' belongs there." Sydney J. Harris (b. 1917) American Journalist

"The difference between journalism and literature is that journalism is unreadable and literature is not read." -- Oscar Wilde.

"It is dangerous to be right when the government is wrong" -- Voltaire

"As long as people believe in absurdities they will continue to commit atrocities." -- Voltaire

"People who are easily shocked ... should be shocked more often." -- Mae West

Finster's Law: "A closed mouth gathers no feet."

"A religious conservative is a fanatic about a dead radical."

Hoare's Law of Large Problems: "Inside every large problem there is a small problem struggling to get out".

A cynic: "A man who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing." -- Oscar Wilde (1854-1900) "Lady Windemere's Fan" 1891

"The Three Laws of Thermodynamics: 1. You cannot win. 2. You cannot break even. 3. You cannot get out of the game." -- C.P. Snow

Ginsberg's Theorem:
1. Capitalism is based on the assumption that you can win.
2. Socialism is based on the assumption that you can break even.
3. Mysticism is based on the assumption that you can quit the game.

"If all else fails, immortality can always be achieved by spectacular error." J.K. Galbraith (1908-2006).