“It is bad luck to be superstitious.” – Andrew W. Mathis
“Hindsight is always twenty‑twenty.” – Oscar Wilde
“A great deal of what we see depends on what we are looking for.” – Unknown
“If you try and take a cat apart to see how it works, the first thing you have on your hands is a non-working cat.” – Douglas Adams
“Before you argue with a fool make sure he is not similarly occupied.” – Willam George Plunkett
“A committee is a group of the unwilling, chosen from the unfit, to do the unnecessary.” – Anonymous
“Little old grey haired, hunchbacked, mumbling nerd.” – Alice Manterfield (on Roy Manterfield)
“The fish can be ‘heads’ because it has a head, oh wait, it has a tail as well doesn’t it!” – Grace Carlin
“A man is a fool not to put everything he has, at any given moment, into what he is creating.” – Frank Herbert
“Atheism is a non-prophet organisation.” – George Carlin
“To believe something in the face of evidence and against reason – to believe something by faith – is ignoble, irresponsible and ignorant, and merits the opposite of respect.” – A.C. Grayling
“Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of others, are also remarkable for their apparent disinclination to do so.” – Douglas Adams
“In the elder days of Art,
Builders wrought with greatest care
Each minute and unseen part;
For the Gods see everywhere.” – Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
“Friar Tuck doesn’t like spoonerisms.” – Roy Manterfield
“My absolute favourite piece of information is the fact that young sloths are so inept that they frequently grab their own arms and legs instead of tree limbs, and fall out of trees.” – Douglas Adams
“Beware of half-truths – you may have the wrong half.” – Willam George Plunkett
“When you have nothing to say, say nothing.” – Winston Churchill
“Life is just one damned thing after another.” – Joseph Heller
“Flying is learning how to throw yourself at the ground and miss.” – Douglas Adams
“It’s a rare person who wants to hear what he doesn’t want to hear.” – Dick Cavett
“The shortest way to do many things is to do only one thing at once.” – B F Skinner
“Experience is the art of not making the same mistake too many times.” – Willam George Plunkett
“Isn’t it enough to see that a garden is beautiful without having to believe that there are fairies at the bottom of it too?” – Douglas Adams (on religion)
“I may not have gone, where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up, where I intended to be.” – Douglas Adams
“One never notices what has been done; one can only see what remains to be done.” – Marie Curie
“[The World Wide Web is] the only thing I know of whose shortened form — www — takes three times longer to say than what it’s short for.” – Douglas Adams
“I love you not only for what you are, but for what I am when I am with you.” – Elizabeth Barrett Browning
“Success is going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm.” – Winston Churchill
“Men are always whining about how women suffocate them. Well, if you can still hear them whine, you’re not holding the pillow hard enough!” – deathbychoccy (Twitter 11 Febraury 2009)
“Self Portraits are generally coloured.” – Willam George Plunkett
“I, not events, have the power to make me happy or unhappy today. I can choose which it shall be. Yesterday is dead, tomorrow hasn’t arrived yet. I have just one day, today, and I’m going to be happy in it” – Groucho Marx
“Lady Nancy Astor: Winston, if you were my husband, I’d poison your tea. Churchill: Nancy, if I were your husband, I’d drink it.” – Winston Churchill
“Depend on the rabbit’s foot if you will, but remember, it didn’t work for the rabbit.” – R E Shay
“A black cat crossing your path signifies that the animal is going somewhere.” – Groucho Marx
“Life is now. There was never a time when your life was not now, nor will there ever be.” – Harmony Jones (Twitter 17 March 2009)
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