"Well Andy ... it'll be a long time between beers."
- Cary Grant, Destination Tokyo

"Out here due process is a bullet."
- John Wayne, The Green Berets

"I hope you two had a good time - cause Hap paid the check!"
- John Wayne, The Flying Tigers

question: "Why did you shoot him?"
answer: "I was afraid the fall would kill him!"
- two Seabees in The Fighting Seabees

"Never apologize, it's a sign of weakness."
- John Wayne, She Wore A Yellow Ribbon

"I never shot a man that didn't need it."
- John Wayne, True Grit

"We've got to destroy destruction."
- Brian Donlevy, Wake Island

"We have a blind date with destiny - and she's ordered lobster!"
- The Shoveler, Mystery Men

"While your down there, do a guy a favour will ya? .......polish my buttons"

"We are about to be hickory smoked"

"I haven't been this screwed in a long time"

"You tip every garden variety shop keeper but when it comes to giving ol' Jack an advance on his paycheck your fist tightens up like a nun at a sausage factory"

"I was hoping to be reincarnated as Marie Antoinette's bar of soap"

"It was the dawn of the third age of mankind, ten years after the Earth/Minbari war. The Babylon Project was a dream given form. Its goal, to prevent another war by creating a place where humans and aliens could work out their differences peacefully. It's a port of call - home away from home for diplomats, hustlers, entrepreneurs, and wanderers. Humans and aliens wrapped in two million, five hundred thousand tons of spinning metal, all alone in the night. It can be a dangerous place, but it's our last best hope for peace. This is the story of the last of the Babylon stations. The year is 2258. The name of the place is Babylon 5."
- Sinclair, Babylon 5 Season One Opening Monologue

"The wheel turns, does it not, Ambassador?"
- G'kar, Babylon 5

"They are alone. They are a dying people. We should let them pass."
- Kosh, Babylon 5

"No. We have to stay here and there's a simple reason why. Ask ten different scientists about the environment, population control, genetics and you'll get ten different answers, but there's one thing every scientist on the planet agrees on. Whether it happens in a hundred years or a thousand years or a million years, eventually our Sun will grow cold and go out. When that happens, it won't just take us. It'll take Marilyn Monroe and Lao-Tzu, Einstein, Morobuto, Buddy Holly, Aristophanes .. and all of this .. all of this was for nothing unless we go to the stars."
- Sinclair, Babylon 5

"There are things in the universe billions of years older than either of our races. They are vast, timeless ... They are a mystery, and I am both terrified and reassured to know that there are still wonders in the universe - that we have not yet explained everything. Whatever they are, Ms. Sakai, they walk near Sigma-957. They must walk there alone."
- G'kar, Babylon 5

"These are my three wives: pestilence, famine and death. Do you think I married them for their personalities? Arranged marriages every one, but they worked out, they inspired me. Knowing that they were waiting at home for me is what keeps me here 75 light years away."
- Londo, Babylon 5

"Confirmed survey 1. Upon arrival you will report for debriefing. And just one more thing. On your trip back I'd like you to take the time to learn the Babylon 5 mantra. Ivanova is always right. I will listen to Ivanova. I will not ignore Ivanova's recommendations. Ivanova is god, and if this ever happens again Ivanova will personally rip your lung out! Babylon control out... Civilians. Just kidding about that god part, no offence."
- Ivanova, Babylon 5

"Right now, I want to introduce you to the ultimate means of interstellar understanding, the Earthers call it poker."
- Londo, Babylon 5

"This is like being nibbled to death by… Pah what are those Earth creatures called? Feathers, long bill, webbed feet, go quack… Cats. Like being nibbled to death by cats."
- Londo, Babylon 5

"The only people who never make a mistake are the people who never do anything."
- Theodore Roosevelt

"Far better to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure, than to take rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy much nor suffer much . . . in the grey twilight that knows not victory nor defeat."
- Theodore Roosevelt

"It is always better to be an original than an imitation."
- Theodore Roosevelt

"The first requisite of a good citizen of this Republic of ours is that he shall be able and willing to pull his weight."
- Theodore Roosevelt

"The corrupt men have been perfectly content to let their opponents monopolize all the virtue while they themselves have been permitted to monopolize all the efficiency."
- Theodore Roosevelt

"Let us speak courteously, deal fairly, and keep ourselves armed and ready."
- Theodore Roosevelt

"I took the Panama canal zone and let Congress debate, and while the debate goes on the canal does also."
- Theodore Roosevelt

"The country needs and, unless I mistake its temper, the country demands bold, persistent, experimentation. It is common sense to take a method and try it, if it fails, admit it frankly and try another. But above all, try something."
- Theodore Roosevelt

"In any moment of decision the best thing you can do is the right thing, the next best thing is the wrong thing, and the worst thing you can do is nothing."
- Theodore Roosevelt

"To educate a man in mind and not in morals is to educate a menace to society."
- Theodore Roosevelt

"No man is above the law, and no man is below it."
- Theodore Roosevelt

"Don't hit at all if it is honorably possible to avoid hitting, but never hit soft."
- Theodore Roosevelt

"Soldiers, Sailors and Airmen of the Allied Expeditionary Force: You are about to embark upon the Great Crusade, toward which we have striven these many months. The eyes of the world are upon you. The hope and prayers of liberty-loving people everywhere are with you..."
- General Dwight D. Eisenhower, June 6, 1944 - D-Day

"I hate war as only a soldier who has lived it can, only as one who has seen its brutality, its futility, its stupidity."
- Dwight David Eisenhower

"Ridicule is the burden of genius."
- Daffy Duck

"Practicality is the last refuge of the mediocre."
- Prof. M. Loveless

"Duck and cover."
- Bert the Turtle

"Never fight an inanimate object."
- P.J. O'Rourke

"Anyway, no drug, not even alcohol, causes the fundamental ills of society. If we're looking for the source of our troubles, we shouldn't test people for drugs, we should test them for stupidity, ignorance, greed, and love of power."
- P.J. O'Rourke

"Bill Clinton is doing the work of three men: Larry, Moe and Curly."

"Bill Clinton only lacks three things to become one of America's finest leaders: Integrity, Vision, and Wisdom."

"The Chrysler Corporation is adding a new car to its line to honor Bill Clinton. The Dodge Draft will begin production in Canada this year."

"If you came across Bill Clinton struggling in a raging river and you had a choice between rescuing him or getting a Pulitzer Prize winning photograph, what shutter speed would you use?"

"The Yanks were said to be 'overpaid, oversexed, overfed and over here'. The Americans countered this by saying the Brits were 'underpaid, undersexed, underfed and under Eisenhower."

"He is so old that his blood type was discontinued."
- Bill Dana

"I don't generally feel anything until noon, then it's time for my nap."
- Bob Hope

"If you haven't got any charity in your heart, you have the worst kind of heart trouble."
- Bob Hope

"They asked Jack Benny if he would do something for the actor's orphanage - so he shot both his parents and moved in."
- Bob Hope

"Zsa Zsa Gabor got married as a one off, and it was so successful she turned it into a series."
- Bob Hope

Y"ou know you're getting old when the candles cost more than the cake."
- Bob Hope

"I do benefits for all religions - I'd hate to blow the hereafter on a technicality."
- Bob Hope

"If the plane in the sky is silver, its American, if its blue, its British, if its invisible, its ours!."
- Wehrmacht soldiers

"Saw Steamer....Straffed Same....Sank Same....Some Sight....Signed Smith"
- Captain Fred M.Smith, US Army Air Force P-38 pilot

"If it moves, salute it. If it doesn't, paint it white!"
- U.S. soldier's quip

"Give a man a fish and he will eat for a day. Teach him how to fish, and he will sit in a boat and drink beer all day."
- anonymous

"Sure, we want to go home. We want this war over with. The quickest way to get it over with is to go get the bastards who started it. The quicker they are whipped, the quicker we can go home. The shortest way home is through Berlin and Tokyo. And when we get to Berlin I am personally going to shoot that paper hanging son-of-a-bitch Hitler. Just like I'd shoot a snake!"
- George S. Patton

"A man must be alert at all times if he expects to stay alive. If you're not alert, sometime, a German son-of-an-asshole-bitch is going to sneak up behind you and beat you to death with a sockful of shit!"
- George S. Patton

"Never tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do, and they will surprise you with their ingenuity."
- George S. Patton

"A pint of sweat will save a gallon of blood."
- George S. Patton

"I don't measure a man's success by how high he climbs but how high he bounces when he hits bottom."
- George S. Patton

"We herd sheep, we drive cattle, we lead people. Lead me, follow me, or get out of my way."
- George S. Patton

"A good plan today is better than a perfect plan tomorrow."
- George S. Patton

"Always do more than is required of you."
- George S. Patton

"Wars may be fought with weapons, but they are won by men. It is the spirit of men who follow and of the man who leads that gains the victory."
- George S. Patton

"The paperback is very interesting but I find it will never replace the hardcover book -- it makes a very poor doorstop."
- Alfred Hitchcock

"In the old days villains had moustaches and kicked the dog. Audiences are smarter today. They don’t want their villain to be thrown at them with green limelight on his face. They want an ordinary human being with failings."
- Alfred Hitchcock

"There is no terror in the bang, only in the anticipation of it."
- Alfred Hitchcock

"There is nothing quite so good as burial at sea. It is simple, tidy, and not very incriminating."
- Alfred Hitchcock

"I never said all actors are cattle, what I said was all actors should be treated like cattle."
- Alfred Hitchcock

"For me, the cinema is not a slice of life, but a piece of cake."
- Alfred Hitchcock

"Dialogue should simply be a sound among other sounds, just something that comes out of the mouths of people whose eyes tell the story in visual terms."
- Alfred Hitchcock

"There are several differences between a football game and a revolution. For one thing, a football game usually lasts longer and the participants wear uniforms. Also there are more injuries at a football game."
- Alfred Hitchcock

"Seeing a murder on television can help work off one's antagonisms. And if you haven't any antagonisms, the commercials will give you some."
- Alfred Hitchcock

"Television has brought back murder into the home--where it belongs."
- Alfred Hitchcock

"Drama is life with the dull bits cut out."
- Alfred Hitchcock

"I’m not against the police; I’m just afraid of them."
- Alfred Hitchcock

"I understand the inventor of the bagpipes was inspired when he saw a man carrying an indignant, asthmatic pig under his arm. Unfortunately, the manmade sound never equalled the purity of the sound achieved by the pig."
- Alfred Hitchcock

"When an actor comes to me and wants to discuss his character, I say, 'It's in the script.' If he says, 'But what's my motivation?, ' I say, 'Your salary.'"
- Alfred Hitchcock

"The length of a film should be directly related to the endurance of the human bladder."
- Alfred Hitchcock

"The important thing is never to stop questioning."
- Albert Einstein

"A man sits with a pretty girl for an hour, it seems like a minute. He sits on a hot stove for a minute, it's longer than any hour. That is relativity."
- Albert Einstein

"A man's ethical behaviour should be based effectually on sympathy, education, and social ties; no religious basis is necessary. Man would indeeded be in a poor way if he had to be restrained by fear of punishment and hope of reward after death."
- Albert Einstein

"A theory is something nobody believes, except the person who made it. An experiment is something everybody believes, except the person who made it."
- Albert Einstein

"Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new."
- Albert Einstein

"As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain; and as far as they are certain, they do not refer to reality."
- Albert Einstein

"Before God we are equally wise - and equally foolish."
- Albert Einstein

"Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen."
- Albert Einstein

"Everything that is really great and inspiring is created by the individual who can labour in freedom."
- Albert Einstein

"Generations to come will find it difficult to believe that a man such as Gandhi ever walked the face of this earth."
- Albert Einstein

"God is subtle but he is not malicious."
- Albert Einstein

"Heroism on command, senseless violence, and all the loathsome nonsense that goes by the name of patriotism -- how passionately I hate them!"
- Albert Einstein

"How I wish that somewhere there existed an island for those who are wise and of good will."
- Albert Einstein

"I never think of the future - it comes soon enough."
- Albert Einstein

"I, at any rate, am convinced that He 'God' is not playing at dice."
- Albert Einstein

"If A equals success, then the formula is A equals X plus Y plus Z. X is work. Y is play. Z is keep your mouth shut."
- Albert Einstein

"If I had only known. I would have become a locksmith."
- Albert Einstein

"If you are out to describe the truth, leave elegance to the tailor."
- Albert Einstein

"Imagination is more important than knowledge, for knowledge is limited while imagination embraces the entire world."
- Albert Einstein

"In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity."
- Albert Einstein

"It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education."
- Albert Einstein

"Nationalism is an infantile disease. It is the measles of mankind."
- Albert Einstein

"Never do anything against conscience even if the state demands it."
- Albert Einstein

"Not until we dare to regard ourselves as a nation, not until we respect ourselves, can we gain the esteem of others, or rather only then will it come of its own accord."
- Albert Einstein

"Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former."
- Albert Einstein

"Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind."
- Albert Einstein

"The eternal mystery of the world is its comprehensibility."
- Albert Einstein

"The further the spiritual evolution of mankind advances, the more certain it seems to me that the path to genuine religiosity does not lie through the fear of life, and the fear of death, and blind faith, but through striving after rational knowledge."
- Albert Einstein

"The hardest thing in the world to understand is the income tax."
- Albert Einstein

"The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious; It is the source of all true art and science."
- Albert Einstein

"The most incomprehensible thing about the world is that it is comprehensible."
- Albert Einstein

"The release of atomic energy has not created a new problem. It has merely made more urgent the necessity of solving an existing one."
- Albert Einstein

"The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources."
- Albert Einstein

"The whole of science is nothing more than a refinement of everyday thinking."
- Albert Einstein

"We should take care not to make the intellect our god; it has, of course, powerful muscles, but no personality."
- Albert Einstein

"Whoever undertakes to set himself up as a judge of Truth and Knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the gods."
- Albert Einstein

"I do not fear computers. I fear the lack of them."
- Isaac Asimov

"The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds new discoveries, is not 'Eureka!' (I found it!) but 'That's funny....'"
- Isaac Asimov

"Reality is that which refuses to go away when I stop believing in it."
- Philip K. Dick

"It may be that our role on this planet is not to worship God - but to create him."
- Arthur C. Clark

"Politicians should read science fiction, not westerns and detective stories."
- Arthur C. Clark

"Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic."
- Arthur C. Clark

"The two most abundant things in the universe are Hydrogen and stupidity."
- Harlan Ellison

"Always listen to experts. They'll tell you what can't be done, and why. Then do it."
- Robert Heinlein

"A cat is only domestic so far as suits its own needs."
- Robert Heinlein

"The beginning of knowledge is the discovery of something we do not understand."
- Frank Herbert

"Beyond a critical point within a finite space, freedom diminishes as numbers increase. . . . the human question is not how many can possibly survive within the system, but what kind of existence is possible for those who do survive."
- Frank Herbert

"Everything starts as somebody's daydream."
- Larry Niven

"It is the true nature of mankind to learn from mistakes, not from example."
- Fred Hoyle

"People ask me to predict the future, when all I want to do is prevent it. Better yet, build it. Predicting the future is much too easy, anyway. You look at the people around you, the street you stand on, the visible air you breathe, and predict more of the same. To hell with more. I want better."
- Ray Bradbury

"Science fiction is the most important literature in the history of the world, because it's the history of ideas, the history of our civilization birthing itself. ...Science fiction is central to everything we've ever done, and people who make fun of science fiction writers don't know what they're talking about."
- Ray Bradbury

"We were put here as witnesses to the miracle of life. We see the stars, and we want them. We are beholden to give back to the universe.... If we make landfall on another star system, we become immortal."
- Ray Bradbury

"Heresies are experiments in man's unsatisfied search for truth."
- H.G. Wells

Anzac button.
Definition: a nail used instead of a button to hold up one's trousers.

Anzac soup
Definition: a shell hole full of water polluted by a corpse.

Australian eleven
Definition: moustache of young recruits .

a banjo
Definition: a shovel. 'Swinging the banjo' was used for digging.

a body-snatcher
Definition: a stretcher bearer.

boots-i-clean
Definition: no real meaning, used as interjection .

a broomstick bomb
Definition: A Turkish contraption : a 4-inch cartridge filled with high explosive + metal scraps + percussion cap, on a 2 inch thick and 5 ft long stick.

a bumbrusher
Definition: the personal servant of an officer.

a furphy
Definition: a camp rumor.

a jam tin (bomb)
Definition: crude bomb made from a jam tin filled with an explosive charge, metal scraps, lengths of barbed wire or empty cartridges, and then given a fuse. As the supply of bombs during the campaign was very insufficient, a 'factory' for the manufacturing of these 'jam tins' was established inside Anzac Cove.

After all is said and done, more is said than done.
- American Proverb

The more sins you confess, the more books you will sell.
- American Proverb

If your time ain't come not even a doctor can kill you.
- American Proverb

There are three things that can destroy a preacher: the glory, the gold, and the girls.
- American Proverb

A conclusion is simply the place where someone got tired of thinking.

Maturity is knowing when and where to be immature.

The only difference between a freedom fighter and a terrorist is your point of view.

Half of being smart is knowing what you're dumb at.

Initiative comes to those who wait.
- Chuck Kilmon

A closed mouth gathers no foot.

Murphy's law only fails when you try to demonstrate it.

Life is like . . . an analogy.

It's not just reality that matters.

Military justice is to justice what military music is to music.

It's not an optical illusion, it just looks like one.

It's a small world, but I wouldn't want to paint it.
- Harry Wright

It's always darkest right before you step on the cat.

Already know you that which you need.
- Yoda

Experience: A name we give to our mistakes.

The meek shall inherit the earth . . . if that's alright with everyone else.

"If you're killed, you've lost a very important part of your life."
- Brooke Shields

As far as we know, our computer has never had an undetected error.
- Weisert

The police are not here to create disorder. They're here to preserve disorder."
- Former Chicago Mayor Daley

"A day without sunshine is like, you know, night."

"Please provide the date of your death."
- from an IRS letter

"I was under medication when I made the decision to burn the tapes."
- Richard Nixon

We've got to pause and ask ourselves: How much clean air do we need?"
- Lee Iacocca

"A verbal contract is not worth the paper it's written on."
- Samuel Goldwyn

Helpful Warnings: "CAUTION: Knife is very sharp. Keep out of children"

"The people in the Navy look on motherhood as being compatible with being a woman."
- Rear Admiral James R. Hogg

"We apologize for the error in last week's paper in which we stated that Mr. Arnold Dogbody was a defective in the police force. We meant, of course, that Mr. Dogbody is a detective in the police farce."
- from the Ely Standard, a British newspaper

"Caution: Cape does not enable user to fly."
- Batman costume warning label

"The private enterprise system indicates that some people have higher incomes than others."
- Gerry Brown

"I have opinions of my own - strong opinions - but I don't always agree with them."
- George Bush

"I was provided with addtional input that was radically different from the truth. I assisted in furthering that version."
- Colonel Oliver North

"We are sorry to announce that Mr. Albert Brown has been quite unwell, owing to his recent death, and is taking a short holiday to recover."
- Parish Magazine

"We are not without accomplishment. We have managed to distribute poverty equally."
- Nguyen Co Thatch, Vietnamese foreign minister

"The word 'genius' isn't applicable in football. A genius is a guy like Norman Einstein." - Joe Theisman, quarterback and sports analyst

"Fiction writing is great, you can make up almost anything."
- Ivana Trump, on finishing her first novel

"I've read about foreign policy and studied, I now know the number of continents."
- George Wallace, 1968 presidential campaign

"We don't necessarily discriminate. We simply exclude certain types of people."
- Colonel Gerald Wellman, ROTC instructor

The world is more like it is now then it ever has before.
- Dwight Eisenhower

If you take out the killings, Washington actually has a very low crime rate.
- Marion Barry, mayor of Washington, D.C.

Those who survived the San Francisco earthquake said, "Thank God, I'm still alive." But, of course, those who died, their lives will never be the same again.
- Sen. Barbara Boxer, (D, Calif.)

You know, if I were a single man, I might ask that mummy out. That's a good-looking mummy!
- President Bill Clinton, looking at the recently-discovered Inca mummy "Juanita"

You read what Disraeli had to say. I don't remember what he said. He said something. He's no longer with us.
- Bob Dole

You can't just let nature run wild.
- Wally Hickel, former governor of Alaska

The spontaneous rally will begin at 1:45.
- Mike Murphy, adviser to Lamar Alexander

I cannot tell you how grateful I am - I am filled with humidity.
- Gib Lewis, speaker of the Texas House

(extending his hand during a campaign stop): I'm Dan Quayle. Who are you? Woman: I'm your Secret Service agent.
- Dan Quayle

"It isn't pollution that is hurting the environment, it's the impurities in our air and water that are doing it."
- Dan Quayle

"If we don't succeed we run the risk of failure."
- Dan Quayle

"We are not ready for an unforseen event that may or may not occur."
- Dan Quayle

"Hawaii is a unique state. It is a small state. It is a state that is by itself. It is a - it is different from the other 49 states. Well, all states are different, but it's got a particularly unique situation."
- Dan Quayle

"It is wonderful to be here today in the great state of Chicago"
- Dan Quayle

It's time for the human race to enter the solar system!
- Dan Quayle, on the concept of a manned mission to Mars

"I love California, I practically grew up in Phoenix."
- Dan Quayle

"What a waste it is to lose one's mind. Or not to have a mind is being very wasteful. How true that is."
- Dan Quayle

Having a smoking section in a restaurant is a lot like
having a peeing section in a swimming pool...

...This is Abuse. Arguments are down the hall.

You've taken a vow of silence? Tell me about it!

Yeah, I love cats too...want to trade recipes?

When you are in it up to your ears, keep your mouth shut.

When all is outlawed, outlaws will have all.

Welcome to the information surface streets!

We are pacifists, and we'll pound anyone who isnt!

Ways to skin a cat: #27 - Use an electric belt sander...

This universe is just a test. The real one starts soon.

It's 11:00pm, do you know what your cats are shredding?

I used to have a rock garden -- they all died.

If Government's the answer, it must have been a stupid question!

Four out five people think the fifth is an idiot.

Mock Borscht -- The soup that can't be beet...

We have a blind date with destiny - and she's ordered lobster!

The trick is to make yourself your own respected authority figure.

Brainstorm? No, but I got a braindrizzle once...

Effective Gun Control: Keep muzzle pointed at target.

Unknown to the Wicked Witch, the squirt gun was loaded.

Always forgive your enemies. They HATE that!

"Dammit, Jim, I'm a doctor, not a tagline...."

...When I die, I'm leaving my body to science fiction.

I can resist everything except temptation.

Suicide is the sincerest form of self-criticism.

Quick! Close your mind! Something blasphemous might get in.

Only those who attempt the absurd achieve the impossible.

One backup is worth a thousand !:@#$%*:! words.

Torture data enough and it will tell you anything.

Confucious say: Man who smoke pot choke on handle.

As the elephant said to the naked man, how do you eat with that?

Attend! The! William! Shatner! School! Of Acting!

We are SCABorg. Prepare to be assimilated. Resistance is Feudal.

What do you mean, how many hit points do I have?

What can be said about Rosie O'Donnel that hasn't been said about Ebola?
- Earl Pitts

The coldest winter I ever spent was a summer in San Francisco.
- Mark Twain

During his 1956 presidential campaign, a woman called out to Adlai E. Stevenson "Senator, you have the vote of every thinking person!" Stevenson called back "That's not enough, madam, we need a majority!"

My definition of a free society is a society where it is safe to be unpopular.
- Adlai Stevenson

In America, anyone can become president. That's one of the risks you take.
- Adlai Stevenson

Man does not live by words alone, despite the fact that sometimes he has to eat them.
- Adlai Stevenson

If you are 25 and not a socialist, you have no heart. If you are 45, and still a socialist, you have no brain.
- Otto Von Bismark

I am become death.
- J. Robert Oppenheimer

Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.
- George Orwell

Be careful what you pretend to be because you are what you pretend to be.
- Kurt Vonnegut

Fame is like a shaved pig with a greased tail, and it is only after it has slipped through the hands of some thousands, that some fellow, by mere chance, holds on to it!
- Davy Crockett

Iron rusts from disuse, stagnant water loses its purity and in cold weather becomes frozen; even so does inaction sap the vigors of the mind.
- Leonardo Da Vinci

Once you consent to some concession, you can never cancel it and put things back the way they are.
- Howard Hughes

Not a single bomb will fall on the Ruhr. If an enemy plane reaches the Ruhr, my name is not Hermann Göring, you can call me Meier
- Hermann Göring, 1939

Any system that depends on reliability is unreliable.
- Nogg's Postulate

What do you mean, how many hit points do I have?

Why turn a perfectly good frog into a prince?