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Authors: Nova[有線魔女] <novaburst@envs.net>
Date: 17 Jun, 2021
-- Tallulah Bankhead
Will divide, multiply, and subtract.
But this output can be
No more than debris,
If the input was short of exact.
-- Gigo
A vocal competition in which the one who is catching his breath
is called the listener.
thumb with a hammer.
-- Marshall Lumsden
-- Jawaharlal Nehru
-- a cliche is a sure and certain way to dilute an idea. For instance,
my grandmother used to say, "The black cat is always the last one off
the fence." I have no idea what she meant, but at one time, it was
undoubtedly true.
-- Solomon Short
That period of life in which we compound for the vices that we
still cherish by reviling those that we no longer have the enterprise
to commit.
-- Ambrose Bierce
-- Prof. Steiner
theorem.
-- Epigrams in Programming, ACM SIGPLAN Sept. 1982
socialism, because socialism is defunct. It dies all by itself. The
bad thing is that socialism, being a victim of its ... Did I say
socialism?
-- Fidel Castro
The amount of time required to complete a government project is
precisely equal to the length of time already spent on it.
-- Herbert Prochnow
-- Bill Hoest
lightly greased.
-- Kehlog Albran, "The Profit"
A billboard lovely as a tree.
Perhaps, unless the billboards fall
I'll never see a tree at all.
-- Ogden Nash
An animal (Porcus omnivorous) closely allied to the human race
by the splendor and vivacity of its appetite, which, however, is
inferior in scope, for it balks at pig.
-- Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary"
platform erected 10 feet off their coast, it would cause a tidal wave
that would destroy everything in this country west of Nebraska.
The world's as ugly as sin,
And almost as delightful.
-- Frederick Locker-Lampson
For every action there is an equal and opposite government program.
And tasted it, and found it good.
And that is why your Cousin May
Fell through the parlor floor today.
-- Ogden Nash
that would be clearly understood."
-- Alexander Haig