Knowingthat everything's futile but still fighting, still raging against the dying ofthe light that's what motivates me all the time ... If you hold that sense offutility in your head for too long, it can begin to eat into you. You canstill be aware of it

WheneverI hear anyone arguing for slavery, I feel a strong impulse to see it tried onhim personally.

Peoplewho are only good with hammers see every problem as a nail.

Though patience be a tired mare, yet she will plod.

Parents these days scarcely bring up children; they finance them.

Humour is a hole that lets the sawdust out of a stuffed shirt.

Opportunists take now for an answer.

Every man is wanted; and no man is wanted much.

A shipin harbor is safe, but that is not what ships are built for.

If you truly want honesty, don't ask questions you don't really want the answer to.

Thereis no such thing as absolute value in this world. You can only estimate whata thing is worth to 'you.'

Experience is a hard teacher because SHE gives the test first, the lesson afterwards.