In fiction the recourse of the powerless is murder; in life the recourse of the powerless is petty theft. [politics/263]

Don't go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first. -- Mark Twain [literature/43]

Debian Hint #36: Need a newer package than shipped with Debian's last stable release, but don't want to upgrade to 'testing' or 'unstable'? Some packages are kept up-to-date via the stable-updates suite, some others are made available via the stable-backports suite. [debian-hints/35]

Reappraisal, n.: An abrupt change of mind after being found out. [definitions/870]

Man is the only animal that blushes -- or needs to. -- Mark Twain [literature/121]

gossip, n.: Hearing something you like about someone you don't. -- Earl Wilson [definitions/383]

It's so beautifully arranged on the plate -- you know someone's fingers have been all over it. -- Julia Child on nouvelle cuisine. [food/91]

The real trouble with reality is that there's no background music. [art/360]

The average Ph.D thesis is nothing but the transference of bones from one graveyard to another. -- J. Frank Dobie, "A Texan in England" [education/149]

A door is what a dog is perpetually on the wrong side of. -- Ogden Nash [pets/0]

Q: What's tan and black and looks great on a lawyer? A: A doberman. [riddles/92]

Man will never fly. Space travel is merely a dream. All aspirin is alike. [science/299]

Sattinger's Law: It works better if you plug it in. [definitions/906]

This is your fortune. [goedel/48]

Technology is dominated by those who manage what they do not understand. [science/418]

Chaos is King and Magic is loose in the world. [magic/3]

If at first you don't succeed, try, try again. -- W. E. Hickson [platitudes/228]

Referring to a book: I read part of it all the way through. -- Samuel Goldwyn [paradoxum/26]

Chaos is King and Magic is loose in the world. [magic/3]

The last vestiges of the old Republic have been swept away. -- Governor Tarkin [art/351]

Sentenced to two years hard labor (for sodomy), Oscar Wilde stood handcuffed in driving rain waiting for transport to prison. "If this is the way Queen Victoria treats her prisoners," he remarked, "she doesn't deserve to have any." [politics/439]

Dictatorship, whether it is a hydra with a hundred heads or a hundred tails, whether they are autocratic or demagogic, can certainly do nothing for liberty: it can only perpetuate slavery, morally and physically. -- Joseph Dejacque [anarchism/373]

It's all in the mind, ya know. [fortunes/126]

And 1.1.81 is officially BugFree(tm), so if you receive any bug-reports on it, you know they are just evil lies." (By Linus Torvalds, [email protected]) [linuxcookie/5]

We are all born charming, fresh and spontaneous and must be civilized before we are fit to participate in society. -- Judith Martin, "Miss Manners' Guide to Excruciatingly Correct Behaviour" [kids/134]

<StevenK> I can usually supress the feelings that tell me to crash tackle a girl into the bushes [debian/53]

Microsoft is a cross between the Borg and the Ferengi. Unfortunately, they use Borg to do their marketing and Ferengi to do their programming. -- Simon Slavin [knghtbrd/337]

But, for my own part, it was Greek to me. -- William Shakespeare, "Julius Caesar" [literature/33]

Ego sum ens omnipotens. [translate-me/2]

It now costs more to amuse a child than it once did to educate his father. [kids/69]

Thank God I'm an atheist. [paradoxum/31]

Women who want to be equal to men lack imagination. [men-women/561]

In Corning, Iowa, it's a misdemeanor for a man to ask his wife to ride in any motor vehicle. [law/110]

When your life is a leaf that the seasons tear off and condemn They will bind you with love that is graceful and green as a stem. -- Leonard Cohen, "Sisters of Mercy" [love/139]

He hated being thought of as one of those people that wore stupid ornamental armour. It was gilt by association. -- Terry Pratchett, "Night Watch" [pratchett/0]

Motion and Use The motion of the Way is to return; The use of the Way is to accept; All things come from the Way, And the Way comes from nothing. -- Lao Tse, "Tao Te Ching" [tao/41]

A real diplomat is one who can cut his neighbor's throat without having his neighbour notice it. -- Trygve Lie [politics/30]

Debian Hint #25: The 'debian-reference' package contains a wide variety of reference documents for Debian users and developers. Most of the information can also be found at the following URL: https://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/reference [debian-hints/24]

If you see an onion ring -- answer it! [food/79]

In 1880 the French captured Detroit but gave it back ... they couldn't get parts. [ethnic/54]

Experience Experience is a riverbed, Its source hidden, forever flowing: Its entrance, the root of the world, The Way moves within it: Draw upon it; it will not run dry. -- Lao Tse, "Tao Te Ching" [tao/7]

For the first time we have a weapon that nobody has used for thirty years. This gives me great hope for the human race. -- Harlan Ellison [politics/120]

<robert> i understand there are some reasonable limits to free speech in america, for example I cannot scream Fire into a crowded theatre .. But can i scream fire into a theatre with only 5 or 6 poeple in it ? [knghtbrd/513]

When does summertime come to Minnesota, you ask? Well, last year, I think it was a Tuesday. [ethnic/151]

Yow! I just went below the poverty line! [zippy/529]

It's gonna be alright, It's almost midnight, And I've got two more bottles of wine. [songs-poems/311]

"...one of the main causes of the fall of the Roman Empire was that, lacking zero, they had no way to indicate successful termination of their C programs." -- Robert Firth [cookie/973]

Do people know you have freckles everywhere? [miscellaneous/72]

Max told his friend that he'd just as soon not go hiking in the hills. Said he, "I'm an anti-climb Max." [So is that punchline.] [sports/88]

The secret of healthy hitchhiking is to eat junk food. [medicine/68]