There’s more to life than good wine.
But not much.

All generalizations are false, including this one.

I won’t rise to the occaision but I’ll slide over to it...

Give me ambiguity or gove me something else.

As societies grow decadent, the language grows decadent, too. Words are used to disguise, not to illuminate, action: you liberate a city by destroying it. Words are to confuse, so that at election time people will solemnly vote against their own interests. -Gore Vidal, writer (1925- )

When you want a kitten, start by asking for a horse.

Rumer Godden: "Everyone is a house with four rooms, a physical, a mental, an emotional and a spiritual. Most of us tend to live in one room most of the time but unless we go into every room every day, even if only to keep it aired, we are not a complete person." - from A House with Four Rooms

We will bankrupt ourselves in the vain search for absolute security. -Dwight David Eisenhower, 1969

The limits of my language mean the limits of my world. -Ludwig Wittgenstein,
philosopher (1889-1951)

The more I like people in general, the more I dislike them in particular. - Dostoevsky from The Brothers Karamazov