It seemed queer, in the barber's shop, to see the Anarchist notice still on the wall, explaining that tips were prohibited. The Revolution has struck off our chains, the notice said. I felt like telling the barbers that their chains would soon be back again if they didn't look out.

We are as much as we see. Faith is sight and knowledge. The hands only serve the eyes.

Henry David Thoreau

You spend ten years of your life being trained to do one thing, and you're being taught to think that it's the most serious thing that anyone could possibly do, and then suddenly you find yourself doing something that in some respects is the epitome of frivolity.

Jonathan Miller

Experience is one thing you can't get for nothing.

Oscar Wilde, attributed, no sour

The best time for you to hold your tongue is the time you feel you must say something or bust.

Josh Billings

More men are killed by overwork than the importance of the world justifies.

Rudyard Kipling

Football is a game of errors. The team that makes the fewest errors in a game usually wins.

Paul Brown

I knew I was a winner back in the late sixties. I knew I was destined for great things. People will say that kind of thinking is totally immodest. I agree. Modesty is not a word that applies to me in any way - I hope it never will.

Arnold Schwarzenegger

The yielding of the weak is the concession to fear.

Edmund Burke

I hate being clean-shaven. My daughter gets very upset if I shave and says, 'Bring back the spikes, Dad.'

Eric Bana

The cadres of our Party and state are ordinary workers and not overlords sitting on the backs of the people.

Mao Tse Tung

Somehow liberals have been unable to acquire from life what conservatives seem to be endowed with at birth: namely, a healthy skepticism of the powers of government agencies to do good.

Daniel Patrick Moynihan

Size does matter.Nano even better.

Toba Beta