Specialization is for Insects

A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyze a new problem, pitch manure, program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight efficiently, die gallantly. Specialization is for insects.
-Robert A. Heinlein, Time Enough For Love

Not All Bad

Life can't be all bad when for ten dollars you can buy all the Beethoven sonatas and listen to them for ten years.
-William F. Buckley, Jr.

Insult

I won't insult your intelligence by suggesting that you really believe what you just said.
-William F. Buckley, Jr.

Inverse Relationship

There is an inverse relationship between reliance on the state and self-reliance.
-William F. Buckley Jr.

Standing athwart history ...

A Conservative is a fellow who is standing athwart history yelling 'Stop!'
-William F. Buckley, Jr.

Demure Lady

Truth is a demure lady, much too ladylike to knock you on your head and drag you to her cave. She is there, but people must want her, and seek her out.
-William F. Buckley, Jr.

Matt...

"Matt... you're gay."
-Aaron Barrigar

Radioactive Shotgun

"There's no problem that can't be solved with a radioactive shotgun."
-Adam Stoeckle

Comin' to a Middle

"Well, my days of not taking you seriously are certainly comin' to a middle."
-Malcolm Reynolds, Firefly

Small Sins

It does not matter how small the sins are, provided that their cumulative effect is to edge the man away from the Light and out into the Nothing. Murder is no better than cards if cards can do the trick.
-C.S. Lewis