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*Bruce Lee voice* Weaker man sees a drink. Stronger man discovers lesson.

Diogenes was eating bread and lentils for supper. He was seen by the philosopher Aristippus, visiting from Cyrene, who lived comfortably and ate well by flattering the king. Aristippus said, "If you would learn to be subservient to the king you would not have to live on lentils." Diogenes replied, "If you learned to live on lentils you would not have to be subservient to the king."

Diogenes of Sinope

The best argument against democracy is a five minute conversation with the average voter.

Winston Churchill

Long on the adjectives and short on the details.

Boethius

We swallow greedily any lie that flatters us, but we sip only little by little at a truth we find bitter.

Denis Diderot

A healthy man wants a thousand things, a sick man only wants one.

Confuscious

When I was 20 I wanted to be a millionaire... Now that I'm a millionaire, I want to be 20.

Capitalization is the difference between helping your Uncle Jack off a horse and helping your uncle jack off a horse.

A consultant will ask to borrow your watch to tell you the time, then leave with your watch.

When we are tired, we are attacked by ideas we conquered long ago.

Friedrich Nietzche

That kid is just asking to be an amber alert.

I don't do favors. I accumulate debts.

Ancient Sicilian Motto

Hustle and apathy are two sides of the same coin. You are either too disinterested to pursue what you want out of life, or too vain to realize you are pursuing short-lived things.

Jack Raines

Morning Routine
Wake up.
Take a shit.
Get out of bed.

Morally bankrupt.

Optimists tend to be successful. Pessimists tend to be right.

Jackmerius Tacktheritrix.

I would rather have questions that can't be answered than answers that can't be questioned.

Richard Feynman

Did you hear about the terrible thesaurus? It's terrible.

Worrying is like paying a debt that's never due.

Incompetence is better than inaction.

It's hard to go run at 6:00am when you're wearing silk pajamas.

Though I do really love how passionate your are. I wish you were as right as you were passionate.

Many a false step was made by standing still.

Fortune cookie

The price of anything is the amount of life you exchange for it.

Henry David Thoreau

Do every act as if it were the very last act of your life.

Marcus Aurelius

I don't drink very much, but this year I've been tempted to take it up professionally.

Guenther

It is the privilege of Gods to want nothing, and of godlike men to want little.

Diogenese