| Linux Literature: 237 of 256 |
When one burns one's bridges, what a very nice fire it makes.
-- Dylan Thomas
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| Linux Literature: 238 of 256 |
When you are about to die, a wombat is better than no company at all.
-- Roger Zelazny, "Doorways in the Sand"
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| Linux Literature: 239 of 256 |
Whenever the literary German dives into a sentence, that is the last
you are going to see of him until he emerges on the other side of his
Atlantic with his verb in his mouth.
-- Mark Twain "A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court"
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| Linux Literature: 240 of 256 |
Whenever you find that you are on the side of the majority, it is time
to reform.
-- Mark Twain
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| Linux Literature: 241 of 256 |
Whoever has lived long enough to find out what life is, knows how deep a debt
of gratitude we owe to Adam, the first great benefactor of our race. He
brought death into the world.
-- Mark Twain, "Pudd'nhead Wilson's Calendar"
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| Linux Literature: 242 of 256 |
Why is it that we rejoice at a birth and grieve at a funeral? It is because we
are not the person involved.
-- Mark Twain, "Pudd'nhead Wilson's Calendar"
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| Linux Literature: 243 of 256 |
Work consists of whatever a body is obliged to do.
Play consists of whatever a body is not obliged to do.
-- Mark Twain
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| Linux Literature: 244 of 256 |
Wrinkles should merely indicate where smiles have been.
-- Mark Twain
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| Linux Literature: 245 of 256 |
Writing is easy; all you do is sit staring at the blank sheet of paper until
drops of blood form on your forehead.
-- Gene Fowler
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| Linux Literature: 246 of 256 |
Writing is turning one's worst moments into money.
-- J.P. Donleavy
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