BambooCurtain ’s most recent Quotables

In this world nothing is certain but death and taxes.

Death is very often referred to as a good career move.

Never knock on Death's door. Ring the doorbell and run. Death hates that.

I do not fear death, in view of the fact that I had been dead for billions and billions of years before I was born, and had not suffered the slightest inconvenience from it.

I’m not afraid of death, but I’m in no hurry to die.

Dot: You Lost! But you put up a heck of a fight for the literary personification of the state of non-being. I read that in Cosmo.

In order for man to succeed in life, God provided him with two means, education and physical activity. Not separately, one for the soul and the other for the body, but the two together, With these two means, man can attain perfection.

It is not enough to have a good mind. The main thing is to use it well.

Each problem that I solved became a rule which served afterwards to solve other problems.

In order to improve the mind, we ought less to learn, than to contemplate.

Earth is the cradle of the mind, but one cannot live in the cradle forever.

There is nothing funny about Halloween. This sarcastic festival reflects, rather, an infernal demand for revenge by children on the adult world.

Let's face it, comedy's a dead art form. Tragedy, now that's funny.

A pun is the lowest form of humor, unless you thought of it yourself.

Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.

If you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will live its whole life believing that it is stupid.

Americans, while occasionally willing to be serfs, have always been obstinate about being peasantry.

Momentum, a function of mass and velocity, is conserved between portals. In layman's terms, speedy thing goes in, speedy thing comes out.

You can't direct the wind, but you can adjust your sails.

Scribbles of a lunatic and formulas of a genius are often indistinguishable.