snippets that amuse the Vitonian mind

"Philosophies collapse in the face of extreme disaster."

– Eckhart Tolle

"I learned to play guitar just to get the girls, and anyone who says they didn't is just lyin'!"

- Willie Nelson

"The purpose of life is not to be happy. It is to be useful, to be honorable, to be compassionate, to have it make some difference that you have lived and lived well."

– Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Argue for your limitations and sure enough, they're yours."

– Richard Bach

"The danger is not that a particular class is unfit to govern. Every class is unfit to govern."

– Lord Acton

"The state is the great fictitious entity by which everyone seeks to live at the expense of everyone else."

– Frederic Bastiat

"The difference between stupidity and genius is that genius has its limits."

– Albert Einstein

"If you wish to converse with me, define your terms."

– Voltaire

"Life consists not simply in what heredity and environment do to us but in what we make out of what they do to us."

– Harry Emerson Fosdick

"The major problem — one of the major problems, for there are several — one of the many major problems with governing people is that of whom you get to do it; or rather of who manages to get people to let them do it to them.

"To summarize: it is a well known fact that those people who most want to rule people are, ipso facto, those least suited to do it. To summarize the summary: anyone who is capable of getting themselves made President should on no account be allowed to do the job."

– Douglas Adams, The Restaurant at the End of the Universe, Chapter 28

"Writing about music is like dancing about architecture."

– Elvis Costello

"Men occasionally stumble onto the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing had happened."

– Winston S. Churchill

"Meet the new boss, same as the old boss."

– Pete Townshend

"Every once in a while, declare peace. It confuses the hell out of your enemies."

– Ferengi Rules of Acquisition, Rule Number 76

"I don't see why there should be any question about capital punishment. I think everyone in the capital should be punished."

– Goldie Hawn

"The most incomprehensible thing about the universe is that it is comprehensible."

– Albert Einstein

"There are people out there without a sense of humour and they're heavily armed."

– Michael Palin, explaining why Monty Python won't do a parody of Islam

"Never trust a man who is angered when you treat him the same way he treats you. That goes for women too."

– Seidzzi Frovesty