Michele Bachmann says God made the earthquake and hurricane to punish us. Untrue - he made Michele Bachmann for that.
Never stand between a dog and the hydrant.
Soderquist's Paradox: There are more horses' asses than horses.
The solution to a problem changes the nature of the problem.
The squeaky wheel doesn't always get greased; it often gets replaced.
The information we need is not available. The information we want is not what we need. The information we have is not what we want.
The Rule of Accuracy: When working toward the solution of a problem, it always helps if you know the answer.
I look on the opposite sex with something like the admiration with which I regard the starry sky on a frosty December night. I admire the beauty of the Creator's workmanship, I am charmed with the wild but graceful eccentricity of the motions, and then I wish both of them goodnight.
The mother condemned for a witch and burnt with dry wood, and her children gazing on; The hounded slave that flags in the race and leans by the fence, blowing and covered with sweat, The twinges that sting like needles his legs and neck, The murderous buckshot and the bullets, All these I feel or am.
Man has too long forgotten that the earth was given to him for usufruct alone, not for consumption, still less for profligate waste.
Look for your brushes with the divine. Be receptive to them. When heaven knocks, open the door. Value these visits. Remember them. Expect more of them.