It’s extremely difficult to second guess the American Navy, because the Americans rarely read their doctrine, and don’t feel compelled to follow it when they do. -Admiral Sergei Gorshkov, Soviet Union-

You do not need a parachute to skydive. You only need a parachute to skydive twice.

You can tune a piano, but you can’t tuna fish.

Opportunity only knocks once. Temptation leans on the doorbell.

Ronald Reagan won the Cold War without firing a shot. -UK Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher-

A file that big? … It might be very useful … But now it is gone. (error messages in haiku)

More repulsive than the future which progressives involuntarily prepare is the future they dream of. -Nicolás Gómez Dávila-

If you can’t be kind, at least have the decency to be vague!

What will [you do] when the anaesthetic fog which we call “nature” or “the real world” fades away and the Presence in which you have always stood becomes palpable, immediate, and unavoidable? -C. S. Lewis-

God Recycles: He made you out of dust.