When it comes to things such as sugar and rice, most people believe that brown is superior to white. But when it comes to human beings, they believe that the opposite is true.
An arrogant man whose arrogance we see from his own behaviour is more tolerable than a humble man whose humility we hear of from his own mouth.
Never follow the crowd....Until and unless you're crossing the road...
But it won't be much of a battle, will it? Alek asked. What can an airship do to a pair of ironclads?My guess is, we'll stay absolutely still for an hour. Just so we don't fall into any bad habits.
There was this other apocalypse this one time. And, well, I took off. But this time, I don't... I don't know." "Well, what's different?" "Well, I guess I was kinda new to being around humans before. A...
Teaching kids is like a 5 year old box of chocolates: You never know what you're gonna get, but you can bet your ass it ain't gonna be good.
Well, Watson, what do you make of it?'Holmes was sitting with his back to me, and I had given him no sign of my occupation.'How did you know what I was doing? I believe you have eyes in the back of yo...
When the waiter brought the cheese-board, there was a large carrot carved in the shape of a mermaid sitting between the Dolcelatte and the Pecorino. Teo could have sworn that the carrot-mermaid flexed...
There is much to discover that's not on the back cover!
Maxim 6: If violence wasn't your last resort, you failed to resort to enough of it.-The Seventy Maxims of Maximally Effective Mercenaries
If u want to work in Corporate, then u should know how to play Chess.
But the plans were on display…On display? I eventually had to go down to the cellar to find them.That’s the display department.With a flashlight.Ah, well, the lights had probably gone.So had the stair...
Being a bad parent is a sign of not having learned from experience.
Language is my whore, my mistress, my wife, my pen-friend, my check-out girl. Language is a complimentary moist lemon-scented cleansing square or handy freshen-up wipette. Language is the breath of Go...
One of the most common and most dangerous misbeliefs is that it is impossible for someone to be stupid just because they are a doctor or a lawyer.
Awake,chaos:we have napped.
Only dead fishes go with the flow.. I guess that make me a dead fish!
The worst mistake a writer can make is to assume everyone has an imagination.
Maxim 3: An ordnance technician at a dead run outranks everybody.-The Seventy Maxims of Maximally Effective Mercenaries
You know why horror-movie characters always get killed? Because they've never seen horror movies. They don't know how it works. Right? But we do. So no one go into the basement alone. No one go scream...
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