<life> is a bitch, and then you <⁄life>
copyright © Scott Owen

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Democracy is two wolves and a sheep voting on what to have for dinner.
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Diplomacy is telling someone to go to hell and having them look forward to the journey.
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Diplomacy is like saying “nice doggie, nice doggie” while you search for a big rock.
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Fundamentalism means never having to say “I’m wrong.”
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Common Sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen.
Albert Einstein
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A ‘Freudian slip’ is when you say one thing, but mean your mother.
unknown
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You can fool some of the people all of the time, and those are the ones you want to concentrate on.
President George W. Bush
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Abstinence makes the priest go fondle.
unknown
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Trust, but verify.
President Ronald Regan
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When a man opens the car door for his wife, it’s either a new car, or a new wife.
HRH Prince Philip
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Nobody told me that when I met ‘Mr. Right’, his first name would be “Always.”
Lily Savage
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Always do sober what you said you’d do drunk. That will teach you to keep your mouth shut.
Ernest Hemingway
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Those who have nothing to fear are feared by others.
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Capable, generous men do not create victims, they nurture victims.
Julian Assange, Editor in Chief of WikiLeaks
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Live in a world of “we,” not “me.”
Michael Moore
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Where would we be without the agitators of the world attaching the
electrodes of knowledge to the nipples of ignorance?
Dick Solomon in “3rd Rock from the Sun”
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XYZZY
Nothing happens
Colossal Cave Adventure / Dungeo
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It ain’t fashion if it don’t hurt.
Scott Owen
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It costs a lot to look this cheap.
Dolly Parton
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The freedom to leave is the freedom to stay.
Scott Owen
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The state has no place in the nation’s bedroom.
Pierre Elliot Trudeau, former (and last great) Prime Minister of Canada
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[H]aving opinions that are different from those of another does not preclude one from being deserving of respect as an individual, because simple tolerance, mere tolerance, is not enough.
Justin Trudeau (son of Pierre Elliot Trudeau)
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Any belief worth having must survive doubt.
Isaac Bashevis Singer
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You must believe in free will; there is no other choice.
Isaac Bashevis Singer
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Never write when you can talk. Never talk when you can nod. And never put anything in an e-mail.
Eliot Spitzer
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The three articles of Civil Service faith:
It takes longer to do things quickly, it’s more expensive to do them cheaply and it’s more democratic to do them in secret.
Jim Hacker in “Yes Minister”
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In this world there are only two tragedies. One is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it.
Oscar Wilde
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You can’t escape if you’re running from yourself.
U2
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I’d rather people hated me for what I truly am, than liked me for what they think I am.
Scott Owen
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Ze moeten een brandende poppenwagen je kutwerk binnenrijden.
(They should drive a burning baby-pram up your cunt-works.)
Gerard Reve
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Islamist democracy: One man, one vote, one time.
Fareed Zakaria
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He who throws mud loses ground.
unknown
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Confucius say, he who follow herd end up in shit.
unknown
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If you see that in every culture there are woman who love women and men who love men, then I as a religious man cannot say that this is by chance, and even less so that it is by accident. As a religious man I say, therefore, that homosexuality is a creation of the Creator.
It is God’s work.
Pater Jan van Kilsdonk
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Hate has caused a lot of problems in this world, but it has never solved one yet.
Maya Angelou
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It has to get really dark before you can see the stars.
Martin Luther King
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Just because someone doesn’t love you the way you want them to, doesn’t mean they don’t love you with all they have.
unknown
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Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don’t matter, and those who matter don’t mind.
Dr. Seuss
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‘Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind.’ This is the first and greatest commandment.
And the second is like it: ‘Love your neighbour as yourself.’ All the Law and the Prophets hang on these two commandments.
Jesus