This is a complete collection of “foreign” quotes feeding the random “Think about it…” sidebar box. Russian expressions can be found in a separate post.
- “It's easy to say, "It's just like that, I cannot change it." Have you ever tried, anyway?”
- “It's easier to fight for one's principles than to live up to them.”
- “Wagner's music is better than it sounds.”
- “It's on the other side.” (Preudhomme's Law of Window Cleaning)
- “Do infants have as much fun in infancy as adults do in adultery?”
- “Conscience is a mother-in-law whose visit never ends.”
- “Imagination is the one weapon in the war against reality.”
- “When everything else fails, read the instructions.”
- “The only thing we are able to do perfectly is messing things up.”
- “The shorter the skirt, the prettier the face.”
- “Before you get desperate about a young beautiful girl, remember she might get fat and ugly some day. Just like you are now.”
- “There is no pleasure in having nothing to do; the fun is having lots to do and not doing it.”
- “Some red lights are not worth waiting at.”
- “Oh don't the days seem lank and long When all goes right and none goes wrong, And isn't your life extremely flat With nothing whatever to grumble at!”
- “Children are unpredictable. You never know what inconsistency they're going to catch you in next.”
- “What good is a ticket to the good life if you can't find the entrance?”
- “Never settle with words what you can accomplish with a flame thrower.”
- “Monday is an awful way to spend one seventh of your life.”
- “Never make anything simple and efficient when a way can be found to make it complex and wonderful.”
- “The human mind ordinarily operates at only ten percent of its capacity — the rest is overhead for operating system.”
- “If mathematically you end up with the wrong answer, try multiplying by the page number.”
