"Necessity is the mother of invention" is a silly proverb. "Necessity is the mother of futile dodges" is much nearer the truth.

We all live in a state of ambitious poverty.

Consider the postage stamp: its usefulness consists in the ability to stick to one thing till it gets there.

Go away, I'm all right.

Si jeunesse savait, si vieillesse pouvait. [If youth but knew, if old age but could.]

Before he became a hermit, Zarathud was a young Priest, and took great delight in making fools of his opponents in front of his followers. One day Zarathud took his students to a pleasant pasture and there he confronted The Sacred Chao while She

Term, holidays, term, holidays, till we leave school, and then work, work, work till we die.

God gave man two ears and one tongue so that we listen twice as much as we speak.

... but as records of courts and justice are admissible, it can easily be proved that powerful and malevolent magicians once existed and were a scourge to mankind. The evidence (including confession) upon which certain women were convicted of witch

Kindness is the beginning of cruelty.

The proof of the pudding is in the eating.