One-Liners

Maxims, axioms, postulates, whatever. Probably not to be funny, but strictly concise.
Feb 15 14:46

Substitution Effect

Teach a man how to beg for fish and he'll never learn to fish.

Quoted from: Cobb

Jan 17 10:08

Charitable Narcissus

If you want to help someone, then just shut up, do it, and spare the press release.

Quoted from: Vox Day

Jan 16 12:19

Choosing Surrender

We do not acquit ourselves morally by trying to abstain from a choice of evils.

Quoted from: Rant of the Day

Dec 11 22:24

Somehow Relevant

It ain’t stealin’ if you do it fast.

Quoted from: Moe Szyslak

Dec 03 14:16

Active Cooperation

In general, you can get help if you are doing your share but not if you are sitting on your butt expecting the Lord to push one way while you are pushing the other way.

Quoted from: Maxed Out Momma

Oct 22 08:54

Revealed Preference

The non-customer is always right.

Quoted from: TJIC

Oct 02 10:31

Message Over Medium

I wasn’t a great communicator, but I communicated great things, and they didn’t spring full bloom from my brow, they came from the heart of a great nation—from our experience, our wisdom, and our belief in the principles that have guided us for two centuries.

Quoted from: Ronald Reagan

H/T: Neo-neocon

Sep 13 13:39

9/13

War is less costly than servitude…the choice is always between Verdun and Dachau.

Quoted from: Jean Dutourd

Sep 10 19:52

Bad Shepherds

Con men understand that their job is not to use facts to convince skeptics but to use words to help the gullible to believe what they want to believe.

Quoted from: Thomas Sowell

Sep 05 12:23

Adult Beverages

Drinks that don't taste of alcohol were developed for coeds and the saps who try to get them drunk.

Quoted from: The Weekly Standard

H/T: Maggie’s Farm

Aug 31 14:52

Equally Exclusive

Equality before the law and material equality are therefore not only different but are in conflict with each other; and we can achieve either one or the other, but not both at the same time.

Quoted from: Friedrich Hayek, The Constitution of Liberty

Aug 26 12:11

Ominous Choice

If you are not saved by Grace, you will be judged by Law.

Quoted from: Dr. Walter Martin

Aug 11 12:15

Ranking Required

To forbid me from saying that one culture is better than another necessarily forbids me from having opinions about human behavior, and the meaning of life.

Quoted from: TJIC

Jul 10 17:54

Survival of the Richest

The ability to wage war is the greatest fortune a people possess, for it is the manner in which they preserve their very lives, when their lives themselves are threatened.

Quoted from: Cobb

Jul 02 21:03

Unseen Dangers

When misguided public opinion honors what is despicable and despises what is honorable, punishes virtue and rewards vice, encourages what is harmful and discourages what is useful, applauds falsehood and smothers truth under indifference or insult, a nation turns its back on progress and can be restored only by the terrible lessons of catastrophe.

Quoted from: Frédéric Bastiat