God alone knows the future, but only an historian can alter the past.

Children who have proven themselves to be incorrigible by the age of twelve should be quickly and quietly beheaded, lest they grow to maturity, marry, and perpetuate the likeness of their being.

Present, n. That part of eternity dividing the domain of disappointment from the realm of hope.

Inventor: A person who makes an ingenious arrangement of wheels, levers and springs, and believes it civilization.

Alien - an American sovereign in his probationary state.

MIND, n. A mysterious form of matter secreted by the brain. Its chief activity consists in the endeavour to ascertain its own nature, the futility of the attempt being due to the fact that it has nothing but itself to know itself with.

God alone knows the future, but only an historian can alter the past.