Too soon we breast the tape and too late we realize the fun lay in the running. We deny that the end justifies the means without ever stopping to consider that for practical purposes the End and the Means are one and the same thing. If there is to be any satisfaction in life it must come in transit, for who can tell when he will be struck down in mid-method?

It is not good enough for things to be planned - they still have to be done; for the intention to become a reality, energy has to be launched into operation.

Thank goodness modern convenience is a thing of the remote future.

Having lost sight of our objectives, we redoubled our efforts.

Flattery looks like friendship, just like a wolf looks like a dog. Food for thought is no substitute for the real thing.

Thar's only two possibilities: Thar is life out there in the universe which is smarter than we are, or we're the most intelligent life in the universe. Either way, it's a mighty sobering thought. (Porkypine)

There is no need to sally forth, for it remains true that those things which make us human are, curiously enough, always close at hand. Resolve, then, that on this very ground, with small flags waving and tiny blasts on tiny trumpets, we shall meet the enemy, and not only may he be ours, he may be us.