12 ordspråk av Lazarus Long
Lazarus Long
 A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyze a new problem, pitch manure, program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight efficiently, die gallantly. Specialization is for insects. |
| An elephant is a mouse built to government specifications. |
| Be wary of strong drink. It can make you shoot at tax collectors and miss. |
| Being intelligent is not a felony, but most societies evaluate it as at least a misdemeanor. |
| Certainly the game is rigged. Don't let that stop you; if you don't bet, you can't win. |
| Courage is the complement of fear. A man who is fearless cannot be courageous.(He is also a fool.) |
| Do not handicap your children by making their lives easy. |
| If it can't be expressed in figures, it is not science; it is opinion. |
| If it can't be expressed in figures, it's not science it's opinion. |
| Money is a powerful aphrodisiac. But flowers work almost as well. |
| Never try and teach a pig to sing. It wastes your time and annoys the pig. |
| No storyteller has ever been able to dream up anything as fantastically unlikely as what really does happen in this mad Universe. |
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