Virtual Selection

Idiot Grin

behind the smirk of the macho man 

is the quivering lip of the little boy.

 — Peter Hammill

Navigational Aid

I see a twinkle in your eye,

so this shall be my Christmas star 

and I will travel to your heart: 

the manger where the real things are.

 — Michæl Leunig 'Christmas'

Throw Of The Die

All persons living and dead are purely coincidental.

 — Kurt Vonnegut, Jr., Timequake

What Counts

It's not the voting that's democracy; it's the counting.
 — Tom Stoppard

American Collateral

All that happens is that the destruction of human beings — unless they're Americans — is called collateral damage.
 — Harold Pinter

Butt Me No Butts

Just Add Salt

It is a mistake to think you can solve any major problems just with potatoes.
 — Douglas Adams

Ditto Ditto

Nevertheless

He may be an athlete, but he's quite bright.
 — Will Parker on Fritz Eger in Tripods

Interplanetary Jesture

Reverse Nonlinearity

Sometimes the questions are complicated and the answers are simple.
 — Dr. Seuss

Neo-Nasties

Hindsight

Time Heals

ZEAL, n. A certain nervous disorder afflicting the young and inexperienced. A passion that goeth before a sprawl.

 — Ambrose Bierce

'Lay Down' Sally Robbins Anagram

A Nation Of Customers

To found a great empire for the sole purpose of raising up a people of customers may at first sight appear a project fit only for a nation of shopkeepers. It is, however, a project altogether unfit for a nation of shopkeepers; but extremely fit for a nation whose government is influenced by shopkeepers.

 —Adam Smith 'The Wealth of Nations'

Synonymous Anagram

Still Too Many Cones

Too Many Cones

Sage Advice

Do not let a flattering woman coax and wheedle you and deceive you; she is after your barn.
 — Hesiod

No Matter What

You know Tom Paine wrote the first best-seller at a dark time in the Revolution when we were losing and all the soldiers were deserting. Giving up. And the book was called Common Sense and it was really just a long list of questions. And one of the questions was: Does it make common sense for an island to rule a continent? And everybody kind of went hmmm and they signed back up.

And today you could ask: Does it make common sense for a country to rule the world? But no matter what your answer, no matter what you think, no matter what you vote for–

We just keep calling em up, calling em, calling em up. No matter what.

We just keep calling em up, calling em, calling em up. No matter what.

 — Laurie Anderson 'Dark Time In The Revolution'

Consumerism

Nobody ever went broke underestimating the intelligence of the American public.

 — HL Mencken

"Anything Too Silly To Be Said Can Be Sung"

Consumer Capitalism

Summerising

Brave, Brave James Hardie

Brave, Brave James Hardie

When lawsuits raised their ugly head, 

they bravely changed their name and fled

Brave, Brave, Brave, Brave James Hardie

Mysterious Ways

God for you is where you sweep away all the mysteries of the world, all the challenges to our intelligence.
You simply turn your mind off and say God did it.
 — Carl Sagan

Clairvoyants

I think there is a world market for maybe five computers.
 — Thomas Watson, Chairman of IBM, in 1943

640K ought to be enough for anybody.
 — Bill Gates, in 1981

Faithless

Faith: not wanting to know what is true.
 — Friedrich Nietzsche