Great Quotations - Happy Dead Trees

"The advantage of the animal over the vegetable kingdom is obvious. The cabbage, should its environment tend to become worse, must live it out, or die; the rabbit may move on in quest of a better."

"A gun is so clean, so impersonal. It separates you, just a bit, from the event."

"Being as rich as my father had made me allowed me to nourish a small talent for irony, irony being the vehicle by which the essentially second rate arrive at some kind of superiority."

"If we boast of our best, we must repent of our worst. Otherwise patriotism will be a very poor thing indeed."

"It is like two bald men fighting over a comb."

Jorge Luis Borges on the Falklands war.