“A drowning man does not complain about the size of a life preserver. ”

“The United States was losing interest in preserving European security, but at the same time it was hostile to European aspirations to take on the task themselves. Europeans complained about American perfidy, and Americans complained about European weakness and ingratitude.”

“People fight to preserve their frozen beliefs and then complain of the cold!”

“Why does a woman work ten years to change a man, then complain he's not the man she married?”

“I'm convinced that you could design a language about a tenth of the size of C++ (whichever way you measure size) providing roughly what C++ does.”

“Whoever complains about the death of anyone, is complaining that he was a man. Everyone is bound by the same terms: he who is privileged to be born, is destined to die.”

“A man destined to hang
Can never drown,
A man destined to hang
Can never ever drown.
A man destined to drown
Can never burn…”

“The man who complains about the way the ball bounces is likely the one who dropped it.”

“Fuckin' A… hope didn't so much spring eternal as it drowned out common sense and self-preservation.”

“Sometimes life played with him, sometimes it hung on him like a stone round the neck of a drowned man.”