Asshat Award Quotes & Sayings

Never be haughty to the humble or humble to the haughty. — Jefferson Davis

There is no instance of a country having benefited from prolonged warfare. — Sun Tzu

The main hallway of the Sternwood place was two stories high. Over the entrance doors, which would have let in a troop of Indian elephants, there was a broad stained-glass panel showing a knight in dark armor rescuing a lady who was tied to a tree and didn't have any clothes on but some very long and convenient hair. The knight had pushed the vizor of his helmet back to be sociable, and he was fiddling with the knots on the ropes that tied the lady to the tree and not getting anywhere. I stood there and thought that if I lived in the house, I would sooner or later have to climb up there and help him. He didn't seem to be really trying. — Raymond Chandler

It is amazing how the world can change, he thought, during the life span of a fruitcake. — Robert M. Edsel

As you live your day so you craft your life. Just take care of your days and a great life will take care of itself. — Robin S. Sharma

Ben invented mathematical theories that even he didn't manage to remember and wrote such bizarre tales of adventure that he ended up destroying them a week after they were finished, embarrassed at the thought that he had penned them. — Carlos Ruiz Zafon