In Japan, the first person to raise his voice loses the argument. -Rules of Thumb

Every time you’re diplomatic in the face of rudeness, you get a fist-bump from Buddha. -@yongfook

To love is to suffer. To avoid suffering one must not love. But then one suffers from not loving. Therefore to love is to suffer, not to love is to suffer. To suffer is to suffer. To be happy is to love. To be happy then is to suffer. But suffering makes one unhappy. Therefore, to be unhappy one must love, or love to suffer, or suffer from too much happiness. I hope you’re getting this down -Woody Allen

Operator! Give me the number for 911! -The Simpsons

Get this and get it straight! Crime is a sucker’s road and those who travel it wind up in the gutter, the prison or the grave. There’s no other end, but they never learn. -Philip Marlowe