--- - !ruby/object:Quote author: Stanley Ralph Ross info: "" quote: Jesus was a Jew, yes, but only on his mother's side. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Linda Festa on the origins of Christianity info: "" quote: What if there had been room at the inn? rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Jules Feiffer info: US cartoonist & satirist (1929 - ) quote: Christ died for our sins. Dare we make his martyrdom meaningless by not committing them? rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Hervey Allen info: "" quote: Religions change; beer and wine remain. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: William Blake info: English engraver, illustrator, & poet (1757 - 1827) quote: When the doors of perception are cleansed, man will see things as they truly are, infinite. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Robert Graves info: British author & classical scholar (1895 - 1985) quote: There is no money in poetry, but then there is no poetry in money either. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Poet Louise Bogan info: "" quote: I hope that one or two immortal lyrics will come out of all this tumbling around. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Brendan Behan's father quoted by Shay Duffrin in his one-man show "Confessions of an Irish Rebel" 1984 info: "" quote: To read your own poetry in public is a kind of mental incest. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: The Book of Joshua 6:21 info: "" quote: They devoted the city to the lord and destroyed with the sword every living thing in it - men and women, young and old, cattle, sheep and donkeys. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Margo Kaufman info: "" quote: Remarriage is an excellent test of just how amicable your divorce was. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Israel Zangwill info: "" quote: A man likes his wife to be just clever enough to comprehend his cleverness, and just stupid enough to admire it. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: H. L. Mencken info: US editor (1880 - 1956) quote: Immortality is the condition of a dead man who doesn't believe he is dead. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Franz Kafka info: Austrian (Czechoslovakian-born) author (1883 - 1924) quote: I have the true feeling of myself only when I am unbearably unhappy. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Karl Kraus info: Austrian author and journalist (1874 - 1936) quote: The world is a prison in which solitary confinement is preferable. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Albert Camus info: French existentialist author & philosopher (1913 - 1960) quote: It is a kind of spiritual snobbery that makes people think they can be happy without money. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Marcel Proust info: French novelist (1871 - 1922) quote: The fixity of a habit is generally in direct proportion to its absurdity. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Ambrose Bierce info: The Devil's DictionaryUS author & satirist (1842 - 1914) quote: Lawsuit n. A machine which you go into as a pig and come out of as a sausage. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: H. L. Mencken info: US editor (1880 - 1956) quote: "Love: The delusion that one woman differs from another." rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Carl Zwanzig info: "" quote: Duct tape is like the force. It has a light side, and a dark side, and it holds the universe together... rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: H. L. Mencken info: US editor (1880 - 1956) quote: "Alimony: the ransom the happy pay to the devil." rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Sir Winston Churchill info: British politician (1874 - 1965) quote: If you go on with this nuclear arms race, all you are going to do is make the rubble bounce. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Albert Einstein info: US (German-born) physicist (1879 - 1955) quote: I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Alexander Haig info: "" quote: The warning message we sent the Russians was a calculated ambiguity that would be clearly understood. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Mark Twain info: US humorist, novelist, short story author, & wit (1835 - 1910) quote: Whenever the literary German dives into a sentence, that is the last you are going to see of him until he emerges on the other side of his atlantic with his verb in his mouth. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Marcel Proust info: French novelist (1871 - 1922) quote: The charms of a passing woman are usually in direct relation to the speed of her passing. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: George Bernard Shaw info: Irish dramatist & socialist (1856 - 1950) quote: Love is a gross exaggeration of the difference between one person and everybody else. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: G.K. Chesterton info: "" quote: The Bible tells us to love our neighbors, and also to love our enemies; probably because they are generally the same people. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Charles Lutwidge Dodgson info: "" quote: "\"Contrariwise,\" continued Tweedledee, \"if it was so, it might be, and if it were so, it would be; but as it isn't, it ain't. That's logic!\"" rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: George Bernard Shaw info: Irish dramatist & socialist (1856 - 1950) quote: Chess is a foolish expedient for making idle people believe they are doing something very clever when they are only wasting their time. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Jules de Gaultier info: "" quote: Imagination is the one weapon in the war against reality. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Bruce Leverett - "Register Allocation in Optimizing Compilers" info: "" quote: But in our enthusiasm, we could not resist a radical overhaul of the system, in which all of its major weaknesses have been exposed, analyzed, and replaced with new weaknesses. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: W.C. Fields info: "" quote: Horse sense is the thing a horse has which keeps it from betting on people. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Mark Twain info: US humorist, novelist, short story author, & wit (1835 - 1910) quote: There is something fascinating about science. One gets such wholesale returns of conjecture out of such a trifling investment of fact. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Albert Einstein info: US (German-born) physicist (1879 - 1955) quote: As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain; and as far as they are certain, they do not refer to reality. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Walt Kelly info: US animator & cartoonist (1913 - 1973) quote: Now is the time for all good men to come to. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Paul McCracken info: "" quote: I am not an Economist. I am an honest man! rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: George Saunders' dying words info: "" quote: Good-bye. I am leaving because I am bored. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: John Barrymore's dying words info: "" quote: Die? I should say not, dear fellow. No Barrymore would allow such a conventional thing to happen to him. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: H. L. Mencken info: US editor (1880 - 1956) quote: The cosmos is a gigantic flywheel making 10,000 revolutions per minute. Man is a sick fly taking a dizzy ride on it. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Wilfrid Sheed info: "" quote: One reason the human race has such a low opinion of itself is that it gets so much of its wisdom from writers. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Finley Peter Dunne info: US author & humorist (1867 - 1936) quote: The Puritans gave thanks for being preserved from the Indians, and we give thanks for being preserved from the Puritans. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Quentin Crisp info: "" quote: The young always have the same problem - how to rebel and conform at the same time. They have now solved this by defying their parents and copying one another. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Ben Hecht info: US author & dramatist (1893 - 1964) quote: In Hollywood a starlet is the name for any woman under thirty who is not actively employed in a brothel. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Stendhal info: "" quote: The only excuse for God is that he doesn't exist. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Ogden Nash info: US humorist & poet (1902 - 1971) quote: People who have what they want are very fond of telling people who haven't what they want that they don't want it. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Ogden Nash info: US humorist & poet (1902 - 1971) quote: Children aren't happy without something to ignore, And that's what parents were created for. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Ogden Nash info: "\"Reflections on Ice-Breaking\"US humorist & poet (1902 - 1971)" quote: CandyIs dandyBut liquorIs quicker. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Ogden Nash info: "\"The Pig\"US humorist & poet (1902 - 1971)" quote: The Pig, if I am not mistaken, Supplies us sausage, ham, and Bacon. Let others say his heart is big, I think it stupid of the Pig. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: The Beatles "Glass Onion" info: "" quote: I told you 'bout the fool on the hill I tell you man he livin' there still Now here's another place you can be Listen to me Fixin' a hole in the ocean Tryin' to make a dovetail joint Look into a glass onion. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Melvin Belli on the occasion of his getting kicked out of the American Bar Association info: "" quote: Getting kicked out of the American Bar Association is like getting kicked out of the Book-of-the-Month-Club. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Chief Justice Earl Warren info: "" quote: I always turn to the sports pages first, which record people's accomplishments. The front page has nothing but man's failures. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Darin Weinberg info: "" quote: It matters not whether you win or lose; what matters is whether I win or lose. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Golfer Bobby Jones info: "" quote: I'm glad we don't have to play in the shade. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Robert Redford info: US movie actor & director (1937 - ) quote: If you stay in Beverly Hills too long you become a Mercedes. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: W. Somerset Maugham info: English dramatist & novelist (1874 - 1965) quote: You can't learn too soon that the most useful thing about a principle is that it can always be sacrificed to expediency. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Paul Fussell info: "" quote: Americans are the only people in the world known to me whose status anxiety prompts them to advertise their college and university affiliations in the rear window of their automobiles. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Mark Twain info: US humorist, novelist, short story author, & wit (1835 - 1910) quote: Soap and education are not as sudden as a massacre but they are more deadly in the long run. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Irwin Edman info: "" quote: Education is the process of casting false pearls before real swine. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Karl Kraus info: Austrian author and journalist (1874 - 1936) quote: How is the world ruled and how do wars start? Diplomats tell lies to journalists and then believe what they read. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Robert Ardrey info: "" quote: Human war has been the most successful of our cultural traditions. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Will Rogers info: US humorist & showman (1879 - 1935) quote: You can't say civilization don't advance...in every war they kill you a new way. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Alexandre Dumas info: filsFrench dramatist & novelist (1802 - 1870) quote: If God were suddenly condemned to live the life which He has inflicted upon men, He would kill Himself. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Fran Lebowitz info: US writer and humorist (1950 - ) quote: When you leave New York, you are astonished at how clean the rest of the world is. Clean is not enough. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Charles Ives info: "" quote: Awards are merely the badges of mediocrity. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Oscar Wilde info: Irish dramatist, novelist, & poet (1854 - 1900) quote: There are two ways of disliking poetry; one way is to dislike it, the other is to read Pope. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Charlotte Whitton info: "" quote: Whatever women do they must do twice as well as men to be thought half as good. Luckily this is not difficult. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Arnold Bennett info: "" quote: It is well, when judging a friend, to remember that he is judging you with the same godlike and superior imapartiality. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: H. L. Mencken info: US editor (1880 - 1956) quote: The chief contribution of Protestantism to human thought is its massive proof that God is a bore. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Sir Winston Churchill info: British politician (1874 - 1965) quote: Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing had happened. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Conte Camillo Benso di Cavour info: "" quote: I have discovered the art of deceiving diplomats. I speak the truth, and they never believe me. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Unknown info: "Quotations by unknown authors " quote: "Lie: A very poor substitute for the truth, but the only one discovered to date." rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Unknown info: "Quotations by unknown authors " quote: It is twice as hard to crush a half-truth as a whole lie. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Charles McCabe info: San Francisco Chronicle quote: Any clod can have the facts, but having opinions is an Art. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Dorothy Parker info: US author, humorist, poet, & wit (1893 - 1967) quote: Money cannot buy health, but I'd settle for a diamond-studded wheelchair. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: G.K. Chesterton info: "" quote: Psychoanalysis is confession without absolution. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Sir Robert Hutchison info: "" quote: Vegetarianism is harmless enough, although it is apt to fill a man with wind and self-righteousness. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Henrik Ibsen info: Norwegian dramatist (1828 - 1906) quote: It is inexcusable for scientists to torture animals; let them make their experiments on journalists and politicians. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: H. Allen Smith info: "" quote: The human animal differs from the lesser primates in his passion for lists of "Ten Best". rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: H. L. Mencken info: US editor (1880 - 1956) quote: The penalty for laughing in a courtroom is six months in jail; if it were not for this penalty, the jury would never hear the evidence. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Sinclair Lewis info: US novelist (1885 - 1951) quote: Winter is not a season, it's an occupation. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Dorothy Parker info: US author, humorist, poet, & wit (1893 - 1967) quote: I went to a convent in New York and was fired finally for my insistence that the Immaculate Conception was spontaneous combustion. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Roy Blount Jr. info: "" quote: Contemporary American children, if they are old enough to grasp the concept of Santa Claus by Thanksgiving, are able to see through it by December 15th. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Unknown info: "Quotations by unknown authors " quote: Practice random kindness and senseless acts of beauty. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: D. A. F. Sade info: "\"Dialogue between a Priest and a Dying Man\"" quote: "... and thereof do I repent: I only plucked an occasional flower when I might have gathered an ample harvest of fruit -- such are the just grounds for the regrets I have ..." rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Matthew Green (c. 1737) info: "" quote: Avarice is the sphincter of the heart. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Albert Einstein info: US (German-born) physicist (1879 - 1955) quote: The further the spiritual evolution of mankind advances, the more certain it seems to me that the path to genuine religiosity does not lie through the fear of life, and the fear of death, and blind faith, but through striving after rational knowledge. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: E.M. Cioran info: "" quote: Music is the refuge of souls ulcerated by happiness. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: H. L. Mencken info: US editor (1880 - 1956) quote: An idealist is one who, on noticing that a rose smells better than a cabbage, concludes that it will also make better soup. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Oscar Wilde info: Irish dramatist, novelist, & poet (1854 - 1900) quote: "Pessimist: One who, when he has the choice of two evils, chooses both." rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Paul Fussell info: "" quote: The more violent the body contact of the sports you watch, the lower your class. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Oscar Wilde info: Irish dramatist, novelist, & poet (1854 - 1900) quote: All bad poetry springs from genuine feeling. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Ambrose Bierce info: The Devil's DictionaryUS author & satirist (1842 - 1914) quote: Year, n. A period of three hundred and sixty-five disappointments. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Leo Rosten info: US (Polish-born) author (1908 - ) quote: Most men do not mature, they simply grow taller. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Ruth Gordon info: "" quote: In our family we don't divorce our men - we bury them. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Fred Allen info: US radio comedian (1894 - 1956) quote: I have just returned from Boston. It is the only thing to do if you find yourself up there. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Denis de Rougemont info: "" quote: Social confusion has now reached a point at which the pursuit of immorality turns out to be more exhausting than compliance with the old moral codes. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Eeyore (A. A. Milne) info: "" quote: "\"Pathetic,\" he said. \"That's what it is. Pathetic.\" (crosses stream) \"As I thought,\" he said, \"no better from this side.\"" rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Stanislaw J. Lec info: Polish writer (1909 - 1966) quote: The consumer's side of the coffin lid is never ostentatious. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Oscar Wilde info: Irish dramatist, novelist, & poet (1854 - 1900) quote: If England treats her criminals the way she has treated me, she doesn't deserve to have any. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Earl Wilson info: "" quote: Women's liberation will not be achieved until a woman can become paunchy and bald and still think that she's attractive to the opposite sex. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: P.J. O'Rourke (commenting on _Moby Dick_) info: "" quote: There's not a woman in the book, the plot hinges on unkindness to animals, and the black characters mostly drown by Chapter 29. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: John Bracken on Captain Barney Kelly info: who ran the USS Enterprise into the mud of San Francisco Bay in May 1983 quote: He grounds the warship he walks on. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Anton Chekhov info: Russian dramatist & short story author (1860 - 1904) quote: I don't understand anything about the ballet; all I know is that during the intervals the ballerinas stink like horses. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Ambrose Bierce info: The Devil's DictionaryUS author & satirist (1842 - 1914) quote: Pleasure, n. The least hateful form of dejection. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Benjamin Jowett info: "" quote: You must believe in God in spite of what the clergy say. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Calvin Coolidge or Woodrow Wilson info: "" quote: Changing a college curriculum is like moving a graveyard--you never know how many friends the dead have until you try to move them! rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Jerome Lettvin info: "" quote: Enzymes are things invented by biologists that explain things which otherwise require harder thinking. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Elinor Glyn info: "" quote: American husbands are the best in the world; no other husbands are so generous to their wives, or can be so easily divorced. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Ambrose Bierce info: The Devil's DictionaryUS author & satirist (1842 - 1914) quote: "Reporter: A writer who guesses his way to the truth and dispels it with a tempest of words." rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Paul Valery info: French critic & poet (1871 - 1945) quote: God created man and, finding him not sufficiently alone, gave him a companion to make him feel his solitude more keenly. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Adela Rogers St. Johns info: "" quote: God made man, and then said I can do better than that and made woman. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Maude (Ruth Gordon) info: from the movie "Harold & Maude" quote: I believe that much of the world's sorrow is caused by people who are this, but allow themselves to be treated like that. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Maude (Ruth Gordon) info: from the movie "Harold & Maude" quote: Everybody should be able to make some music...That's the cosmic dance! rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Maude (Ruth Gordon) info: from the movie "Harold & Maude" quote: The police.....always wanting to play games. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Maude (Ruth Gordon) info: from the movie "Harold & Maude" quote: Vice...Virtue...It's not good to be too moral. You cheat yourself out of too much life. Aim above morality. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Maude (Ruth Gordon) and Harold (Bud Cort) info: from the movie "Harold & Maude" quote: Maude - "The earth is my body, my head is in the stars...Who said that?" Harold- "I don't know." Maude - "Well, I suppose I did." rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: George Bernard Shaw info: Irish dramatist & socialist (1856 - 1950) quote: If you cannot get rid of the family skeleton, you may as well make it dance. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Arthur Honegger info: French composer (1892 - 1955) quote: The public doesn't want new music; the main thing it demands of a composer is that he be dead. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Ambrose Bierce info: The Devil's DictionaryUS author & satirist (1842 - 1914) quote: Corporation, n. An ingenious device for obtaining individual profit without individual responsibility. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Oscar Wilde info: Irish dramatist, novelist, & poet (1854 - 1900) quote: "Action: the last resource of those who know not how to dream." rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Don Marquis info: US humorist (1878 - 1937) quote: If a child shows himself to be incorrigible, he should be decently and quietly beheaded at the age of twelve, lest he grow to maturity marry, and perpetuate his kind. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Nora Ephron info: "" quote: The major concrete achievement of the women's movement of the 1970's was the Dutch treat. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: H. L. Mencken info: US editor (1880 - 1956) quote: "Sunday: A day given over by Americans to wishing they were dead and in heaven, and that their neighbors were dead and in hell." rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Woody Allen info: US movie actor, comedian, & director (1935 - ) quote: The only difference between sex and death is, with death you can do it alone and nobody's going to make fun of you. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Elbert Hubbard info: US author (1856 - 1915) quote: "Death: To stop sinning suddenly." rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Giovanni Jacopo Casanova info: "" quote: I have always loved truth so passionately that I have often resorted to lying as a way of introducing it into the minds which were ignorant of its charms. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Bernard Berenson info: US (Lithuanian-born) art critic (1865 - 1959) quote: Consistency requires you to be as ignorant today as you were a year ago. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Sally Forth info: Jan. 28, 1991 quote: If I ask a woman if she has suffered sexual harassment, could this be considered sexual harassment? rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: G.K. Chesterton info: "" quote: The classes that wash most are those that work least. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Robert Frost info: US poet (1874 - 1963) quote: As it is more blessed to give than receive, so it must be more blessed to receive than to give back. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Gene Fowler info: "" quote: An editor should have a pimp for a brother, so he'd have someone to look up to. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Gene Fowler info: "" quote: Writing is easy. All you do is stare at a blank sheet of paper until drops of blood form on your forehead. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: H. L. Mencken info: US editor (1880 - 1956) quote: Every decent man is ashamed of the government he lives under. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Abraham Lincoln info: 16th president of US (1809 - 1865) quote: If I were two-faced, would I be wearing this one? rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Robert Louis Stevenson info: Scottish author (1850 - 1894) quote: "Marriage: a long conversation chequered by disputes." rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Finley Peter Dunne info: US author & humorist (1867 - 1936) quote: An appeal is when you ask one court to show its contempt for another court. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Mark Twain info: US humorist, novelist, short story author, & wit (1835 - 1910) quote: If the desire to kill and the opportunity to kill always came together, who would escape hanging? rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Soren Aabye Kierkegaard info: "" quote: People demand freedom of speech to make up for the freedom of thought which they avoid. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: F.W. Lawvere info: "" quote: That orgy of wishful thinking that has passed for logic in the present century. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Oscar Wilde info: Irish dramatist, novelist, & poet (1854 - 1900) quote: Democracy is the bludgeoning of the people, by the people, for the people. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Michael Wilding info: "" quote: You can pick out actors by the glazed look that comes into their eyes when the conversation wanders away from themselves. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Jack Warner info: on hearing that Ronald Reagan had been elected governor of California quote: It's our fault. We should have given him better parts. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Arthur Gingold info: "" quote: Working in the theater has a lot in common with unemployment. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Quentin Crisp info: "" quote: One should always be wary of anyone who promises that their love will last longer than a weekend. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Clarence Darrow info: US defense lawyer (1857 - 1938) quote: The first half of our lives is ruined by our parents and the last half by our children. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Aneurin Bevan info: Welsh labor leader & politician (1897 - 1960) quote: Virtue is its own punishment. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Bernard Rosenberg info: "" quote: "Honesty: the most important thing in life. Unless you really know how to fake it, you'll never make it." rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Claud Cockburn info: " (1904 - 1981)" quote: Never believe anything until it has been officially denied. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Lord Chesterfield info: " (1694 - 1773)" quote: Most people enjoy the inferiority of their friends. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Andy Warhol info: US artist (1928 - 1987) quote: I am a deeply superficial person. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Finley Peter Dunne info: US author & humorist (1867 - 1936) quote: Don't jump on a man unless he's down. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Samuel Johnson info: English author, critic, & lexicographer (1709 - 1784) quote: Anybody who thinks of going to bed before 12 o'clock is a scoundrel. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Tim Bedore info: "" quote: Do Not Disturb signs should be written in the language of the hotel maids. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Oriana Fallaci info: "" quote: Henry Kissinger may have wished I had presented him as a combination of Charles DeGaulle and Disraeli, but I didn't....out of respect for DeGaulle and Disraeli. I described him as a cowboy because that is how he describes himself. If I were a cowboy I would be offended. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Nelson Rockefeller info: "" quote: Never forget that the most powerful force on earth is love. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Thorstein Veblen info: US economist & social philosopher (1857 - 1929) quote: No one travelling on a business trip would be missed if he failed to arrive. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: H. L. Mencken info: US editor (1880 - 1956) quote: Men are the only animals that devote themselves, day in and day out, to making one another unhappy. It is an art like any other. Its virtuosi are called altruists. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: J.B. Priestley info: "" quote: A loving wife will do anything for her husband except stop criticizing him and trying to improve him. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Elbert Hubbard info: US author (1856 - 1915) quote: The woman who cannot tell a lie in defense of her husband is unworthy of the name of wife. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Rita Rudner info: "US comedian " quote: My husband and I are either going to buy a dog or have a child. We can't decide whether to ruin our carpet or ruin our lives. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Oscar Levant info: " (1906 - 1972)" quote: "I'm a controversial figure: my friends either dislike me or hate me." rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Groucho Marx info: US comedian with Marx Brothers (1890 - 1977) quote: She's afraid that if she leaves, she'll become the live of the party. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Ambrose Bierce info: The Devil's DictionaryUS author & satirist (1842 - 1914) quote: Admiration, n. Our polite recognition of another's resemblance to ourselves. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: George Chapman info: "" quote: Ignorance is the mother of admiration. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Bette-Jane Raphael info: "" quote: "Giving a man space is like giving a dog a computer: the chances are he will not use it wisely." rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Lady Violet Bonham Carter info: " (1887 - 1969)" quote: Outer space is no place for a person of breeding. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Samuel Butler info: English composer, novelist, & satiric author (1835 - 1902) quote: Men should not try to overstrain their goodness more than any other faculty. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Samuel Butler info: English composer, novelist, & satiric author (1835 - 1902) quote: Life is like playing the violin in public and learning the instrument as one goes on. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Samuel Butler info: English composer, novelist, & satiric author (1835 - 1902) quote: Man is the only animal that laughs and has a state legislature. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: David Chambless info: "" quote: Better to have loved and lost a short person than never to have loved a tall. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Henry David Thoreau info: US Transcendentalist author (1817 - 1862) quote: I derive no pleasure from talking with a young woman simply because she has regular features. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: George Bernard Shaw info: Irish dramatist & socialist (1856 - 1950) quote: The love of money is the root of all virtue. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Felix Frankfurter info: US (Austrian-born) jurist (1882 - 1965) quote: To some lawyers all facts are created equal. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Pete Rose info: "" quote: I'm no different from anybody else with two arms, two legs and forty-two-hundred hits. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Alvin Dark info: former baseball coach quote: Any pitcher who throws at a batter and deliberately tries to hit him is a communist. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Casey Stengel info: US baseball manager (1890 - 1975) quote: I was not successful as a ballplayer, as it was a game of skill. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: William Hazlitt info: English essayist (1778 - 1830) quote: I like a friend better for having faults that one can talk about. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Oscar Wilde info: Irish dramatist, novelist, & poet (1854 - 1900) quote: A man can't be too careful in the choice of his enemies. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Robert Benchley info: US actor, author, & humorist (1889 - 1945) quote: Tell us your phobias, and we will tell you what you are afraid of. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Ambrose Bierce info: The Devil's DictionaryUS author & satirist (1842 - 1914) quote: "Reverence: the spiritual attitude of a man to a god and a dog to a man." rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Gustave Flaubert info: French realist novelist (1821 - 1880) quote: A child of my own! Oh, no, no, no! Let my flesh perish with me, and let me not transmit to anyone the boredom and ignominiousness of life. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: H. L. Mencken info: US editor (1880 - 1956) quote: In this world of sin and sorrow there is always something to be thankful for; as for me, I rejoice that I am not a Republican. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Ed McMahon info: "" quote: God invented whiskey to keep the Irish from ruling the world. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: T.H. Buxley info: "" quote: The great tragedy of science - the slaying of a beautiful hypothesis by an ugly fact. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Leonardo da Vinci info: Italian engineer, painter, & sculptor (1452 - 1519) quote: "Marriage: putting one's hand into a bag of snakes on the chance of drawing out an eel." rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: W. R. Inge info: "" quote: We tolerate shapes in human beings that would horrify us if we saw them in a horse. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Chico Marx info: US comedian with Marx Brothers (1891 - 1961) quote: I wasn't kissing her, I was whispering in her mouth. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Groucho Marx info: US comedian with Marx Brothers (1890 - 1977) quote: I'd horsewhip you if I had a horse. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: George Santayana info: US (Spanish-born) philosopher (1863 - 1952) quote: It takes a wonderful brain and exquisite senses to produce a few stupid ideas. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Albert Camus info: French existentialist author & philosopher (1913 - 1960) quote: Everyone would like to behave like a pagan, with everyone else behaving like a Christian. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: W.S. Gilbert info: "" quote: No one can have a higher opinion of him than I have, and I think he's a dirty little beast. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Logan Pearsall Smith info: " (1865 - 1946)" quote: There are few sorrows in which a good income is of no avail. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Jim Grue info: "" quote: It is no disgrace to be poor, but it might as well be. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Atari founder Nolan Bushnell info: "" quote: Business is a good game - lots of competition and a minimum of rules. You keep score with money. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Fred Allen info: US radio comedian (1894 - 1956) quote: Advertising is 85% confusion and 15% commission. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Robertson Davies info: "" quote: Tristan and Isolde were lucky to die when they did. They'd have been sick of all that rubbish in a year. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Hermione Gingold info: "" quote: Contrary to popular belief, English women do not wear tweed nightgowns. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Oscar Levant info: " (1906 - 1972)" quote: Once I make up my mind, I'm full of indecision. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Robert Frost info: US poet (1874 - 1963) quote: Forgive, O Lord, my little jokes on Thee, and I'll forgive Thy great big joke on me. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Gertrude Stein info: US author in France (1874 - 1946) quote: Money is always there, but the pockets change. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Robert Orben info: "" quote: Every morning I get up and look through the Forbes list of the richest people in America. If I'm not there, I go to work. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Jules Renard info: " (1864 - 1910)" quote: I am not sincere, not even when I say I am not. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Mark Twain info: US humorist, novelist, short story author, & wit (1835 - 1910) quote: This is the day upon which we are reminded of what we are on the other three hundred and sixty-four. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Nicolas Boileau info: French critic & satiric poet (1636 - 1711) quote: Sometimes a fool makes a good suggestion. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: George Bernard Shaw info: Irish dramatist & socialist (1856 - 1950) quote: All my life, affection has been showered upon me, and every forward step I have made has been taken in spite of it. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Letty Cottin Pogrebin info: "" quote: Boys don't make passes at female smartasses. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Oscar Wilde info: Irish dramatist, novelist, & poet (1854 - 1900) quote: It is better to be beautiful than to be good, but it is better to be good than to be ugly. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: George Bernard Shaw info: Irish dramatist & socialist (1856 - 1950) quote: I make a fortune from criticizing the policy of the government, and then hand it over to the government in taxes to keep it going. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: John Ciardi info: US poet (1916 - 1986) quote: A dollar saved is a quarter earned. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Ernest Haskins info: "" quote: Save a little money each month and at the end of the year you'll be surprised at how little you have. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: G.K. Chesterton info: "" quote: A large section of the intelligentsia seems wholly devoid of intelligence. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Biologist P. B. Medawar info: "" quote: The human mind treats a new idea the way the body treats a strange protein; it rejects it. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe info: German dramatist, novelist, poet, & scientist (1749 - 1832) quote: The intelligent man finds almost everything ridiculous, the sensible man hardly anything. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Rep. Bill Dannemeyer info: R-Fullerton quote: The Green Party is like a watermelon - green on the outside and red on the inside. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: John Berger info: "" quote: I knew I'd been living in Berkeley too long when I saw a sign that said 'Free firewood" and my first thought was "Who was Firewood and what did he do?' rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Karl Kraus info: Austrian author and journalist (1874 - 1936) quote: One's need for loneliness is not satisfied if one sits at a table alone. There must be empty chairs as well. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Oscar Levant info: " (1906 - 1972)" quote: The first thing I do in the morning is brush my teeth and sharpen my tongue. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: H. L. Mencken info: US editor (1880 - 1956) quote: He marries best who puts it off until it is too late. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Winning sentence info: 1990 Bulwer-Lytton bad fiction contest. quote: Delores breezed along the surface of her life like a flat stone forever skipping along smooth water, rippling reality sporadically but oblivious to it consistently, until she finally lost momentum, sank, and due to an over- dose of flouride as a child which caused her to suffer from chronic apathy, doomed herself to lie forever on the floor of her life as useless as an appendix and as lonely as a five-hundred pound barbell in a steroid-free fitness center. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Mike Kellen info: "" quote: "Etymology, n.: Some early etymological scholars come up with derivations that were hard for the public to believe. The term \"etymology\" was formed from the Latin \"etus\" (\"eaten\"), the root \"mal\" (\"bad\"), and \"logy\" (\"study of\"). It meant \"the study of things that are hard to swallow.\"" rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Ian Shoales info: "" quote: "I know what love is: Tracy and Hepburn, Bogart and Bacall, Romeo and Juliet, Jackie and John and Marilyn...." rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: G.K. Chesterton info: "" quote: Nowadays a citizen can hardly distinguish between a tax and a fine, except that the fine is generally much lighter. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Will Rogers info: US humorist & showman (1879 - 1935) quote: The income tax has made liars out of more Americans than golf. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Unknown info: "Quotations by unknown authors " quote: The wages of sin are unreported. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Helen Rowland info: " (1876 - 1950)" quote: To a woman the first kiss is just the end of the beginning but to a man it is the beginning of the end. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Rene' Yasenek info: "" quote: Kissing is a means of getting two people so close together that they can't see anything wrong with each other. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Heinrich Heine info: German critic & poet (1797 - 1856) quote: Oh, what lies there are in kisses! rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Bob Uecker info: "" quote: They have Easter egg hunts in Philadelphia, and if the kids don't find the eggs, they get booed. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Kayvan Sylvan info: "" quote: Dubito ergo sum - I doubt therefore I am rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Robert Frost info: US poet (1874 - 1963) quote: Forgive me my nonsense as I also forgive the nonsense of those who think they talk sense. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Quentin Crisp info: "" quote: The continued propinquity of another human being cramps the style after a time unless that person is somebody you think you love. Then the burden becomes intolerable at once. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Thomas Hardy info: Far From the Madding Crowd quote: I shall be breakfasted before you are afield. In short, I shall astonish you all. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: W.C. Fields info: "" quote: My illness is dut to my doctor's insistence that I drink milk, a whitish fluid they force down helpless babies. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: H. L. Mencken info: US editor (1880 - 1956) quote: "Man is a natural polygamist: he always has one woman leading him by the nose, and another hanging on to his coattails." rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: J.M. Barrie info: "" quote: I am not young enough to know everything. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: George Bernard Shaw info: Irish dramatist & socialist (1856 - 1950) quote: There are scores of thousands of human insects who are ready at a moment's notice to reveal the will of God on every possible subject. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Anatole France info: French novelist (1844 - 1924) quote: The impotence of God is infinite. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Kin Hubbard info: " (1868 - 1930)" quote: One of the simple but genuine pleasures in life is getting up in the morning and hurrying to a mousetrap you set the night before. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: George Bernard Shaw info: Irish dramatist & socialist (1856 - 1950) quote: Except during the nine months before he draws his first breath, no man manages his affairs as well as a tree does. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Isaac Stern info: "" quote: There are more bad musicians than there is bad music. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Friedrich Nietzsche info: German philosopher (1844 - 1900) quote: Only sick music makes money today. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Sir Henry Wotton info: "" quote: An ambassador is an honest man sent abroad to lie for his country. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Jack Pomeroy info: "" quote: A communist is a person who publicly airs his dirty Lenin. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Detroit Archbishop Adam J. Maida info: in a speech to Catholic judges including Rehnquist, Scalia, Kennedy, and O'Connor quote: Instead of conceiving of society as something established for the defense of individual rights, fair contracts, and due process of law, we are invited to see it in terms of the biblical vision. This way of living, thinking, and acting where autonomy and related rights take priority has seriously jeopardized the meaning and values of all institutions in our society. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: President George Bush info: commending the National Religious Broadcasters for their support in the war to drive Iraq from Kuwait quote: Obviously no country can claim a special place in God's heart, yet we are better as a people because He has a special place in ours...I want to thank you for helping America, as Christ ordained, to be a light unto the world... rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Ralph Reed info: Executive Director, the Christian Coalition quote: I honestly believe that in my lifetime we will see a country once again governed by Christians...and Christian values. What Christians have got to do is take back this country, one precinct at a time, one neighborhood at a time, and one state at a time. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: H. L. Mencken info: US editor (1880 - 1956) quote: "Judge: a law student who marks his own papers." rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Thornton Wilder info: US dramatist & novelist (1897 - 1975) quote: Marriage is a bribe to make a housekeeper think she's a householder. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Woodrow Wilson info: 28th president of US (1856 - 1924) quote: I used to be a lawyer, but now I am a reformed character. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Harry S Truman info: 33rd president of US (1884 - 1972) quote: I never did give anybody hell. I just told the truth and they thought it was hell. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Dwight David Eisenhower info: "" quote: I can think of nothing more boring for the American people than to have to sit in their living rooms for a whole half hour looking at my face on their television screens. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Christopher Morley info: US author & journalist (1890 - 1957) quote: The trouble with wedlock is that there's not enough wed and too much lock. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Clint Eastwood info: US movie actor & director (1930 - ) quote: There's only one way to have a happy marriage and as soon as I learn what it is I'll get married again. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Peggy Joyce info: "" quote: Alimony is a system by which, when two people make a mistake, one of them keeps paying for it. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Elsa Schiaparelli info: "" quote: "Women dress alike all over the world: they dress to be annoying to other women." rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Dolly Parton info: "" quote: You'd be surprised how much it costs to look this cheap. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Judith Martin info: (Miss Manners) quote: What you have when everyone wears the same playclothes for all occasions, is addressad by nickname, expected to participate in Show And Tell, and bullied out of any desire form privacy, is not democracy; it is kindergarten. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Samuel Johnson info: English author, critic, & lexicographer (1709 - 1784) quote: No place affords a more striking conviction of the vanity of human hopes than a public library. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Augustine Birrell info: "" quote: Any ordinary man can...surround himself with two thousand books...and thenceforward have at least one place in the world in which it is possible to be happy. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Jorge Luis Borges info: Argentine novelist & poet (1899 - 1986) quote: I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Mark Twain info: US humorist, novelist, short story author, & wit (1835 - 1910) quote: Carlyle said, "A lie cannot live"; it shows he did not know how to tell them. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: George Bernard Shaw info: Irish dramatist & socialist (1856 - 1950) quote: My main reason for adopting literature as a profession was that, as the author is never seen by his clients, he need not dress respectably. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Lee Trevino on a Mother's Day gift for his wife info: "" quote: She ain't my mother, so I ain't gonna get her nothin'. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Garry Trudeau info: US cartoonist (1948 - ) quote: "America: the only country in the world where failing to promote yourself is regarded as being arrogant." rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Bertolt Brecht info: German Communist & dramatist (1898 - 1956) quote: Something ignoble, loathsome, undignified attends all associations between people and has been transferred to all objects, dwelling, tools, even the landscape itself. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: David Frye impersonating Nixon info: "" quote: I love America. You always hurt the one you love. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Richard Feynman info: US educator & physicist (1918 - 1988) quote: It's because somebody knows something about it that we can't talk about physics. It's the things that nobody knows anything about we can discuss. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Orson Welles info: 1966US actor & director (1915 - 1985) quote: I passionately hate the idea of being with it. I think an artist has always to be out of step with his time. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: W.H. Auden info: "" quote: Thousands have lived without love, not one without water. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Samuel Butler info: English composer, novelist, & satiric author (1835 - 1902) quote: "Logic is like the sword: those who appeal to it shall perish by it." rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Jean Cocteau info: French dramatist, director, & poet (1889 - 1963) quote: We must believe in luck. For how else can we explain the success of those we don't like. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Robert Benchley info: US actor, author, & humorist (1889 - 1945) quote: The pencil sharpener is about as far as I have ever got in operating a complicated piece of machinery with any success. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Georg Christoph Lichtenberg info: " (1742 - 1799)" quote: The proof that man is the noblest of all creatures is that no other creature has ever denied it. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Philip Guedalla info: English author & popular historian (1889 - 1944) quote: Autobiography is an unrivalled vehicle for telling the truth about other people. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Bill Vaughan info: "" quote: Muscles come and go; flab lasts. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Walter Bagehot info: English economist & journalist (1826 - 1877) quote: A man's mother is his misfortune, but his wife is his fault. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Garry Wills info: "" quote: Only the winners decide what were war crimes. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Ambrose Bierce info: The Devil's DictionaryUS author & satirist (1842 - 1914) quote: The ocean is a body of water occupying about two-thirds of a world made for man - who has no gills. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Donald N. Smith info: president of Burger King quote: The individual choice of garnishment of a burger can be an important point to the consumer in this day when individualism is an increasingly important thing to people. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: E. J. Smith info: 1907, Captain, RMS Titanic quote: When anyone asks me how I can best describe my experience in nearly forty years at sea, I merely say, uneventful. Of course there have been winter gales, and storms and fog and the like. But in all my experience, I have never been in any accident... or any sort worth speaking about. I have seen but one vessel in distress in all my years at sea. I never saw a wreck and never have been wrecked nor was I ever in any predicament that threatened to end in disaster of any sort. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Kelvin Throop info: "" quote: To get the attention of a large animal, be it an elephant or a bureaucracy, it helps to know what part of it feels pain. Be very sure, though, that you want its full attention. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Will Rogers info: US humorist & showman (1879 - 1935) quote: Try to live your life so that you wouldn't be afraid to sell the family parrot to the town gossip. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Kin Hubbard info: " (1868 - 1930)" quote: Of all the unbearable nuisances, the ignoramus that has travelled is the worst. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Henry Fielding info: "\"Jonathan Wild\"English dramatist & novelist (1707 - 1754)" quote: He, in a few minutes ravished this fair creature, or at least would have ravished her, if she had not, by a timely compliance, prevented him. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Clare Booth Luce info: US diplomat, dramatist, journalist, & politician (1903 - 1987) quote: I don't have a warm personal enemy left. They've all died off. I miss them terribly because they helped define me. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Vicomte Turenne info: Message sent after the battle of Dunen, 658 quote: The enemy came. He was beaten. I am tired. Goodnight. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Franklin P. Adams info: US journalist (1881 - 1960) quote: I hate the pollyanna pest who says that all is for the best. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Franklin P. Adams info: US journalist (1881 - 1960) quote: The best part of the fiction in many novels is the notice that the characters are purely imaginary. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Nancy Astor info: British politician (1879 - 1964) quote: The only thing I like about rich people is their money. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Elisabeth Marbury info: "" quote: The richer your friends, the more they will cost you. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Logan Pearsall Smith info: " (1865 - 1946)" quote: It is the wretchedness of being rich that you have to live with rich people. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Lewis Mumford info: US architect & sociologist (1895 - 1990) quote: Our national flower is the concrete cloverleaf. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Mark Twain info: US humorist, novelist, short story author, & wit (1835 - 1910) quote: It's a good idea to obey all the rules when you're young just so you'll have the strength to break them when you're old. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Stanislaw J. Lec info: Polish writer (1909 - 1966) quote: Render unto Caesar the things that are Caesar's; and unto God the things that are God's; and unto human beings, what? rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Carl G. Jung info: in the introduction to Frances G. Wickes' "Analysis der Kinderseele" (The Inner World of Childhood), 1931 quote: Observance of customs and laws can very easily be a cloak for a lie so subtle that our fellow human beings are unable to detect it. It may help us to escape all criticism, we may even be able to deceive ourselves in the belief of our obvious righteousness. But deep down, below the surface of the average man's conscience, he hears a voice whispering, "There is something not right," no matter how much his rightness is supported by public opinion or by the moral code. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Gov. Bill Clinton info: "" quote: When I was in England, I experimented with marijuana a time or two, and I didn't like it and didn't inhale and never tried it again. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Gov. Bill Clinton info: on a radio talk show in New York quote: I like to play saxophone because you don't inhale. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Arsenio Hall info: after Clinton's saxophone debut on his show quote: It's nice to see a Democrat blow something besides an election. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: J. Edgar Hoover info: "" quote: I regret to say that we of the F.B.I. are powerless to act in cases of oral-genital intimacy, unless it has in some way obstructed interstate commerce. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Charles Lindbergh info: describing his first skydiveUS aviator (1902 - 1974) quote: Life changed after that jump...I'd suddenly stepped to the highest level of daring, a level above even that which airplane pilots could attain. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Mark Twain info: US humorist, novelist, short story author, & wit (1835 - 1910) quote: In certain trying circumstances, urgent circumstances, desperate circumstances, profanity furnishes a relief denied even to prayer. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: George Bernard Shaw info: Irish dramatist & socialist (1856 - 1950) quote: If more than ten percent of the population likes a painting it should be burned, for it must be bad. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Mark Twain info: US humorist, novelist, short story author, & wit (1835 - 1910) quote: There is no sadder sight than a young pessimist, except an old optimist. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Arthur Schopenhauer info: German philosopher (1788 - 1860) quote: If we weren't all so interested in ourselves, life would be so uninteresting we couldn't endure it. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Groucho Marx info: US comedian with Marx Brothers (1890 - 1977) quote: In America you can go on the air and kid the politicians, and the politicians can go on the air and kid the people. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Sen Lloyd Bentsen info: D-Texas quote: If Jerry Brown is the answer, it must be a very peculiar question. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: President George Bush info: in the New Republic quote: I've told you I don't live and die by the polls. Thus, I will refrain from pointing out that we're not doing too bad in those polls. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Dennis Miller info: talk-show host quote: A lot of people voting for Pat Buchanan say they are doing so to send a message. Apparently that message is, "Hey, look at me, I'm an idiot." rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Michelle Shocked info: "" quote: Making music should not be left to the professionals. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: James Thurber info: US author, cartoonist, humorist, & satirist (1894 - 1961) quote: A husband should not insult his wife publicly, at parties. He should insult her in the privacy of the home. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Will Rogers info: US humorist & showman (1879 - 1935) quote: There ought to be one day - just one - where there is open season on senators. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: President George Bush info: quoted in Asiaweek magazine quote: Nobody said it was going to be easy, and nobody was right. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: President George Bush info: to New Hampshire legislators quote: Get this (economic plan) passed. Later on, we can all debate it. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: President George Bush info: "" quote: It's a weird year. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Thomas H. Huxley info: English biologist (1825 - 1895) quote: The world makes up for all its follies and injustices by being damnably sentimental. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Thomas Jefferson info: 3rd president of US (1743 - 1826) quote: No nation was ever drunk when wine was cheap. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Paul S. Winalski info: "" quote: The wine seems to be very closed-in and seems to have entered a dumb stage. Sort of a Marcel Meursault. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Paul S. Winalski info: "" quote: I only drink fortified wines during bad weather. Snowstorm, hurricane, tornado--I'm not particular, as long as it's bad. After all, any storm for a Port. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: David Merritt info: a.k.a. THE RED SHARK quote: What profits a man if he keeps his eternal soul when he could have lived life to the full and been forgiven at the end of it all anyway? rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Aldous Huxley info: English critic & novelist (1894 - 1963) quote: People are much too solemn about things - I'm all for sticking pins into episcopal behinds. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Adlai E. Stevenson Jr. info: US diplomat & Democratic politician (1900 - 1965) quote: The best reason I can think of for not running for President of the United States is that you have to shave twice a day. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Ross Perot info: Time, April 6, 1992 quote: If voters don't have a stomach for me, they can get one of those blow-dried guys. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Clarence Darrow info: US defense lawyer (1857 - 1938) quote: Calvin Coolidge was the greatest man who ever came out of Plymouth Corner, Vermont. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Stanislaw J. Lec info: Polish writer (1909 - 1966) quote: Each snowflake in an avalanche pleads not guilty. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Samuel Johnson info: English author, critic, & lexicographer (1709 - 1784) quote: You must have taken great pains, sir; you could not naturally been so very stupid. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Fred Allen info: US radio comedian (1894 - 1956) quote: My father never raised his hand to any one of his children, except in self-defense. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Heinrich Heine info: German critic & poet (1797 - 1856) quote: I fell asleep reading a dull book and dreamed I kept on reading, so I awoke from sheer boredom. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: James Gould Cozzens info: "" quote: I can't read ten pages of Steinbeck without throwing up. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Edward Gibbon info: English historian of Rome (1737 - 1794) quote: Unprovided with original learning, unformed in the habits of thinking, unskilled in the arts of composition, I resolved to write a book. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Dorothy Parker info: US author, humorist, poet, & wit (1893 - 1967) quote: Oh, life is a glorious cycle of song, A medley of extemporanea; And love is thing that can never go wrong; And I am Marie of Romania. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Frederick Winsor info: "" quote: Probable-Possible, my black hen, She lays eggs in the Relative When. She doesn't lay eggs in the Positive Now Because she's unable to postulate how. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Ogden Nash info: US humorist & poet (1902 - 1971) quote: The Preacher, the Politicain, the Teacher, Were each of them once a kiddie. A child, indeed, is a wonderful creature. Do I want one? God Forbiddie! rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: A. E. Housman info: English classical scholar, poet, & satirist (1859 - 1936) quote: Who made the world I cannot tell; 'Tis made, and here am I in hell. My hand, though now my knuckles bleed, I never soiled with such a deed. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Beverly Nichols info: "" quote: "Marriage: a book of which the first chapter is written in poetry and the remaining chapters in prose." rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Friedrich Nietzsche info: German philosopher (1844 - 1900) quote: One should never know too precisely whom one has married. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Calvin Trillin info: US columnist (1935 - ) quote: Marriage is part of a sort of 50's revival package that's back in vogue along with neckties and naked ambition. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: John Gay info: English dramatist, librettist, & poet (1685 - 1732) quote: The comfortable estate of widowhood is the only hope that keeps up a wife's spirits. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Spanish proverb info: "" quote: He who marries a widow will often have a dead man's head thrown in his dish. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: H. L. Mencken info: US editor (1880 - 1956) quote: Men have a much better time of it than women; for one thing, they marry later; for another thing they die earlier. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Ralph Waldo Emerson info: US essayist & poet (1803 - 1882) quote: The more he talked of his honor, the faster we counted our spoons. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Herbert Beerbohm Tree info: "" quote: "I don't like her. But don't misunderstand me: my dislike is purely platonic." rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Karl Kraus info: Austrian author and journalist (1874 - 1936) quote: Psychoanalysts are father confessors who like to listen to the sins of the father as well. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Charles Lamb info: English critic & essayist (1775 - 1834) quote: "My motto is: Contented with little, yet wishing for more." rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: H. L. Mencken info: US editor (1880 - 1956) quote: Any man who, having a child or children he can't support, proceeds to have another should be sterilized at once. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Pierre Trudeau info: Canadian politician (1919 - 2000) quote: Canada is a country whose main exports are hockey players and cold fronts. Our main imports are baseball players and acid rain. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: George Bernard Shaw info: Irish dramatist & socialist (1856 - 1950) quote: I've posed nude for a photographer in the manner of Rodin's Thinker, but I merely looked constipated. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Mark Twain info: US humorist, novelist, short story author, & wit (1835 - 1910) quote: Statistics show that we lose more fools on this day than on all other days of the year put together. This proves, by the numbers left in stock, that one Fourth of July per year is now inadequate, the country has grown so. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe info: German dramatist, novelist, poet, & scientist (1749 - 1832) quote: Love is an ideal thing, marriage a real thing; a confusion of the real with the ideal never goes unpunished. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Woody Allen info: US movie actor, comedian, & director (1935 - ) quote: For a while we pondered whether to take a vacation or get a divorce. We decided that a trip to Bermuda is over in two weeks, but a divorce is something you always have. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Tommy Manville info: "" quote: She cried, and the judge wiped her tears with my checkbook. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Arthur Baer info: "" quote: Alimony is like buying oats for a dead horse. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Robin Williams info: US actor & comedian (1951 - ) quote: Ah yes, divorce, from the Latin word meaning to rip out a man's genitals through his wallet. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Maggie Roche info: "" quote: Where desire writhed there stands a stone; the change was sudden and complete. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Larry Brown info: "" quote: After a year in therapy, my psychiatrist said to me, "Maybe life isn't for everyone." rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Ambrose Bierce info: The Devil's DictionaryUS author & satirist (1842 - 1914) quote: Before undergoing a surgical operation, arrange your temporal affairs. You may live. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: H. L. Mencken info: US editor (1880 - 1956) quote: The first kiss is stolen by the man; the last is begged by the woman. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: H. L. Mencken info: US editor (1880 - 1956) quote: "Platitude: an idea (a) that is admitted to be true by everyone, and (b) that is not true." rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Martin Mull info: US comedian and actor (1943 - ) quote: It's hard to decide if TV makes morons out of everyone or if it mirrors Americans who really are morons to begin with. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Harold Macmillan info: British prime minister (1957-1963) (1894 - 1986) quote: I have never found in a long experience of politics that criticism is ever inhibited by ignorance. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Kin Hubbard info: " (1868 - 1930)" quote: Never get married while you're going to college; it's hard to get a start if a prospective employer finds you've already made one mistake. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Woody Allen info: US movie actor, comedian, & director (1935 - ) quote: If only God would give me some clear sign! Like making a large deposit in my name in a Swiss bank. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Marlo Thomas info: "" quote: Fame lost its appeal for me when I went into a public restroom and an autograph seeker handed me a pen and paper under the stall door. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Prince Sihanouk in a letter to Time magazine info: "" quote: As an anti-American, I thank you for your rotten article devoted to my person. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Paul Valery info: French critic & poet (1871 - 1945) quote: A painter should not paint what he sees but what should be seen. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: William Shakespeare info: Greatest English dramatist & poet (1564 - 1616) quote: When my love swears that she is made of truth, I do believe her, though I know she lies. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Paul Valery info: French critic & poet (1871 - 1945) quote: Man is only man at the surface. Remove the skin, dissect, and immediately you come to machinery. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Henry Van Dyke info: "" quote: Self is the only prison that can bind the soul. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: George Bernard Shaw info: Irish dramatist & socialist (1856 - 1950) quote: All professions are conspiracies against the laity. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Charles Lamb info: English critic & essayist (1775 - 1834) quote: Nothing to me is more distasteful than that entire complacency and satisfaction which beam in the countenances of a newly married couple. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Horace Walpole info: English author (1717 - 1797) quote: Foolish writers and readers are created for each other. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Logan Pearsall Smith info: " (1865 - 1946)" quote: Every author, however modest, keeps a most outrageous vanity chained like a madman in the padded cell of his breast. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Nikita Khrushchev info: Russian Soviet politician (1894 - 1971) quote: "Politicians are the same the world over: they promise to build a bridge even when there is no river." rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Aldous Huxley info: English critic & novelist (1894 - 1963) quote: If the Prince of Peace should come to earth, one of the first things he would do would be to put psychiatrists in their place. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: John F. Kennedy info: 35th president of US 1961-1963 (1917 - 1963) quote: When I became President, what surprised me most was that things were just as bad as I'd been saying they were. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Clarence Darrow info: US defense lawyer (1857 - 1938) quote: When I was a boy I was told that anybody could become President; I'm beginning to belive it. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: William F. Buckley Jr. info: "" quote: I'd rather entrust the government of the United States to the first 400 people listed in the Boston telephone directory than to the faculty of Harvard University. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Ogden Nash info: US humorist & poet (1902 - 1971) quote: Progress might have been all right once, but it went on too long. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: W.A. Mozart info: "" quote: There you stand like a duck in a thunderstorm again - aren't you ever going to understand? rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Lyndon Baines Johnson info: "" quote: While you're saving your face you're losing your ass. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Geoffrey Gorer info: "" quote: The trouble with my wife is that she is a whore in the kitchen and a cook in the bed. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Adlai E. Stevenson Jr. info: US diplomat & Democratic politician (1900 - 1965) quote: I don't mind a little praise - as long as it's fulsome. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Florida Scott-Maxwell info: "" quote: No matter how old a mother is, she watches her middle-aged children for signs of improvement. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Mark Twain info: US humorist, novelist, short story author, & wit (1835 - 1910) quote: There ought to be a room in every house to swear in. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Pierre Auguste Renoir info: "" quote: It is after you have lost your teeth that you can afford to buy steaks. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Aldous Huxley info: English critic & novelist (1894 - 1963) quote: Ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you mad. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Orson Welles info: US actor & director (1915 - 1985) quote: Man is a rational animal who always loses his temper when called upon to act in accordance with the dictates of reason. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: John Barth info: US novelist & short story author (1930 - ) quote: It is often pleasant to stone a martyr, no matter how much we admire him. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Saul Steinberg info: "" quote: I think, therefore Descartes exists. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Sinclair Lewis info: US novelist (1885 - 1951) quote: The trouble with this country is that there are too many people going about saying, "The trouble with this country is...." rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Finley Peter Dunne info: US author & humorist (1867 - 1936) quote: Most vegetarians look so much like the food they eat that they can be classified as cannibals. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: George Bernard Shaw info: Irish dramatist & socialist (1856 - 1950) quote: Make money and the whole nation will conspire to call you a gentleman. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Orson Welles info: US actor & director (1915 - 1985) quote: There are three intolerable things in life - cold coffee, lukewarm champagne, and overexcited women. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Abraham Lincoln info: 16th president of US (1809 - 1865) quote: If this is coffee, please bring me some tea; but if this is tea, please bring me some coffee. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Vincent Manis info: "" quote: It's not his fault that he's the rear end of a pantomime horse. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: H. L. Mencken info: US editor (1880 - 1956) quote: Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them good. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Chekov of Tolstoy info: "" quote: Reason and Justice tell me that there is more love of man in electricity and steam, than in chastity and refusal to eat meat. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Georges Clemenceau info: French politician (1841 - 1929) quote: There is no passion like that of a functionary for his function. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: James Burke info: "" quote: Courtly love-poetry may first have been written during long periods of abstinence on the Crusades, but it would not have flourished in the cold of northern Europe without some help from the chimney. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: George Ade info: US dramatist & humorist (1866 - 1944) quote: Anybody can win, unless there happens to be a second entry. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy info: "" quote: Anyone who is capable of getting themselves made President should on no account be allowed to do the job. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Seen on a bumper sticker info: "" quote: "National Health Insurance: The compassion of the IRS The efficiency of the Postal Service All at Pentagon prices!!!!" rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Oscar Wilde info: Irish dramatist, novelist, & poet (1854 - 1900) quote: Popularity is the one insult I have never suffered. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Stanislaw J. Lec info: Polish writer (1909 - 1966) quote: Never lie when the truth is more profitable. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Stephen Wolfe quoted on page 11 of the August 1992 CAD report refering to AutoCAD rev. 12 info: "" quote: It's scary to think that the infrastructure of the industrialized world is increasingly based on software like this. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Unknown info: "Quotations by unknown authors " quote: Never make anything simple and efficient when a way can be found to make it complex and wonderful. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Trevanian from the novel "Shibumi" info: "" quote: Melpomene was a substantial girl, thick of bosom, ankle, and forearm, rosy of cheek, and clear of eye. She seemed somehow incomplete without her hockey stick. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Trevanian from the novel "Shibumi" info: "" quote: "Hana: What on Earth is a 'barbeque'? Hel: A primitive tribal ritual featuring paper plates, elbows, flying insects, encrusted meat, hush puppies, and beer. Hana: I daren't ask what a 'hush puppy' is. Hel: Don't." rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Trevanian from the novel "Shibumi" info: "" quote: It was not their irritating assumption of equality that annoyed Nicholai so much as their cultural confusions. The Americans seemed to confuse standard of living with quality of life, equal opportunity with institutionalized mediocrity, bravery with courage, machismo with manhood, liberty with freedom, wordiness with articulation, fun with pleasure - in short, all of the misconceptions common to those who assume that justice implies equality for all, rather than equality for equals. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: US District Judge Royce Lambeth info: ordering CIA Director Robert Gates to testify at the Clair George trial. quote: Mr. Gates is up to his eyeballs in his knowledge of this stuff. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Edward Lear info: "" quote: I was much distressed by next door people who had twin babies and played the violin; but one of the twins died, and the other has eaten the fiddle - so all is peace. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Don Herold info: "" quote: A lot of women are getting alimony who don't earn it. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Kin Hubbard info: " (1868 - 1930)" quote: When you consider what a chance women have to poison their husbands, it's a wonder there isn't more of it done. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Peter van der Linden info: "" quote: When solving a "panic" you must first ask yourself what you were doing that could possibly frighten an operating system. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Michel de Montaigne info: French essayist (1533 - 1592) quote: I prefer the company of peasants because they have not been educated sufficiently to reason incorrectly. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Bertrand Russell info: British author, mathematician, & philosopher (1872 - 1970) quote: The infliction of cruelty with a good conscience is a delight to moralists - that is why they invented hell. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: W.C. Fields info: "" quote: I like to keep a bottle of stimulant handy in case I see a snake, which I also keep handy. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: John Ohrenschall info: "" quote: Climbing would be a great, truly wonderful thing if it weren't for all that damn climbing. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Deanna Troi info: _Imzadi_, Star Trek - The Next Generation quote: Higher emotions are what separate us from the lower orders of life... Higher emotions, and table manners. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Elizabeth Taylor info: British movie actress (1932 - ) quote: Success is a great deodorant. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Jane Austen info: English novelist (1775 - 1817) quote: What dreadful hot weather we have! It keeps me in a continual state of inelegance. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Charles Foundyller of Daratech info: from 8/14/92 Wall St Journal quote: Everyone realized that Computervision stock was the golden goose. But one grabbed the leg, another grabbed a wing, another got the neck, all pulling hard, and they realize now they could kill the goose if they keep this up. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Daffy Duck info: "" quote: Consequences, shmonsequences! So long as I'm rich! rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: John Ciardi info: US poet (1916 - 1986) quote: Gentility is what is left over from rich ancestors after the money is gone. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Claude Levi-Strauss info: "" quote: The wise man doesn't give the right answers, he poses the right questions. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: W.C. Fields info: "" quote: "'Twas a woman who drove me to drink, and I never had the courtesy to thank her for it." rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Henny Youngman info: US (English-born) comedian (1906 - 1998) quote: My grandmother is over eighty and still doesn't need glasses. Drinks right out of the bottle. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Tallulah Bankhead info: US movie actress (1903 - 1968) quote: The less I behave like Whistler's mother the night before, the more I look like her the morning after. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Unknown info: "Quotations by unknown authors " quote: An Irishman is the only man in the world who will step over the bodies of a dozen naked women to get to a bottle of stout. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Mark Twain info: US humorist, novelist, short story author, & wit (1835 - 1910) quote: Good breeding consists in concealing how much we think of ourselves and how little we think of the other person. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: G.K. Chesterton info: "" quote: Coincidences are spiritual puns. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Adopted from Lance Fusco. info: "" quote: The perfect host requires the perfect parasite. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: George Bernard Shaw info: Irish dramatist & socialist (1856 - 1950) quote: The chief objection of playing wind instruments is that it prolongs the life of the player. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Bertrand Russell info: British author, mathematician, & philosopher (1872 - 1970) quote: Even in civilized mankind faint traces of monogamous instincts can be perceived. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Dan Quayle info: 09/88US Republican politician (1947 - ) quote: People that are really weird can get into sensitive positions and have a tremendous impact on history. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Tim Mefford info: "" quote: The wages of sin are death, but the benefits include dental, major medical, two week paid vacation, pension fund, and stock options. Actually, taken as a package, it's a rather attractive deal. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Jeff Zurschmeide info: "" quote: And thou shalt smite thine enemy even unto the wall, gnashing thy teeth, and he shall grow small in thy mirrors. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Michael Levin info: "" quote: There are situations in which torture is not merely permissible but morally mandatory. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Scott McNealy info: in the wake of Wang's going Chapter 11 quote: Things are so bad in Massachusetts now they don't even bother to plough Route 128 when it snows. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Mary Poppins info: "" quote: Close your mouth, Michael; we are not a codfish. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Elaine Richards info: "" quote: While I am not a fan of corporal punishment, I am not a fan of his friends Major Nuisance or General Disturbance. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Kin Hubbard info: " (1868 - 1930)" quote: A woman will buy anything she thinks the store is losing money on. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Eli Wallach info: "" quote: Having the critics praise you is like having the hangman say you've got a pretty neck. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: George Bernard Shaw info: Irish dramatist & socialist (1856 - 1950) quote: There is no satisfaction in hanging a man who does not object to it. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Judge Roy Bean info: "" quote: You'll get a fair trial followed by a first class hanging. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Elton John info: "" quote: The French are just useless. They can't organize a piss-up in a brewery. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Leonard Louis Levinson info: "" quote: He's a fine friend. He stabs you in the front. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: George Bernard Shaw info: Irish dramatist & socialist (1856 - 1950) quote: "I am a gentleman: I live by robbing the poor." rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: J. Danforth Quayle's Father info: 08/23/88 quote: He doesn't have the greatest smarts in the world. His main interests in school were broads and booze. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Honore de Balzac info: French realist novelist (1799 - 1850) quote: No man should marry before he has studied anatomy and dissected the body of a woman. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: John Waters info: "" quote: I pride myself on the fact that my work has no socially redeeming value. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: G.K. Chesterton info: "" quote: The only people who seem to have nothing to do with the education of the children are the parents. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Logan Pearsall Smith info: " (1865 - 1946)" quote: The denunciation of the young is a necessary part of the hygiene of older people, and greatly assists the circulation of the blood. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: George Burns info: US actor & comedian (1896 - 1996) quote: I don't worry about getting old. I'm old already. Only young people worry about getting old. When I was 65 I had cupid's eczema. I don't believe in dying. It's been done. I'm working on a new exit. Besides, I can't die now - I'm booked. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Earl K. Long info: "" quote: Someday Louisiana is going to get good government. And they ain't gunna like it. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Gabriel Garcia Marquez info: from "Love in the Time of Cholera" quote: "...they no longer felt like newlyweds, and even less like belated lovers. It was as if they had lept over the arduous calvary of conjugal life and gone straight to the heart of love. They were together in silence like an old married couple wary of life, beyond the pitfalls of passion, beyond the brutal mockery of hope and the phantoms of disillusion: beyond love. For they had lived together long enough to know that love was always love, anytime and anyplace, but it was more solid the closer it came to death." rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Robert Frost info: US poet (1874 - 1963) quote: By working faithfully eight hours a day, you may eventually get to be a boss and work twelve hours a day. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Jimmy Hoffa info: Playboy Interview - December 1975US labor leader (1913 - 1975) quote: I don't need bodyguards. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Steven Jobs info: Playboy Interview - February 1985 quote: I'll always stay connected with Apple. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Bill Cosby info: Playboy Interview - May 1969US comedian & television actor (1937 - ) quote: I really do plan to get out of show business within five years or so. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Fidel Castro info: Playboy Interview - January 1967Cuban dictator & politician (1927 - ) quote: I believe that all of us ought to retire relatively young. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Hugh Hefner info: Playboy Interview - January 1974 quote: I'm not apt to be getting married in the near future and my lifestyle isn't apt to dramatically change as a result of any new relationship. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Andrew Young info: Playboy Interview - July 1977 quote: The Soviet Union is going to have a human-rights explosion. You'll have hundreds of thousands of dissidents. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Robert Maxwell info: Playboy Interview - October 1991 quote: I don't believe in leaving anything to be inherited. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: John Belushi info: Playboy Interview - May 1977 quote: If we burn ourselves out with drugs or alcohol, we won't have long to go in this business. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Johnny Carson info: Playboy Interview - December 1967US comedian & television host (1925 - 2005) quote: Who could follow Carson? Well, believe me, somebody can - and will. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Daniel Dennett info: from CONSCIOUSNESS EXPLAINED p. 177 quote: The juvenile sea squirt wanders through the sea searching for a suitable rock or hunk of coral to cling to and make its home for life. For this task, it has a rudimentary nervous system. When it finds its spot and takes root, it doesn't need its brain anymore so it eats it! (It's rather like getting tenure.) rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Bertrand Russell info: Playboy Interview - March 1963British author, mathematician, & philosopher (1872 - 1970) quote: The human race may well become extinct before the end of the century. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: R. Buckminster Fuller info: Playboy Interview - February 1972US architect & engineer (1895 - 1983) quote: Racism, pollution and the rest of it are themselves very close to extinction. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Arthur Schlesinger info: Jr., Playboy Interview - May 1966 quote: No national political party is going to nominate another right-wing candidate for a long time. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Dr. Albert Schweitzer info: Playboy Interview - December 1963 quote: Big nations are like chickens. They like to make big noises, but very often it is no more than squabbling. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Ralph Nader info: Playboy Interview - June 1992US consumer advocate & lawyer (1934 - ) quote: This country has been strip-mined by rich and powerful interests. If you dont like what they're doing, don't just sit there. Vote them out. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Duke of Wellington info: "" quote: We always have been, we are, and I hope that we always shall be detested in France. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Sinclair Lewis info: US novelist (1885 - 1951) quote: Advertising is a valuable economic factor because it is the cheapest way of selling goods, especially if the goods are worthless. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Ayn Rand info: US (Russian-born) novelist (1905 - 1982) quote: The right to vote is a *consequence*, not a primary cause, of a free social system -- and its value depends on the constitutional structure implementing and strictly delimiting the voters' power; unlimited majority rule is an instance of the principle of tyranny. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Andre Gide info: French critic, essayist, & novelist (1869 - 1951) quote: Seize from every moment its unique novelty, and do not prepare your joys. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Bette Midler info: US actress, comedienne, & singer (1945 - ) quote: If sex is such a natural phenomenon, how come there are so many books on how to? rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: George Bernard Shaw info: Irish dramatist & socialist (1856 - 1950) quote: In order to fully realize how bad a popular play can be, it is necessary to see it twice. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: E.B. White info: "" quote: Whatever else an American believes or disbelieves about himself, he is absolutely sure he has a sense of humor. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Robert Morely info: "" quote: Show me a man who has enjoyed his school days and I'll show you a bully and a bore. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: John Simon info: "" quote: Democracy encourages the majority to decide things about which the majority is blissfully ignorant. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Oscar Wilde info: Irish dramatist, novelist, & poet (1854 - 1900) quote: Society produces rogues, and education makes one rogue cleverer than another. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Oscar Wilde info: Irish dramatist, novelist, & poet (1854 - 1900) quote: It is only by not paying one's bills that one can hope to live in the memory of the commercial classes. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Alben W. Barkley info: U.S Vice President (1949-1953) quote: A bureaucrat is a Democrat who holds some office that a Republican wants. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Dorothy Parker info: US author, humorist, poet, & wit (1893 - 1967) quote: Scratch an actor - and you'll find an actress. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Channing Pollock info: "" quote: A critic is a legless man who teaches running. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Al Gore - during 1992 Vice Presidential debate info: "" quote: George Bush taking credit for the Berlin Wall coming down is like the rooster taking credit for the sunrise. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: James Stockdale info: during 1992 Vice Presidential debate, concluding his answer to a question about health policy quote: I'm out of ammunition on this. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Pat Buchanan info: saying he did not want to get into a war of words with Vice President Dan Quayle quote: I don't want to be charged with child abuse. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Paul Tsongas info: campaigning in New Hampshire quote: I came from a disadvantaged home. They were Republicans. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Ross Perot info: The Dallas Morning News, March 11, 1984 quote: There is no accountability in the public school system - except for coaches. You know what happens to a losing coach. You fire him. A losing teacher can go on losing for 30 years and then go to glory. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: President Nixon info: on the best wife for a president quote: You want a wife who is intelligent, but not too intelligent. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Oliver Herford info: "" quote: "Darling: the popular form of address used in speaking to a person of the opposite sex whose name you cannot at the moment recall" rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Helen Rowland info: " (1876 - 1950)" quote: Marriage is a bargain, and somebody has to get the worst of the bargain. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Zsa Zsa Gabor info: US (Hungarian-born) actress (1919 - ) quote: Husbands are like fires - they go out when unattended. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Maria Callas info: "" quote: Love is so much better when you are not married. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: James Thurber info: US author, cartoonist, humorist, & satirist (1894 - 1961) quote: A woman's place is in the wrong. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Henry David Thoreau info: US Transcendentalist author (1817 - 1862) quote: What men call good fellowship is commonly but the virtue of pigs in a litter which lie close together to keep each other warm. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Kurt Vonnegut info: Breakfast of ChampionsUS novelist (1922 - 2007) quote: 1492. As children we were taught to memorize this year with pride and joy as the year people began living full and imaginative lives on the continent of North America. Actually, people had been living full and imaginative lives on the continent of North America for hundreds of years before that. 1492 was simply the year sea pirates began to rob, cheat, and kill them. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Samuel Johnson info: English author, critic, & lexicographer (1709 - 1784) quote: Of all noises, I think music is the least disagreeable. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Jerry Brown info: "" quote: At least when I was govenor, cocaine was expensive. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Gustave Flaubert info: French realist novelist (1821 - 1880) quote: The whole dream of democracy is to raise the proletarian to the level of stupidity attained by the bourgeois. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Tom Wicker info: "" quote: Government expands to absorb revenue - and then some. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: H. L. Mencken info: US editor (1880 - 1956) quote: Congress consists of one third, more or less, scoundrels; two thirds, more or less, idiots; and three thirds, more or less, poltroons. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Benjamin Franklin info: US author, diplomat, inventor, physicist, politician, & printer (1706 - 1790) quote: In rivers and bad governments, the lightest things swim at the top. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Princess Elizabeth Asquith Bibesco info: "" quote: Irony is the hygiene of the mind. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Oscar Wilde info: Irish dramatist, novelist, & poet (1854 - 1900) quote: Ignorance is like a delicate exotic fruit; touch it and the bloom is gone. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Emo Phillips info: "US comedian " quote: Women! Ya can't live with 'em and ya can't get 'em to wear skimpy little Nazi outfits. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: David Brown info: "" quote: Old wives don't dieif they're getting alimony rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Kin Hubbard info: " (1868 - 1930)" quote: The only time some fellows are ever seen with their wives is after they've been indicted. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: George Moore info: "" quote: If there were no husbands, who would look after our mistresses? rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Calvin Coolidge info: 30th president of US (1872 - 1933) quote: More people out of work leads to higher unemployment.` rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Paul Tsongas info: "" quote: If you were in a room with Kadaffi, Saddam Hussien, and John Sununu, and you only had two bullets, what would you do. Shoot John Sununu twice. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Honore de Balzac info: French realist novelist (1799 - 1850) quote: The duration of passion is proportionate with the original resistance of the woman. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Johnny Rotten info: "" quote: Love is two minutes fifty-two seconds of squishing noises. It shows your mind isn't clicking right. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: U.S. Senate Chaplain Richard Halverson info: "" quote: The Godless would deny and destroy human rights .... the liberties of a nation cannot be secure when belief in God is abandoned. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: U.S. Senate Chaplain Richard Halverson info: addressing 600 people at a prayer breakfast, March 1992 in Wisconsin quote: Atheism has no room for human rights. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Robert Heilbroner info: "" quote: Mathematics has given economics rigor, but alas, also mortis. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Laurence J. Peter info: US educator & writer (1919 - 1988) quote: An economist is an expert who will know tommorrow why the things he predicted yesterday didn't happen today. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Herb Caen info: "" quote: All American cars are basically Chevrolets. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Erma Bombeck info: US author & humorist (1927 - 1996) quote: Never lend your car to anyone to whom you have given birth. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: J. D. Salinger info: US novelist & short story author (1919 - ) quote: Take most people, they're crazy about cars. I'd rather have a goddamn horse. A horse is at least human, for God's sake. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Tallulah Bankhead info: US movie actress (1903 - 1968) quote: Working on television is like being shot out of a cannon. They cram you all up with rehearsals, then someone lights a fuse and - BANG - there you are in someone's living room. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Cicero info: Roman author, orator, & politician (106 BC - 43 BC) quote: When you have no basis of argument, abuse the plaintiff. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Richard Darman info: "" quote: I have no idea what White House statement was was issued, but I stand by it 100 percent. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Robert Frost info: US poet (1874 - 1963) quote: Isn't it funny that anything the Supreme Court says is right? rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: 16 Idaho Law Review 407 info: 420 - 1980. quote: A venturesome minority will always be eager to get off on their own... let them take risks, for Godsake, let them get lost, sunburnt, stranded, drowned, eaten by bears, buried alive under avalanches- that is the right and privilege of any free American. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: H. L. Mencken info: US editor (1880 - 1956) quote: Thanksgiving Day is a day devoted by persons with inflammatory rheumatism to thanking a loving Father that it is not hydrophobia. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: P. J. O'Rourke info: US humorist & political commentator (1947 - ) quote: Humans are the only animals that have children on purpose with the exception of guppies, who like to eat theirs. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Louis Kronenberger info: "" quote: The trouble with us in America isn't that the poetry of life has turned to prose, but that it has turned to advertising copy. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Wilson Mizner info: US screenwriter (1876 - 1933) quote: Over in Hollywood they almost made a great picture, but they caught it in time. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Gore Vidal info: US author & dramatist (1925 - ) quote: I can understand companionship. I can understand bought sex in the afternoon. I cannot understand the love affair. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Anonymous info: "" quote: Aviation in itself is not inherently dangerous. But to an even greater degree than the sea, it is terribly unforgiving of carelessness, incapacity, or neglect. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Elbert Hubbard info: US author (1856 - 1915) quote: "Editor: a person employed on a newspaper whose business it is to seperate the wheat from the chaff, and to see that the chaff is printed." rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Karl Kraus info: Austrian author and journalist (1874 - 1936) quote: "The making of a journalist: no ideas and the ability to express them." rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: George Bernard Shaw info: Irish dramatist & socialist (1856 - 1950) quote: "What God hath joined together no man shall put asunder: God will take care of that." rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Jules Renard info: " (1864 - 1910)" quote: I don't know if God exists, but it would be better for His reputation if He didn't. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: H. L. Mencken info: US editor (1880 - 1956) quote: Say what you will about the Ten Commandments, you must always come back to the pleasant fact that there are only ten of them. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: La Rochefoucauld info: "" quote: People would never fall in love if they had not heard love talked about. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: La Rochefoucauld info: "" quote: The reason that lovers never weary each other is because they are always talking about themselves. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Richard Lewis info: "" quote: When you're in love it's the most glorious two and a half days of your life. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Marc Maihueird info: "" quote: Love is what we call the situation which occurs when two people who are sexually comptatible discover that they can also tolerate one another in various other circumstances. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Hamlet II:ii info: "" quote: To be honest, as this world goes, is to be one man picked out of ten thousand. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Richard Whately info: Archbishop of Dublin quote: Honesty is the best policy; but he who is governed by that maxim is not an honest man. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Josh Billings info: US Humorist (1818 - 1885) quote: It may be risky to marry for love, but it's so honest that the Lord just has to smile on it. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Alan Mackay info: "" quote: Like the ski resort full of girls hunting for husbands and husbands hunting for girls, the situation is not as symmetrical as it might seem. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Jack Benny info: US comedian (1894 - 1974) quote: A scout troop consists of twelve little kids dressed like schmucks following a big schmuck dressed like a kid. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Karl Kraus info: Austrian author and journalist (1874 - 1936) quote: Life is an effort that deserves a better cause. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Oscar Wilde info: Irish dramatist, novelist, & poet (1854 - 1900) quote: Nothing is so aggravating as calmness. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Lily Tomlin info: US actress & comedienne (1939 - ) quote: I personally think we developed language because of our deep need to complain. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: E.B. White info: "" quote: An intelligence service is, in fact, a stupidity service. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Elbert Hubbard info: US author (1856 - 1915) quote: A pessimist is a man who has been compelled to live with an optimist. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Ronald Firbank info: "" quote: The world is so dreadfully managed, one hardly knows to whom to complain. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Karl Kraus info: Austrian author and journalist (1874 - 1936) quote: I and my public understand each other very well; it does not hear what I say, and I don't say what it wants to hear. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Toy Matinee info: "" quote: We've kept the good old vices and labored to invent a few, With cake in vulgar surplus we can have it, and eat it too rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Zaphod Beeblebrox (Douglas Adams) info: "" quote: Watch?? I'm gonna pray, man! Know any good religions? rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: William Blake 1803 info: "" quote: O why was I born with a different face? Why was I not born like rest of my race? rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Fred Allen info: US radio comedian (1894 - 1956) quote: During the Samuel Johnson days they had big men enjoying small talk; today we have small men enjoying big talk. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Elbert Hubbard info: US author (1856 - 1915) quote: A legal or religious ceremony by which two persons of the opposite sex solemnly agree to harass and spy on each other... until death do them join. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Abraham Lincoln info: 16th president of US (1809 - 1865) quote: Neither Heaven nor Hell. It is simply Purgatory. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Herbert Spencer info: English philosopher (1820 - 1903) quote: A ceremony in which rings are put on the finger of the lady and through the nose of the gentleman. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Oscar Levant info: " (1906 - 1972)" quote: I don't drink; I don't like it - it makes me feel good. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Jimmy Cannon info: "" quote: Christmas is a holiday that persecutes the lonely, the frayed, and the rejected. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Kin Hubbard info: " (1868 - 1930)" quote: Next to a circus there ain't nothing that packs up and tears out faster than the Christmas spirit. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Henri de Montherlant info: "" quote: Most affections are habits or duties we lack the courage to end. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Andy Warhol info: US artist (1928 - 1987) quote: Everybody winds up kissing the wrong person good night. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Pliny the Elder info: Roman scholar & scientist (23 AD - 79 AD) quote: Why is it that we entertain the belief that for every purpose odd numbers are the most effectual? rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: David Lee info: "" quote: You have to be deviant if you're going to do anything new. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Seen on a button info: "" quote: I am into parallel monogamy. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: S.H. Underwood info: "" quote: It's a control freak thing. I wouldn't let you understand. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Unknown info: "Quotations by unknown authors " quote: Take only pictures, steal only time, leave only footprints. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Rod Serling info: US actor, producer, & screenwriter (1924 - 1975) quote: The tools of conquest do not necessarily come with bombs and explosions and fallout. There are weapons that are simply thoughts, attitudes, prejudices -- to be found in the minds of men. For the record, prejudices can kill and suspicion can destroy, and a thoughtless, frightened search for a scapegoat has a fallout all its own -- for the children and the children yet unborn. And the pity of it is that these things cannot be confined to the Twilight Zone. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Adam Richardson info: "" quote: All dogmas perish the thinking mind, especially ones you agree with. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Unknown info: "Quotations by unknown authors " quote: Women remember the first kiss, men remember the last. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Eric Berne info: US (Canadian-born) psychologist (1910 - 1970) quote: No man is a hero to his wife's psychiatrist. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Lewis Carroll (Charles Lutwidge Dodgson) info: "\"Through the Looking Glass\"" quote: Now, here, you see, it takes all the running you can do, to keep in the same place. If you want to get somewhere else, you must run at least twice as fast as that! rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Mahatma Gandhi info: Indian political and spiritual leader (1869 - 1948) quote: In matters of conscience, the law of majority has no place. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: John Stuart Mill info: "\"On Liberty\", 1859English economist & philosopher (1806 - 1873)" quote: The only purpose for which power can be rightfully exercised over any member of a civilized community, against his will, is to prevent harm to others. His own good, either physical or moral, is not a sufficient warrant. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Button from the Computer Museum info: Boston, MA quote: Usenet is like Tetris for people who still remember how to read. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Button from the Computer Museum info: Boston, MA quote: Usenet isn't a right. It's a right, a left, and a swift uppercut to the jaw. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Andrew Brown info: "" quote: Internet is so big, so powerful and pointless that for some people it is a complete substitute for life. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Karl Kraus info: Austrian author and journalist (1874 - 1936) quote: Where do I find the time for not reading so many books? rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Egyptian Inscription Recorded at the Time of the Invention of Writing info: "" quote: Would I had phrases that are not known, utterances that are strange, in new language that has not been used, free from repetition, not an utterance which has grown stale, which men of old have spoken. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Robert Benchley info: US actor, author, & humorist (1889 - 1945) quote: "A boy can learn a lot from a dog: obedience, loyalty, and the importance of turning around three times before lying down." rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Andrew A. Rooney info: "" quote: If dogs could talk, it would take a lot of the fun out of owning one. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Bob the Dog info: "" quote: My empty waterdish mocks me. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Neils Bohr info: "" quote: Somebody once asked Niels Bohr why he had a horseshoe hanging above the front door of his house."Surely you, a world famous physicist, can't really believe that hanging a horseshoe above your door brings you luck?"."Of course not," Bohr replied, "but I have been reliably informed that it will bring me luck whether I believe in it or not." rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Arthur Koestler info: The Act of Creation, London, 1970, p. 253British (Hungarian-born) author (1905 - 1983) quote: Einstein's space is no closer to reality than Van Gogh's sky. The glory of science is not in a truth more absolute than the truth of Bach or Tolstoy, but in the act of creation itself. The scientist's discoveries impose his own order on chaos, as the composer or painter imposes his; an order that always refers to limited aspects of reality, and is based on the observer's frame of reference, which differs from period to period as a Rembrant nude differs from a nude by Manet. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Werner Heisenberg info: "Philosophical Problems of Nuclear Science, New York: Fawcett 1966, p.13" quote: A consistent pursuit of classical physics forces a transformation in the very heart of that physics. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Bertrand Russell info: British author, mathematician, & philosopher (1872 - 1970) quote: Order, unity and continuity are human inventions just as truly as catalogues and encyclopedias. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: R. Abel info: "Man is the Measure, New York: Free Press, 1976" quote: "We must avoid here two complementary errors: on the one hand that the world has a unique, intrinsic, pre-existing structure awaiting our grasp; and on the other hand that the world is in utter chaos. The first error is that of the student who marvelled at how the astronomers could find out the true names of distant constellations. The second error is that of the Lewis Carroll's Walrus who grouped shoes with ships and sealing wax, and cabbages with kings..." rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Leona Helmsley info: 1990, refuting charges that her lifestyle was excessive quote: I was simply furnishing a home. I love music ... and I don't think a $130,000 indoor-outdoor stereo system is extravagant. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Norm (Cheers) info: "" quote: Women! Can't live with them...pass the beer nuts. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Fortune cookie info: "" quote: There is nothing like good food, good wine, and a bad girl. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Sir Arthur Conan Doyle info: (Sherlock Holmes)British mystery author & physician (1859 - 1930) quote: This is quite a three-pipe problem. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Ayn Rand info: US (Russian-born) novelist (1905 - 1982) quote: "There is a level of cowardice lower than that of the conformist: the fashionable non-conformist." rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Anonymous info: "" quote: There was a young man of Dundoo, Whose limericks stopped at line 2. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Anonymous info: "" quote: There was a young woman named Jenny, Whose limericks weren't worth a penny. Her rhythm and rhyme Were perfectly fine But whenever she tried to write any, She always had one line too many. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Anonymous info: "" quote: There once was a young man from Lyme Who couldn't get his limericks to rhyme When asked "Why not?" It was said that he thought They were probably too long and badly structured and not at all very funny. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: H. L. Mencken info: US editor (1880 - 1956) quote: War will never cease until babies begin to come into the world with larger cerebums and smaller adrenal glands. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: E.B. White info: "" quote: I would feel more optimistic about a bright future for man if he spent less time proving that he can outwit Nature and more time tasting her sweetness and respecting her seniority. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Anthony Chevins info: "" quote: One man's brain plus one other will produce one half as many ideas as one man would have produced alone. These two plus two more will produce half again as many ideas. These four plus four more begin to represent a creative meeting, and the ratio changes to one quarter as many ... rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Raoul Vaneigem info: "" quote: The world of the commodity is a world upside-down, which bases itself not upon life but upon the transformation of life into work. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Arthur Wing Pinero info: English dramatist (1855 - 1934) quote: A financier is a pawnbroker with imagination. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Sir Francis Bacon info: English author, courtier, & philosopher (1561 - 1626) quote: A little philosophy inclineth man's mind to atheism, But depth in philosophy bringeth men's minds about to religion. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Unknown info: "Quotations by unknown authors " quote: A chinese philosopher once had a dream that he was a butterfly. From that day on, he was never quite certain that he was not a butterfly, dreaming that he was a man. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Anonymous info: "" quote: Great minds think alike, and fools seldom differ. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: George Bernard Shaw info: Irish dramatist & socialist (1856 - 1950) quote: He who can, does. He who cannot teaches. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: George Bernard Shaw info: Irish dramatist & socialist (1856 - 1950) quote: He who has never hoped can never despair. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: George Bernard Shaw info: Irish dramatist & socialist (1856 - 1950) quote: Nothing ever is done in this world until men are prepared to kill one another if it is not done. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: George Bernard Shaw info: Irish dramatist & socialist (1856 - 1950) quote: The liar's punishment ... is that he cannot believe anyone else. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Alan Watts info: "" quote: I have realized that the past and future are real illusions, that they exist in the present, which is what there is and all there is. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Henry David Thoreau info: US Transcendentalist author (1817 - 1862) quote: Time is but the stream I go a-fishing in. I drink at it; but while I drink, I see the sandy bottom and detect how shallow it is. Its thin current slides away, but eternity remains. I would drink deeper; fish fill the sky, whose bottom is pebbly with stars. I cannot count one. I know not the first letter of the alphabet. I have always been regretting that I was not as wise as the day I was born. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Henry David Thoreau info: US Transcendentalist author (1817 - 1862) quote: As if you could kill time without injuring eternity. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Matthew Ryan info: "" quote: As if you could TELL time without injuring eternity. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Charlotte P Gilman info: "" quote: Eternity is not something that begins after you are dead. It is going on all the time. We are in it now. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Michel de Montaigne info: French essayist (1533 - 1592) quote: There is nothing more notable in Socrates than that he found time, when he was an old man, to learn music and dancing, and thought it time well spent. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Ambrose Bierce info: The Devil's DictionaryUS author & satirist (1842 - 1914) quote: Experience is a revelation in the light of which we renounce our errors of youth for those of age. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: William Shakespeare info: Macbeth, Act V, Scene V (MacBeth)Greatest English dramatist & poet (1564 - 1616) quote: Life is but a walking Shadow, a poor Player That struts and frets his Hour upon the Stage, And then is heard no more; It is a tall Tale, Told by an Idiot, full of Sound and Fury, Signifying nothing." rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Jerry Garcia info: on rumors the Grateful Dead may play at the Inaugural. Boston Globe, Dec 12,1992. quote: Tipper and Al came to a show the last time we were in Washington. They're nice people, a nice family. We made every effort not to frighten them. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Thurgood Marshall info: (Former Chief Justice), on President George BushUS lawyer (1908 - 1993) quote: It's said that if you can't say something good about a dead person, don't say it. Well, I consider him dead. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: William F. Buckley info: Jr., "The Wit and Wisdom of Vlad the Impaler" quote: Knee-jerk liberals and all the certified saints of sanctified humanism are quick to condemn this great and much-maligned Transylvanian statesman. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Plato info: in SymposiumGreek author & philosopher in Athens (427 BC - 347 BC) quote: But, my dearest Agathon, it is truth which you cannot contradict; you can without any difficulty contradict Socrates. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Robert Louis Stevenson info: Scottish author (1850 - 1894) quote: ...for no man lives in the external truth among salts and acids, but in the warm, phantasmagoric chamber of his brain, with the painted windows and the storied wall. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Euclid info: to king Ptolemy I quote: There is no "royal road" to geometry. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Douglas R. Hofstadter info: "from Go\"del, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid" quote: "Hofstadter's Law: It always takes longer than you expect, even when you take into account Hofstadter's Law." rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Douglas R. Hofstadter info: "from Go\"del, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid" quote: When you're not looking at it, this sentence is in Spanish. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Rita Mae Brown info: "US author and social activist " quote: The last thing I have to say is that ice is the past tense of water. I've always wanted to write that sentence and now I have. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Erwin Schrodinger commenting on Schrodinger's equations info: "" quote: I don't like it and I'm sorry I ever had anything to do with it. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Bate info: Mueller & White, 1971, "Fundamentals of Astrodynamics" quote: Equation (1.2-9) is a second order, nonlinear, vector, differential equation which has defied solution in its present form. It is here therefore we depart from the realities of nature to make some simplifying assumptions... rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: G.H. Hardy info: in _A Mathematician's Apology_ quote: Beauty is the first test; there is no permanent place in the world for ugly mathematics. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Russ Zandbergen info: "" quote: All dimensions are critical dimensions, otherwise why are they there? rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: The Kids in the Hall info: "" quote: Just goes to show you. You can kill a guy, fold him up, stuff him in your trunk, and still you don't *really* know him. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: author unknown info: "" quote: I may not agree with what you say, but I'll fight to the death for your right to die in a fire of suspicious origin rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Muriel Rukeyser info: "" quote: The universe is made of stories, not atoms. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Douglas Adams info: English humorist & science fiction novelist (1952 - 2001) quote: I love deadlines. I love the whooshing sound they make as they fly by. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: TH Nelson info: "Computer Lib., 1988, London: Penguin." quote: This is the rock-solid principle on which the whole of the Corporation's [IBM's] Galaxy-wide success is founded...their fundamental design flaws are completely hidden by their superficial design flaws. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: from a letter to Bertrand Russell info: "" quote: I'm a solipsist and, I have to say, I'm surprised there aren't more of us. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Murphy Brown info: on "The Sex Thing" quote: It's not that I don't enjoy it, but it's kind of like a trip to Disneyland. You get so excited about a ride on the Matterhorn, and then when it's over, you realize you wasted all that time in line for a minute and a half upside down and the chance to throw up. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Thomas Paine info: US patriot & political philosopher (1737 - 1809) quote: Whenever we read the obscene stories, the voluptuous debaucheries, the cruel and torturous executions, the unrelenting vindictiveness, with which more than half the bible is filled, it would seem more consistent that we called it the word of a demon than the Word of God. It is a history of wickedness that has served to corrupt and brutalize mankind. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Friedrich Nietzsche info: German philosopher (1844 - 1900) quote: The Christian resolution to find the world ugly and bad has made the world ugly and bad. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Lynn White info: Jr., "The Historical Roots of Our Ecologic Crisis", Science V. 155 No. 3767 (10 March 1967), pp. 1203-1207. quote: "[W]e shall continue to have a worsening ecologic crisis until we reject the Christian axiom that nature has no reason for existence save to serve man." rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Dan Tasman info: "" quote: Strange how the older generations can't program a VCR if their life depended on it, but they managed to operate the climate contol system of their 1958 Ramblers, which consisted of six unmarked knobs, one labeled "AirFloMatic" in unreadable cursive script, and four levers underneath the dash, which you had to turn, then pull. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Niccolo Machiavelli "The Prince" 1532 info: "" quote: There is nothing more difficult to take in hand, more perilous to conduct or more uncertain in its success than to take the lead in the introduction of a new order of things. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Terry Pratchett info: "\"Good Omens\"" quote: God does not play dice with the universe; He plays an ineffable game of his own devising, which might be compared, from the perspective of any of the other players, to being involved in an obscure and complex version of poker in a pitch dark room, with blank cards, for infinite stakes, with a dealer who won't tell you the rules, and who smiles all the time. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Tao te Ching info: 48. Lao-Tzu quote: Learning builds daily accumulation, but the practice of Tao builds daily simplification. Simplify and simplify, until all contamination from relative, contridictory thinking is eliminated. Then one does nothing, yet nothing is left undone. One who wins the world does so by not meddling with it. One who meddles with the world loses it. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Corrie ten Boom info: "" quote: Worry does not empty tomorrow of sorrow - it empties today of strength. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Henry Albert Ben info: _The Second Law_ quote: Hell must be isothermal; for otherwise the resident engineers and physical chemists (of which there must be some) could set up a heat engine to run a refrigerator to cool off a portion of their surroundings to any desired temperature. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Selagh Delaney info: "" quote: You'll NEED someone to love while you're looking for someone TO love. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Judy Tenuta info: "" quote: Have you ever dated someone because you were too lazy to commit suicide? rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Mark Patinkin info: "" quote: Never date a woman you can hear ticking. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Dorothy Parker info: US author, humorist, poet, & wit (1893 - 1967) quote: I require three things in a man. He must be handsome, ruthless and stupid. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Rosanne Barr info: "" quote: Women are cursed, and men are the proof. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Dave Barry info: US columnist & humorist (1947 - ) quote: If a woman has to choose between catching a fly ball and saving an infant's life, she will choose to save the infant's life without even considering if there are men on base. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Emo Philips info: "" quote: I go from stool to stool in singles bars hoping to get lucky, but there's never any gum under any of them. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Joe Bob Briggs info: "" quote: "SURE-FIRE SINGLES AD: Famous Writer needs woman to organize his life and spend his money. Loves to turn off Sunday football and go to the Botanical Gardens with that special someone. Will obtain plastic surgery if necessary." rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Mae West info: US movie actress (1892 - 1980) quote: Women with pasts interest men... they hope history will repeat itself. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Steve Martin info: US comedian & movie actor (1945 - ) quote: There is one thing I would break up over, and that is if she caught me with another woman. I won't stand for that. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Gary Shandling info: "" quote: I'm dating a woman now who, evidently, is unaware of it. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Rita Rudner info: "US comedian " quote: My boyfriend and I broke up. He wanted to get married and I didn't want him to. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Tom Clancy info: US suspense novelist (1947 - ) quote: What do I know about sex? I'm a married man. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Matt Groening info: US cartoonist & satirist (1954 - ) quote: "Warning signs that lover is bored: 1. Passionless kisses 2. Frequent sighing 3. Moved, left no forwarding address." rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Gary Shandling info: "" quote: I said to my girl, 'Was it good for you too?' And she said, 'I don't think this was good for anybody.' rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Ann Landers info: US advice columnist (1918 - 2002) quote: The poor wish to be rich, the rich wish to be happy, the single wish to be married, and the married wish to be dead. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Mickey Rooney info: US actor (1920 - ) quote: Get married early in the morning. That way, if it doesn't work out, you haven't wasted a whole day. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Rodney Dangerfield info: US actor & comedian (1921 - 2004) quote: Last time I tried to make love to my wife nothing happened, so I said to her, 'What's the matter, you can't think of anybody either?' rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Mae West info: US movie actress (1892 - 1980) quote: Marriage is a great institution, but I'm not ready for an institution. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Arturo Toscanini info: "" quote: I kissed my first girl and smoked my first cigarette on the same day. I haven't had time for tobacco since. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: R. Buckminster Fuller info: US architect & engineer (1895 - 1983) quote: A self-balancing, 28-jointed adaptor-based biped; an electro-chemical reduction plant, integral with segregated stowages of special energy extracts in storage batteries, for subsequent actuation of thousands of hydraulic and pneumatic pumps, with motors attached; 62,000 miles of capillaries.... rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Earl of Kent info: _The_Tragedy_of_King_Lear_ quote: "A knave; a rascal; an eater of broken meats; a base, proud, shallow, beggarly, three-suited, hundred-pound, filthy, worsted-stocking knave; a lily-livered, action-taking knave, a whoreson, glass-gazing, super-serviceable finical rogue; one-trunk-inheriting slave; one that wouldst be a bawd, in way of good service, and art nothing but the composition of a knave, beggar, coward, pandar, and the son and heir of a mongrel bitch: one whom I will beat into clamorous whining, if thou deniest the least syllable of thy addition." rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: George Will - Newsweek info: 2/22/93 quote: ...in the lexicon of the political class, the word "sacrifice" means that the citizens are supposed to mail even more of their income to Washington so that the political class will not have to sacrifice the pleasure of spending it. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: P.J. O'Rourke info: "" quote: Giving money and power to government is like giving whiskey and car keys to teenage boys. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: John W. Gardner info: US administrator (1912 - 2002) quote: The society which scorns excellence in plumbing as a humble activity and tolerates shoddiness in philosophy because it is an exaulted activity will have neither good plumbing nor good philosophy...neither its pipes nor its theories will hold water. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Last words of Emily Dickinson info: "" quote: ...the fog is rising. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Henry Ward Beecher info: last wordsUS abolitionist & clergyman (1813 - 1887) quote: Now comes the mystery. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Ludwig von Beethoven info: last words quote: Friends applaud, the comedy is over. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Pablo Picasso info: last wordsSpanish Cubist painter (1881 - 1973) quote: Drink to me. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: James Rodges info: a murderer, on his final request before the firing squad quote: Why yes - a bulletproof vest. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Christine Hubbock info: who shot herself during a broadcast quote: And now, in keeping with Channel 40's policy of always bringing you the latest in blood and guts, in living color, you're about to see another first--an attempted suicide. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Crowfoot's last words (1890) (Blackfoot warrior and orator) info: "" quote: What is life? It is the flash of a firefly in the night. It is the breath of a buffalo in the wintertime. It is the little shadow which runs across the grass and loses itself in the sunset. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Voltaire info: when asked on his deathbed to forswear Satan.French author, humanist, rationalist, & satirist (1694 - 1778) quote: This is no time to make new enemies. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Lord Byron info: last wordsEnglish poet & satirist (1788 - 1824) quote: Goodnight rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: John Adams info: last words after a lifetime competing with Thomas JeffersonUS diplomat & politician (1735 - 1826) quote: Jefferson still survivies. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Thomas Jefferson info: 3rd president of US (1743 - 1826) quote: Is it the Fourth? rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe info: German dramatist, novelist, poet, & scientist (1749 - 1832) quote: More light! Give me more light! rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Heinrich Heine info: German critic & poet (1797 - 1856) quote: Dieu me pardonnera. C'est son metier. (God will forgive me. It's his job.) rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: last words of Gen. John Sedgwick 1864 info: "" quote: They couldn't hit an elephant at this distance. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Lawrence Olivier info: last words spoken to his nurse, who spilt water over him while trying to moisten his lips, Reported by his son Tarquin quote: This isn't Hamlet, you know, It's not meant to go into the bloody ear. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Henery John Temple Palmerston info: last words, Prime Minister of GB (1855-1858 and 1859-1865) quote: Die my dear Doctor? That's the last thing I shall do! rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Georges Jacques Danton info: to his executioner quote: Show my head to the people, it is worth seeing. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: George Washington info: last words, 14 December 1799.First president of US (1732 - 1799) quote: It is well, I die hard, but I am not afraid to go. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Adm. Horatio Nelson info: last words, 21 Oct 1805. quote: Thank God, I have done my duty. Kiss me, Hardy. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: John Quincy Adams info: last words, 21 February 1848.US diplomat & politician (1767 - 1848) quote: This is the last of earth! I am content. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Napoleon Bonaparte info: last words, 1821French general & politician (1769 - 1821) quote: Chief of the Army. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Daniel Webster info: last words, 24 October 1852.US diplomat, lawyer, orator, & politician (1782 - 1852) quote: I still live. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Wilhelm I info: last words, 8 March 1888. quote: I now have no time to be tired. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Robert E. Lee info: last words, 12 October 1870.US-Confederate general (1807 - 1870) quote: Strike the tent. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Thomas Jonathan [Stonewall] Jackson info: last words, 10 May 1863. quote: Let us cross the river, and rest under the trees. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Grover Cleveland info: last words, 1908.22nd and 24th US president (1837 - 1908) quote: I have tried so hard to do the right. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Cecil John Rhodes (Founder of the Rhodes Scholarships) info: last words, 1902. quote: So little done--so much to do. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: O. Henry [William Sydney Porter] info: Last words, 5 June 1910 quote: Turn up the lights--I don't want to go home in the dark. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Edith Cavell info: last words, before her execution by the Germans, 12 October 1915. quote: I realize that patriotism is not enough. I must have no hatred or bitterness towards anyone. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: George V info: last words, 21 January 1936. quote: How is the Empire? rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Last words of John Pierpont Morgan (1913) info: "" quote: ....I've got to get to the top of the hill.. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Walt Kelly info: US animator & cartoonist (1913 - 1973) quote: There is no need to sally forth, for it remains true that those things which make us human are, curiously enough, always close at hand. Resolve then, that on this very ground, with small flags waving and tiny blasts of tiny trumpets, we have met the enemy, and not only may he be ours, he may be us. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: C. S. Lewis info: English essayist & juvenile novelist (1898 - 1963) quote: Five senses; an incurably abstract intellect; a haphazardly selective memory; a set of preconceptions and assumptions so numerous that I can never examine more than minority of them - never become conscious of them all. How much of total reality can such an apparatus let through? rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Sun System & Network Admin manual info: "" quote: ... it is important to realize that any lock can be picked with a big enough hammer. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: E.W. Dijkstra info: "" quote: The use of COBOL cripples the mind; its teaching should, therefore, be reguarded as a criminal offense. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Maurice Wilkes info: discovers debugging, 1949 quote: As soon as we started programming, we found to our surprise that it wasn't as easy to get programs right as we had thought. Debugging had to be discovered. I can remember the exact instant when I realized that a large part of my life from then on was going to be spent in finding mistakes in my own programs. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Berkeley Vax/Unix Assembler Reference Manual (1983) info: "" quote: This document describes the usage and input syntax of the Unix Vax-11 assembler As. As is designed for assembling code produced by the "C" compiler; certain concessions have been made to handle code written directly by people, but in general little sympathy has been extended. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Unix Programmer's Manual info: "" quote: Now that we have all this useful information, it would be nice to do something with it. (Actually, it can be emotionally fulfilling just to get the information. This is usually only true, however, if you have the social life of a kumquat.) rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Apple LaserWriter manual info: "" quote: Do not expose your LaserWriter to fire or intense heat. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: IBM maintenance manual info: "1925" quote: All parts should go together without forcing. You must remember that the parts you are reassembling were disassembled by you. Therefore, if you can't get them together again, there must be a reason. By all means, do not use a hammer. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: From Unix User's Manual Manual info: "Supplementary Documents, p. 14-3:" quote: program - A set of instructions, given to the computer, describing the sequence of steps the computer performs in order to accomplish a specific task. The task must be specific, such as balancing your checkbook or editing your text. A general task, such as working for world peace, is something we can all do, but not something we can currently write programs to do. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Chelsea Clinton info: when the school nurse told her parental permission would be necessary for her to take some aspirin. quote: Call my dad, my mom's too busy. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Dr. Henry Gibbons info: "" quote: The anatomical juxtaposition of 2 orbicularis oris muscles in a state of contraction. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Marvin Minsky info: "" quote: I bet the human brain is a kludge. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Tom Robbins info: US novelist (1936 - ) quote: If little else, the brain is an educational toy. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: William Shakespeare info: Greatest English dramatist & poet (1564 - 1616) quote: Not Hercules could have knock'd out his brains, for he had none. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Othello info: "" quote: O God, that men should put an enemy in their mouths to steal away their brains! rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Lewis Grizzard info: "" quote: Life is like a dogsled team. If you ain't the lead dog, the scenery never changes. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Friedrich Nietzsche info: German philosopher (1844 - 1900) quote: Believe me! The secret of reaping the greatest fruitfulness and the greatest enjoyment from life is to live dangerously! rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Mark Twain info: US humorist, novelist, short story author, & wit (1835 - 1910) quote: We all live in the protection of certain cowardices which we call our principles. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Gary Larson info: "" quote: "\"Off days\" are a part of life, I guess, whether you're a cartoonist, a neurosurgeon, or an air-traffic controller." rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Douglas Adams info: (Marvin the Paranoid Android) The Hitch-Hiker's Guide To The GalaxyEnglish humorist & science fiction novelist (1952 - 2001) quote: Life? Don't talk to me about life! rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Karl Marx info: German economist & Communist political philosopher (1818 - 1883) quote: Last words are for people who haven't said anything in life. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: John Kenneth Galbraith info: US (Canadian-born) administrator & economist (1908 - 2006) quote: The modern conservative is engaged in one of man's oldest exercises in moral philosophy; that is, the search for a superior moral justification for selfishness. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Robert Frost info: US poet (1874 - 1963) quote: A liberal is a man too broadminded to take his own side in a quarrel. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Peter Brimelow info: National Review (2/1/93) quote: The modern definition of 'racist' is someone who is winning an argument with a liberal. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Graham Greene info: _The Heart of the Matter_ quote: They had been corrupted by money, and he had been corrupted by sentiment. Sentiment was the more dangerous, because you couldn't name its price. A man open to bribes was to be relied upon below a certain figure, but sentiment might uncoil in the heart at a name, a photograph, even a smell remembered. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: George Bernard Shaw info: Irish dramatist & socialist (1856 - 1950) quote: Nobel prize money is a lifebelt thrown to a swimmer who has already reached the shore in safety. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Patrick Macnee info: reminiscing on Diana Rigg's involvement in "The Avengers" (interview, Washington Post, Sept. 6, 1987) quote: She just came in, pounced around this thing with me for a few years enjoyed herself, gave it a sort of beautiful quality and left. Excited a few men in the meantime. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Blaise Pascal info: French mathematician, physicist (1623 - 1662) quote: For after all what is man in nature? A nothing in relation to infinity, all in relation to nothing, a central point between nothing and all and infinitely far from understanding either. The ends of things and their beginnings are impregnably concealed from him in an impenetrable secret. He is equally incapable of seeing the nothingness out of which he was drawn and the infinite in which he is engulfed. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Alfred North Whitehead info: English mathematician & philosopher (1861 - 1947) quote: Through and through the world is infested with quantity. To talk sense is to talk quantities, It is no use saying the nation is large- how large? It is no use s aying that radium is scarce- how scarce? You can not evade quantity. You may fly to poetry and music and quantity and number will face you in your rhythms and your octaves. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Harry Harrison and Marvin Minsky info: The Turing Option quote: Can machines have souls? You ask me that and I ask you if souls can learn. If they can't -- then of what importance is this concept? Sterile and empty and unchangeable for eternity. How much more preferable it is to understand that we create ourselves. Slowly and painfully, shaped basically by our genes, modified steadily by everything we see and hear and attempt to understand. That is the reality and that is how we function, learn and develop. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Lyall Watson info: "" quote: If the brain were so simple we could understand it, we would be so simple we couldn't. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Ralph Waldo Emerson info: US essayist & poet (1803 - 1882) quote: A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesman and philosophers and divines. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Morrow Mayo info: "" quote: Los Angeles, it should be understood, is not a mere city. On the contrary, it is, and has been since 1888, a commodity; something to be advertised and sold to the people of the United States like automobiles, cigarettes and mouth wash. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Morrow Mayo info: "" quote: Here is an artificial city which has been pumped up under forced draught, inflated like a balloon, stuffed with rural humanity like a goose with corn...endeavoring to eat up this too rapid avalanche of anthropoids, the sunshine metropolis heaves and strains, sweats and becomes pop-eyed, like a young boa constrictor trying to swallow a goat. It has never imparted an urban character to its incoming population for the simple reason that it has never had any character to impart. On the other hand, the place has the manners, culture and general outlook of a huge country village. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: John Rechy info: "" quote: You can rot here without feeling it. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Louis Adamic info: "" quote: From Mount Hollywood, Los Angeles looks rather nice, enveloped in a haze of changing colors. Actually, and in spite of all the healthful sunshine and ocean breezes, it is a bad place - full of old, dying people, who were born old of tired pioneer parents, victims of America - full of curious wild and poisonous growths, decadent religious cults and fake science, and wildcat enterprises, which, with their aim for quick profit, are doomed to collapse and drag down multitudes of people. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Ray Bradbury info: US science fiction author (1920 - ) quote: "I was one of Them: the Strange Ones. The Funny People. The Odd Tribes of autograph collectors and photographers. The Ones who waited through long days and nights, who used other people's dreams for their lives." rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Bertolt Brecht info: German Communist & dramatist (1898 - 1956) quote: On thinking about Hell, I gather My brother Shelley found it was a place Much like the city of London. I Who live in Los Angeles and not in London Find, on thinking about Hell, that it must be Still more like Los Angeles. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Farnsworth Crowder info: "" quote: In the South of California has gathered the larges and most miscellaneous assortment of Messiahs, Sorcerers, Saints and Seers known to the history of aberrations. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Peter Plagens info: "" quote: LA needs the cleansing of a great disaster or founding of a barricaded commune. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Graham Clarke info: "" quote: "Los Angeles seems endlessly held between these extremes: of light and dark - of surface and depth. Of the promise, in brief, of a meaning always hovering on the edge of significance." rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Michael Kaye info: president of Westec, a residential security company. quote: We're not a security guard company. We sell a *concept* of security. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Mike Davis info: "\"City of Quartz\"" quote: As part of it's 'Astro' program LAPD helicopters maintain an average nineteen-hours-per-day vigil over 'high crime areas', tactically coordinated to patrol car forces, and exceeding even the British Army's aerial surveillance of Belfast. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: William Faulkner info: US novelist (1897 - 1962) quote: Time is dead as long as it is being clicked off by little wheels; only when the clock stops does time come to life. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Samuel Johnson info: English author, critic, & lexicographer (1709 - 1784) quote: I would rather see the portrait of a dog that I know, than all the allegorical paintings they can show me in the world. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Jean Baptiste Lacoraire info: "" quote: The affections are like lightning; You cannot tell where they will strike till they have fallen rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: John Blasik info: "" quote: It was mentioned on CNN that the new prime number discovered recently is four times bigger then the previous record. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Bob Bennett info: WDIV News 4, Detroit, reporting on a flood that destroyed some suburban basement apartments. quote: Water generally flows downhill in this area. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Charles H. Duell info: Commissioner, U.S. patent office, 1899 (attributed) quote: Everything that can be invented has been invented. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Former LAPD Chief Daryl Gates info: on lesbians in the LA Police Dept. quote: They have, and bring with them, that upper-body strength. They have apparently developed that in their childhood and growing up, and they've further advanced in that regard. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Frank Muir info: "" quote: Strategy is buying a bottle of fine wine when you take a lady out for dinner. Tactics is getting her to drink it. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: George Gobel info: "" quote: I have never been drunk, but often I've been overserved. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Honore de Balzac info: French realist novelist (1799 - 1850) quote: This coffee plunges into the stomach...the mind is aroused, and ideas pour forth like the battalions of the Grand Army on the field of battle.... Memories charge at full gallop...the light cavalry of comparisons deploys itself magnificently; the artillery of logic hurry in with their train of ammunition; flashes of wit pop up like sharp-shooters. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Alfred Kinsey info: "" quote: The only unnatural sexual act is that which you cannot perform. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Friedrich Nietzsche info: German philosopher (1844 - 1900) quote: Morality is the herd-instinct in the individual. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Mary Tyler Moore info: Mary Richards (Mary Tyler Moore Show)US television actress (1936 - ) quote: I'm an experienced woman; I've been around... well, alright, I might not've been around, but I've been... nearby. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Deputy Barney Fife (Don Knotts on the Andy Griffith Show) info: "" quote: I'm a man of the world, Andy. Why, I've even been to Raleigh! rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Dr. Seuss a.k.a. Theodore Giesel info: "" quote: You make 'em, I amuse 'em. [children] rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Mark Twain info: A Curious Dream (1872)US humorist, novelist, short story author, & wit (1835 - 1910) quote: Barring that natural expression of villainy which we all have, the man looked honest enough. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Oswald Theodore Avery info: "" quote: Whenever you fall, pick up something rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Niels Bohr info: Danish physicist (1885 - 1962) quote: Anyone who is not shocked by quantum theory has not understood it. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Science News info: "" quote: Reality's failure rate is similar to [that of] other barrier contraceptives. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: H. Theil `Principles of Econometrics' info: "" quote: Models are to be used, not believed. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: William Occam info: "" quote: Entia non sunt multiplicanda praeter necessitatem (Entities must not be multiplied beyond necessity.) rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Albert Einstein info: US (German-born) physicist (1879 - 1955) quote: Theories should be as simple as possible, but not simpler. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Bob Ekstrom info: Pitt, MN quote: Tongue - a variety of meat, rarely served because it clearly crosses the line between a cut of beef and a piece of dead cow. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: On the menu at Al's Oasis in Oacama info: South Dakota quote: Bisonburger from the herd that appeared in 'Dances With Wolves.' rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Margo Kaufman info: "" quote: I once complained to my father that I didn't seem to be able to do things the same way other people did. Dad's advice? 'Margo, don't be a sheep. People hate sheep. They eat sheep.' rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Morticia Addams - from the Addams Family movie info: "" quote: We gladly feast on those who would subdue us ... not just pretty words, Fester. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Brothers Karamazov info: Pt 1, Bk i, Ch 6 quote: If you were to destroy in mankind the belief in immortality, not only love but every living force maintaining the life of the world would at once be dried up. Moreover, nothing then would be immoral, everything would be permissible, even cannibalism. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: J.M. Barrie info: "" quote: God gave us our memories so that we might have roses in December. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Lord Peter Wimsey info: "\"Gaudy Night\"" quote: A facility for quotation covers the absence of original thought. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Aelius Donatus info: "" quote: Confound those who have said our remarks before us. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Lord Byron info: English poet & satirist (1788 - 1824) quote: With just enough of learning to misquote. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Robert Chapman info: "" quote: A quotation, like a pun, should come unsought, and then be welcomed only for some propriety of felicity justifying the intrusion. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Louise Guiney info: "" quote: Quotations (such as have point and lack triteness) from the great old authors are an act of reverence on the part of the quoter, and a blessing to a public grown superficial and external. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Thomas Higginson info: "" quote: The test of an author is not to be found merely in the number of his phrases that pass current in the corner of newspapers...but in the number of passages that have really taken root in younger minds. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Leonardo da Vinci info: Italian engineer, painter, & sculptor (1452 - 1519) quote: Whoever in discussion adduces authority uses not intellect but memory. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Purchasing agent for Baylor Baptist University info: Waco, Texas, commenting on David Koresh and the Branch Dividians quote: I believe that religion can make a well-rounded person, or it can make an idiot. What we've go going on here is an idiot. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Mark Twain info: from A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's CourtUS humorist, novelist, short story author, & wit (1835 - 1910) quote: I have done some indiscreet things in my day, but this thing of playing myself for a prophet was the worst. Still, it had its ameliorations. A prophet doesn't have to have any brains. They are good to have, of course, for the ordinary exigencies of life, but they are no use in professional work. It is the restfulest vocation there is. When the spirit of prophecy comes upon you, you merely take your intellect and lay it off somewhere in a cool place for a rest, and unship your jaw and leave it alone; it will work itself. The result is prophecy. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Legal Times info: 2/15/93 quote: In one celebrated incident, 300 members of Church of the New Song requested $6000 worth of filet mignon and Harvey's Bristol Cream for a crucial religious ceremony at the federal prison in Atlanta. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Christopher Fry info: "" quote: Poetry is the language in which man explores his own amazement. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Henrik Ibsen info: Norweigen PlaywrightNorwegian dramatist (1828 - 1906) quote: Poetry is to hold judgment on your soul. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: John F. Kennedy info: 35th president of US 1961-1963 (1917 - 1963) quote: When power narrows the areas of man's concern, poetry reminds him of the richness and diversity of his existance. When power corrupts, poetry cleanses. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Robert Ranke Graves (b. 1895) info: "" quote: There's no money in poetry, but there's no poetry in money, either. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Robert Southey info: English poet (1774 - 1843) quote: It is with words as with sunbeams. The more they are condenced, the deeper they burn. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: John Masefield info: English author (1878 - 1967) quote: Since the printing press came into being, poetry has ceased to be the delight of the whole community of man; it has become the amusement and delight of the few. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: R.Z. Sheppard info: book critic quote: Adjectives are the potbelly of poetry. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Virgil info: Roman epic poet (70 BC - 19 BC) quote: Do not commit your poems to pages alone, sing them I pray you. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Immanuel Kant info: German philosopher (1724 - 1804) quote: That all our knowledge begins with experience, there is indeed no doubt....but although our knowledge originates WITH experience, it does not all arise OUT OF experience. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Henri Poincare info: French mathematician & physicist (1854 - 1912) quote: Thus, be it understood, to demonstrate a theorem, it is neither necessary nor even advantageous to know what it means....[A] machine might be imagined where the assumptions were put in at one end, while the theorems came out at the other, like the legendary Chicago machine where the pigs go in alive and come out transformed into hams and sausages. No more than these machines need the mathematician know what he does. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Professor Edsger Dijkstra info: at the ACN South Central Regional Conference, Austin, Texas, 16 to 18 Novemver 1984 quote: "The fathers of the field had been pretty confusing: John von Neumann speculated about computers and the human brain in analogies sufficiently wild to be worthy of a medieval thinker, and Alan Turing thought about criteria to settle the question of whether machines can think, a question of which we now know that it is about as relevant as the question of whether submarines can swim." rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Ted Nelson info: "" quote: I am a design chauvinist. I believe that good design is magical and not to be lightly tinkered with. The difference between a great design and a lousy one is in the meshing of the thousand details that either fit or don't, and the spirit of the passionate intellect that has tied them together, or tried. That's why programming-- or buying software-- on the basis of "lists of features" is a doomed and misguided effort. The features can be thrown together, as in a garbage can, or carefully laid together and interwoven in elegant unification, as in APL, or the Forth language, or the game of chess. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Mike Tyson info: heavyweight champ, on "plans" released by Tyrell Biggs' camp on how they would defeat the champ quote: Everybody's got plans...until they get hit. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Walter Truett Anderson info: "" quote: Reality isn't what it used to be. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: E.W. Howe info: "" quote: A reasonable probability is the only certainty. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Werner Heisenberg info: "" quote: We have to remember that what we observe is not nature in itself but nature exposed to our method of questioning. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Werner Heisenberg info: "" quote: What happens depends on our way of observing it or on the fact that we observe it. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: J. B. S. Haldane info: "\"On Being the Right Size\" in the (1928) book \"Possible Worlds\"British geneticist & scientist (1892 - 1964)" quote: My own suspicion is that the universe is not only queerer than we suppose, but queerer than we *can* suppose. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Alfred North Whitehead info: English mathematician & philosopher (1861 - 1947) quote: "Nature gets credit which should in truth be reserved for ourselves: the rose for its scent, the nightingale for its song; and the sun for its radiance. The poets are entirely mistaken. They should address their lyrics to themselves and should turn them into odes of self congratulation on the excellence of the human mind." rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Baron Gottfried Wilhelm von Leibniz info: "" quote: Although the whole of this life were said to be nothing but a dream and the physical world nothing but a phantasm, I should call this dream or phatasm real enough, if, using reason well, we were never deceived by it. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Battaille info: "" quote: "[F]or academic men to be happy, the universe would have to take shape. All of philosophy has no other goal: it is a matter of giving a frock coat to what is, a mathematical frock coat. On the other hand, affirming that the universe resembles nothing and is only formless amounts to saying that the universe is something like a spider or spit." rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Douglas Adams info: The Restaurant at the End of the UniverseEnglish humorist & science fiction novelist (1952 - 2001) quote: "The story so far: In the beginning the Universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and has been widely regarded as a bad move." rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: G.K. Chesterton info: "" quote: What a glorious garden of wonders the lights of Broadway would be to anyone lucky enough to be unable to read. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Dick Cavett and Jimi Hendrix info: "" quote: "\"Do you consider yourself a disciplined guy? Do you get up every day and `go to work'?\" \"Well, yeah. I try to get up every day.\"" rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Abbie Hoffman info: US radical activist (1936 - 1989) quote: Stay away from needle drugs. Richard Nixon is the only dope worth shooting. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Phillip K Dick info: "" quote: Reality is what won't go away when you stop beliving in it. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Joe Keenan info: "" quote: There are, however, people in this world who seldom pick up a newspaper, people who, when watching television, sneer in displeasure and change channels at the first glimpse of an anchorperson. While such willfully uninformed citizens are rare, emerging from seclusion only to serve on juries in trials of great national significance, they do exist. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Neil Postman info: "" quote: "The whole problem with news on television comes down to this: all the words uttered in an hour of news coverage could be printed on page of a newspaper. And the world cannot be understood in one page." rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Paul Feyerabend info: "" quote: Knowledge is not a series of self-consistent theories that converges toward an ideal view; it is rather an ever increasing ocean of mutually incompatible (and perhaps even incommensurable) alternatives, each single theory, each fairy tale, each myth that is part of the collection forcing the others into greater articulation and all of them contributing, via this process of competition, to the development of our consciousness. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: John Locke info: English empiricist philosopher (1632 - 1704) quote: Earthly minds, like mud walls, resist the strongest batteries; and though, perhaps, somethimes the force of a clear argument may make some impression, yet they nevertheless stand firm, keep out the enemy, truth, that would captivate or disturbe them. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Dennis Miller (told to me by a CV employee) info: "" quote: This place makes Mayberry look like a think tank. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Scott McNealy on IBM Corp's new chief executive officer Louis Gerstner info: "" quote: Who cares who's captain after the wings have fallen off. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Gene Spafford info: "1992" quote: Usenet is like a herd of performing elephants with diarrhea -- massive, difficult to redirect, awe-inspiring, entertaining, and a source of mind- boggling amounts of excrement when you least expect it. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Julie Brown info: "" quote: Right now I'm a freshman in my fourth year at U.C.L.A., but my goal is to become a veternarian, 'cause I love children. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Frank Zappa info: while band is tuning instrumentsUS musician, singer, & songwriter (1940 - 1993) quote: If we were the Monkees, we'd be ready by now. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Dennis Miller info: MCing the 1991 Emmies quote: I have the distinction of speaking to you from one of the few countries that still has a communist party. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Fred Flintstone info: "" quote: Why can't they invent something for us to marry instead of WOMEN? rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Bobbi Harlow's father to Steve Dallas in Bloom County info: "" quote: I've got one word for the eighties. One word. Handguns. Disposable Handguns. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Jack Nicholson's character in The Witches of Eastwick info: "" quote: When we make mistakes they call it evil. When God makes mistakes they call it Nature! rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: David Hume info: Scottish historian & philosopher (1711 - 1776) quote: "If we take in our hand any volume; of divinity or school metaphysics, for instance; let us ask, \"Does it contain any abstract reasoning concerning quantity or number?\" No. \"Does it contain any experimental reasoning concerning matter of fact and existence?\" No. Commit it then to the flames: for it can contain nothing but sophistry and illusion." rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Julian the Apostate info: "" quote: "The idea of an incarnation of God is absurd: why should the human race think itself so superior to bees, ants, and elephants as to be put in this unique relation to its maker? . . Christians are like a council of frogs in a marsh or a synod of worms on a dung-hill croaking and squeaking \"for our sakes was the world created.\"" rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Albert Einstein info: US (German-born) physicist (1879 - 1955) quote: I want to know God's thoughts; the rest are details. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: The British Board Of Film Censors info: in their report on _Life of Brian_ quote: Monty Python's usual schoolboy humour is here let loose on a period of history appropriately familiar to every schoolboy in the West, and a faith which could be shaken by such good-humoured ribaldry would be a very precarious faith indeed. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Alan Holbrook info: "" quote: Women and cats do as they damned well please, and men and dogs had best learn to live with it. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Spalding Gray info: "from Swimming to Cambodia: The collected works of Spalding Gray" quote: When I was in therapy about two years ago, one day I noticed that I hadn't had any children. And I like children at a distance. I wondered if I'd like them up close. I wondered why I didn't have any. I wondered if it was a mistake, or if I'd done it on purpose, or what. And I noticed my therapist didn't have any children either. He had pictures of his cats on the wall. Framed. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Sir Compton MacKenzie info: "" quote: The only mystery about the cat is why it ever decided to become a domesticated animal rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Theophile Gautier info: "" quote: Who can believe that there is no soul behind those luminous eyes! rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Mark Twain info: Pudd'nhead Wilson's CalendarUS humorist, novelist, short story author, & wit (1835 - 1910) quote: One of the most striking differences between a cat and a lie is that the cat has only nine lives. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Joseph Wood Krutch info: US author & critic (1893 - 1970) quote: Cats seem to go on the principle that it never does any harm to ask for what you want. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: H. L. Mencken info: US editor (1880 - 1956) quote: All [zoos] actually offer to the public in return for the taxes spent upon them is a form of idle and witless amusement, compared to which a visit to a penitentiary, or even to a State legislature in session, is informing, stimulating and ennobling. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Dave Barry info: "\"Sweating Out Taxes\"US columnist & humorist (1947 - )" quote: "All the big corporations depreciate their possessions, and you can, too, provided you use them for business purposes. For example, if you subscribe to the Wall Street Journal, a business-related newspaper, you can deduct the cost of your house, because, in the words of U.S. Supreme Court Chief Justice Warren Burger in a landmark 1979 tax decision: \"Where else are you going to read the paper? Outside? What if it rains?\"" rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Jim Fiebig info: "" quote: All the taxes paid over a lifetime by the average American are spent by the government in less than a second. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Will Rogers info: US humorist & showman (1879 - 1935) quote: Baseball is a skilled game. It's America's game -- it, and high taxes. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Lazarus Long info: "\"Time Enough for Love\"" quote: Be wary of strong drink. It can make you shoot at tax collectors and miss. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Will Rogers info: US humorist & showman (1879 - 1935) quote: I see a good deal of talk from Washington about lowering taxes. I hope they do get 'em lowered enough so people can afford to pay 'em. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Arthur Godfrey info: "" quote: I'm proud to be paying taxes in the United States. The only thing is I could be just as proud for half the money. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Dave Barry info: "\"Sweating Out Taxes\"US columnist & humorist (1947 - )" quote: "Let's talk about how to fill out your 1984 tax return. Here's an often overlooked accounting technique that can save you thousands of dollars: For several days before you put it in the mail, carry your tax return around under your armpit. No IRS agent is going to want to spend hours poring over a sweat-stained document. So even if you owe money, you can put in for an enormous refund and the agent will probably give it to you, just to avoid an audit. What does he care? It's not his money." rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Bill Veeck info: Chicago White Sox quote: Look, we play the Star Spangled Banner before every game. You want us to pay income taxes, too? rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: F. J. Raymond info: "" quote: Next to being shot at and missed, nothing is really quite as satisfying as an income tax refund. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Dolph Sharp info: "\"I'm O.K., You're Not So Hot\"" quote: Receiving a million dollars tax free will make you feel better than being flat broke and having a stomach ache. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Russell Long info: "" quote: Tax reform means "Don't tax you, don't tax me, tax that fellow behind the tree." rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Albert Einstein info: US (German-born) physicist (1879 - 1955) quote: The hardest thing in the world to understand is the income tax. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Will Rogers info: US humorist & showman (1879 - 1935) quote: The income tax has made more liars out of the American people than golf has. Even when you make a tax form out on the level, you don't know when it's through if you are a crook or a martyr. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Dave Barry info: "\"Sweating Out Taxes\"US columnist & humorist (1947 - )" quote: The IRS spends God knows how much of your tax money on these toll-free information hot lines staffed by IRS employees, whose idea of a dynamite tax tip is that you should print neatly. If you ask them a real tax question, such as how you can cheat, they're useless. So, for guidance, you want to look to big business. Big business never pays a nickel in taxes, according to Ralph Nader, who represents a big consumer organization that never pays a nickel in taxes... rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: George Bernard Shaw info: Irish dramatist & socialist (1856 - 1950) quote: The seven deadly sins ... Food, clothing, firing, rent, taxes, respectability and children. Nothing can lift those seven milestones from man's neck but money; and the spirit cannot soar until the milestones are lifted. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: J. MacKay info: Mathematics 134b quote: The subspace W inherits the other 8 properties of V. And there aren't even any property taxes. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: H. L. Mencken info: US editor (1880 - 1956) quote: Unquestionably, there is progress. The average American now pays out twice as much in taxes as he formerly got in wages. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe info: German dramatist, novelist, poet, & scientist (1749 - 1832) quote: "Mathematicians are like Frenchmen: whatever you say to them they translate into their own language, and forthwith it is something entirely different." rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Eric Temple Bell info: "" quote: Any impatient student of mathematics or science or engineering who is irked by having algebraic symbolism thrust upon him should try to get along without it for a week. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Douglas R. Hofstadter info: "" quote: "All the limitative Theorems of metamathematics and the theory of computation suggest that once the ability to represent your own structure has reached a certain critical point, that is the kiss of death: it guarantees that you can never represent yourself totally. Godel's Incompleteness Theorem, Church's Undecidability Theorem, Turing's Halting Problem, Turski's Truth Theorem-- all have the flavour of some ancient fairy tale which warns you that \"To seek self- knowledge is to embark on a journey which . . . will always be incomplete, cannot be charted on a map, will never halt, cannot be described.\"" rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Gilbert & Sullivan info: "\"The Pirates of Penzance\"" quote: I'm very well acquainted too with matters mathematical, I understand equations, both the simple and quadratical, About binomial theorem I'm teeming with a lot of news-- With many cheerful facts about the square of the hypotenuse. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: H. L. Mencken info: US editor (1880 - 1956) quote: Man is never honestly the fatalist, nor even the stoic. He fights his fate, often desperately. He is forever entering bold exceptions to the rulings of the bench of gods. This fighting, no doubt, makes for human progress, for it favors the strong and the brave. It also makes for beauty, for lesser men try to escape from a hopeless and intolerable world by creating a more lovely one of their own. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Walter Truett Anderson - "Reality Isn't What it Used to Be" info: "" quote: The idea of hunting and gathering as the best way for life has become quite popular recently, much more popular in some circles than the idea of simple farming as the best way of life. Many of the new primitives regard the beginnings of agriculture as one of humanity's major steps in the wrong direction. Most of the people who are drawn to such ideas do their actual hunting and gathering in grocery stores, but the *feeling* is there; it takes the form of a religion...expressed by particpating in American Indian rituals - or primitive-style rituals that are created anew. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: A. Whitney Brown info: "\"The Big Picture\"" quote: There are a billion people in China. It's not easy to be an individual in a crowd of more than a billion people. Think of it. More than a BILLION people. That means even if you're a one-in-a-million type of guy, there are still a thousand guys exactly like you." rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Tallulah Bankhead info: US movie actress (1903 - 1968) quote: Nobody can be exactly like me. Sometimes even I have trouble doing it. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Michel de Montaigne info: French essayist (1533 - 1592) quote: There is as much difference between us and ourselves as there is between us and others. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Marcel Proust info: French novelist (1871 - 1922) quote: Every reader finds himself. The writer's work is merely a kind of optical instrument that makes it possible for the reader to discern what, without this book, he would perhaps never have seen in himself. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Neil Postman info: "" quote: "Because he did not have time to read every new book in his field, the great Polish anthropologist Bronislaw Malinowski used a simple and efficient method of deciding which ones were worth his attention: Upon receiving a new book, he immediately checked the index to see if his name was cited, and how often. The more \"Malinowski\" the more compelling the book. No \"Malinowski,\" and he doubted the subject of the book was anthropology at all." rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Wilson Mizner info: US screenwriter (1876 - 1933) quote: If you steal from one author, it's plagiarism; if you steal from many, it's research. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Robert W. Shaunon info: "" quote: Perhaps the reader may ask, of what consequence is it whether the author's exact language is preserved or not, provided we have his thought? The answer is, that inaccurate quotation is a sin against truth. It may appear in any particular instance to be a trifle, but perfection consists in small things, and perfection is no trifle. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: W.C. Fields info: "" quote: Few things in life are more embarrassing than the necessity of having to inform an old friend that you have just got engaged to his fiancee. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Stephen King info: Roland from "The Last Gunslinger"US horror novelist & screenwriter (1947 - ) quote: Only enemies speak the truth; friends and lovers lie endlessly, caught in the web of duty. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: David Hume info: Scottish historian & philosopher (1711 - 1776) quote: Truth, springs from agrument amongst friends. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Anais Nin info: US (French-born) author & diarist (1903 - 1977) quote: Each friend represents a world in us, a world not born until they arrive, and it is only by this meeting that a new world is born. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Henry Miller info: US author (1891 - 1980) quote: When one is trying to do something beyond his known powers it is useless to seek the approval of friends. Friends are at their best in moments of defeat. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Robert Louis Stevenson info: Scottish author (1850 - 1894) quote: "The friendly cow all red and white, I love with all my heart: She gives me cream with all her might; to eat with apple tart." rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Mark Gooley info: "" quote: After several minutes of utterly dull conversation I began to think of her not as a woman but as a human, then not as a human but as an animal, then not as an animal but as a source of high-grade protein. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: John Von Neumann (ca. 1949) info: "" quote: It would appear that we have reached the limits of what it is possible to achieve with computer technology, although one should be careful with such statements, as they tend to sound pretty silly in 5 years. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Ken Olsen info: CEO DEC 1977US computer engineer & industrialist (1926 - ) quote: There is no reason for any individual to have a computer in their home. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Orville Wright info: "" quote: No flying machine will ever fly from New York to Paris ... [because] no known motor can run at the requisite speed for four days without stopping. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Julius Frontinus info: 1st century A.D. quote: Inventions reached their limit long ago, and I see no hope for further development. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: The Quarterly Review (England) info: March 1825 quote: What can be more palpably absurd than the prospect held out of locomotives travelling twice as fast as stagecoaches? rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: An American mayor's reaction to the news of the invention of the telephone info: "" quote: I can see the time when every city will have one. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Charles Bukowski info: US (German-born) author & poet (1920 - 1994) quote: For those who believe in God, most of the big questions are answered. But for those of us who can't readily accept the God formula, the big answers don't remain stone-written. We adjust to new conditions and discoveries. We are pliable. Love need not be a command or faith a dictum. I am my own God. We are here to unlearn the teachings of the church, state, and our educational system. We are here to drink beer. We are here to kill war. We are here to laugh at the odds and live our lives so well that Death will tremble to take us. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Leonard Nimoy info: "" quote: I find the question "Why are we here?" typically human. I'd suggest "Are we here?" would be the more logical choice. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: John Hunter info: "" quote: Why think? Why not try the experiment? rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Claude Bernard info: French physiologist (1813 - 1878) quote: The true worth of an experimenter consists in his pursuing not only what he seeks in his experiment, but also what he did not seek. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Steven Wright info: US comedian and actor (1955 - ) quote: You know how it is when you go to be the subject of a psychology experiment, and nobody else shows up, and you think maybe that's part of the experiment? I'm like that all the time. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: "Velilind's Laws of Experimentation:" info: "" quote: 1. If reproducibility may be a problem, conduct the test only once. 2. If a straight line fit is required, obtain only two data points. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Sir Ronald A. Fisher info: "" quote: Our view. . . is that it is an essential characteristic of experimentation that it is carried out with limited resources, and an essential part of the subject of experimental design to ascertain how these should be best applied; or, in particular, to which causes of disturbance care should be given, and which ought to be deliberately ignored. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Sir Arthur Conan Doyle info: British mystery author & physician (1859 - 1930) quote: It is a capital mistake to theorize before one has data. Insensibly one begins to twist facts to suit theories, instead of theories to suit facts. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Edward Teller info: US (Hungarian-born) physicist (1908 - 2003) quote: A fact is a simple statement that everyone believes. It is innocent, unless found guilty. A hypothesis is a novel suggestion that no one wants to believe. It is guilty, until found effective. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Mark Twain info: US humorist, novelist, short story author, & wit (1835 - 1910) quote: Get your facts first, and then you can distort them as much as you please. (Facts are stubborn, but statistics are more pliable.) rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Ronald Reagan '88 info: a slight misquote of John Adams, "Facts are stubborn things." quote: Facts are stupid things. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: George Bernard Shaw info: Irish dramatist & socialist (1856 - 1950) quote: We should have had socialism already, but for the socialists. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Arlo Guthrie info: US folksinger (1947 - ) quote: Santa Claus wears a Red Suit, He must be a communist. And a beard and long hair, Must be a pacifist. What's in that pipe that he's smoking? rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: "\"The King of Hearts\"" info: "" quote: "Plumpick: Don't you understand, the whole town will blow up in three minutes! Columbine: Yes--they will be wonderful, those three minutes." rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: General George Patton info: "" quote: No poor bastard ever won a war by dying for his country. He won it by making other bastards die for their country. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Ancient Chinese Warlord info: "" quote: To conquer the enemy without resorting to war is the most desirable. The highest form of generalship is to conquer the enemy by strategy. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Dan Quayle info: 10/2/90 (reported in Esquire, 8/92)US Republican politician (1947 - ) quote: Vietnam is a jungle. You had jungle warfare. Kuwait, Iraq, Saudi Arabia, you have sand. [There is no need to worry about a protracted war because] from a historical basis, Middle East conflicts do not last a long time. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Dan Quayle info: 4/11/91 (reported in Esquire, 8/92)US Republican politician (1947 - ) quote: "[The U.S. victory in Gulf war was] a stirring victory for the forces of aggression." rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Eric Nicol info: "" quote: Very little is known about the War of 1812 because the Americans lost it. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Sir Winston Churchill info: 1940, in his first address as the newly appointed Prime Minister.British politician (1874 - 1965) quote: ".... You ask, What is our policy? I will say; \"It is to wage war, by sea, land and air, with all our might and with all the strength that God can give us: to wage war against a monstrous tyranny, never surpassed in the dark lamentable catalogue of human crime. That is our policy.\" You ask, What is our aim? I can answer with one word: Victory - victory at all costs, victory in spite of all terror, victory however long and hard the road may be; for without victory there is no survival." rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Arthur Schlesinger Jr. info: "" quote: It is [the] belief in absolutes, I would hazard, that is the great enemy today of the life of the mind. This may seem a rash proposition. The fashion of the time is to denounce relativism as the root of all evil. But history suggests that the damage done to humanity by the relativist is far less than the damage done by the absolutist - by the fellow who, as Mr. Dooley once put it, "does what he thinks th' Lord wud do if He only knew th' facts in th' case." rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Lynn Lavner - as published in PFLAG info: "" quote: The Bible contains six admonishments to homosexuals and 362 admonishments to heterosexuals. That doesn't mean that God doesn't love heterosexuals. It's just that they need more supervision. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: FBI agent on why it was difficult to negotiate with David Koresh info: "" quote: After all, he thought he was God. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Voltaire info: French author, humanist, rationalist, & satirist (1694 - 1778) quote: God created sex. Priests created marriage. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: "\"Aqualung\" - Jethro Tull" info: "" quote: In the beginning Man created God; and in the image of Man created he him. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Oscar Wilde info: Irish dramatist, novelist, & poet (1854 - 1900) quote: I think that God in creating man somewhat overestimated his ability. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: H. L. Mencken info: US editor (1880 - 1956) quote: ...no man of genuinely superior intelligence has ever been an actor. Even supposing a young man of appreciable mental powers to be lured upon the stage, as philosophers are occasionally lured into bordellos, his mind would be inevitably and almost immediately destroyed by the gaudy nonsense issuing from his mouth every night. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Pierre Trudeau info: Canadian politician (1919 - 2000) quote: Let us overthrow the totems, break the taboos. Or better, let us consider them cancelled. Coldly, let us be intelligent. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Sigmund Freud info: Austrian psychologist (1856 - 1939) quote: What a distressing contrast there is between the radiant intelligence of the child and the feeble mentality of the average adult. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Remy de Gourmont info: "" quote: Man has made use of his intelligence, he invented stupidity. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Ed Parker info: Grandmaster, American Kenpo. quote: The intelligent man is one who has successfully fulfilled many accomplishments, and is yet willing to learn more. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Tom Wolfe info: "\"Bonfire of the Vanities\"US author & journalist (1931 - )" quote: Over the past ten years, for the first time, intelligence had become socially correct for girls. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Marvin info: _Life, the Universe, and Everything_ by Douglas Adams quote: That young girl is one of the least benightedly unintelligent organic life forms it has been my profound lack of pleasure not to be able to avoid meeting. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Su Tung-p'o info: "" quote: Families, when a child is born Want it to be intelligent. I, through intelligence, Having wrecked my whole life, Only hope the baby will prove Ignorant and stupid. Then he will crown a tranquil life By becoming a Cabinet Minister rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Aldous Huxley info: English critic & novelist (1894 - 1963) quote: "If you look up 'Intelligence' in the new volumes of the Encyclopeadia Britannica, you'll find it classified under the following three heads: Intelligence, Human; Intelligence, Animal; Intelligence, Military. My stepfather's a perfect specimen of Intelligence, Military." rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Charles Handy - The Age of Unreason info: "" quote: There is no place for the incompetent - there are few hiding places in these organizations. Do not look to the new intelligent organizations with their intelligent machines and their cultures of consent for days of gossipy coffee breaks or for boring but untaxing jobs. The culture of consent is not, as the British would say, going to be everyone's cup of tea unless they are educated and prepared for it. There lies the challenge for our society. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: G.H. Hardy info: "" quote: ...a science is said to be useful if its development tends to accentuate the existing inequalities in the destribution of wealth, or more directly promotes the destruction of human life. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Benoit Mandelbrot info: "" quote: Science would be ruined if (like sports) it were to put competition above everything else, and if it were to clarify the rules of competition by withdrawing entirely into narrowly defined specialties. The rare scholars who are nomads-by-choice are essential to the intellectual welfare of the settled disciplines. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Albert Einstein info: US (German-born) physicist (1879 - 1955) quote: ...one of the strongest motives that lead men to art and science is escape from everyday life with its painful crudity and hopeless dreariness, from the fetters of one's own ever-shifting desires. A finely tempered nature longs to escape from the personal life into the world of objective perception and thought. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Sir Francis Bacon info: English author, courtier, & philosopher (1561 - 1626) quote: Books must follow sciences, and not sciences books. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: John Von Neumann info: "" quote: The sciences do not try to explain, they hardly even try to interpret, they mainly make models. By a model is meant a mathematical construct which, with the addition of certain verbal interpretations, describes observed phenomena. The justification of such a mathematical construct is solely and precisely that it is expected to work. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Ivan Pavlov info: Russian physiologist (1849 - 1936) quote: What can I wish to the youth of my country who devote themselves to science? ...Thirdly, passion. Remember that science demands from a man all his life. If you had two lives that would not be enough for you. Be passionate in your work and in your searching. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Thomas Love Peacock info: "" quote: I almost think it is the ultimate destiny of science to exterminate the human race. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Zambendorf info: _Code of the Lifemaker_ by James P. Hogan quote: Scientists are the easiest to fool. They think in straight, predictable, directable, and therefore misdirectable, lines. The only world they know is the one where everything has a logical explanation and things are what they appear to be. Children and conjurors--they terrify me. Scientists are no problem; against them I feel quite confident. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Mark Twain info: US humorist, novelist, short story author, & wit (1835 - 1910) quote: I never could tell a lie that anybody would doubt, nor a truth that anybody would believe. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Mark Twain info: US humorist, novelist, short story author, & wit (1835 - 1910) quote: A lie can travel halfway round the world while the truth is putting on its shoes. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Mark Twain info: US humorist, novelist, short story author, & wit (1835 - 1910) quote: Why shouldn't truth be stranger than fiction? Fiction, after all, has to make sense. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Stephen Wolfram info: "" quote: I want to know the truth, however perverted that may sound. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Sir Arthur Eddington info: English astronomer (1882 - 1944) quote: In Einstein's theory of relativity the observer is a man who sets out in quest of truth armed with a measuring-rod. In quantum theory he sets out with a sieve. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Farley Mowat info: "" quote: Truth I have no trouble with, it's the facts I get all screwed up. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Cheers info: "" quote: "\"Well, now, hold onta yer horses, there, Frazier. I mean, as a psychiatrist, isn't it your job to, uh, `seek and uphold the truth'?\"\"Oh, get real, Cliff.\"" rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Alexander Jablokov "The Place of No Shadows" info: "" quote: The road to truth is long, and lined the entire way with annoying bastards rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Denis Diderot info: French author, encyclopedist, & philosopher (1713 - 1784) quote: I can be expected to look for truth but not to find it. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Noel Coward info: English actor, dramatist, & songwriter (1899 - 1973) quote: Your motivation? Your motivation is your pay packet on Friday. Now get on with it. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Dan Quayle info: after the manager of the Burger King had said that the jobs offered were part-time minimum wage jobs which didn't pay enough to live on, and that "It's hard to find people who want to actually show upUS Republican politician (1947 - ) quote: You have a part-time job, and that's better than no job at all. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Dan Quayle info: talking about his job as Chief investigator, consumer protection division of the Indiana Attorney General's office from 1970-1971US Republican politician (1947 - ) quote: It was just a job. It wasn't any special interest in consumer affairs. I needed a paycheck and the Attorney General said that I would be best to go down there, because he knew I was anti-consumer. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Mark Twain info: US humorist, novelist, short story author, & wit (1835 - 1910) quote: I never write Metropolis for seven cents because I can get the same price for city. I never write policeman because I can get the same money for cop. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Friedrich Nietzsche info: German philosopher (1844 - 1900) quote: In Christianity neither morality nor religion come into contact with reality at any point. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Friedrich Nietzsche info: German philosopher (1844 - 1900) quote: "Faith: not *wanting* to know what is true." rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Jonathan Swift info: Irish essayist, novelist, & satirist (1667 - 1745) quote: We have just enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love, one another. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Tom Robbins info: _Skinny Legs and All_, 1990, p. 305.US novelist (1936 - ) quote: ...to emphasize the afterlife is to deny life. To concentrate on Heaven is to create hell. In their desperate longing to transcend the disorderliness, friction, and unpredictability that pesters life; in their desire for a fresh start in a tidy habitat, germ-free and secured by angels, religious multitudes are gambling the only life they may ever have on a dark horse in a race that has no finish line." rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: A. Whitney Brown info: "\"The Big Picture\"" quote: The Baptists' basic theology is that if you hold someone under water long enough, he'll come around to your way of thinking. It's a ritual known as 'Bobbing for Baptists.' rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: A. Whitney Brown info: "\"The Big Picture\"" quote: The Baptists believe in The Right to Life before you're born. They also believe in Life After Death, but that is a privilege and you have to earn it by spending the interim in guilt-ridden misery. At an early age I decided that living a life of pious misery in the hope of going to heaven when it's over is a lot like keeping your eyes shut all through a movie in the hope of getting your money back at the end. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Hunter S. Thompson info: Generation of SwineUS journalist (1939 - 2005) quote: If there is, in fact, a Heaven and a Hell, all we know for sure is that Hell will be a viciously overcrowded version of Phoenix... rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Janov Pelorat in Asimov's Foundation's Edge info: "" quote: It seems to me, Golan, that the advance of civilization is nothing but an exercise in the limiting of privacy. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Calvin Trillin info: US columnist (1935 - ) quote: Before I go out to take a picture of someone, I just stop at the city desk and say, 'Do you want him gazing out toward the sunset or picking his nose?' rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: H.J. Byron _Our Boys_ info: "" quote: Life's too short for chess. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Ted Harbert info: pres. of ABC Entertainment, opining on Oprah Winfrey's interview of Michael Jackson. quote: This is why God invented network television. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Unknown info: "Quotations by unknown authors " quote: If debugging is the art of removing bugs, then programming must be the art of inserting them. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Kernighan & Plauger - The Elements of Programming Style info: "" quote: Some compilers allow a check during execution that subscripts do not exceed array dimensions. This is a help, but not sufficient. First, many programmers do not use such compilers because "They're not efficient." (Presumably, this means that it is vital to get the wrong answers quickly.) rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Fortran manual for Xerox Computers info: "" quote: The primary purpose of the Data statement is to give names to constants; instead of referring to pi as 3.141592653589793 at every appearance, the variable Pi can be given that value with a Data statement and used instead of the longer form of the constant. This also simplifies modifying the program, should the value of pi change. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Donald E. Knuth info: "" quote: The process of preparing programs for a digital computer is especially attractive, not only because it can be economically and scientifically rewarding, but also because it can be an aesthetic experience much like composing poetry or music. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Bill Clinton info: Announcement Speech, October 3, 199142nd president of the United States (1946 - ) quote: Opportunity for all means making taxes fair. I'm not out to soak the rich. But I do believe the rich should pay their fair share. For twelve years, the Republicans have raised taxes on the middle class. It's time to give the middle class tax relief. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Bill Clinton info: Georgetown University, November 20,199142nd president of the United States (1946 - ) quote: Ronald Reagan and George Bush pushed through programs that raised taxes on the middle class. I think it's time to cut them. And in my administration I'll offer a middle-income tax cut that will cut rates on the middle class. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Bill Clinton info: U.S. Conference Of Mayors, Houston, June 22, 199242nd president of the United States (1946 - ) quote: We have to ask the wealthiest Americans to pay their fair share again. Their incomes went up in the 1980s and their taxes went down. We can't ask the middle class to pay more; their incomes went down and their taxes went up. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Bill Clinton info: Democratic National Convention, July 16, 199242nd president of the United States (1946 - ) quote: "[George Bush] has raised taxes on the people driving pickup trucks and lowered taxes on the people riding in limousines. We can do better." rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Bill Clinton and Al Gore info: "\"Putting People First\", 1992" quote: We will lower the tax burden on middle-class Americans by asking the very wealthy to pay their fair share. Middle-class taxpayers will have a choice between a children's tax credit or a significant reduction in the income tax rate. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Bill Clinton info: Detroit Economic Club, August 21, 199242nd president of the United States (1946 - ) quote: No wonder Americans hate politics when, year in and year out, they hear politicians make promises that won't come true because they don't even mean them - campaign fantasies that win elections but don't get nations moving again. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Bill Clinton info: Presidential Debate, October 19, 199242nd president of the United States (1946 - ) quote: I'm not going to raise taxes on middle-class Americans to pay for the programs I've recommended. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: President Bill Clinton info: Joint session of Congress, February 17, 1993 quote: To middle-class Americans who have paid a great deal for the last 12 years and from whom I ask a contribution tonight, I will say again... you're not going at it alone anymore - you're certainly not going first, and you're not going to pay more for less as you have too often in the past. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Serbian proverb info: "" quote: Be humble for you are made of dung. Be noble for you are made of stars. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Stephen Jay Gould info: US author, naturalist, paleontologist, & popularizer of science (1941 - 2002) quote: Human consciousness arose but a minute before midnight on the geological clock. Yet we mayflies try to bend an ancient world to our purposes, ignorant perhaps of the messages buried in its long history. Let us hope that we are still in the early morning of our April day. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Blaise Pascal info: "quoted by Rebecca West in BLACK LAMB AND GREY FALCON: A JOURNEY THROUGH YUGOSLAVIA, 1940French mathematician, physicist (1623 - 1662)" quote: Man is but a reed, the most feeble thing in nature, but he is a thinking reed. The entire universe need not arm itself to crush him. A vapour, a drop of water, suffices to kill him. But if the universe were to crush him, man would still be more noble than that which killed him, because he knows that he dies and the advantage which the universe has over him; the universe knows nothing of this. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Blaise Pascal info: Pensees(II,72)French mathematician, physicist (1623 - 1662) quote: Man is to himself the most wonderful object in nature; for he cannot conceive what the body is, still less what the mind is, and least of all how a body should be united to a mind. This is the consummation of his difficulties, and yet it is his very being. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Jay Leno info: US comedian & television host (1950 - ) quote: How would it be if we discovered that aliens only stopped by earth to let their kids take a leak? rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: director Michael Curtiz to movie extras info: "" quote: Separate together in a bunch. [And don't] stand around so much in little bundles! rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: contesant in 1990 Mr. New Jersey Male pageant info: "" quote: Equal Rights were created for everyone. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: dialogue from 'Attack of the Crab Monsters' info: "" quote: Once they were men. Now they are land crabs. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: ad for 'Radical Hermeneutics' info: Repetition, Deconstruction, and the Hermeneutics Project' quote: "For John Caputo, hermeneutics means radical thinking without transcendental justification: attending to the ruptures and irregularities in existence before the metaphysics of presence has a chance to smooth them over. Radical Hermeneutics forges a closer collaboration between the hermeneutics and deconstruction than has previously been attempted." rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Richard Nixon info: discussing Watergate quote: I was not lying. I said things that later on seemed to be untrue. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: ad slogan 'Pepsi Comes Alive' as initially translated into Chinese info: "" quote: Pepsi brings your ancestors back from the grave. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: President Jimmy Carter's mistranslation in a 1977 speech in Poland info: "" quote: I desire the Poles carnally. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: from an official Japanese guide for English-speaking drivers info: "1936" quote: 1. At the rise of the hand of the policeman, stop rapidly. Do not pass him or otherwise disrespect him. 2. If pedestrian obstacle your path, tootle horn melodiously. If he continue to obstacle, tootle horn vigorously and utter vocal warning such as "Hi, Hi." [...] 5. Beware of greasy corner where lurk skid demon. Cease step on, approach slowly, round cautiously, resume step on gradually. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Simon Newcomb (declared in 1901) info: "" quote: The demonstration that no possible combination of known substances, known forms of machinery and known forms of force, can be united in a practical machine by which man shall fly long distances through the air, seems to the writer as complete as it is possible for the demonstration of any physical fact to be. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Lester Maddox info: ex-governor of Georgia quote: That's part of American greatness, is discrimination. Yes, sir. Inequality, I think, breeds freedom and gives a man opportunity. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Alf Landon info: during his speech in his presidential campaign against FDR quote: Wherever I have gone in this country, I have found Americans. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: actor Gregory Ratoff info: "" quote: You're a parasite for sore eyes. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Julian Schnabel info: "" quote: I paint paintings because I can't get the experience in any other way but there are many more experiences that are equally satisfying to me and equally inept at answering all my questions, but hover in exactitude in describing themselves and defying me to define their logic. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Dan Quayle info: beginning a speech at an Apollo 11 anniversary celebrationUS Republican politician (1947 - ) quote: My fellow astronauts... rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Danny Ozark info: manager of the Phillies quote: Half this game is 90% mental. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Bob Horner info: Atlanta Braves third baseman, on why he hadn't grown a beard quote: I've been traveling so much, I haven't had time to grow it. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Drexel Burnham Lambert spokesperson info: explaining why the company gave over $195 million in bonuses just before it filed for bankruptcy quote: If we didn't have bonuses, we wouldn't have had anybody working for us. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Peggy Noonan info: speechwriter for the Reagan administrationUS speechwriter for George Bush (1950 - ) quote: I first saw President Reagan as a foot, highly polished brown cordovan wagging merrily on a hassock. I spied it through the door. It was a beautiful foot, sleek. Such casual elegance and clean lines! But not a big foot, not formidable, maybe a little ...frail. I imagined cradling it in my arms, protecting it from unsmooth roads. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Orrin Hatch info: Republican senator quote: Captial punishment is our society's recognition of the sanctity of human life. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: George Rogers info: Saints running back quote: I want to gain 1,500 or 2,000 yards, whichever comes first. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Councilman John Bowman commenting on the high crime in Washington info: "" quote: If crime went down 100%, it would still be 50 times higher than it shoud be. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Reverend Peter Marshall info: on being elected Chaplain of the U. S. Senate in January 1947 quote: "The choice before us is plain: Christ or chaos, conviction or compromise, discipline or disintegration. I am rather tired of hearing about our rights and privileges as American citizens. The time is come - it now is - when we ought to hear about the duties and responsibilities of our citizenship. America's future depends upon her accepting and demonstrating God's government." rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Sir Winston Churchill info: British politician (1874 - 1965) quote: "[He] looks at foreign affairs through the wrong end of a municipal drainpipe." rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Sir Winston Churchill info: British politician (1874 - 1965) quote: Who will relieve me of this Wuthering Height rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Sir Winston Churchill info: British politician (1874 - 1965) quote: If heaven is going to be full of people like Hardie, well, the Almighty can have them to himself. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Sir Winston Churchill info: British politician (1874 - 1965) quote: There but for the grace of God goes God. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Sir Winston Churchill info: British politician (1874 - 1965) quote: It might be said that Lord Rosebery outlived his future by ten years and his past by more than twenty. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Sir Winston Churchill info: British politician (1874 - 1965) quote: "[On recognizing China] But if you recognize anyone it does not mean you like them. For instance, we all recognize the right honourable gentleman the member for Ebbw Vale." rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Todd Andrew Reid info: "" quote: Plato had slaves...George Washington had slaves... So, do I feel intrinsically better than these two men? Of course I do! They're dead! rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: PJ O'Rourke info: "" quote: Then there was LSD, which was supposed to make you think you could fly. I remember it made you think you couldn't stand up, and mostly it was right. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: M. C. Escher info: Dutch artist (1898 - 1972) quote: I don't use drugs, my dreams are frightening enough. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Henry Miller info: US author (1891 - 1980) quote: Chaos is the score upon which reality is written. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Henry Miller info: US author (1891 - 1980) quote: Confusion is a word we have invented for an order which is not understood. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Henry Miller info: "\"The Colossus of Maroussi\" (1941)US author (1891 - 1980)" quote: There is no salvation in becoming adapted to a world which is crazy. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Alfred Hitchcock info: British movie director (1899 - 1980) quote: "I have a perfect cure for a sore throat: cut it." rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Veronica - "Heathers" info: "" quote: My teen angst has a body count. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Plato info: Greek author & philosopher in Athens (427 BC - 347 BC) quote: Philosophy is the highest music. rating: 0 tags: []