Weekly(ish) quotes

[blueeowyn]

... whatsoever things are true, whatsoever things are honest, whatsoever things are just, whatsoever things are pure, whatsoever things are lovely, whatsoever things are of good report. . .  think on these things
--Phil 4:8

The reason why so few good books are written is that so few people who can write know anything.
--Walter Bagehot

Human beings are the only creatures that allow their children to come back home.
--Bill Cosby

I love deadlines. I like the whooshing sound they make as they fly by.
--Douglas Adams

Show me a sane man and I'll cure him for you.
--Unknown

One thing you will probably remember well is any time you forgive and forget.
--Franklin P. Jones

In religion and politics, people's beliefs and convictions are in almost every case gotten at second hand, and without examination.
--Mark Twain
and that is part of our problem ... esp. when the media gets involved

He can compress the most words into the smallest ideas of any man I ever met.
--Abraham Lincoln
sounds like a lot of politicians and marketing people today

If absolute power corrupts absolutely, does absolute powerlessness make you pure?
--Harry Shearer

I love acting. It is so much more real than life.
--Oscar Wilde
sounds like some people I know

In real life, unlike in Shakespeare, the sweetness of the rose depends upon the name it bears. Things are not only what they are. They are, in very important respects, what they seem to be.
--Hubert H. Humphrey

It is the mind that makes the man, and our vigour is in our immortal soul.
--Ovid


No opera plot can be sensible, for people do not sing when they are feeling sensible.
--W. H. Auden

If all the rich people in the world divided up their money among themselves there wouldn't be enough to go around.
--Christina Stead

I have seen the future and it doesn't work.
--Robert Fulford

We cannot defend freedom abroad by deserting it at home.
--Edward R. Murrow,

By the time a man realizes that maybe his father was right, he usually has a son who thinks he's wrong.
--Charles Wadsworth

Pick battles big enough to matter, small enough to win.
--Jonathan Kozol

The real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do.
--B. F. Skinner

[It's] time for the human race to enter the solar system.
--Dan Quayle
Exhibit A on why politicians should not be in charge of science decisions

Patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel.
--Samuel Johnson

Everything in the world may be endured except continued prosperity.
--Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
not sure how to react to this one

It is inhumane, in my opinion, to force people who have a genuine medical need for coffee to wait in line behind people who apparently view it as some kind of recreational activity.
--Dave Barry
or chocolate

Sometimes I think we're alone. Sometimes I think we're not. In either case, the thought is staggering.
--R. Buckminster Fuller

Always be wary of any helpful item that weighs less than its operating manual.
--Terry Pratchett
also be wary of any helpful item whose operating manuel exceeds a scrabble dictionary in size

It's a recession when your neighbor loses his job; it's a depression when you lose yours.
--Harry S Truman

When someone tells you something defies description, you can be pretty sure he's going to have a go at it anyway.
--Clyde B. Aster


And I have to giggle at Java's logic. http://javasaurus.livejournal.com/155505.html Giggle