Quote Of The Day
It is better to keep your mouth closed and let people think you are a fool than to open it and remove all doubt.
Mark Twain (1835 - 1910)
"When jesus comes back does he really want to see a bunch of crosses?"
Bill Hicks
That looks familiar... good quote.
An investment in knowledge always pays the best interest.
Benjamin Franklin
Anger is never without Reason, but seldom with a good One.
Benjamin Franklin
there are the
cookies you can eat zenra
For the religious among us (all others just keep walking, it's not about you).
"The vague and tenuous hope that God is too kind to punish the ungodly has become a deadly opiate for the consciences of millions." -- A.W. Tozer
"The price of apathy towards public affairs is to be ruled by evil men."
-- Plato
"irrevocable commitment to any religion is intellectual suicide. People who think for themselves do not accept ideas on this kind of authority."
- I forget :o
Forgiveness is the fragrance the violet sheds on the heel that has crushed it.
-- Mark Twain
In my pot nothing
But the wind’s deep moan,
For company only a
Staff of wisteria vine;
Last night we chatted
And laughed till all hours
The empty sky listened
With a cold heart.
- Muso Soseki (1275 - 1351)
"The bond that links your true family is not one of blood, but of respect and joy in each other's life. Rarely do members of one family grow up under the same roof."
-- Richard David Bach (b. 1936)
The future ain't what it used to be.
Yogi Berra
When you come to a fork in the road, take it.
Yogi Berra
You can observe a lot just by watching.
Yogi Berra
Ninety percent of all mental errors are in your head.
Yogi Berra (1925 - )
Go to other people's funerals or they won't come to yours.
Yogi Berra (1925 - )
If you don't know where you're going, you might not get there.
Yogi Berra
A nickel ain't worth a dime anymore.
Yogi Berra (1925 - )
I didn't really say everything I said.
Yogi Berra (1925 - )
I'd kill for a Nobel Peace Prize
-Stephen Wright
We live thinking we will never die.
We die thinking we have never lived.
Cut it out.
Jason Becker
“All right, they're on our left, they're on our right, they're in front of us, they're behind us... they can't get away this time. [When Surrounded By 8 Enemy Divisions During WW2]” - Lieutenant General [COLOR=black]Lewis Burwell "Chesty" Puller[/COLOR]
Nuclear tests in the Nevada desert? What the hell for? They already know the fucking things explode!
Frank Vincent Zappa
"If your head tells you one thing and your heart tells you another, before you do anything, you should first decide whether you have a better head or a better heart."
_Marilyn Vos Savant:heart-on:
"nothing can stop me now, cause i dont care anymore"
-Trent Reznor
They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.
Benjamin Franklin
Sometimes when I reflect back on all the beer I drink I feel ashamed. Then I look into the glass and think about the workers in the brewery and all of their hopes and dreams. If I didn't drink this beer, they might be out of work and their dreams would be shattered. Then I say to myself, 'It is better that I drink this beer and let their dreams come true than to be selfish and worry about my liver.'
--Jack Handey
Beer is living proof that God loves us and wants us to be happy.
~Benjamin Franklin
"to alocohol! the cause of, and solution to, all of lifes problems"
-H. J. Simpsons
Electricity is actually made up of extremely tiny particles called electrons, that you cannot see with the naked eye unless you have been drinking.
Dave Barry (1947 - ), "The Taming of the Screw"
I once spent a year in Philadelphia, I think it was on a Sunday.
W. C. Fields
Television is a medium because anything well done is rare.
Fred Allen
It thought it was neither well done nor rare?
"Civilization is born of leisure, and leisure can only come after the
crop has been harvested." -Louis La'Mour
Whether you think you can,
Or you think you can't,
You're right.
-Unknown
Pay yourself first.
-The Richest Man In Babylon
You need these three people in your life to know you REAL well:
Your Prof; Your Banker; and Your Boss. This will greatly enhance your future.
-My Dad, when I moved out.
"Anyone can become angry - that is easy, but to be angry with the right person at the right time, and for the right purpose and in the right way - that is not within everyone's power and that is not easy."
-Aristotle
The quality of mercy is not strain'd,
It droppeth as the gentle rain from heaven
Upon the place beneath. It is twice blest;
It blesseth him that gives and him that takes
The Merchant of Venice, Act 4, scene 1
Any man who can drive safely while kissing a pretty girl is simply not giving the kiss the attention it deserves.
-- Albert Einstein, U.S. physicist
It thought it was neither well done nor rare?
In Fred Allen's day it was rare...only three networks and only in prime time. Local TV was...well...think "cable community access" and you'll be close.
"When I see a pretty girl walking down the street, I think two things: One part of me wants to take her home, be real nice and treat her right; the other part wonders what her head would look like on a stick." - Ed Kemper
“Mike Hayden is supremely qualified for this position,” “He knows the intelligence community from the ground up.” "He's the right man to lead the CIA at this critical moment in our history,"
President George W. Bush, nominating Mike Hayden as head of the CIA
"He knows the CIA inside and out," "He is the right man to lead this important agency at this critical moment in our nation's history."
President George W. Bush, nominating Porter Goss as head of the CIA
"If this is coffee, please bring me some tea. If this is tea, please bring me some coffee." Honest Abe
"The White House chef knows how I like my Cap'n Crunch. He knows my breakfast inside and out. He's the right man to prepare my food at this critical time of my morning."
"If this is coffee, please bring me some tea. If this is tea, please bring me some coffee." Honest Abe
There's a Chinese restauraunt that I've been to a couple of times that served me some of that.
John Keats
The only means of strengthening one's intellect is to make up one's mind
about nothing-
to let the mind be a thoroughfare for all thoughts
"Experience is not what happens to a man; it is what a man does with what happens to him."
Aldous Huxley
"If the world were merely seductive, that would be easy. If it were merely challenging, that would be no problem. But I arise in the morning torn between a desire to improve (or save) the world and a desire to enjoy (or savor) the world. This makes it hard to plan the day." -- E.B. White
"I am certain of nothing but the truth of the imagination and the holiness of the heart's affections." --Keats
I'm fucked.
~Donald Trump