Author Topic: Quotes of Note (Read 119060 times)

ZWarrior · « **Reply #325 on:** May 30, 2006, 10:56:58 AM »

"While your friend holds you affectionately by both your hands you are safe, for you can watch both of his."

-- Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary"

ZWarrior · « **Reply #326 on:** May 31, 2006, 09:38:57 AM »

Linux: The OS people choose without $200,000,000 of persuasion.

-- Mike Coleman

ZWarrior · « **Reply #327 on:** June 06, 2006, 11:06:36 AM »

Tussman's Law: Nothing is as inevitable as a mistake whose time has come.
--/.

opiesilver · « **Reply #328 on:** June 06, 2006, 08:05:01 PM »

Only in Nebraska can you watch your dog run away for 3 days.

--ZW

ZWarrior · « **Reply #329 on:** June 07, 2006, 03:27:37 PM »

I believe the correct statement was "Only in the MIDWEST can you watch your dog run away for 3 days."

ZWarrior · « **Reply #330 on:** June 15, 2006, 09:32:36 AM »

"If you would know the value of money, go try to borrow some."
-- Ben Franklin

ZWarrior · « **Reply #331 on:** June 19, 2006, 01:38:02 PM »

"There's a way out of any cage."
-- Captain Christopher Pike,
"The Menagerie" ("The Cage"), stardate unknown.

JollyRoger · « **Reply #332 on:** June 19, 2006, 04:14:08 PM »

I know my name, you can ask me if you forget.
- Caboose, RvB season 4

ZWarrior · « **Reply #333 on:** June 20, 2006, 08:14:07 AM »

"Women aren't as mere as they used to be."
-- Pogo

ZWarrior · « **Reply #334 on:** July 13, 2006, 10:45:48 AM »

"If a nation expects to be ignorant and free, ... it expects what never was and never will be."
-- Thomas Jefferson

ZWarrior · « **Reply #335 on:** July 18, 2006, 10:36:22 AM »

"We make a living by what we get. We make a life by what we give."
--Winston Churchill

ZWarrior · « **Reply #336 on:** July 27, 2006, 12:52:22 PM »

"Love is the only game that is not called on account of darkness."
-- M. Hirschfield

ZWarrior · « **Reply #337 on:** July 31, 2006, 10:11:49 AM »

"Some men are heterosexual, and some are bisexual, and some men don't think about sex at all... they become lawyers."
-- Woody Allen

ZWarrior · « **Reply #338 on:** August 22, 2006, 08:16:26 AM »

"Why don't you fix your little problem... and light this candle?"
-- Alan Shepherd, the first man into space, Gemini program

ZWarrior · « **Reply #339 on:** August 25, 2006, 02:54:44 PM »

"If the good Lord didn't want us to eat cows, He wouldn't have made them taste like steak!"
-- Crash Davis (radio DJ)

ZWarrior · « **Reply #340 on:** August 28, 2006, 08:20:25 AM »

"After all, it is only the mediocre who are always at their best."
-- Jean Giraudoux

ZWarrior · « **Reply #341 on:** August 29, 2006, 10:13:02 AM »

sugar daddy, n.: A man who can afford to raise cain.

ZWarrior · « **Reply #342 on:** August 31, 2006, 02:26:37 PM »

“All history is only one long story to this effect: men have struggled for power over their fellow men in order that they might win the joys of earth at the expense of others, and might shift the burdens of life from their own shoulders upon those of others.”
— William Graham Sumner, American sociologist and economist (1840-1910).

ZWarrior · « **Reply #343 on:** September 03, 2006, 10:13:15 PM »

"If I knew what brand [of whiskey] he drinks, I would send a barrel or so to my other generals."
-- Abraham Lincoln, on General Ulysess S. Grant

ZWarrior · « **Reply #344 on:** October 17, 2006, 08:08:04 AM »

"Isn't it interesting that the same people who laugh at science fiction listen to weather forecasts and economists?"
-- Kelvin Throop III

Mr_Anderson · « **Reply #345 on:** October 17, 2006, 09:17:49 PM »

"A neurotic is a man who builds a castle in the air. A psychotic is the man who lives in it."
-- Jerome Lawerence

ZWarrior · « **Reply #346 on:** October 25, 2006, 09:17:30 AM »

"I cannot believe that God plays dice with the cosmos."
-- Albert Einstein, on the randomness of quantum mechanics

ZWarrior · « **Reply #347 on:** October 27, 2006, 06:54:34 AM »

"He is truly wise who gains wisdom from another's mishap."
-- Author Unknown

ZWarrior · « **Reply #348 on:** October 30, 2006, 07:35:05 AM »

"Drinking is not a spectator sport."
-- Jim Brosnan

ZWarrior · « **Reply #349 on:** October 31, 2006, 07:13:55 AM »

"Be circumspect in your liaisons with women. It is better to be seen at the opera with a man than at mass with a woman."
-- De Maintenon

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