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Monday, April 30, 2012
When all is said and done, more is said than done. - Lou Holtz
If you can count your money, you don't have a billion dollars. - J. Paul Getty
But the fact that some geniuses were laughed at does not imply that all who are laughed at are geniuses. They laughed at Columbus, they laughed at Fulton, they laughed at the Wright brothers. But they also laughed at Bozo the Clown. - Carl Sagan
Outside of a dog, a book is man's best friend. Inside of a dog it's too dark to read. - Groucho Marx
Last night somebody broke into my apartment and replaced everything with exact duplicates... When I pointed it out to my roommate, he said, 'Do I know you?' - Steven Wright
If you can count your money, you don't have a billion dollars. - J. Paul Getty
But the fact that some geniuses were laughed at does not imply that all who are laughed at are geniuses. They laughed at Columbus, they laughed at Fulton, they laughed at the Wright brothers. But they also laughed at Bozo the Clown. - Carl Sagan
Outside of a dog, a book is man's best friend. Inside of a dog it's too dark to read. - Groucho Marx
Last night somebody broke into my apartment and replaced everything with exact duplicates... When I pointed it out to my roommate, he said, 'Do I know you?' - Steven Wright
Sunday, April 29, 2012
You are remembered for the rules you break. - Douglas MacArthur
People are, if anything, more touchy about being thought silly than they are about being thought unjust. - E. B. White
The key to being a good manager is keeping the people who hate me away from those who are still undecided. - Casey Stengel
Exit, pursued by a bear. - William Shakespeare
Horse sense is the thing a horse has which keeps it from betting on people. - W. C. Fields
People are, if anything, more touchy about being thought silly than they are about being thought unjust. - E. B. White
The key to being a good manager is keeping the people who hate me away from those who are still undecided. - Casey Stengel
Exit, pursued by a bear. - William Shakespeare
Horse sense is the thing a horse has which keeps it from betting on people. - W. C. Fields
Weasel Zippers » Blog Archive » Female protesters chant “Not the church, not the state, women must control their fate” — then promptly demand free abortion & contraception
Saturday, April 28, 2012
Weasel Zippers » Blog Archive » Goracle Never at a Loss for Hyperbole: “My point is we must respond; what the scientists tell us is going to take place if we do not is too awful to contemplate”
Be true to your work, your word, and your friend. - Henry David Thoreau
No one gossips about other people's secret virtues. - Bertrand Russell
The greatest mystery is not that we have been flung at random between the profusion of matter and of the stars, but that within this prison we can draw from ourselves images powerful enough to deny our nothingness. - Andre Malraux
Inanimate objects are classified scientifically into three major categories - those that don't work, those that break down and those that get lost. - Russell Baker
There's so much pollution in the air now that if it weren't for our lungs there'd be no place to put it all. - Robert Orben
No one gossips about other people's secret virtues. - Bertrand Russell
The greatest mystery is not that we have been flung at random between the profusion of matter and of the stars, but that within this prison we can draw from ourselves images powerful enough to deny our nothingness. - Andre Malraux
Inanimate objects are classified scientifically into three major categories - those that don't work, those that break down and those that get lost. - Russell Baker
There's so much pollution in the air now that if it weren't for our lungs there'd be no place to put it all. - Robert Orben
Friday, April 27, 2012
Do what you can, with what you have, where you are. - Theodore Roosevelt
The best doctor in the world is the veterinarian. He can't ask his patients what is the matter-he's got to just know. - Will Rogers
One should absorb the colour of life, but one should never remember its details. Details are always vulgar. - Oscar Wilde
If computers get too powerful, we can organize them into a committee -- that will do them in. - Bradley's Bromide
The most incomprehensible thing about the world is that it is at all comprehensible. - Albert Einstein
The best doctor in the world is the veterinarian. He can't ask his patients what is the matter-he's got to just know. - Will Rogers
One should absorb the colour of life, but one should never remember its details. Details are always vulgar. - Oscar Wilde
If computers get too powerful, we can organize them into a committee -- that will do them in. - Bradley's Bromide
The most incomprehensible thing about the world is that it is at all comprehensible. - Albert Einstein
Thursday, April 26, 2012
Experience is one thing you can't get for nothing. - Oscar Wilde
Historically, the claim of consensus has been the first refuge of scoundrels; it is a way to avoid debate by claiming that the matter is already settled. - Michael Crichton
Instead of giving a politician the keys to the city, it might be better to change the locks. - Doug Larson
Once the game is over, the King and the pawn go back in the same box. - Italian
Proverb I think that one possible definition of our modern culture is that it is one in which nine-tenths of our intellectuals can't read any poetry. - Randall Jarrell
Historically, the claim of consensus has been the first refuge of scoundrels; it is a way to avoid debate by claiming that the matter is already settled. - Michael Crichton
Instead of giving a politician the keys to the city, it might be better to change the locks. - Doug Larson
Once the game is over, the King and the pawn go back in the same box. - Italian
Proverb I think that one possible definition of our modern culture is that it is one in which nine-tenths of our intellectuals can't read any poetry. - Randall Jarrell
Wednesday, April 25, 2012
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A person will sometimes devote all his life to the development of one part of his body - the wishbone. - Robert Frost
Education is a method whereby one acquires a higher grade of prejudices. - Laurence J. Peter
The only reason for being a professional writer is that you can't help it. - Leo Rosten
The surest way to make a monkey of a man is to quote him. - Robert Benchley
No matter how cynical you get, it is impossible to keep up. - Lily Tomlin
Education is a method whereby one acquires a higher grade of prejudices. - Laurence J. Peter
The only reason for being a professional writer is that you can't help it. - Leo Rosten
The surest way to make a monkey of a man is to quote him. - Robert Benchley
No matter how cynical you get, it is impossible to keep up. - Lily Tomlin
Tuesday, April 24, 2012
You can't wait for inspiration. You have to go after it with a club. - Jack London
In politics, absurdity is not a handicap. - Napoleon Bonaparte
Fathers send their sons to college either because they went to college or because they didn't. - L. L. Henderson
Children are all foreigners. - Ralph Waldo Emerson
What if everything is an illusion and nothing exists? In that case, I definitely overpaid for my carpet. - Woody Allen
In politics, absurdity is not a handicap. - Napoleon Bonaparte
Fathers send their sons to college either because they went to college or because they didn't. - L. L. Henderson
Children are all foreigners. - Ralph Waldo Emerson
What if everything is an illusion and nothing exists? In that case, I definitely overpaid for my carpet. - Woody Allen
Monday, April 23, 2012
Weasel Zippers » Blog Archive » Shameless Dem Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton Uses Trayvon Martin Shooting To Demand Millions For “Anti-Profiling” Grants…
Weasel Zippers » Blog Archive » Top Sunni Cleric Yusuf Al-Qardawi: “A Woman May Not Travel Alone to Study In A Western Country” Without “Male Chaperone”…
If you must have motivation, think of your paycheck on Friday. - Noel Coward
I became a feminist as an alternative to becoming a masochist. - Sally Kempton
No one can earn a million dollars honestly. - William Jennings Bryan
Personally I'm always ready to learn, although I do not always like being taught. - Sir Winston Churchill
I think that I shall never see / a billboard lovely as a tree. / Perhaps, unless the billboards fall, / I'll never see a tree at all. - Ogden Nash
I became a feminist as an alternative to becoming a masochist. - Sally Kempton
No one can earn a million dollars honestly. - William Jennings Bryan
Personally I'm always ready to learn, although I do not always like being taught. - Sir Winston Churchill
I think that I shall never see / a billboard lovely as a tree. / Perhaps, unless the billboards fall, / I'll never see a tree at all. - Ogden Nash
Sunday, April 22, 2012
Love is space and time measured by the heart. -Marcel Proust
The saying "Getting there is half the fun" became obsolete with the advent of commercial airlines. - Henry J. Tillman
Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from a religious conviction. - Blaise Pascal
Love is a snowmobile racing across the tundra and then suddenly it flips over, pinning you underneath. At night, the ice weasels come. - Matt Groening
If all the rich people in the world divided up their money among themselves there wouldn't be enough to go around. - Christina Stead
The saying "Getting there is half the fun" became obsolete with the advent of commercial airlines. - Henry J. Tillman
Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from a religious conviction. - Blaise Pascal
Love is a snowmobile racing across the tundra and then suddenly it flips over, pinning you underneath. At night, the ice weasels come. - Matt Groening
If all the rich people in the world divided up their money among themselves there wouldn't be enough to go around. - Christina Stead
Weasel Zippers » Blog Archive » Egypt: New Muslims Brotherhood Presidential Candidate Pledges Not To Meet With Da Joooos, Will Seek Salafist Votes…
Love is space and time measured by the heart. - Marcel Proust
The saying "Getting there is half the fun" became obsolete with the advent of commercial airlines. - Henry J. Tillman
Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from a religious conviction. - Blaise Pascal
Love is a snowmobile racing across the tundra and then suddenly it flips over, pinning you underneath. At night, the ice weasels come. - Matt Groening
If all the rich people in the world divided up their money among themselves there wouldn't be enough to go around. - Christina Stead
The saying "Getting there is half the fun" became obsolete with the advent of commercial airlines. - Henry J. Tillman
Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from a religious conviction. - Blaise Pascal
Love is a snowmobile racing across the tundra and then suddenly it flips over, pinning you underneath. At night, the ice weasels come. - Matt Groening
If all the rich people in the world divided up their money among themselves there wouldn't be enough to go around. - Christina Stead
Saturday, April 21, 2012
Big results require big ambitions. - Heraclitus
Ninety percent of everything is crap. - Theodore Sturgeon
Eagles may soar, but weasels don't get sucked into jet engines. - John Benfield
Love thy neighbour as yourself, but choose your neighbourhood. - Louise Beal
Technology is a way of organizing the universe so that man doesn't have to experience it. - Max Frisch
Ninety percent of everything is crap. - Theodore Sturgeon
Eagles may soar, but weasels don't get sucked into jet engines. - John Benfield
Love thy neighbour as yourself, but choose your neighbourhood. - Louise Beal
Technology is a way of organizing the universe so that man doesn't have to experience it. - Max Frisch
Friday, April 20, 2012
When love and skill work together, expect a masterpiece. - John Ruskin
My theory is that if you look confident you can pull off anything - even if you have no clue what you're doing. - Jessica Alba
He had discovered a great law of human action, without knowing it - namely, that in order to make a man or a boy covet a thing, it is only necessary to make the thing difficult to obtain. - Mark Twain
A specification that will not fit on one page of 8.5x11 inch paper cannot be understood. - Mark Ardis
An atheist is a man who has no invisible means of support. - John Buchan
My theory is that if you look confident you can pull off anything - even if you have no clue what you're doing. - Jessica Alba
He had discovered a great law of human action, without knowing it - namely, that in order to make a man or a boy covet a thing, it is only necessary to make the thing difficult to obtain. - Mark Twain
A specification that will not fit on one page of 8.5x11 inch paper cannot be understood. - Mark Ardis
An atheist is a man who has no invisible means of support. - John Buchan
Thursday, April 19, 2012
Action is the foundational key to all success. - Pablo Picasso
The significance of man is that he is insignificant and is aware of it. - Carl Becker
The only obligation to which in advance we may hold a novel, without incurring the accusation of being arbitrary, is that it be interesting. - Henry James
So much of what we call management consists in making it difficult for people to work. - Peter Drucker
Computers make it easier to do a lot of things, but most of the things they make it easier to do don't need to be done. - Andy Rooney
The significance of man is that he is insignificant and is aware of it. - Carl Becker
The only obligation to which in advance we may hold a novel, without incurring the accusation of being arbitrary, is that it be interesting. - Henry James
So much of what we call management consists in making it difficult for people to work. - Peter Drucker
Computers make it easier to do a lot of things, but most of the things they make it easier to do don't need to be done. - Andy Rooney
Wednesday, April 18, 2012
Weasel Zippers » Blog Archive » Dick Durbin Holds Hearing To Capitalize On Trayvon Martin Shooting, Demands Holder Forbid Racial Profiling In National Security Investigations…
The harder I work, the luckier I get. - Samuel Goldwyn
There is something that is much more scarce, something rarer than ability. It is the ability to recognize ability. - Robert Half
A conservative is a man with two perfectly good legs who, however, has never learned to walk forward. - Franklin D. Roosevelt
What is an epigram? A dwarfish whole, its body brevity, and wit its soul. - Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Her own mother lived the latter years of her life in the horrible suspicion that electricity was dripping invisibly all over the house. - James Thurber
There is something that is much more scarce, something rarer than ability. It is the ability to recognize ability. - Robert Half
A conservative is a man with two perfectly good legs who, however, has never learned to walk forward. - Franklin D. Roosevelt
What is an epigram? A dwarfish whole, its body brevity, and wit its soul. - Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Her own mother lived the latter years of her life in the horrible suspicion that electricity was dripping invisibly all over the house. - James Thurber
Tuesday, April 17, 2012
Prosecutors say foiled jihadist mulled bombing NYC movie theaters, Grand Central Terminal, Times Square and the NY Stock Exchange before settling on the city's subways - Jihad Watch
Be less curious about people and more curious about ideas. - Marie Curie
Once you've learned to study in a bathing suit on the grass with muscled men throwing frisbees over your head, you can accomplish almost anything. - Susan Rice
It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his job depends on not understanding it. - Upton Sinclair
Some mornings it just doesn't seem worth it to gnaw through the leather straps. - Emo Phillips
Any American who is prepared to run for president should automatically, by definition, be disqualified from ever doing so. - Gore Vidal
Once you've learned to study in a bathing suit on the grass with muscled men throwing frisbees over your head, you can accomplish almost anything. - Susan Rice
It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his job depends on not understanding it. - Upton Sinclair
Some mornings it just doesn't seem worth it to gnaw through the leather straps. - Emo Phillips
Any American who is prepared to run for president should automatically, by definition, be disqualified from ever doing so. - Gore Vidal