Quotes, August 2001
01. I'm learning real skills that I can apply throughout the rest of my life ... Procrastinating and rationalizing.
- Bill Watterson, American cartoonist "Calvin and Hobbes"
02. My life needs a rewind/erase button.
- Bill Watterson, American cartoonist "Calvin and Hobbes"
03. Some people are pragmatists, taking things as they come and making the best of the choices available. Some people are idealists, standing for principle and refusing to compromise. And some people just act on any whim that enters their heads. I pragmatically turn my whims into principles!
- Bill Watterson, American cartoonist "Calvin and Hobbes"
04. There's never enough time to do all the nothing you want.
- Bill Watterson, American cartoonist "Calvin and Hobbes"
05. Weekends don't count unless you spend them doing something completely pointless.
- Bill Watterson, American cartoonist "Calvin and Hobbes"
06. There are two major products that come out of Berkeley: LSD and UNIX. We don't believe this to be a coincidence.
- Jeremy S. Anderson
07. It's the good girls who keep diaries. The others never have the time.
- Tallulah Bankhead
08. Learning without thought is labour lost; thought without learning is perilous.
- Confucius
09. Scriptures: The sacred books of our holy religion, as distinguished from the false and profane writings on which all other faiths are based.
- Ambrose Bierce
10. There is nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed.
- Ernest Hemingway
11. Tradition may be defined as an extension of the franchise. Tradition means giving votes to the most obscure of all classes, our ancestors. It is the democracy of the dead.
- G. K. Chesterton
12. If you keep your mind sufficiently open, people will throw a lot of rubbish into it.
- William A. Orton
13. I just broke up with someone and the last thing she said to me was 'You'll never find anyone like me again!' I'm thinking, 'I should hope not! If I don't want you, why would I want someone like you?'
- Larry Miller
14. The older a man gets, the farther he had to walk to school as a boy.
- Unknown
15. Beware of programmers who carry screw drivers.
- Leonard Brandwein
16. Musical people are so absurdly unreasonable. They always want one to be perfectly dumb at the very moment when one is longing to be absolutely deaf.
- Oscar Wilde
17. Life is like a dog-sled team. If you ain't the lead dog, the scenery never changes.
- Lewis Grizzard
18. When in doubt, use brute force.
- Ken Thompson
19. A healthy male adult bore consumes each year one and a half times his own weight in other people's patience.
- John Updike
20. I was the first woman to burn my bra - it took the fire department four days to put
it out.
- Dolly Parton
21. Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.
- Thomas Alva Edison
22. Normality is a fine ideal for those who have no imagination.
- Carl Jung
23. It is bad luck to be superstitious.
- Andrew W. Mathis
24. Writing free verse is like playing tennis with the net down.
- Robert Frost
25. Most people would rather die than think; in fact, they do so.
- Bertrand Russell
26. If lightning is the anger of the gods the gods are concerned mostly with trees.
- Lao Tse
27. An election is nothing more than an advance auction of stolen goods.
- Ambrose Bierce
28. An honest politician is one who, when he is bought, will stay bought.
- Simon Cameron
29. Politics is the art of preventing people from sticking their noses in things that are properly their business.
- Paul Valéry
30. The history of liberty is a history of the limitation of government power.
- Woodrow Wilson
31. Politicians are like diapers. They both need changing regularly and for the same reason.
- Unknown
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