Quotes, April 2003
01. A bachelor is a selfish, undeserving guy who has cheated some woman out of a divorce.
- Don Quinn
02. I find that we all get more legendary as time goes by. "Legend" means, basically, "bullshit".
- Joel Rosenberg
03. The reasonable man adapts himself to the world, the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man.
- George Bernhard Shaw
04. In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.
- Martin Luther King Jr.
05. Thus the metric system did not really catch on in the States, unless you count the increasing popularity of the nine-millimeter bullet.
- Dave Barry
06. Pray: To ask that the laws of the universe be annulled in behalf of a single petitioner confessedly unworthy.
- Ambrose Bierce
07. Nothing is done in this world until men are prepared to kill one another if it is not done.
- George Bernhard Shaw
08. The difficulty in life is the choice.
- George Moore
09. Our Republican cause is to free our people and light the way for liberty throughout the world. Ours is a very human cause for very humane goals.
- Barry Goldwater
10. Don’t find fault, find a remedy.
- Henry Ford
11. An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile, hoping it will eat him last.
- Winston Churchill
12. It is not the neutrals or the lukewarms who make history.
- Adolf Hitler
13. You can safely assume that you’ve created God in your own image when it turns out that God hates all the same people you do.
- Anne Lamott
No quotes April 14-20 due to trip to London.
21. The man who can dominate a London dinner table can dominate the world.
- Oscar Wilde
22. "The London Underground is not a political movement!"
- Jamie Lee Curtis in "A Fish Called Wanda"
23. I travelled among unknown men,
In lands beyond the sea;
Nor England! did I know till then
What love I bore to thee.
- William Wordsworth
24. Continental people have sex, the English have hot-water bottles.
- George Mikes
25. Undergraduates owe their happiness chiefly to the consciousness that they are no longer at school. The nonsense which was knocked out of them at school is all put gently back at Oxford or Cambridge.
- Max Beerbohm
26. Lord Percy Percy: The fashion today is towards the tiny.
Edmund Blackadder: In that case you have the most fashionable brain in London.
- Rowan Atkinson in "Black Adder"
27. Oh Lord please don’t burn us don’t kill or toast your flock
Don’t put us on the barbeque or simmer us in stock,
Don’t bake or baste or boil us or stir-fry us in a wok.
- Monty Python
28. No entertainment is so cheap as reading, nor any pleasure so lasting.
- Mary Wortley Montagu
29. There is always more books than brains in an aristocracy.
- Oscar Wilde
30. Arthur: The Lady of the Lake ... held aloft Excalibur from the bosom of the water, signifying by divine providence that I, Arthur, was to carry Excalibur. THAT is why I am your king!
Dennis: [interrupting] Listen, strange women lyin’ in ponds distributin’ swords is no basis for a system of government! Supreme executive power derives from a mandate from the masses, not from some farcical aquatic ceremony!
- Monty Python and the Holy Grail
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