2-8-08

When you think of the long and gloomy history of man, you will find more hideous crimes have been committed in the name of obedience than have ever been committed in the name of rebellion.
C. P. Snow

William S. Burroughs
from Quotes of the Day
"A paranoid is someone who knows a little of what's going on."

John Kenneth Galbraith
from Quotes of the Day
"The only function of economic forecasting is to make astrology look respectable."

Unknown
from Quotes of the Day
"Everyone is entitled to be stupid, but some abuse the privilege."

Mike Myers
from Quotes of the Day
"Silly is you in a natural state, and serious is something you have to do until you can get silly again."

E. B. White
from Quotes of the Day
"The time not to become a father is eighteen years before a war."

George Bernard Shaw
from Quotes of the Day
"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."

Herm Albright
from Quotes of the Day
"A positive attitude may not solve all your problems, but it will annoy enough people to make it worth the effort."

Ronald Reagan
from Quotes of the Day
"Abortion is advocated only by persons who have themselves been born."

Dorothy Nevill
from Quotes of the Day
"The real art of conversation is not only to say the right thing at the right place but to leave unsaid the wrong thing at the tempting moment."

Thomas A. Edison
from Quotes of the Day
"To invent, you need a good imagination and a pile of junk."

Robert Orben
from Quotes of the Day
"Illegal aliens have always been a problem in the United States. Ask any Indian."

Mae West
from Quotes of the Day
"I generally avoid temptation unless I can't resist it."

Unknown
from Quotes of the Day
"Artificial Intelligence is no match for natural stupidity."

Doug Larson
from Quotes of the Day
"Few things are more satisfying than seeing your own children have teenagers of their own."

Carl Sagan
from Quotes of the Day
"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."