Time For A Quote

[MikeMcCoy]

No great shakes of wisdom but the favorite of my girl friend is:

When life hands you lemons ....... Make margaritas

[gettools]

If you live for others it will matter to others that you lived !!

[Mr__Bill]

Your lack of understanding does not make it untrue.

What many of us thought when sitting in meetings with a former manager.

[shoottx]

"A common mistake people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools."

[BobSch]

If it can’t be expressed in figures, it is not science, it is opinion.
R.A. Heinlein

[Sid]

This is posted on my shop door:

"Man is a tool-using animal. Weak in himself and of small stature, he stands on a basis of some half-square foot; has to straddle out his legs lest the very winds supplant him. Nevertheless, he can use Tools, can devise Tools: with these the granite mountain melts into light dust before him; he kneads glowing iron, as if it were soft paste; seas are his smooth highway, winds and fire his unwearying steeds. Nowhere do you find him without Tools. Without Tools he is nothing, with Tools he is all."

Thomas Carlyle (slightly condensed)

Sid

[Eagan]

"For we have met the enemy, and he is us"
Walt Kelly

"We all agree that your theory is crazy, but is it crazy enough?"
Niels Bohr

"It's not Denial. I'm just selective about the reality I accept"
Calvin of Calvin and Hobbes

"Bad is never good until worse happens"
Danish proverb

"You have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes.
You can steer yourself any direction you choose.
You're on your own. And you know what you know.
And YOU are the guy who'll decide where to go"
Dr. Suess, "Oh, the Places You'll Go!"

[Tom Slick]

I like Will Rogers, they still apply even though he died 73 years ago"

"An ignorant person is one who doesn't know what you have just found out."

"Be thankful we're not getting all the government we're paying for."

"Diplomacy is the art of saying 'Nice doggie' until you can find a rock."

"I'm not a real movie star. I've still got the same wife I started out with twenty-eight years ago."

"Our constitution protects aliens, drunks and U.S. Senators."

"The only time people dislike gossip is when you gossip about them."

[germdoc]

A few quotes from my favorite of all time, HL Mencken:

A cynic is a man who, when he smells flowers, looks around for a coffin.

All men are frauds. The only difference between them is that some admit it. I myself deny it.

All [zoos] actually offer to the public in return for the taxes spent upon them is a form of idle and witless amusement, compared to which a visit to a penitentiary, or even to a State legislature in session, is informing, stimulating and ennobling.

Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want and deserve to get it good and hard.

Every normal man must be tempted at times to spit on his hands, hoist the black flag, and begin to slit throats.

For it is mutual trust, even more than mutual interest that holds human associations together. Our friends seldom profit us but they make us feel safe... Marriage is a scheme to accomplish exactly that same end.

Injustice is relatively easy to bear; what stings is justice.

It is impossible to imagine Goethe or Beethoven being good at billiards or golf.

Puritanism: The haunting fear that someone, somewhere, may be happy.

Nature abhors a moron.

Marriage is a wonderful institution, but who would want to live in an institution?

[cabinetman]

"It is easy to be brave from a safe distance." - AESOP
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[twistsol]

"A computer lets you make more mistakes faster than any invention in human history--with the possible exceptions of handguns and tequila."

Mitch Ratcliffe, Technology Review, April, 1992

[Hoover]

Keep your friends close and your enemies closer. (Attributed to Sun Tzu)

I refused to attend his funeral. But I wrote a very nice letter explaining that I approved.
(Mark Twain)

[dbhost]

'Tis better to be silent and be thought a fool, than to speak and remove all doubt. -- Abraham Lincoln

Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe. -- Albert Einstein

A word to the wise ain't necessary, it's the stupid ones who need the advice. -- Bill Cosby

Genius may have its limitations, but stupidity is not thus handicapped. -- Elbert Hubbard

If stupidity got us into this mess, then why can't it get us out? -- Will Rogers

Get all the fools on your side and you can be elected to anything. -- Frank Dane

There is nothing worse than aggressive stupidity. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Nothing in all the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity. -- Martin Luther King Jr.

To succeed in the world it is not enough to be stupid, you must also be well-mannered. -- Voltaire

If there are no stupid questions, then what kind of questions do stupid people ask? Do they get smart just in time to ask questions? -- Scott Adams

Do not bite at the bait of pleasure, till you know there is no hook beneath it. -- Thomas Jefferson

[Ed62]

"I Really Didn't Say Everything I Said" (used as a title of a book) - Yogi Berra

[gerti]

"As I experience certain sensory input patterns my mental pathways become accustomed to them. The inputs eventually are anticipated and even missed when absent." Lt. Data