@edgarblythe,
Quote:“Science, my lad, is made up of mistakes, but they are mistakes which it is useful to make, because they lead little by little to the truth.”
As long as it takes a long time to get there we should be alright.
@spendius,
It's a lot quicker than you would admit.
“My definition of a free society is a society where it is safe to be unpopular.”
― Adlai E. Stevenson II
Under this window in stormy weather I marry this man and woman together; Let none but Him who rules the thunder Put this man and woman asunder.
Jonathan Swift
That's a big dude.
-random Lilliputian.
@edgarblythe,
"As for a wife, that most interesting specimen in the whole series of vertebrate animals, Providence only knows whether I shall capture one or be able to feed her if caught."
Charles Darwin.
@spendius,
Doubtless he set a bear trap near the ladies' room.
You people who go back to Darwin's personal life, as if he were a religious icon to be debunked, are usually amusing, but often tiresomely childish.
@edgarblythe,
We can put up with any amount of derogatory assertions as long as we are amusing.
@spendius,
It doesn't matter how many holidays we celebrate after we retire. Every day is Saturday.
@cicerone imposter,
You're not retired ci. You work for the travel agents and all the other agents who are taking bites out of your will. (pun intended).
Veblen called consumerism the night shift.
You should take it easy.
Did Charlie's irony amuse you?
“People ask you for criticism, but they only want praise.”
― W. Somerset Maugham, Of Human Bondage
“I had considered how the things that never happen, are often as much realities to us, in their effects, as those that are accomplished.”
― Charles Dickens, David Copperfield
@edgarblythe,
Is he meaning masturbation fantasies ed?
"If you don't know where you're going any road will take you there" George Harrison
“Such is the influence which the condition of our own thoughts, exercises, even over the appearance of external objects. Men who look on nature, and their fellow-men, and cry that all is dark and gloomy, are in the right; but the sombre colours are reflections from their own jaundiced eyes and hearts. The real hues are delicate, and need a clearer vision.”
― Charles Dickens, Oliver Twist
INTERVIEWER- "You'd think that in the 24th century they'd be able to cure Picard's baldness"
GENE RODDENBERRY (creator of Star Trek)- "In the 24th century nobody cares about baldness"
I don't want to achieve immortality through my work; I want to achieve immortality through not dying.
What if everything is an illusion and nothing exists? In that case, I definitely overpaid for my carpet.
You can live to be a hundred, if you give up all the things that make you want to live to be a hundred.
Is world peace possible or is the human race too innately aggressive? For instance: Have you ever seen women at a sample sale?
I hate reality. But where else can you get a good steak dinner?
I don't want to move to a city where the only cultural advantage is being able to make a right turn on a red light.
This stuff tastes awful; I could have made a fortune selling it in my health-food store.
All from Woody Allen
Former sig line, almost as good as my current sig line.
“Man will never be free until the last king is strangled with the entrails of the last priest.” - Denis Diderot -
