We may be through with the past, but the past is not through with us. Ideas of the Stone Age exist side by side with the latest scientific thought. Only a fraction of mankind has emerged from the Dark Ages... ~Bergen Evans, "Adam's Navel," The Natural History of Nonsense, 1946
Things ain't what they used to be and probably never was. ~Will Rogers
And upsidedown in the earth a dead man walks upon my soles when I walk. ~Bill Knott, "(End) of Summer (1966)"
“I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I
am saying.”
~ Oscar Wilde, The Happy Prince and Other Stories
A word is not the same with one writer as with another. One tears it from his guts. The other pulls it out of his overcoat pocket. ~Charles Peguy
We should give as we would receive, cheerfully, quickly, and without hesitation; for there is no grace in a benefit that sticks to the fingers. ~Seneca
"Quotation, n: The act of repeating erroneously the words of another."
~Ambrose Bierce
Basketball quote
If you meet the Buddha in the lane, feed him the ball. ~Phil Jackson
Many of us believe that wrongs aren't wrong if it's done by nice people like ourselves. ~Jason Rainbow, c.1979
Health nuts are going to feel stupid someday, lying in hospitals dying of nothing. ~Redd Foxx
I've met so many people, often the scum of the earth, and found them, you know, quite decent. I am an uncomfortable stranger to moral indignation. ~W. Somerset Maugham
People often say that, in a democracy, decisions are made by a majority of the people. Of course, that is not true. Decisions are made by a majority of those who make themselves heard and who vote - a very different thing. ~Walter H. Judd
"Be careful, lest in casting out your demon you exorcise the best thing in you."
Friedrich Nietzsche
The radical novelty of modern science lies precisely in the rejection of the belief, which is at the heart of all popular religion, that the forces which move the stars and atoms are contingent upon the preferences of the human heart. ~Walter Lippmann
Our own physical body possesses a wisdom which we who inhabit the body lack. We give it orders which make no sense. ~Henry Miller
There came a time when the risk to remain tight in the bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom. ~Anaïs Nin
What’s the difference between a crony capitalist and a flying pig?….The letter “F.”
Saw this on The Young Turks
As soon as you sit down to a cup of hot coffee, your boss will ask you to do something which will last until the coffee is cold. ~Author Unknown
Coolidge was known for his terse speech and reticence. A woman bet her friend that she could get Coolidge to speak to her, which was something he was reluctant to do. She went up to him and said: "Hello, Mr. President, I bet my friend that I could get you to say three words to me." "You lose," Coolidge replied dryly, and walked away. ~Author Unknown
