"Sex at age 90 is like trying to shoot pool with a rope."
George Burns
@Lustig Andrei,
Nice to have something to look forward to.
@George,
I've been thinking that maybe using a length of rope rather than a cue might improve my game, George.
Nothing in life is to be feared,
it is only to be understood.
Now is the time to understand more,
so that we may fear less.
Madame Marie Curie
"I've just learned about his illness. Let's hope it's nothing trivial."
- Irvin S. Cobb
Breathes there a man, with soul so dead,
Who never to himself hath said,
This is my own, my native land!
Sir Walter Scott in The Lay of the Last Minstrel. Also spoken by Phillip Nolan during his exile.
@Letty,
Whoa! Flashback to eighth grade!
“Heaven is a state of mind, not a location.”
― Wayne W. Dyer
@edgarblythe,
When dictatorship is a fact, revolution becomes a right.
~ Victor Hugo
"Now, now my good man, this is no time for making enemies."
- Voltaire (1694-1778) on his deathbed in response to a priest asking that he renounce Satan
“It’s not a fight between Republicans and Democrats. ... What you have here is a fight between the Republican right and the Republican far right.”
--Rep. Chris Van Hollen, December 21, 2011
• Modern invention has banished the spinning wheel, and the same law of progress makes the woman of today a different woman from her grandmother.
Susan B Anthony
How would you like a job where, every time you make a mistake,
a big red light goes on and 18,000 people boo?
~Jacques Plante (NHL goalie)
I wonder if Mark Twain was truly prescient and thinking of Kim Jong Il of the future when he said:
"I didn't attend the funeral, butI sent a nice letter saying I approved of it."
"My left leg is Christmas, my right leg is New Year's ... why don't you come up and see me between the holidays?" --Mae West
America's always been a great place to be crazy.
It just used to be harder to make a living that way.
~Charles P. Pierce
Idiot America: How Stupidity Became a Virtue in the Land of the Free
“In the old days, it was not called the Holiday Season; the Christians called it 'Christmas' and went to church; the Jews called it 'Hanukka' and went to synagogue; the atheists went to parties and drank. People passing each other on the street would say 'Merry Christmas!' or 'Happy Hanukka!' or (to the atheists) 'Look out for the wall!' “ ~Dave Barry
Happy, happy Christmas, that can win us back to the delusions of our childish days; that can recall to the old man the pleasures of his youth; that can transport the sailor and the traveller, thousands of miles away, back to his own fire-side and his quiet home! ~Charles Dickens, The Pickwick Papers, 1836
@edgarblythe,
"I never know what the poor girl's going to do to me next."
Bob Dylan.
New Year's Day… now is the accepted time to make your regular annual good resolutions. Next week you can begin paving hell with them as usual.
~ Mark Twain
