Saturday, June 30, 2007
Quote of the Day
Like my parents, I have never been a regular church member or churchgoer. It doesn't seem plausible to me that there is the kind of God who watches over human affairs, listens to prayers, and tries to guide people to follow His precepts -- there is just too much misery and cruelty for that. On the other hand, I respect and envy the people who get inspiration from their religions.
-- Benjamin Spock
Friday, June 29, 2007
Quote of the Day
Frank knew that no man had ever crossed the desert on foot and lived to tell about it. So, he decided to get back in his car and keep driving.
-- Jack Handey
Thursday, June 28, 2007
Quote of the Day
Ambition is like a frog sitting on a Venus Flytrap. The flytrap can bite and bite, but it won't bother the frog because it only has little tiny plant teeth. But some other stuff could happen and it could be like ambition.
-- Jack Handey
Wednesday, June 27, 2007
Tuesday, June 26, 2007
Quote of the Day
If you ever catch on fire, try to avoid looking in a mirror, because I bet that will really throw you into a panic.
-- Jack Handey
Monday, June 25, 2007
Quote of the Day
You there, fill it up with petroleum distillate, and re-vulcanize my tires, post-haste.
-- Charles Montgomery Burns
Sunday, June 24, 2007
Quote of the Day
If people are good only because they fear punishment, and hope for reward, then we are a sorry lot indeed.
-- Albert Einstein
Saturday, June 23, 2007
Quote of the Day
Dying is a very dull, dreary affair. My advice to you is to have nothing whatever to do with it.
-- W. Somerset Maugham, his last words
Friday, June 22, 2007
Quote of the Day
A good way to threaten somebody is to light a stick of dynamite. Then you call the guy and hold the burning fuse up to the phone. "Hear that?" you say. "That's dynamite, baby."
-- Jack Handey
Thursday, June 21, 2007
Quote of the Day
I suspect that today if you asked people to justify their belief in God, the dominant reason would be scientific. Most people, I believe, think that you need a God to explain the existence of the world, and especially the existence of life. They are wrong, but our education system is such that many people don't know it.
-- Richard Dawkins
Wednesday, June 20, 2007
Quote of the Day
Age is not a particularly interesting subject. Anyone can get old. All you have to do is live long enough.
-- Groucho Marx
Tuesday, June 19, 2007
Quote of the Day
Another war ... must it always be so? How many comrades have we lost in this way? ... Obedience. Duty. Death, and more death ...
-- Romulan Commander, "Balance of Terror", stardate 1709.2
Monday, June 18, 2007
Quote of the Day
I can still recall old Mister Barnslow getting out every morning and nailing a fresh load of tadpoles to the old board of his. Then he'd spin it round and round, like a wheel of fortune, and no matter where it stopped he'd yell out, "Tadpoles! Tadpoles is a winner!" We all thought he was crazy. But then we had some growing up to do.
-- Jack Handey
Sunday, June 17, 2007
Saturday, June 16, 2007
Quote of the Day
In the strict scientific sense we all feed on death -- even vegetarians.
-- Spock, "Wolf in the Fold", stardate 3615.4
Friday, June 15, 2007
Quote of the Day
As in certain cults it is possible to kill a process if you know its true name.
-- Ken Thompson and Dennis M. Ritchie
Thursday, June 14, 2007
Quote of the Day
Probably the most difficult thing in anyone's life is when you have to murder a loved one because they're the devil. Other than that, it's been a good day.
-- Emo Philips
Wednesday, June 13, 2007
Tuesday, June 12, 2007
Quote of the Day
Yes, we have to divide up our time like that, between our politics and our equations. But to me our equations are far more important, for politics are only a matter of present concern. A mathematical equation stands forever.
-- Albert Einstein
Monday, June 11, 2007
Sunday, June 10, 2007
Quote of the Day
I think that in philosophical strictness at the level where one doubts the existence of material objects and holds that the world may have existed for only five minutes, I ought to call myself an agnostic; but, for all practical purposes, I am an atheist. I do not think the existence of the Christian God any more probable than the existence of the Gods of Olympus or Valhalla. To take another illustration: nobody can prove that there is not between Earth and Mars a china teapot revolving in an elliptic orbit, but nobody thinks this sufficiently likely to be taken into account in practice. I think the Christian God just as unlikely.
-- Bertrand Russell
Saturday, June 09, 2007
Quote of the Day
I am very fond of the company of ladies. I like their beauty, I like their delicacy, I like their vivacity, and I like their silence.
-- Samuel Johnson
Week in Review
Friday, June 08, 2007
Thursday, June 07, 2007
Quote of the Day
Oh my God! Space aliens! Don't eat me, I have a wife and kids! Eat them.
-- Homer J. Simpson
Wednesday, June 06, 2007
Quote of the Day
All theoretical chemistry is really physics; and all theoretical chemists know it.
-- Richard P. Feynman
Tuesday, June 05, 2007
Monday, June 04, 2007
Quote of the Day
He wrapped himself in quotations- as a beggar would enfold himself in the purple of Emperors.
-- Rudyard Kipling
Sunday, June 03, 2007
Quote of the Day
An intellectual is a person who has discovered something more interesting than sex.
-- Aldous Huxley
Saturday, June 02, 2007
Quote of the Day
The Religion that is afraid of science dishonors God and commits suicide.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Friday, June 01, 2007
Quote of the Day
I can't believe Liberace was gay! Women loved him! I didn't see that one coming.
-- Austin Powers
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