Without coffee he could not work, or at least he could not have worked in the way he did. In addition to paper and pens, he took with him everywhere as an indispensable article of equipment the coffee machine, which was no less important to him than his table or his white robe.
-- Stefan Zweigs, Biography of Balzac
Friday, April 30, 2010
Quote of the Day
Thursday, April 29, 2010
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
Wednesday, April 28, 2010
Quote of the Day
The universe is a strange and wondrous place. The truth is quite odd enough to need no help from pseudoscientific charlatans.
-- Richard Dawkins
Tuesday, April 27, 2010
Quote of the Day
On the whole human beings want to be good, but not too good, and not quite all the time.
-- George Orwell
Monday, April 26, 2010
Sunday, April 25, 2010
Quote of the Day
If a clown offers you a hamburger, and it's not Ronald McDonald, do not eat the hamburger. Learned that the hard way.
-- Stephen Colbert (via Twitter)
Saturday, April 24, 2010
Friday, April 23, 2010
Quote of the Day
Baseball has the great advantage over cricket of being sooner ended.
-- George Bernard Shaw
Thursday, April 22, 2010
Wednesday, April 21, 2010
Quote of the Day
The Internet is the most powerful stupidity amplifier ever invented. It's like television without the television part.
-- James "Kibo" Perry
Tuesday, April 20, 2010
Monday, April 19, 2010
Quote of the Day
Sometimes I think we're alone. Sometimes I think we're not. In either case, the thought is staggering.
-- R. Buckminster Fuller
Sunday, April 18, 2010
Saturday, April 17, 2010
Friday, April 16, 2010
Quote of the Day
I have a hobby. I have the world's largest collection of sea shells. I keep it scattered on beaches all over the world. Maybe you've seen some of it.
-- Stephen Wright
Thursday, April 15, 2010
Quote of the Day
I want to give a picture of Dublin so complete that if the city suddenly disappeared from the earth it could be reconstructed out of my book.
-- James Joyce
Wednesday, April 14, 2010
Tuesday, April 13, 2010
Quote of the Day
Suppose we've chosen the wrong god? Every time we go to church we're just making him madder and madder.
-- Homer J. Simpson
Monday, April 12, 2010
Quote of the Day
Sad preacher nailed upon the coloured door of time;
Insane teacher be there reminded of the rhyme.
There'll be no mutant enemy we shall certify;
Political ends, as sad remains, will die.
Reach out as forward tastes begin to enter you.
-- Yes
Sunday, April 11, 2010
Quote of the Day
If I lived back in the wild west days, instead of carrying a six-gun in my holster, I'd carry a soldering iron. That way, if some smart-aleck cowboy said something like "Hey, look. He's carrying a soldering iron!" and started laughing, and everybody else started laughing, I could just say, "That's right, it's a soldering iron. The soldering iron of justice." Then everybody would get real quiet and ashamed, because they had made fun of the soldering iron of justice, and I could probably hit them up for a free drink.
-- Jack Handey
Saturday, April 10, 2010
Quote of the Day
You read the Bible in your own special ways
you're fond of quoting certain things it says
Mouth full of righteousness and wrath from above
When do we hear about forgiveness and love?
-- Bruce Cockburn, "Gospel of Bondage"
Friday, April 09, 2010
Quote of the Day
Philosophers say a great deal about what is absolutely necessary for science, and it is always, so far as one can see, rather naive, and probably wrong.
-- Richard P. Feynman
Thursday, April 08, 2010
Quote of the Day
I can hardly see how anyone ought to wish Christianity to be true; for if so the plain language of the text seems to show that the men who do not believe, and this would include my Father, Brother and almost all my best friends, will be everlastingly punished. And this is a damnable doctrine.
-- Charles Darwin
Wednesday, April 07, 2010
Quote of the Day
I'd be a Libertarian, if they weren't all a bunch of tax-dodging professional whiners.
-- Berkeley Breathed
Tuesday, April 06, 2010
Quote of the Day
Illegal aliens have always been a problem in the United States. Ask any Indian.
-- Robert Orben
Monday, April 05, 2010
Quote of the Day
Criminals are never very amusing. It's because they're failures. Those who make real money aren't counted as criminals. This is a class distinction, not an ethical problem.
-- Orson Welles
Sunday, April 04, 2010
Quote of the Day
Love is a snowmobile racing across the tundra, which suddenly flips over, pinning you underneath. At night the ice weasels come.
-- Matt Groening (Love is Hell)
Saturday, April 03, 2010
Quote of the Day
Summit meetings tend to be like panda matings. The expectations are always high, and the results usually disappointing.
-- Robert Orben
Week in Review
Friday, April 02, 2010
Quote of the Day
I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it.
-- Thomas Jefferson
Thursday, April 01, 2010
Quote of the Day
I have something to say to the religionist who feels atheists never say anything positive: You are an intelligent human being. Your life is valuable for its own sake. You are not second-class in the universe, deriving meaning and purpose from some other mind. You are not inherently evil--you are inherently human, possessing the positive rational potential to help make this a world of morality, peace and joy. Trust yourself.
-- Dan Barker (Losing Faith in Faith)
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