If all else fails, immortality can always be assured by spectacular error.
-- John Kenneth Galbraith
Friday, November 09, 2012
Quote of the Day
Thursday, November 08, 2012
Quote of the Day
As the evening sky faded from a salmon color to a sort of flint gray, I thought back to the salmon I caught that morning, and how gray he was, and how I named him Flint.
-- Jack Handey
Wednesday, November 07, 2012
Quote of the Day
Say what you will about the Ten Commandments, you must always come back to the pleasant fact that there are only ten of them.
-- H.L. Mencken
Tuesday, November 06, 2012
Quote of the Day
My central memory of that time seems to hang on one or five or maybe forty nights -- or very early mornings -- when I left the Fillmore half-crazy and, instead of going home, aimed the big 650 Lightning across the Bay Bridge at a hundred miles an hour ... booming through the Treasure Island tunnel at the lights of Oakland and Berkeley and Richmond, not quite sure which turnoff to take when I got to the other end ... but being absolutely certain that no matter which way I went I would come to a place where people were just as high and wild as I was: no doubt at all about that.
-- Hunter S. Thompson
Monday, November 05, 2012
Quote of the Day
Electricity is actually made up of extremely tiny particles called electrons, that you cannot see with the naked eye unless you have been drinking.
-- Dave Barry
Sunday, November 04, 2012
Quote of the Day
Oh, there will be a day of reckoning for you, non-believer! A totalling of sums and a snapping of necks, and you will count yourself among the damned!
-- Jodene Sparks
Saturday, November 03, 2012
Quote of the Day
Many a long dispute among divines may be thus abridged: It is so; It is not so. It is so; it is not so.
-- Benjamin Franklin (Poor Richard's Almanack, 1743)
Friday, November 02, 2012
Quote of the Day
I have an existential map. It has "You are here" written all over it.
-- Stephen Wright