Which is it, is man one of God's blunders or is God one of man's? Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche |
"If you can't beat them, arrange to have them beaten." -- George Carlin |
All happy families are alike; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way. Leo Tolstoy, opening line of Anna Karenina |
I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use. Galileo Galilei |
Kill my boss? Do I dare live out the American dream? Homer Simpson |
"I don't want to achieve immortality through my works. I want to achieve it by not dying." -- Woody Allen |
For those who believe in God, most of the big questions are answered. But for those of us who can't readily accept the God formula, the big answers don't remain stone-written. We adjust to new conditions and discoveries. We are pliable. Love need not be a command or faith a dictum. I am my own God. We are here to unlearn the teachings of the church, state, and our educational system. We are here to drink beer. We are here to kill war. We are here to laugh at the odds and live our lives so well that Death will tremble to take us. Charles Bukowski |
"Do you think it's possible to discuss politics without preaching? Or just not for you?" SKB: "Not for me personally. I spent years and years and years studying intensely, carefully, putting a lot of time and energy and work into it. I therefore am convinced I know a lot. Even if I don't, I think I do. So I run into someone who makes, generally speaking, a dismissive remark, which shows that he has not put in anywhere near the time, energy and effort and study I have, and I turn into an arrogant, pompous asshole. So I'd rather not do that. That's why I just stay loose on it." Steven K. Brust |
His house was perfect, whether you liked food, or sleep, or work, or story-telling, or singing, or just sitting and thinking, best, or a pleasant mixture of them all. J.R.R. Tolkien, The Hobbit, referring to The Last Homely House |
What I look forward to is continued immaturity followed by death. --Dave Barry |
Are cats lazy? Well, more power to them if they are. Which one of us has not entertained the dream of doing just as he likes, when and how he likes, and as much as he likes? Fernand Mery |
This above all: to thine own self be true William Shakespeare, Hamlet,(Act I, scene iii) |
"Of course power tools and alcohol don't mix. Everyone knows power tools aren't soluble in alcohol..." |
I would rather have a German division in front of me than a French one behind me. -George Patton |
When a true genius appears in this world, you may know him by this sign, that the dunces are all in confederacy against him. Jonathan Swift, Thoughts on Various Subjects |