The more things a man is ashamed of, the more respectable he is. George Bernard Shaw |
He stood up straight and looked the world squarely in the fields and hills. To add weight to his words he stuck the rabbit bone in his hair. He spread his arms out wide. `I will go mad!' he announced. --Arthur discovering a way of coping with life. (Douglas Adams) |
What you've done becomes the judge of what you're going to do especially in other people's minds. When you're traveling, you are what you are right there and then. People don't have your past to hold against you. No yesterdays on the road. William Least Heat Moon, Blue Highways |
Discovery consists of seeing what everybody has seen and thinking what nobody has thought. Albert von Szent-Gyorgy |
Man has always sacrificed truth to his vanity, comfort and advantage. He lives by makebelieve. W. Somerset Maugham, The Summing Up, 1938 |
Common sense is what tells us the Earth is flat and and the Sun goes around it. |
"Every normal man must be tempted at times to spit on his hands, hoist the black flag, and begin slitting throats." -- H. L. Mencken |
"Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away." -- Phillip K. Dick |
Ah, this is obviously some strange usage of the word 'safe' that I wasn't previously aware of. --Douglas Adams |
Bodily exercise, when compulsory, does no harm to the body; but knowledge which is acquired under compulsion obtains no hold on the mind. Plato, The Republic. Book VII. 536 |
"I was saying," continued the Rocket, "I was saying - What was I saying?" "You were talking about yourself," replied the Roman Candle. "Of course; I knew I was discussing some interesting subject when I was so rudely interrupted." Oscar Wilde, The Remarkable Rocket |
Faith, noun. Belief without evidence in what is told by one who speaks without knowledge, of things without parallel. Ambrose Bierce |
Laws are only words words written on paper, words that change on society's whim and are interpreted differently daily by politicians, lawyers, judges, and policemen. Anyone who believes that all laws should always be obeyed would have made a fine slave catcher. Anyone who believes that all laws are applied equally, despite race, religion, or economic status, is a fool. John J. Miller, And Hope to Die (in Jokertown Shuffle Wild Cards IX) |
Underpaid? Maybe it's time to underwork. |
"I guess it thinks I can stand on my own two brain stems now." -- Christopher Mecklenborg |