I know this isn't really an well thought out written article for you sticklers. But these qoutes got me to laugh and think. So, I thought I would share with you anyways.
A soft answer turneth away wrath; but grievous words stir up anger. -- Proverbs 15:1
* History tends to exaggerate. -- Col. Green, "The Savage Curtain", stardate 5906.4
* "Nine years of ballet, asshole." -- Shelly Long, to the bad guy after making a jump over a gorge that he couldn't quite, in "Outrageous Fortune"
* Rule of the Great: When people you greatly admire appear to be thinking deep thoughts, they probably are thinking about lunch.
* How should I know if it works? That's what beta testers are for. I only coded it. -- Attributed to Linus Torvalds, somewhere in a posting
* If *I* had a hammer, there'd be no more folk singers.
* You have not converted a man because you have silenced him. -- John Viscount Morley
* "Truth is stranger than fiction, because fiction has to make sense."
* Next, upon a stool, we've a sight to make you drool. Seven virgins and a mule, keep it cool, keep it cool. -- ELP, "Karn Evil 9" (1st Impression, Part 2)
* Put your Nose to the Grindstone! -- Amalgamated Plastic Surgeons and Toolmakers, Ltd.
* All people are born alike -- except Republicans and Democrats. -- Groucho Marx
* "Life, loathe it or ignore it, you can't like it." -- Marvin, "Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy"
* Census Taker to Housewife: Did you ever have the measles, and, if so, how many?
* Never try to outstubborn a cat. -- Lazarus Long, "Time Enough for Love"
* A bachelor is a selfish, undeserving guy who has cheated some woman out of a divorce. -- Don Quinn
* No one so thoroughly appreciates the value of constructive criticism as the one who's giving it. -- Hal Chadwick
* If at first you don't succeed, you're doing about average. -- Leonard Levinson
* The clash of ideas is the sound of freedom.
* You tread upon my patience. -- William Shakespeare, "Henry IV"
* A wide-eyed, innocent UNICORN, poised delicately in a MEADOW filled with LILACS, LOLLIPOPS & small CHILDREN at the HUSH of twilight??
* He who laughs, lasts.
* You may worry about your hair-do today, but tomorrow much peanut butter will be sold.
* You are sick, twisted and perverted. I like that in a person.
* If you can read this, you're too close.
* It may or may not be worthwhile, but it still has to be done.
* You can't have everything... where would you put it? -- Steven Wright
* Programming Department: Mistakes made while you wait.
* Suspicion always haunts the guilty mind. -- Wm. Shakespeare
* Seeing that death, a necessary end, Will come when it will come. -- William Shakespeare, "Julius Caesar"
* Beam me up, Scotty, there's no intelligent life down here!
* [Sir Stafford Cripps] has all the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire. -- Winston Churchill
* You have been selected for a secret mission.
* Pournelle must die!
* My mother loved children -- she would have given anything if I had been one. -- Groucho Marx
* Did I do an INCORRECT THING??
* You never have to change anything you got up in the middle of the night to write. -- Saul Bellow
* Beware of Bigfoot!
* Authentic: Indubitably true, in somebody's opinion.
* No, that'd be silly. -- Larry Wall in <199710221710.KAA24242@wall.org>
* Stay away from hurricanes for a while.
* Always there remain portions of our heart into which no one is able to enter, invite them as we may.
* Sometimes a feeling is all we humans have to go on. -- Kirk, "A Taste of Armageddon", stardate 3193.9
* I'm encased in the lining of a pure pork sausage!!
* If you aren't rich you should always look useful. -- Louis-Ferdinand Celine
* The major sin is the sin of being born. -- Samuel Beckett
* Gravity brings me down.
* Kinkler's First Law: Responsibility always exceeds authority. Kinkler's Second Law: All the easy problems have been solved.
* "Ain't that something what happened today. One of us got traded to Kansas City." -- Casey Stengel, informing outfielder Bob Cerv he'd been traded.
* Linux, the way to get rid of boot viruses -- MaDsen Wikholm, mwikholm@at8.abo.fi
* "Elvis is my copilot." -- Cal Keegan
* Never volunteer for anything. -- Lackland
* Perhaps the biggest disappointments were the ones you expected anyway.
* You never go anywhere without your soul.
* "'Tis true, 'tis pity, and pity 'tis 'tis true." -- Poloniouius, in Willie the Shake's _Hamlet, Prince of Darkness_
* There are more things in heaven and earth than any place else.
* Define an area 'safe' and use it as an anchor
* Thirty white horses on a red hill, First they champ, Then they stamp, Then they stand still. -- Tolkien
* Lawful Dungeon Master -- and they're MY laws!
* Do nothing unless you must, and when you must act -- hesitate.
* If it wasn't for Newton, we wouldn't have to eat bruised apples.
* For fools rush in where angels fear to tread. -- Alexander Pope
* What this country needs is a good five cent nickel.
* DIDI ... is that a MARTIAN name, or, are we in ISRAEL?
* I have a very good DENTAL PLAN. Thank you.
* :-) your own self. -- Larry Wall in <199709261754.KAA23761@wall.org>
* O.K., fine.
* Marriage is a three ring circus: engagement ring, wedding ring, and suffering. -- Roger Price
* Suggest you just sit there and wait till life gets easier.
* The man who sees, on New Year's day, Mount Fuji, a hawk, and an eggplant is forever blessed. -- Old Japanese proverb
* Democracy is the name we give the people whenever we need them. -- Arman de Caillavet, 1913
* You never hesitate to tackle the most difficult problems.
* The best thing about growing older is that it takes such a long time.
* He walks as if balancing the family tree on his nose.
* Old age and treachery will overcome youth and skill.
* You don't sew with a fork, so I see no reason to eat with knitting needles. -- Miss Piggy, on eating Chinese Food
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* If you lived today as if it were your last, you'd buy up a box of rockets and fire them all off, wouldn't you? -- Garrison Keillor
* Compliment, n.: When you say something to another which everyone knows isn't true.
* Sum quod eris.
* How apt the poor are to be proud. -- William Shakespeare, "Twelfth-Night"
* The best prophet of the future is the past.
* "What people have been reduced to are mere 3-D representations of their own data." -- Arthur Miller
* Maj. Bloodnok: Seagoon, you're a coward! Seagoon: Only in the holiday season. Maj. Bloodnok: Ah, another Noel Coward!
* But has any little atom, While a-sittin' and a-splittin', Ever stopped to think or CARE That E = m c**2 ?
* Somehow I reached excess without ever noticing when I was passing through satisfaction. -- Ashleigh Brilliant
* A cynic is a person searching for an honest man, with a stolen lantern. -- Edgar A. Shoaff
* Science may someday discover what faith has always known.
* I have never let my schooling interfere with my education. -- Mark Twain
* Patience is a minor form of despair, disguised as virtue. -- Ambrose Bierce, on qualifiers
* "If you want to eat hippopatomus, you've got to pay the freight." -- attributed to an IBM guy, about why IBM software uses so much memory
* Life is both difficult and time consuming.
* Your life would be very empty if you had nothing to regret.
* Be regular and orderly in your life, so that you may be violent and original in your work. -- Flaubert
* Your own qualities will help prevent your advancement in the world.
* This file will self-destruct in five minutes.
* "On the Internet, no one knows you're using Windows NT" (Submitted by Ramiro Estrugo, restrugo@fateware.com)
* Everything that can be invented has been invented. -- Charles Duell, Director of U.S. Patent Office, 1899
Isn't it interesting that the same people who laugh at science fiction listen to weather forecasts and economists? -- Kelvin Throop III
Remembering is for those who have forgotten. -- Chinese proverb
Which is worse: ignorance or apathy? Who knows? Who cares?
Brigands will demand your money or your life, but a woman will demand both. -- Samuel Butler
"There was no difference between the behavior of a god and the operations of pure chance..." -- Thomas Pynchon, _Gravity's Rainbow_
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