A fool and his money are soon elected.
A holding company is a thing where you hand an accomplice the goods while the policeman searches you.
All I know is just what I read in the papers, and that's an alibi for my ignorance.
America is becoming so educated that ignorance will be a novelty. I will belong to the select few.
Be thankful we're not getting all the government we're paying for.
Chaotic action is preferable to orderly inaction.
Diplomacy is the art of saying "Nice doggie" until you can find a rock.
Don't let yesterday use up too much of today.
Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there.
Everybody is ignorant, only on different subjects.
Everything is funny, as long as it's happening to somebody else.
Wiki on Will Rogers
April 7, 2009
Will Rogers Never Met Me
April 4, 2009
Two So True
You don't have to fool all the people all of the time; you just have to fool enough to get elected.
~ Gerald Barzan
Get the fools on your side and you can be elected to anything.
~ Frank Dane
Astronomical or Economical
There are 1011 stars in the galaxy. That used to be a huge number. But it's only a hundred billion. It's less than the national deficit! We used to call them astronomical numbers. Now we should call them economical numbers.
- Richard Feynman
March 23, 2009
A Rich Quote
The road to happiness lies in two simple principles: find what it is that interests you and that you can do well, and when you find it, put your whole soul into it -- every bit of energy and ambition and natural ability you have.
- John D. Rockefeller III
Yeah, and it'd help to be born richer 'n two foot up a bull's ass, too.
March 16, 2009
Felicity & Felines
Happiness is like a cat. If you try to coax it or call it, it will avoid you. It will never come. But if you pay no attention to it and go about your business, you'll find it rubbing up against your legs and jumping into your lap.
- William Bennett
March 15, 2009
My First LOL
The first time I literally laughed out loud after I got on the 'net was when I read this:
To be is to do- Socrates
To do is to be- Sartre
Do be do be do- Sinatra
March 11, 2009
Hope
Hope sees the invisible, feels the intangible, and achieves the impossible.
- Anonymous
That anonymous guy sure has a lotta quotes, doesn't he?
February 28, 2009
Cats & Laps
If a dog jumps in your lap, it is because he is fond of you; but if a cat does the same thing, it is because your lap is warmer.
- Alfred North Whitehead
February 26, 2009
February 24, 2009
What is Life?
What is life? It is the flash of a firefly in the night. It is the breath of a buffalo in the wintertime. It is the little shadow which runs across the grass and loses itself in the sunset.
- Crowfoot, Blackfoot warrior and orator, 1890
February 22, 2009
Well Connected
Today's quote from the Quote of the Day feed:
We cannot live only for ourselves. A thousand fibers connect us with our fellow men.
- Herman Melville
The first thing I thought of after reading that was one of the final scenes in Melville's "Moby Dick" movie version where Captain Ahab was entangled in the ropes surrounding the great white whale.
I'd say he was well-connected, wouldn't you?
A thousand fibers might very well connect us with our fellow men, but I try my best to sever *some* of those "ties that bind". I may be doomed to the fate of being lashed to the great beast, but instead of being like Ahab, with his lifeless body seeming to wave with the whale's every breech, I'm hoping rigor mortis extends my middle finger as a parting shot.
(if you think it's aimed at you, it probably is)
Call me Ishmael, why dontcha?
January 21, 2009
January 19, 2009
Quote of the Day 1/19/09
Every man is the architect of his own fortune.
- Sallust
I dunno 'bout "architect"; some of us are in demolition, running the wrecking ball.
January 12, 2009
Good Eggs
Remember, people will judge you by your actions, not your intentions. You may have a heart of gold but so does a hard boiled egg.
- Anonymous
January 7, 2009
Amen to This
Never tell anyone that you're writing a book, going on a diet, exercising, taking a course, or quitting smoking. They'll encourage you to death.
- Lynn Johnston
December 14, 2008
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November 23, 2008
nabob
From the Dictionary.com Feed (in right-hand column)
nabob \NAY-bob\, noun:
1. a native ruler in India in the Mogul empire; by extension, a person from India who made a fortune there
2. a very wealthy and prominent person; mogul
A phrase first attributed to Bill Safire, I remember Spiro Agnew calling the liberal media "nattering nabobs of negativity". It caught my eye, not because I agree with the characterization (I do) but because of the alliteration.
October 14, 2008
Quote of the Day 10-14
A government that is big enough to give you all you want is big enough to take it all away.
- Barry Goldwater
October 11, 2008
Quote of the Day
From the Quote of the Day feed in the right-hand column:
The most effective way to do it, is to do it.
- Amelia Earhart
I can think of a dozen rejoinders, all in poor taste.
