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"A few whiskeys, blonde cigarettes, and a good woman!"
—Five-time Tour de France winner Jacques Anquetil,
when
asked to outline the best training regimen for aspiring
cyclists.
"Work is the curse of the drinking classes."
—Oscar Wilde
Do you support the death penalty?
"Absolutely. And I've got a long list of people who should be stood up
against a wall and shot, starting with the man who invented the breathalyser."
—The
Curmudgeon
"The aim of life is to live, and to live means to be aware,
joyously, drunkenly, serenely, divinely aware."
—Henry Miller
"Once, during Prohibition, I was forced to
live for days on nothing but food and water."
—W. C. Fields
"I leave when the pub closes."
—Winston Churchill
"The people who cast the votes decide nothing.
The people who count the votes decide everything."
—Joseph Stalin
"[Robert Downey was being singled out for] selective prosecution. He's
a
sweet guy who never did harm to anyone except himself. He's been doing
drugs for 20 years and functioning for 20 years, and in those 20 years
there've
been hundreds of people who've been getting high constantly and behaved
very
destructively and have not been arrested. Robert's real problem is he gets
caught."
—Ally McBeal director James Toback
"I believe Picasso's success is just one small part of the broader
modern phenomenon of artists themselves rejecting serious
art—
perhaps partly because serious art takes so much time and energy
and talent to produce—in favor of what I call `impulse
art': art work
that is quick and easy, at least by comparison."
—Marilyn Vos Savant
Parade Magazine, October, 2000
"The genetic code is not a binary code as in computers,
nor an eight-level code as in some telephone systems,
but a quaternary code with four symbols. The machine
code of the genes is uncannily computerlike."
—Richard Dawkins, River Out of Eden
"General impressions are never to be trusted.
Unfortunately when they are of long standing
they become fixed rules of life, and assume a
prescriptive right not to be questioned.
Consequently, those who are not accustomed
to original inquiry entertain a hatred and a
horror of statistics. They cannot endure the
idea of submitting their sacred impressions to
cold-blooded verification. But it is the triumph
of scientific men to rise superior to such
superstitions, to devise tests by which the value
of beliefs may be ascertained, and to feel
sufficiently masters of themselves to discard
comtemptuously whatever may be found untrue."
—Sir Francis Galton
"I never found the companion that
was so companionable as solitude."
—Henry David Thoreau
"It's not enough that you believe what you see.
You must also understand what you see."
—Leonardo da Vinci
"I like the English. They have the most rigid code of immorality in the
world."
—Malcolm Bradbury
"Most business books are written by consultants and professors who
haven't spent much time in a cubicle. That's like writing
a firsthand account
of the Donner party based on the fact that you've eaten beef jerky."
—Scott Adams,
The Dilbert Principle
"In matters of style, swim with the current.
In matters of principle, stand like a rock."
—Thomas Jefferson
"You ask me, why do I stay in these blue mountains?
It is altogether a different world here."
—Li Po, 701 – 762 AD.
"If you are thinking a year ahead, sow a seed.
If you are thinking ten years ahead, plant a tree.
If you are thinking one hundred years ahead, educate the people."
—Chinese Poet, 500 BC
"No one ever dies wishing they'd spent more time at the office."
—Malcolm Forbes
"All great truths begin as blasphemies."
—George Bernard Shaw
"coydog," on the
ArboristSite.com
message board, writes:
"Our company just received a surprise OSHA inspection, among other things,
they
are demanding that we wear chaps when operating a chainsaw while climbing
[trees.]"
"RockyJSquirrel" replies:
"Government employees, for the most part, are morons who leech off of
society under
the guise of "public servant". Fact is, most are too stupid to make it in
the private sector
and put in their time at a gummint job mostly for the security of a job for
life with
great benefits and little chance of being fired, no matter how inept they
might be.
Some people are able to schmooze these morons in order to avoid the
difficulties these
idiots can easily create with a single piece of paper. Right and wrong mean
nothing, the only
important thing is making sure everyone locksteps in time and follows all
the stupid rules
mandated by other morons who have no working knowledge of the industries
they regulate.
So find the right person in your office to sweet-talk the moron until
he
goes away, then you can go back to the business of running a business."
"The problem with defending the purity of the English language is that
English is about as pure as a cribhouse whore. We don't just borrow words;
on occasion, English has pursued other languages down alleyways to beat
them unconscious and rifle their pockets for new vocabulary."
—James D. Nicoll
"The problem with an open mind is people
come along and put things in it."
—Author unknown
What is the most important lesson life has taught you?
"Two gallons of beer makes you feel like death
the next day. However, I feel that this is a proposition
whose validity must be regularly tested."
—The
Curmudgeon
"Logical consequences are the scarescrows
of fools and the beacons of wise men."
—T. H. Huxley
"After two thousand years of mass, we've got as far as poison
gas."
–Thomas Hardy, English author (1840-1928)
from the poem Christmas 1924:
"Ironic that were the spiritual leaders of nations to
adopt the precepts of crude, pugnacious, and religionless
ex-pro wrestler and governor of Minnesota
Jesse Ventura, the world would be a far safer place."
–Chuck Daniels
"There is nothing which has yet been contrived by man,
by which so much happiness is produced as a good tavern or inn."
—Samuel Johnson
"The plain people, hereafter as in the past, will continue to make
their own language, and the best that grammarians can do is to
follow after it, haltingly, and not often with much insight into
it"
—H L Mencken, "The American Language"
(1936).
". . . there have been fewer than 50 reported cases
of any significant toxicity related to DEET in
the medical literature. That is out of approximately
8 billion applications over more than 40 years."
—Dermatologist Mark S. Fradin,
MD