4.14.2006

Quote-icology...


Cleaning out the quotes bin once again.

Don Marquis
"The chief obstacle to the progress of the human race is the human race."

Rita Rudner
"I got kicked out of ballet class because I pulled a groin muscle. It wasn't mine."

Laurence J. Peter
"Originality is the fine art of remembering what you hear but forgetting where you heard it."

Ambrose Bierce
"Cogito cogito ergo cogito sum (I think that I think, therefore I think that I am.)"

Plato
"Wise men talk because they have something to say; fools, because they have to say something."

W. H. Auden
"Among those whom I like or admire, I can find no common denominator, but among those whom I love, I can: all of them make me laugh."

Thomas A. Edison
"Hell, there are no rules here-- we're trying to accomplish something."

Soren Kierkegaard
"People demand freedom of speech as a compensation for the freedom of thought which they seldom use."

Patrick Young
"The trouble with weather forecasting is that it's right too often for us to ignore it and wrong too often for us to rely on it."

1 comment:

Linda said...

I believe Rita Rudner's figure skating career also was cut short due to a groin injury. Not hers.