Tuesday, August 31, 2010

Toxic thinking?

Resentment is like drinking poison and waiting for the other person to die.

Carrie Fisher

Monday, August 30, 2010

Fifth law of fashion?


[We] do not believe in God. [We] believe in cashmere.

 Fran Liebowitz

Sunday, August 29, 2010

Pain builds character?

You don't have to suffer to be a poet; adolescence is enough suffering for anyone.

John Ciardi

Saturday, August 28, 2010

That time of year?

A university is a college with a stadium seating over 40,000.  

Leonard L. Levinson

Friday, August 27, 2010

National consensus?

Finally Americans have found a political problem that they are willing to come together and do something about. No, not terrorism...close, it's telemarketing.

Lewis Black

Thursday, August 26, 2010

Not your momma's cooking


Scrambled eggs should never be assembled in vatsized proportions. 


Roy Blount, Jr.

Wednesday, August 25, 2010

Gee, what a terrific party.


Later on we'll get some fluid and embalm each other. 


Neil Simon

Tuesday, August 24, 2010

Unsettled?

I feel a very unusual sensation -- if it is not indigestion, I think it must be gratitude.

Benjamin Disraeli

Monday, August 23, 2010

Everlasting fire and hormones?

If there is a hell, it is modeled after Jr. high.

Lewis Black

Sunday, August 22, 2010

Millions long for immortality


 ...who do not know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday afternoon.  


Susan Ertz

Saturday, August 21, 2010

Busy signal

God seems to have left the receiver off the hook ...

Arthur Koestler

Friday, August 20, 2010

Thou shalt not covet?

He who has never envied the vegetable has missed the human drama.

E. M. Cioran

Thursday, August 19, 2010

Squawk box?


I don't hold with furniture that talks.


Fred Allen

Wednesday, August 18, 2010

Take flight

There are only two emotions in a plane: boredom and terror.  

Orson Welles

Tuesday, August 17, 2010

To stretch a point?

I try not to break the rules, but merely to test their elasticity.  

Bill Veeck

Monday, August 16, 2010

Deep trouble

The problem with the gene pool is that there's no lifeguard.

David Gerrold

Sunday, August 15, 2010

Thousand year war?

Don’t set your wit against a child. 

Jonathan Swift


Saturday, August 14, 2010

Overparked?

He has sat on the fence so long that the iron has entered his soul. 

David Lloyd George

Friday, August 13, 2010

Free ride?

Only dead fish swim with the stream.

Malcolm Muggeridge

Thursday, August 12, 2010

A word to the wise?

[We] like maxims that don't encourage behavior modification. 

Bill Watterson

Wednesday, August 11, 2010

A pointed observation?


We are each our own devil, and we make this world our hell. 

Oscar Wilde

Tuesday, August 10, 2010

Sanity check?

Every leader needs to look back once in a while to make sure he has followers.

Anon.

Monday, August 9, 2010

Our little secret?

I feel sure that no girl would go to the altar if she knew all.

Queen Victoria

Sunday, August 8, 2010

Fourth law of fashion


Brevity is the soul of lingerie. 
Dorothy Parker  
  

Saturday, August 7, 2010

General counsel

Ignorance of your profession is best concealed by solemnity and silence, which pass for profound knowledge upon the generality of mankind.

Advice to Officers of the British Army, 1783

Friday, August 6, 2010

Give Joe a rest

Sleep is actually a good substitute for coffee.

Bill Arms

Thursday, August 5, 2010

No joke

The total absence of humour in the Bible is one of the most singular things in all literature. 

Alfred North Whitehead

Wednesday, August 4, 2010

Third law of fashion

I think the most important thing a woman can have - next to talent, of course - is her hairdresser.

Joan Crawford 

Tuesday, August 3, 2010

Work or play?

Philosophers are often like small children who scribble random marks on paper and then ask an adult, "What is this? 

Ludwig Wittgenstein

Monday, August 2, 2010

An intergalactic twist

Fool me once, shame on you.
Fool me twice, prepare to die.


Klingon Proverb

Sunday, August 1, 2010

I don't dislike babies...



... though I think very young ones rather disgusting.  

Queen Victoria
 
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