February 2012
35 posts
“Golf and sex are about the only things you can enjoy without being good at.”
– Jimmy Demaret
“Never go out to meet trouble. If you will just sit still, nine cases out of ten...”
– Calvin Coolidge
Extraordinary 298-Million-Year-Old Forest... →
But of course what with the earth being only 4000 years old, this is just fake ;)
“Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.”
– H.G.Wells
“Why do you have a hot water heater when you don’t need to heat hot water?”
– Anon
“Outside of a dog, a book is man’s best friend. Inside of a dog it’s...”
– Groucho Marx
“The illiterate of the 21st century will not be those who cannot read and write,...”
– Alvin Toffler
“One should as a rule respect public opinion in so far as is necessary to avoid...”
– Bertrand Russell
“He’s like, ‘Hey, man, where are you from?’ So I told him,...”
– Hari Kondabolu
“As long as people will accept crap, it will be financially profitable to...”
– Dick Cavett
“Perhaps in time the so-called Dark Ages will be thought of as including our own.”
– Georg Christopher Lichtenberg
“There is a tragic flaw in our precious Constitution, and I don’t know what...”
– Kurt Vonnegut
“When nothing goes right, go left.”
– Anon
“The supreme irony of life is that hardly anyone gets out of it alive.”
– Robert Heinlein
Press-To-Open Keyring Just Blew My Mind (And Saved... →
One of those things which make me go ‘Why didn’t somebody think of this sooner?’
“Every man is wise when attacked by a mad dog; fewer when pursued by a mad woman;...”
– Robertson Davies
“I don’t have a girlfriend, I just know a girl who would get really mad if...”
– Mitch Hedberg
“Censorship, like charity, should begin at home; but, unlike charity, it should...”
– Clare Booth Luce
“When the politicians complain that TV turns the proceedings into a circus, it...”
– Edward R. Murrow
January 2012
35 posts
“If history repeats itself, and the unexpected always happens, how incapable must...”
– George Bernard Shaw
“I choose my friends for their good looks, my acquaintances for their good...”
– Oscar Wilde
“Against logic there is no armor like ignorance.”
– Laurence J. Peter
“If you live long enough, the venerability factor creeps in; first, you get...”
– I.F.Stone
How One Man Got Lost in a Computer & Other Tales... →
“Rational arguments don’t usually work on religious people. Otherwise,...”
– Doris Egan