Sunday, March 30, 2008

Life is like a thrift store puzzle.
It's crappy and you never have everything you need.
-John Horton
A satirist is a man who discovers unpleasant things about himself and then says them about other people.
- Peter McArthur
I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I needed to be.
- Douglas Adams

Saturday, March 15, 2008

All charming people have something to conceal, usually their total dependence on the appreciation of others.
- Cyril Connolly

Monday, March 10, 2008

When I was a kid my parents moved a lot, but I always found them.
-Rodney Dangerfield

A censor is a man who knows more than he thinks you ought to.
-Granville Hicks
I have left orders to be awakened at any time in case of national emergency, even if I'm in a cabinet meeting.
-Ronald Reagan
Anybody caught selling macrame in public should be dyed a natural color and hung out to dry.
- Calvin Trillin

Thursday, March 6, 2008

The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds; and the pessimist fears this is true.
- James Branch Cabell

Wednesday, March 5, 2008

There are grammatical errors even in his silence.
- Stanislaw J. Lec

Sunday, March 2, 2008

The great enemy of clear language is insincerity. When there is a gap between one's real and one's declared aims, one turns as it were instinctively to long words and exhausted idioms, like a cuttlefish spurting out ink.
- George Orwell