Libertine: On the Prowl

Vidi, vici, veni -- I saw, I conquered, I came. _______________________________________________________________

Saturday Quotes

07:06, 2008-May-31 .. Posted in quotes .. 3 comments .. Link

Politicians are the same all over. They promise to build a bridge even where there is no river.
--Nikita Khrushchev

Some things never change

I respect faith, but doubt is what gets you an education.
--Wilson Mizner

Question everything!

Those who welcome death have only tried it from the ears up.
--Wilson Mizner

Stupidity is painful

It is better for civilization to be going down the drain than to be coming up it.
--Henry Allen

Isn't that the truth.

The important thing in science is not so much to obtain new facts as to discover new ways of thinking about them.
--Sir William Bragg

Think outside the box.

The problem with people who have no vices is that generally you can be pretty sure they're going to have some pretty annoying virtues.
--Elizabeth Taylor

I agree.

The ultimate result of shielding men from the effects of folly is to fill the world with fools.
--Herbert Spencer

Wisdom comes from trial and error

Some Interesting Quotes

08:52, 2008-Apr-1 .. Posted in quotes .. 4 comments .. Link

My ass is worn out tonight and I'm too tired to concentrate on writing anything, so I leave you with a list of interesting quotes.

A "Normal" person is the sort of person that might be designed by a committee. You know, "Each person puts in a pretty color and it comes out gray."
~Alan Sherman

Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter and those who matter don't mind.
~Dr. Seuss

A man must consider what a rich realm he abdicates when he becomes a conformist.
~Ralph Waldo Emerson

The conventional view serves to protect us from the painful job of thinking. ~J.K. Galbraith

Before you can break out of prison, you must first realize you're locked up. ~Author Unknown

I am not in this world to live up to other people's expectations, nor do I feel that the world must live up to mine.
~Fritz Perls

Believe nothing, no matter where you read it, or who said it - even if I have said it - unless it agrees with your own reason and your own common sense.
~Buddha

Our concern must be to live while we're alive... to release our inner selves from the spiritual death that comes with living behind a facade designed to conform to external definitions of who and what we are.
~Elizabeth Kubler-Ross

The plague of mankind is the fear and rejection of diversity: monotheism, monarchy, monogamy and, in our age, monomedicine. The belief that there is only one right way to live, only one right way to regulate religious, political, sexual, medical affairs is the root cause of the greatest threat to man: members of his own species, bent on ensuring his salvation, security, and sanity.
~Thomas Szasz

Conformity is the jailer of freedom and the enemy of growth.
-- JFK

Tradition is a guide and not a jailer.
-- W. Somerset Maugham

Each man must grant himself the emotions that he needs and the morality that suits him.
-- Remy De Gourmont

Virtue is its own punishment.
- Aneurin Bevan

Quotes and Comments

10:38, 2008-Feb-1 .. Posted in quotes .. 5 comments .. Link

I'm feeling a bit under the weather today, so I leave you with some quotes and comments

I feel like a mosquito in a nudist camp -- I know what I'm supposed to do,
but I don't know where to start!
--Unknown

I always know where to start. It's knowing when to stop that's my problem!

I keep reading this book about anti-gravity and for some reason..... I just
can't seem to put it down
--Unknown

This one would make a good tag line.

If you don't like the answer, don't ask the question.
--Unknown

This reminds me of when I'd be on desk duty at the police station and after I'd tell them something they didn't want to hear, they'd ask to talk to someone else.

I think there is a world market for maybe five computers.
--Thomas Watson, chairman of IBM, 1943

Talk about being wrong in a big way!

There is no reason anyone would want a computer in their home.
--Ken Olson, 1977

I'll bet he's embarrassed now.

Time is money, money is the root of all evil, and knowledge is power. Therefore, procrastination is the key to world peace.
--Unknown

Works for me!

I don't need cybersex -- AOL goes down on me all the time!
--AOL user

I've never used AOHell, so I couldn't tell you if that was true.

Its not the boulders in my path, but the pebbles in my shoe that really sends me over the edge.
--Unknown

It's the nit-picky small annoyances constantly plaguing me than get me down most often.

Life expectancy would grow by leaps and bounds if green vegetables smelled as good as bacon.
--Doug Larson

Why is it that everything that tastes good is bad for you?

Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter and those who matter don't mind.
— Dr. Seuss

My friends love me for who I am, not what I could be.

Quotes and Comments

11:29, 2007-Dec-5 .. Posted in quotes .. 5 comments .. Link

If hard work were such a wonderful thing, surely the rich would have kept it all to themselves.
--Lane Kirkland

How hard someone has to work is usually inversely proportional to how much they get paid.

Always be smarter than the people who hire you.
--Lena Horne

This has always been true for me, as they don't apparently hire supervisors for their intelligence.

I always like a dog so long as he isn't spelled backward.
--G.K. Chesterton

Dogs are a lot more fun than the reverse.

Question with boldness even the existence of a God; because, if there be one, he must more approve of the homage of reason, than that of blind-folded fear.
--Thomas Jefferson

One would think that if God exists, then we were given the power of reasoning for a purpose.

If you have ten thousand regulations, you destroy all respect for the law.
--Winston Churchill

Better to have fewer, basic laws that are applied with discretion and common sense, than thousands of laws that micromanage every iota of our existence.

A room without books is like a body without a soul.
--Cicero

And those whose room it is tend to be boring and mundane as well.

No matter how much the cats fight, there always seem to be plenty of kittens.
--Abraham Lincoln

Nothing better than make up sex!

Some people claim that marriage interferes with romance. There's no doubt about it. Anytime you have a romance, your wife is bound to interfere.
--Groucho Marx

Isn't that the truth!

I was raised the old-fashioned way, with a stern set of moral principles: Never lie, cheat, steal or knowingly spread a venereal disease. Never speed up to hit a pedestrian or, or course, stop to kick a pedestrian who has already been hit. From which it followed, of course, that one would never ever -- on pain of deletion from dozens of Christmas card lists across the country -- vote Republican.
--Barbara Ehrenreich

Friends don't let friends vote Republican!

The only way to make sure people you agree with can speak is to support the rights of people you don't agree with.
--Eleanor Holmes Norton

Free speech is for everyone, even those who offend us.

Once a government is committed to the principle of silencing the voice of opposition, it has only one way to go, and that is down the path of increasingly repressive measures, until it becomes a source of terror to all its citizens and creates a country where everyone lives in fear.
--Harry S Truman

Truman said this in response to McCarthyism, but it's still just as true today.

Freedom is not worth having if it does not connote freedom to err.
--Mohandas K. Gandhi

This is why "nanny laws" are wrong and misguided. Freedom connotes the right to either learn or not learn from the consequences of our actions that don't affect the rights of others.

Quotes and Comments

12:10, 2007-Aug-31 .. Posted in quotes .. 0 comments .. Link

The skill of writing is to create a context in which other people can think.
-- Edwin Schlossberg

This has always been the aim of my blog.

Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric.
-- Bertrand Russell

I've seen this to be true over the years.

The world is full of people whose notion of a satisfactory future is, in fact, a return to the idealised past.
-- Robertson Davies

The good old days were never seen as being "good" at the time they were current. Rather, people waxed nostalgic over "good old days" even further in the past.

One of the lessons of history is that nothing is often a good thing to do and always a clever thing to say.
-- Will Durant

It's like the old saying goes, "Better to be thought an idiot for not saying anything, than opening one's mouth and removing all doubt."

Any reviewer who expresses rage and loathing for a novel is preposterous. He or she is like a person who has put on full armor and attacked a hot fudge sundae.
-- Kurt Vonnegut

Strong dislike may be appropriate, but anger misplaced is a waste of energy.

You can't wait for inspiration. You have to go after it with a club.
-- Jack London

I write every day, whether I'm inspired or not. Sometimes, the entries I have to pull out of myself, word by word, turn out to be the best ones.

If an article is attractive, or useful, or inexpensive, they'll stop making it tomorrow; if it's all three, they stopped making it yesterday.
~Mignon McLaughlin

I've had this one to happen to me many times. It's as if that as soon as the Powers That Be find out that I like it, they immediately discontinue it.

How is it that our memory is good enough to retain the least triviality that happens to us, and yet not good enough to recollect how often we have told it to the same person?
~François Duc de La Rochefoucauld

I've been guilty of this one.

If you wonder where your child left his roller skates, try walking around the house in the dark.
~Leopold Fechtner

With me, it's usually shoes, which tend to roll over and over and over again, so that I can keep on tripping over them as I go.

The easiest way to find something lost around the house is to buy a replacement.
~Author Unknown

Never fails!

People who want to share their religious views with you almost never want you to share yours with them.
~Dave Barry

What a surprise -- not!