Quotes and a Word
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Quotes of the Day for April 12, 2005
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There is a theory which states that if ever anybody discovers exactly what the Universe is for and
why it is here, it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and
inexplicable. There is another theory which states that this has already happened.
-- Douglas Adams
This isn't right. This isn't even wrong.
-- Wolfgang Pauli, on a paper submitted by a physicist colleague
You can go a long way with a smile. You can go a lot farther with a smile and a gun.
-- Al Capone
All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed.
Third, it is accepted as being self-evident.
-- Arthur Schopenhauer
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Quotes of the Day for April 13, 2005
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The whole world is in revolt. Soon there will be only five Kings left--the King of England, the
King of Spades, The King of Clubs, the King of Hearts, and the King of Diamonds.
-- King Farouk of Egypt, 1948
Never believe anything until it has been officially denied.
-- Claud Cockburn
An intellectual is a man who takes more words than necessary to tell more than he knows.
-- Dwight D. Eisenhower
Free advice is worth the price.
-- Robert Half
the worthless word for the day is: whipsloven
[whip + sloven (see below)] obs.
? a sloven who deserves whipping
sloven: [ME sloveyn, rascal] obs.
a person of low character or manners; a knave, rascal
"For thes twayne whypslouens calle for a coke stole:"
- John Skelton, Against Garnesche (1529)
"By hoke ne by croke."
- John Skelton, Colyn Cloute
"If thou one manchet dare handle or els touche,..
Then shall some slouen thee dashe on the eare."
- Alexander Barclay, Ecloges (1513)
[thanx to Pauline]
-tsuwm
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