Our Collective Wisdom
Hello Kiddies,
Since it's a slow news day, here's some of the most impressionable one liners that have come across our desk this week. Most of the time they make their way here through the Quotations page iGoogle Gadget and occasionally from other sources. The final one here is from a terrific book that we're reading that will soon make its way to the ABR. For further edification and amusement I suggest checking out the Fuckipedia Twitter page.
"The man of knowledge must be able not only to love his enemies but also to hate his friends."
-- Friedrich Nietzsche
"It has always been the prerogative of children and half-wits to point out that the emperor has no clothes. But the half-wit remains a half-wit, and the emperor remains an emperor."
-- Neil Gaiman
"I agree with everything you say, but I would attack to the death your right to say it."
-- Tom Stoppard
"A superstition is a premature explanation that overstays its time."
-- George Iles
"I've gone into hundreds of [fortune-teller's parlors], and have been told thousands of things, but nobody ever told me I was a policewoman getting ready to arrest her."
--New York City detective
"Whenever people agree with me I always feel I must be wrong."
--Oscar Wilde
"The one function TV news performs very well is that when there is no news we give it to you with the same emphasis as if there were."
--David Brinkley
""Some men are born mediocre, some men achieve mediocrity, and some men have mediocrity thrust upon them."
--Joseph Heller
"Bureaucrats write memorandums both because they appear to be busy when they are writing and because the memos, once written, immediately become proof that they were busy."
--Charles Peters
"I have seen the future and it doesn't work."
--Robert Fulford
"In modern America, anyone who attempts to write satirically about the events of the day finds it difficult to concoct a situation so bizarre that it may not actually come to pass while the article is still on the presses."
--Calvin Trillin
"Thus the metric system did not really catch on in the States, unless you count the increasing popularity of the nine-millimeter bullet."
--Dave Barry
"The ultimate result of shielding men from the effects of folly is to fill the world with fools."
--Herbert Spencer
Speaking of wisdom, since we are celebrating the 20th Anniversary of Revenge this month, here's Uncle Gene.
Since it's a slow news day, here's some of the most impressionable one liners that have come across our desk this week. Most of the time they make their way here through the Quotations page iGoogle Gadget and occasionally from other sources. The final one here is from a terrific book that we're reading that will soon make its way to the ABR. For further edification and amusement I suggest checking out the Fuckipedia Twitter page.
"The man of knowledge must be able not only to love his enemies but also to hate his friends."
-- Friedrich Nietzsche
"It has always been the prerogative of children and half-wits to point out that the emperor has no clothes. But the half-wit remains a half-wit, and the emperor remains an emperor."
-- Neil Gaiman
"I agree with everything you say, but I would attack to the death your right to say it."
-- Tom Stoppard
"A superstition is a premature explanation that overstays its time."
-- George Iles
"I've gone into hundreds of [fortune-teller's parlors], and have been told thousands of things, but nobody ever told me I was a policewoman getting ready to arrest her."
--New York City detective
"Whenever people agree with me I always feel I must be wrong."
--Oscar Wilde
"The one function TV news performs very well is that when there is no news we give it to you with the same emphasis as if there were."
--David Brinkley
""Some men are born mediocre, some men achieve mediocrity, and some men have mediocrity thrust upon them."
--Joseph Heller
"Bureaucrats write memorandums both because they appear to be busy when they are writing and because the memos, once written, immediately become proof that they were busy."
--Charles Peters
"I have seen the future and it doesn't work."
--Robert Fulford
"In modern America, anyone who attempts to write satirically about the events of the day finds it difficult to concoct a situation so bizarre that it may not actually come to pass while the article is still on the presses."
--Calvin Trillin
"Thus the metric system did not really catch on in the States, unless you count the increasing popularity of the nine-millimeter bullet."
--Dave Barry
"The ultimate result of shielding men from the effects of folly is to fill the world with fools."
--Herbert Spencer
Speaking of wisdom, since we are celebrating the 20th Anniversary of Revenge this month, here's Uncle Gene.
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