Random thoughts from all categories

Random thoughts from all categories

Americans have different ways of saying things. They say `elevator', we say `lift'...they say `President', we say `stupid psychopathic git'....

Alexi Sayle

category: comedy | comment

I do not comment on intelligent matters.

Jim Bolger

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If you use a waffle iron for a pillow, be sure it is unplugged.

Gary Owens

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If you would not be forgotten, as soon as you are rotten, either write things worth reading or do things worth the writing.

Benjamin Franklin

category: history | comment

The people of Nebraska are for free silver. Therefore, I am for free silver. I'll look up the reasons later.

U.S. Representative William Jennings Bryan

category: history | comment

The secret of happiness is to find a congenial monotony.

V. S. Pritchett

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Wherever God erects a house of prayer, The Devil always builds a chapel there; And 't will be found, upon examination, The latter has the largest congregation.

Daniel Defoe (1660-1731)
The True-Born Englishman, Part i, Line 1

category: literature (classic) | comment

You never know where bottom is until you plumb for it.

Frederick Laing

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What's wrong with this world is, it's not finished yet. It is not completed to that point where man can put his final signature to the job and say, "It is finished. We made it, and it works."

Because only man can complete it. Not God, but man. It is man's high destiny and proof of his immortality too, that his is the choice between ending the world, effacing it from the long annals of time and space, and completing it.

William Faulkner (1897-1962) Atlantic [August 1953], "Faith or Fear"

category: literature (modern) | comment | added 33 months ago

I'm not offended by dumb blonde jokes because I know that I'm not dumb. I also know I'm not blonde.

Dolly Parton

category: music | comment | added 31 months ago

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