۞ Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle. - Plato
۞ Economists might not be a religious bunch, but I do see a frightening amount of 'blind faith' regarding certain old theories within the profession. - from Freakonomics blog
۞ You can know the name of a bird in all the languages of the world, but when you're finished, you'll know absolutely nothing whatever about the bird... So let's look at the bird and see what it's doing -- that's what counts. - Richard Feynman
۞ You can only be young once. But you can always be immature. - Dave Barry
۞ I love deadlines. I like the whooshing sound they make as they fly by. - Douglas Adams
۞ Fast is fine, but accuracy is everything. - Wyatt Earp
۞ Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic. - Arthur C. Clarke
۞ A lifetime of happiness! No man alive could bear it; it would be hell on earth. - George Bernard Shaw
۞ If anything can survive the probe of humor it is clearly of value, and conversely all groups who claim immunity from laughter are claiming special privileges which should not be granted. - Eric Idle
۞ I think it's the duty of the comedian to find out where the line is drawn and cross it deliberately. - George Carlin
۞ Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the the universe. - Albert Einstein
۞ Ignorance, the root and the stem of every evil. - Plato
۞ Lack of money is the root of all evil. - George Bernard Shaw
۞ It has yet to be proven that intelligence has any survival value. - Arthur C. Clarke
۞ It's never just a game when you're winning. - George Carlin
۞ Everywhere is walking distance if you have the time. - Steven Wright
۞ I believe that a scientist looking at nonscientific problems is just as dumb as the next guy. - Richard Feynman
۞ The price good men pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men. - Plato
۞ My theory of evolution is that Darwin was adopted. - Steve Wright
۞ If all economists were laid end to end, they would not reach a conclusion. - George Bernard Shaw
۞ If at first you don't succeed, failure may be your style. - Quentin Crisp
۞ It isn't necessary to imagine the world ending in fire or ice – there are two other possibilities: one is paperwork, and the other is nostalgia. - Frank Zappa
۞ A wise man once said, never discuss philosophy or politics in a disco environment. - Frank Zappa
۞ The first thing you have to do if you want to raise nice kids, is you have to talk to them like they are people instead of talking to them like they're property. - Frank Zappa
۞ Gail has said in interviews that one of the things that makes our relationship work is the fact that we hardly ever get to talk to each other. - Frank Zappa
۞ Mohawks may look cute, but they do nothing to retain body heat. - Guy Trebay of the NYT
۞ There is nothing in this world more terrifying that somebody who thinks he is right. - Peter Hitchens
۞ All sorts of new life forms are emerging out of the corpse of the music industry. - Peter Gabriel at a promotion of The Filter
۞ The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same time, and still retain the ability to function. - F. Scott Fitzgerald
۞ Beware the fury of a patient man. - John Dryden (by way of Gordy)
۞ MySpace is actually where all porn stars go to die. - Violet Blue
۞ Dance like nobody's watching; love like you've never been hurt. Sing like nobody's listening; live like it's heaven on earth. - Mark Twain, via aurelia
۞ Not responsible for advice not taken. - Larry Niven
۞ Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance you must keep moving. - Albert Einstein
۞ The future is already here, it is just unevenly distributed. -William Gibson
۞ Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn’t go away. - Philip K. Dick
۞ The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. But the opposite of a profound truth may well be another profound truth. -- Niels Bohr
۞ We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars. -- Oscar Wilde
۞ We can lick gravity, but sometimes the paperwork is overwhelming. -- Wernher Von Braun
۞ Politicians should read science fiction, not westerns and detective stories. -- Arthur C. Clarke
۞ A lie can travel halfway around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes. -- Mark Twain
۞ It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends on his not understanding it. -- Upton Sinclair
۞ If you are not upsetting anyone you are not changing the status quo. - Seth Godin
۞ A revolution is not a spectacle! There are no spectators! Everyone participates whether they know it or not. -- The Weathermen
۞ As a well-spent day brings happy sleep, so a life well spent brings happy death. -- Leonardo da Vinci
۞ Dancing is a perpendicular expression of a horizontal desire. - George Bernard Shaw
۞ Faith is the excuse we give ourselves to believe in something without good reason. - ?
۞ Life must be understood backward and lived forward. -Soren Kierkegaard
۞ The unexamined life is not worth living. - Socrates
۞ You're only given a little spark of madness. You mustn't lose it. -Robin Williams
۞ If you don't have a temper, you aren't worth a damn. - Effie Winn Snapp

۞ Life's too short to return soup. - Fang
۞ Exactly! - Mickey
۞ I'm cool with rebellion, as long as you still worship me. - Grrr Argh
۞ I'm an artist....I can make drool look GOOD. - Grrr Argh
۞ Prostitution seems the high road (by FAR) in this instance... - Barbary Blue
۞ A sorrow shared is halved, a joy shared is doubled - Nic
۞ Sometimes nudity happens... - Paul
۞ There's something normal about everyone. - Margie
۞ They may all be going postal now, but it was still there when I left. - Grrr Argh
۞ It's so much more natural when I swallow. - Lola (referring of course to the choce of spitting or swallowing coffee)
۞ Alove - Lola (Freudian typo of alive and in love)
۞ Maybe this group could out-perv a room full of jaded snake-eyed souls with soft pink hands, sandpaper tongues and leather lined orifices.... - Paul
۞ Are you going to bring pants just in case? - Margie
۞ I believe boiled peanuts float. - Denisey
۞ Most things are better with moaning... - Denisey
۞ I'm cheap and anal - PatFireCat
۞ I don't routinely crotch check - Aunt Bea