June 2011
19 posts
“As long as a man stands in his own way, everything seems to be in his way.”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson
May 2011
43 posts
“A man who carries a cat by the tail learns something he can learn in no other...”
– Mark Twain
“The fascination of shooting as a sport depends almost wholly on whether you are...”
– P.G.Wodehouse
“If one watches television enough, one begins to perceive the texture with which...”
– John Gielgud
Quote of 2011 →
I heard this on Christian radio ( Mission Network News on Wednesday 5/25/11 ) and this is going to be the quote of the year. I have no doubt. Here it comes….. Get ready….. “Believe it or…
Cacophonous Bling: Gastronomic Delights 1:... →
Here’s a link to a recipe for the great Tournedos Rossini. Yum yum in the tum. Cacophonous Bling: Gastronomic Delights 1: Tournedos Rossini Enjoy.
“Beautiful as that wonderful work of nature [Niagara Falls] is, it would be more...”
– Lord Kelvin
“Alone until she dies, Bessie Bighead, hired help, born in the workhouse,...”
– Dylan Thomas
“The only possible conclusion the social sciences can draw is: some do, some...”
– Ernest Rutherford
“Praising the Lord and passing the ammunition are mutually exclusive ideas.”
– Phil Donahue
“People who reach the top of the tree are only those who haven’t got the...”
– Peter Ustinov
“How many things by season season’d are,
To their right praise and true...”
– Shakespeare - “How sweet the moonlight sits upon this bank”.
“Physics is like sex: sure, it may give some practical results, but that’s...”
– Richard Feynman
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When you were a kid, what did you want to be when...
Taller.
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"If I could, I'd make stupidity illegal." Then you...
Ouch! That’s what passes in your mind for a witty riposte? Sometimes it is there, sometime not. A bit like your pants.
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“Before I came here I was confused about this subject. Having listened to your...”
– Enrico Fermi
“Begin - to begin is half the work, let half still remain; again begin this, and...”
– Marcus Aurelius
“I am certain of nothing but the holiness of the heart’s affections, and...”
– John Keats
So much has happened →
Oh boy. So much has happened since I updated the Olde Travails Page, that I feel what’s about to come your way is going to be some seemingly random stream of consciousness nonsense that’s gonna…
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If you could rid the world of one thing, what...
That Old Time Religion.
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What's the best way to relax after a long day?
With a bottle of Wild Turkey and a loaded .38
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“You seem to think that the only genuine existence evil can have is conscious...”
– Gene Wolfe
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Who was the best teacher you've ever had?
Mrs Cooper
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What's your favorite quotation?
Ten thousand cuts an awful lot of family ties.
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“It is the mark of great people to treat trifles as trifles and important matters...”
– Doris Lessing - novelist
“The worst of being a Communist is the parties you may go to are - well - awfully...”
– Nancy Mitford
“Nothing tests the limits of the Constitution more than human stupidity.”
– Me. For it is I and no other.
“Put three grains of sand inside a vast cathedral, and the cathedral will be more...”
– James Jeans
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Do you believe in angels?
Only if they are weeping.
Shakespeare movies
“I will live in thy heart, die in thy lap, and be buried in thy eyes.”
– Willy “The Bard”
“If to be feelingly alive to the sufferings of my fellow-creatures is to be a...”
– William Wilberforce
“Sometimes attaining the deepest familiarity with a question is our best...”
– Professor Brian Greene
“When you get to a certain age, there is no coming back.”
– Brian Clough
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Would you rather be the best player on a losing...
I’d rather be the only player from my team in the bar drinking beer and watching all the other exert themselves
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“The gods do not protect fools. Fools are protected by more capable fools.”
– Larry Niven
“Tomorrow Lies In Ambush”
– Robert Sheckley - title of a short story collection