Laurence J. Peter
Hot dogs: feeding the hand that bites it.…
Month: June 2009
Abraham Lincoln
As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master.…
Freeman Dyson
The more I examine the universe and the details of its architecture, the more evidence I find that the universe in some sense must have known we were coming.…
H L Mencken
Man weeps to think that he will die so soon; woman, that she was born so long ago.…
Richard Clopton
Clopton’s Law: For every credibility gab, there is a gullibility fill.…
Ammon Hennacy
Being a pacifist between wars is as easy as being a vegetarian between meals.…
Horace Mann
A teacher who is attempting to teach without inspiring the pupil with a desire to learn is hammering cold iron.…
Otto von Bismarck
He who is not a socialist at 19, has no heart. He who is still a socialist at 30, has no brain.…
Edgar Allan Poe
A Dream In visions of the dark night I have dreamed of joy departed- But a waking dream of life and light Hath left me broken-hearted. Ah! what is not a dream by day To him whose eyes are cast On things around him with a ray Turned back upon the past? That holy dream- that holy dream, While all the world were chiding, Hath cheered me as a lovely beam A lonely spirit guiding. What though that light, thro’ storm and night, So trembled from afar- What could there be more purely bright In Truth’s day-star?…
P G Wodehouse
He trusted neither of them as far as he could spit, and he was a poor spitter, lacking both distance and control.…
Cecil Baxter
You don’t get anything clean without getting something else dirty.…
Marie Curie
One never notices what has been done; one can only see what remains to be done.…