Historian: an… H. L. Mencken
Historian: an unsuccessful novelist.
H. L. Mencken
US editor (1880 - 1956)
December 31st, 2005 - Posted in H. L. Mencken | | 0 Comments
California, the… Raymond Chandler
California, the department store state.
Raymond Chandler
US detective novelist & screenwriter (1888 - 1959)
December 30th, 2005 - Posted in Raymond Chandler | | 0 Comments
In the transmission… Gregory Bateson
In the transmission of human culture, people always attempt to replicate, to pass on to the next generation the skills and values of the parents, but the attempt always fails because cultural transmission is geared to learning, not D.N.A.
Gregory Bateson, “Mind and Matter”
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I really wonder… Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
I really wonder what gives us the right to wreck this poor planet of ours.
Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
December 28th, 2005 - Posted in Kurt Vonnegut Jr. | | 0 Comments
Be wary of the man… Joaquin Setanti
Be wary of the man who urges an action in which he himself incurs no risk.
Joaquin Setanti
December 27th, 2005 - Posted in Joaquin Setanti | | 0 Comments
In all honesty,… Connie Chung to Johnny Carson
In all honesty, Johnny, we are often at the mercy of the White House for the news we report. Frequently, we simply repeat verbatim what the White House tells us.
Connie Chung to Johnny Carson
December 26th, 2005 - Posted in Connie Chung to Johnny Carson | | 0 Comments
We trained hard,… From Petronii Arbitri Satyricon AD 66 (Attributed to Gaius Petronus
We trained hard, but it seemed every time we were beginning to form up into teams, we would be reorganised. I was to learn later in life that we tend to meet any new situation by reorganising, and a wonderful method it can be for creating the illusion of progress while producing confusion, inefficiency and demoralisation.
From Petronii Arbitri Satyricon AD 66 (Attributed to Gaius Petronus, a Roman General who later committed suicide)
December 25th, 2005 - Posted in From Petronii Arbitri Satyricon AD 66 (Attributed to Ga | | 0 Comments
It was one of those… P.D. James
It was one of those perfect English autumnal days which occur more frequently in memory than in life.
P.D. James
December 24th, 2005 - Posted in P.D. James | | 0 Comments
Love is like an… Jules Renard
Love is like an hourglass, with the heart filling up as the brain empties.
Jules Renard
(1864 - 1910)
December 23rd, 2005 - Posted in Jules Renard | | 0 Comments
Never feel… Millicent Fenwick
Never feel self-pity, the most destructive emotion there is. How awful to be caught up in the terrible squirrel cage of self.
Millicent Fenwick
December 22nd, 2005 - Posted in Millicent Fenwick | | 0 Comments
Many books today… Peter S. Prescott
Many books today suggest that the mass of women lead lives of noisy desperation.
Peter S. Prescott
December 21st, 2005 - Posted in Peter S. Prescott | | 0 Comments
To be clever enough… George Bernard Shaw
To be clever enough to get a great deal of money, one must be stupid enough to want it.
George Bernard Shaw
Irish dramatist & socialist (1856 - 1950)
December 20th, 2005 - Posted in George Bernard Shaw | | 0 Comments
God made everything… Paul Valery
God made everything out of nothing, but the nothingness shows through.
Paul Valery
French critic & poet (1871 - 1945)
December 19th, 2005 - Posted in Paul Valery | | 0 Comments
A pious man is one… Jean de La Bruyere
A pious man is one who would be an athiest if the king were.
Jean de La Bruyere
French moralist (1645 - 1696)
December 18th, 2005 - Posted in Jean de La Bruyere | | 0 Comments
Man is certainly… Michel de Montaigne
Man is certainly stark mad. He cannot make a worm, and yet he will be making gods by dozens.
Michel de Montaigne
French essayist (1533 - 1592)
December 17th, 2005 - Posted in Michel de Montaigne | | 0 Comments
If I had been the… Margaret “Stevie” Smith
If I had been the Virgin Mary, I would have said “No.”
Margaret “Stevie” Smith
December 16th, 2005 - Posted in Margaret "Stevie" Smith | | 0 Comments
We were married by… Woody Allen
We were married by a reformed rabbi in Long Island. A very reformed rabbi. A Nazi.
Woody Allen
US movie actor, comedian, & director (1935 - )
December 15th, 2005 - Posted in Woody Allen | | 0 Comments
How should they… Abigail Van Buren in reply to the question: “Why do Jews always answer a question with a question?”
How should they answer?
Abigail Van Buren in reply to the question: “Why do Jews always answer a question with a question?”
December 14th, 2005 - Posted in Abigail Van Buren in reply to the question: "Why do Jew | | 0 Comments
The world is proof… Bob Stokes
The world is proof that God is a committee.
Bob Stokes
December 13th, 2005 - Posted in Bob Stokes | | 0 Comments
Death is more… A. Sachs
Death is more universal than life; everyone dies but not everyone lives.
A. Sachs
December 12th, 2005 - Posted in A. Sachs | | 0 Comments
The only thing that… Nicholas Chamfort
The only thing that stops God from sending another flood is that the first one was useless.
Nicholas Chamfort
(1741 - 1794)
December 11th, 2005 - Posted in Nicholas Chamfort | | 0 Comments
For all the gold… Hans Konig
For all the gold and silver stolen and shipped to Spain did not make the Spanish people richer. It gave their kings an edge in the balance of power for a time, a chance to hire more mercenary soldiers for their wars. They ended up losing those wars anyway, and all that was left was a deadly inflation, a starving population, the rich richer, the poor poorer, and a ruined peasant class.
Hans Konig
December 10th, 2005 - Posted in Hans Konig | | 0 Comments
Education: the… John Maynard Keynes
Education: the inculcation of the incomprehensible into the indifferent by the incompetent.
John Maynard Keynes
English economist (1883 - 1946)
December 9th, 2005 - Posted in John Maynard Keynes | | 0 Comments
He who joyfully… Albert Einstein
He who joyfully marches to music rank and file, has already earned my contempt. He has been given a large brain by mistake, since for him the spinal cord would surely suffice. This disgrace to civilization should be done away with at once. Heroism at command, how violently I hate all this, how despicable and ignoble war is; I would rather be torn to shreds than be a part of so base an action. It is my conviction that killing under the cloak of war is nothing but an act of murder.
Albert Einstein
US (German-born) physicist (1879 - 1955)
December 8th, 2005 - Posted in Albert Einstein | | 0 Comments
It is inaccurate to… H. L. Mencken
It is inaccurate to say I hate everything. I am strongly in favor of common sense, common honesty, and common decency. This makes me forever ineligible for public office.
H. L. Mencken
US editor (1880 - 1956)
December 7th, 2005 - Posted in H. L. Mencken | | 0 Comments
Be modest! It is… Jules Renard
Be modest! It is the kind of pride least likely to offend.
Jules Renard
(1864 - 1910)
December 6th, 2005 - Posted in Jules Renard | | 0 Comments
The [Interstate… Richard Olney
The [Interstate Commerce] commission, as its functions have now been limited by the courts is, or can be made, of great use to the railroads. It satisfies the public clamor for a government supervision of railroads, at the same time that that supervision is almost entirely nominal.
Richard Olney, a lawyer for the Boston & Maine and Attorney General under Grover Cleveland, advising a railroad president
December 5th, 2005 - Posted in Richard Olney | | 0 Comments
So far as I can… Bertrand Russell
So far as I can remember, there is not one word in the Gospels in praise of intelligence.
Bertrand Russell
British author, mathematician, & philosopher (1872 - 1970)
December 4th, 2005 - Posted in Bertrand Russell | | 0 Comments
American women… W. Somerset Maugham
American women expect to find in their husbands a perfection that English women only hope to find in their butlers.
W. Somerset Maugham
English dramatist & novelist (1874 - 1965)
December 3rd, 2005 - Posted in W. Somerset Maugham | | 0 Comments
What people call… Oscar Wilde
What people call insincerity is simply a method by which we can multiply our personalities.
Oscar Wilde
Irish dramatist, novelist, & poet (1854 - 1900)
December 2nd, 2005 - Posted in Oscar Wilde | | 0 Comments
Metric is… Dean Krakel
Metric is definitely communist. One monetary system, one language, one weight and measurement system, one world - all communist! We know the West was won by the inch, foot, yard, and mile.
Dean Krakel, Director of the National Cowboy Hall of Fame
December 1st, 2005 - Posted in Dean Krakel | | 0 Comments