Titanic Post

July 2008

The world is a dangerous place, not because of those who do evil, but because of those who look on and do nothing.
~Albert Einstein

Sex is hereditary! If your parents never had any, chances are you won’t either.
~ Travellingstrom

May 2008

No man should allow his mind to be a vehicle for others to use; he who does not direct his own mind lacks mastery.

~Hazrat Inayat Khan - Bowl of Saki

March 2008

There are only two kinds of Republicans: millionaires and suckers. The interests of millionaires are well served by the Republican Party. As for the suckers?… That’s why they’re called suckers.

Big Truck, Little Dick

February 2008

I do not know which makes a man more conservative—to know nothing but the present, or nothing but the past.
~ John Maynard Keynes

January 2008

Wood nymphs sprinkle your path with bowling balls while you dance and prowl in the sequined moonlight with leftover heads of lettuce.

~The Surrealist Compliment Generator

December 2007

All truth passes through three stages: first, it is ridiculed;
second, it is violently opposed; and third, it is accepted as self-evident.

~Arthur Schopenhauer (1788-1860)

November 2007

There are 10¹¹ stars in the galaxy. That used to be a huge number. But it’s only a hundred billion. It’s less than the national deficit! We used to call them astronomical numbers. Now we should call them economical numbers.

~Richard Feynman

March 2007

Everyone says or does or thinks only according to his own particular evolution, and he cannot do better. Why not, therefore tolerate? Why not, therefore, forgive?

~Hazrat Inayat Khan

February 2007

The bible contains six admonishments to homosexuals and 362 admonishments to heterosexuals. That doesn’t mean that God doesn’t love heterosexuals. It’s just that they need more supervision.

~ Lynn Lavner

November 2006

An honest politician is one who, when he is bought, will stay bought.

~ Simon Cameron (1799 - 1889)

The problem with political jokes is they get elected. ~ Henry Cate VII Markets can remain irrational longer than YOU can remain solvent.

~ J.K. Galbraith

When someone is impatient and says, “I haven’t got all day,” I always wonder, How can that be? How can you not have all day?

~ George Carlin

What you are looking for is what is looking. ~ St. Francis of Assisi Those who danced were thought to be quite insane by those who could not hear the music.

~ John Milton

October 2006

Happiness is always a by-product. It is probably a matter of temperament, and for anything I know it may be glandular. But it is not something that can be demanded from life, and if you are not happy you had better stop worrying about it and see what treasures you can pluck from your own brand of unhappiness.

~ Robertson Davies

One of the great attractions of patriotism it fulfills our worst wishes. In the person of our nation we are able, vicariously, to bully and cheat. Bully and cheat, what’s more, with a feeling that we are profoundly virtuous.

~ Aldous Huxley

September 2006

I can win an argument on any topic, against any opponent. People know this, and steer clear of me at parties. Often, as a sign of their great respect, they don’t even invite me.

~ Dave Barry

August 2006

A patriot must always be ready to defend his country against his government. ­

~ Edward Abbey

Acceptance without proof is the fundamental characteristic of Western religion, rejection without proof is the fundamental characteristic of Western science.

~Gary Zukav, The Dancing Wu Li Masters

Perhaps the feelings that we experience when we are in love represent a normal state. Being in love shows a person who he should be.

~ Anton Chekhov

Nothing takes the taste out of peanut butter quite like unrequited love.

~Charles M. Schulz (1922 - 2000), Charlie Brown in Peanuts

July 2006

If you’re rich, you might want to stay that way. It’s a whole lot cheaper than being poor.

~Barbara Ehrenreich

All truly wise thoughts have been thoughts already thousands of times; but to make them truly ours, we must think them over again honestly, till they take root in our personal experience.

~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

HOAX WARNING ! If someone comes to your front door and asks you to show them your arse, DO NOT show them your arse. This is a scam; they just want to see your arse.

Interestingly, according to modern astronomers, space is finite. This is a very comforting thought– particularly for people who can never remember where they have left things.

~ Woody Allen,

My country, right or wrong, is a thing that no patriot would think of saying except in a desperate case. It is like saying, “My mother, drunk or sober.”

~ G. K. Chesterton

Interestingly, according to modern astronomers, space is finite. This is a very comforting thought– particularly for people who can never remember where they have left things.

~Woody Allen

June 2006:

The United States is a nation of laws: badly written and randomly enforced.

~ Frank Zappa

In the beginning the Universe was created. This made a lot of people very angry and has been widely regarded as a bad move.

~ Douglas Adams

Anarchism is founded on the observation that since few men are wise enough to rule themselves, even fewer are wise enough to rule others.

~ Edward Abbey

If you tell the truth you don’t have to remember anything.

~ Mark Twain