Quote of the Day

[A Nonny Moose 8,262]

Nobody suffers the pain of birth or the anguish of loving a child in order
for presidents to make wars, for governments to feed on the substance of
their people, for insurance companies to cheat the young and rob the old.
        -- Lewis Lapham

[iuri99 48]

Reading, after a certain age, diverts the mind too much from its creative pursuits. Any man who reads too much and uses his own brain too little falls into lazy habits of thinking

-- Albert Einstein.

That's me studying law.

[A Nonny Moose 8,262]

But lawyers are known for being clever and cunning.  Any that I know personally are astute thinkers of the first kind.

[Compdude787 916]

"The society that puts equality before freedom will end up with neither. The society that puts freedom before equality will end up with a great measure of both."

-Milton Friedman

[A Nonny Moose 8,262]

"I can remember when a good politician had to be 75 percent ability and 25
percent actor, but I can well see the day when the reverse could be true."
        -- Harry Truman

[A Nonny Moose 8,262]

The intelligence of any discussion diminishes with the square of the
number of participants.
        -- Adam Walinsky

[Compdude787 916]

"We don’t want the word to go out that we want to exterminate the Negro population."

-Margaret Sanger, Founder of Planned Parenthood

[A Nonny Moose 8,262]

There are worse things in life than death.  Have you ever spent an evening
with an insurance salesman?
        -- Woody Allen

[Odainsaker 2,136]

"A chicken can exercise ownership of eggs, and it can get fed while it's sitting on the egg, but...it's not really their egg."

-- Russian President Vladimir Putin to former billionaire-ally Vladimir Yevtushenkov, before seizing Yevtushenkov's controlling stake of privatized oil company Bashneft for the Russian government and having him arrested.

[A Nonny Moose 8,262]

Children begin by loving their parents.  After a time they judge them.  Rarely,
if ever, do they forgive them.
        -- Oscar Wilde

[Terring 6,476]

"Which is a greater crime: to rob a bank or to own one?"

Bertolt Brecht

[Munchiez 74]

"Mr Gorbachev tear down this wall!"

 

-Ronald Reagan

 

I just remembered that.

[A Nonny Moose 8,262]

"Its failings notwithstanding, there is much to be said in favour
of journalism in that by giving us the opinion of the uneducated,
it keeps us in touch with the ignorance of the community."
        -- Oscar Wilde

[A Nonny Moose 8,262]

Another possible source of guidance for teenagers is television, but
television's message has always been that the need for truth, wisdom and
world peace pales by comparison with the need for a toothpaste that offers
whiter teeth and fresher breath.
        -- Dave Barry, "Kids Today: They Don't Know Dum Diddly Do"
 

[Munchiez 74]

"Give me liberty or give me death!"

 

-Patrick Henry

[blade2k5 1,523]

Be careful of blindly following the masses, sometimes the "M" is silent.

 

Sully Shehan.

[A Nonny Moose 8,262]

At the heart of science is an essential tension between two seemingly
contradictory attitudes -- an openness to new ideas, no matter how bizarre
or counterintuitive they may be, and the most ruthless skeptical scrutiny
of all ideas, old and new.  This is how deep truths are winnowed from deep
nonsense.  Of course, scientists make mistakes in trying to understand the
world, but there is a built-in error-correcting mechanism:  The collective
enterprise of creative thinking and skeptical thinking together keeps the
field on track.
        -- Carl Sagan, "The Fine Art of Baloney Detection," Parade, February 1, 1987
 

[jmsepe 2,039]

I want to post this is the photos thread but this is a good quote for the day.

 

[Munchiez 74]

Tocqueville is the MAN!

 

LIBERTY!

 

[A Nonny Moose 8,262]

The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.
        -- Edmund Burke

[A Nonny Moose 8,262]

The man with the best job in the country is the Vice President.  All he has
to do is get up every morning and say, "How's the President?"
        -- Will Rogers

The vice-presidency ain't worth a pitcher of warm spit.
        -- Vice President John Nance Garner

[Easy Bakes 253]

On two occasions I have been asked,

'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?'

I am not able rightly to apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question.

Charles Babbage

[A Nonny Moose 8,262]

Some on should have asked that question of Ada Lovelace, the programmer for Mr. Babbage's engine.  I am sure she would have said "Garbage in, garbage out".

 

For today:

 

Youth is a blunder, manhood a struggle, old age a regret.
        -- Benjamin Disraeli, "Coningsby"

[A Nonny Moose 8,262]

If a nation values anything more than freedom, it will lose its freedom;
and the irony of it is that if it is comfort or money it values more, it
will lose that, too.
        -- W. Somerset Maugham
 

[A Nonny Moose 8,262]

Everything you've learned in school as "obvious" becomes less and less
obvious as you begin to study the universe.  For example, there are no
solids in the universe.  There's not even a suggestion of a solid.
There are no absolute continuums.  There are no surfaces.  There are no
straight lines.
        -- R. Buckminster Fuller

[Terring 6,476]

[A Nonny Moose 8,262]

Don't discount ancient knowledge, many of their records have been destroyed, especially with the libraries at Alexandria and Timbuktu.

 

For today:

 

A hundred years from now it is very likely that [of Twain's works] "The
Jumping Frog" alone will be remembered.
        -- Harry Thurston Peck (Editor of "The Bookman"), January 1901.

[A Nonny Moose 8,262]

    If you want to know what God thinks of money,
just look at the people he gave it to.
            -- Dorothy Parker

[A Nonny Moose 8,262]

The further the spiritual evolution of mankind advances, the more certain it
seems to me that the path to genuine religiosity does not lie through the
fear of life, and the fear of death, and blind faith, but through striving
after rational knowledge.
        -- Albert Einstein

[A Nonny Moose 8,262]

Rebellion lay in his way, and he found it.
        -- William Shakespeare, "Henry IV"