Quotation of the day

"Men show their characters in nothing more clearly than in what they think laughable."

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

"Some have said that there is no subtlety to destruction. You know what? They're all dead."

Jaya Ballard

I can resist everything but temptation

Oscar Wilde.

Pointing a finger at the moon is not the moon.

Calvin Marshall Trillin (1935– )

"The poor in Resurrection City have come to Washington to show that the poor in America are sick, dirty, disorganized, and powerless—and they are criticized daily for being sick, dirty, disorganized, and powerless."

CALVIN TRILLIN, “U.S. Journal: Resurrection City,” The New Yorker, June 15, 1968, p. 71.

Thomas Merton (1915–68)

"It is easy enough to tell the poor to accept their poverty as God’s will when you yourself have warm clothes and plenty of food and medical care and a roof over your head and no worry about the rent. But if you want them to believe you—try to share some of their poverty and see if you can accept it as God’s will yourself! "

If I think not, am I not? I think not. Don't you think?

"Chess is a game of understanding and not of memory"

ZNOSKO-BOROVSKY.

By SVW... on the fly... let's see..

"By far and away the most interesting thing one can encounter is a thing that is FAR and AWAY from the norm. Breakfast on the street in Bombay works."


How'm I doin' Joe? I got chewed out by the electric flash for using "bad words" so I'm being careful today. Hate to get banned er something.

Take a look at the <17 Feb '04 00:00> post in this thread ......

Originally posted by ivanhoe
"Christmas should be, and is a time when we take forgiveness and kindness to the next level."

StarValleyWy, 14 Feb '04 05:28
thread: "Happy Darwin Day".

"Over-the-board chess is the favorite of mortals, correspondence chess is the favorite of the gods."

Eduard Dyckhoff

"You don't have to be gay, to have sex with a boy."

(not that I do...)

Me

Originally posted by Fiathahel
"You don't have to be gay, to have sex with a boy."

(not that I do...)

Me

"When you hire people that are smarter than you are, you prove you are smarter than they are."

R. H. Grant