Just Blowing Smoke...: June 2010

Quotes of the Week

... because the sharpest curve that many of us will ever have to negotiate is that of a well-turned phrase

You can't make up anything anymore. The world itself is a satire. All you're doing is recording it.

- Art Buchwald

Life is a foreign language; all men mispronounce it.

- Christopher Morley

A lot of people like snow. I find it to be an unnecessary freezing of water.

- Carl Reiner

There is nobody so irritating as somebody with less intelligence and more sense than we have.

- David Herold

Rudeness is the weak man's imitation of strength.

- Eric Hoffer

If little else, the brain is an educational toy.

- Tom Robbins

The generation of random numbers is too important to be left to chance.

- Robert Coveyou

I love the man that can smile in trouble, that can gather strength from distress, and grow brave by reflection.

- Thomas Paine

Love can be sordid only if you work at it.

Brooke McEldowney

If all the world's a stage, I want to operate the trap door.

- Paul Beatty

We are inclined to believe those whom we do not know because they have never deceived us.

Samuel Johnson

There is hopeful symbolism in the fact that flags do not wave in a vacuum.

- Arthur C Clarke

No man is allowed to be a judge in his own cause, because his interest would certainly bias his judgment, and, not improbably, corrupt his integrity.

- James Madison

Bachelor's degrees make pretty good placemats if you get 'em laminated.

- Jeph Jacques

The rule is perfect: in all matters of opinion our adversaries are insane.

- Mark Twain

It is well to remember that the entire universe, with one trifling exception, is composed of others.

- John Andrew Holmes

I am not sincere, even when I say I am not.

- Jules Renard

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