Quotable Quotes

Post by **noreply66** » Tue Mar 13, 2007 9:21 pm

The history of the world is the verdict of the world.

Friedrich von Schiller,German author 1759-1805

BubbleGumTiger · Post by **BubbleGumTiger** » Tue Mar 13, 2007 11:00 pm

Not even computers will replace committees, because committees buy computers.

Edward Shepherd Mead

BubbleGumTiger · Post by **BubbleGumTiger** » Wed Mar 14, 2007 8:54 am

Marriage is about love; divorce is about money

Unknown

Post by **noreply66** » Wed Mar 14, 2007 4:08 pm

Civilization is the progress toward a society of privacy.

Ayn Rand,American author---1905-1982

BubbleGumTiger · Post by **BubbleGumTiger** » Thu Mar 15, 2007 5:15 am

"Education is not the filling of a bucket, but the lighting of a fire."

W B Yeats

Post by **noreply66** » Thu Mar 15, 2007 7:22 pm

Sometimes it's worse to win a fight than to lose.

Billie Holiday-American singer--------1915-1959

BubbleGumTiger · Post by **BubbleGumTiger** » Fri Mar 16, 2007 6:43 am

Faith is love taking the form of aspiration.

William Ellery Channing

BubbleGumTiger · Post by **BubbleGumTiger** » Sat Mar 17, 2007 8:02 am

If you judge people, you have no time to love them

Mother Teresa

BubbleGumTiger · Post by **BubbleGumTiger** » Sat Mar 17, 2007 9:44 pm

If your friend is already dead, and being eaten by vultures, I think it's okay to feed some bits of your friend to one of the vultures, to teach him to do some tricks. But ONLY if you're serious about adopting the vulture.

Jack Handey

BubbleGumTiger · Post by **BubbleGumTiger** » Mon Mar 19, 2007 8:45 am

Friendship increases in visiting friends, but in visiting them seldom.

Thomas Fuller, M. D.

BubbleGumTiger · Post by **BubbleGumTiger** » Mon Mar 19, 2007 10:09 pm

You can't give the government the power to do good without also giving it the power to do bad - in fact, to do anything it wants.

Harry Browne

BubbleGumTiger · Post by **BubbleGumTiger** » Tue Mar 20, 2007 11:27 am

The advantage of a classical education is that it enables you to despise the wealth that it prevents you from achieving.

Russell Green

Post by **noreply66** » Tue Mar 20, 2007 10:48 pm

Spring has no language but a cry.

Thomas Wolfe,American author--1900-1938

RiverRatZap · Post by **RiverRatZap** » Wed Mar 21, 2007 12:03 pm

If you've been following the news lately, you can be excused for believing that government service is harder on human memory than Alzheimer's. - Bob Schieffer

broncofan09 · Post by **broncofan09** » Wed Mar 21, 2007 1:30 pm

"Victory goes to the player who makes the next-to-last mistake."
- Chessmaster Savielly Grigorievitch Tartakower (1887-1956)

Post by **noreply66** » Thu Mar 22, 2007 9:50 pm

Love is a furnace,but it will not cook the stew.

Spanish proverb

BubbleGumTiger · Post by **BubbleGumTiger** » Mon Mar 26, 2007 7:50 am

UNIVAC: a device, which contained 20,000 vacuum tubes, occupied 1,500 square feet and weighed 40 tons; there was also a laptop version weighing 27 tons.

Dave Barry

Post by **noreply66** » Mon Mar 26, 2007 6:46 pm

The man who never tells an unpalatable truth-at the wrong time-(the time has yet to be discovered) is the man whose success in life is fairly well assured.

Agnes Repplier,American essayist--1858-1950

BubbleGumTiger · Post by **BubbleGumTiger** » Mon Mar 26, 2007 7:57 pm

Ah Mozart! He was happily married - but his wife wasn't.

Victor Borge

RiverRatZap · Post by **RiverRatZap** » Tue Mar 27, 2007 1:00 am

"Ever notice we live in a world where good men are murdered and mediocre hacks thrive? JFK murdered, Gandhi murdered. Martin Luther King murdered. Jesus murdered. Reagan... wounded." -- the late Bill Hicks