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1. I think animal testing is a terrible idea; they get all
nervous and
give the wrong answers. -- A Bit
of Fry and Laurie
2. A Freudian slip is when you say one thing but mean your mother.
3. The hypothalamus is one of the most important parts of the
brain,
involved in many kinds of motivation, among other
functions. The
hypothalamus controls the "Four F's":
1. fighting; 2. fleeing;
3.feeding; and 4. mating.
-- Psychology professor in neuropsychology intro course
4. What is a committee? A group of the unwilling, picked
from the
unfit, to do the unnecessary.
-- Richard Harkness, The New York Times, 1960
5. Slogan of 105.9, the classic rock radio station in Chicago:
"Of all
the radio stations in Chicago...we're one of them."
6. With every passing hour our solar system comes forty-three
thousand
miles closer to globular cluster M13 in the constellation
Hercules,
and still there are some misfits who continue to
insist that there
is no such thing as progress. -- Ransom K.
Ferm
7. Madness takes its toll. Please have exact change.
8. Applying computer technology is simply finding the right wrench
to
pound in the correct screw.
9. The graduate with a Science degree asks, "Why does it work?"
The graduate with an Engineering degree asks,
"How does it work?"
The graduate with an Accounting degree asks,
"How much will it
cost?"
The graduate with a Liberal Arts degree asks,
"Do you want fries
with that?"
10. Karate is a form of martial arts in which people who have
had years
and years of training can, using only their
hands and feet, make
some of the worst movies in the history of
the world.
-- Dave Barry
11. I am not a vegetarian because I love animals; I am a
vegetarian
because I hate plants. -- A. Whitney
Brown
12. A great many people think they are thinking when they are
merely
rearranging their prejudices. -- William
James
13. Never underestimate the bandwidth of a station wagon full
of tapes
hurtling down the highway. -- Andrew
Tannenbaum
14. We should be careful to get out of an experience only the
wisdom
that is in it - and stop there; lest
we be like the cat that sits
down on a hot stove-lid. She will never
sit down on a hot
stove-lid again---and that is well;
but also she will never sit
down on a cold one anymore.
-- Mark Twain
15. There's so much comedy on television. Does that cause
comedy in
the streets?
-- Dick Cavett, mocking the TV-violence debate
16. If a woman has to choose between catching a fly ball and saving
an
infant's life, she will choose to save the
infant's life without
even considering if there are men on base.
-- Dave Barry
17. I am sick unto death of obscure English towns that exist seemingly
for the sole accommodation of these so-called
limerick writers
-- and even sicker of their residents, all
of whom suffer from
physical deformities and spend their time
dismembering relatives at
fancy dress balls. -- Editor of the Limerick
Times
(Limerick, Ireland)
18. When cryptography is outlawed, bayl bhgynjf jvyy unir cevinpl.
19. Lazlo's Chinese Relativity Axiom: No matter how great
your
triumphs or how tragic your defeats---approximately
one billion
Chinese couldn't care less.
20. 668: The Neighbor of the Beast
21. Some mornings, it's just not worth chewing through the leather
straps. -- Emo Phillips
22. Writing about music is like dancing about architecture.
23. Experience is that marvelous thing that enables you recognize
a
mistake when you make it again. -- F.
P. Jones
24. Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability
to learn
from the experience of others, are also remarkable
for their
apparent disinclination to do so.
-- Douglas Adams, _Last Chance to See_
25. As your attorney, it is my duty to inform you that it is not
important that you understand what I'm doing
or why you're paying
me so much money. What's important is
that you continue to do so. -- Hunter S. Thompson's Samoan Attorney
26. When I told the people of Northern Ireland that I was an atheist,
a woman in the audience stood up and said,
"Yes, but is it the God
of the Catholics or the God of the Protestants
in whom you don't
believe?" -- Quentin Crisp
27. Boundary, n. In political geography, an imaginary line
between two
nations, separating the imaginary rights of
one from the imaginary
rights of another. -- Ambrose Bierce, The
Devil's Dictionary
28. I think that all right-thinking people in this country are
sick and tired
of being told that ordinary, decent people
are fed up in this
country with being sick and tired. I'm
certainly not! But I'm
sick and tired of being told that I am!
-- Monty Python
29. May the forces of evil become confused on the way to your
house.
-- George Carlin
30. Sorry, but my karma just ran over your dogma.
31. Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent
revolution inevitable. -- John F. Kennedy
32. Life may have no meaning. Or even worse, it may have
a meaning of
which I disapprove. -- Ashleigh Brilliant
33. My opinions may have changed, but not the fact that I am right.
-- Ashleigh Brilliant
34. Her kisses left something to be desired -- the rest of her.
35. Drawing on my fine command of language, I said nothing.
36. Always try to do things in chronological order; it's less
confusing
that way.
37. Based on what you know about him in history books, what do
you
think Abraham Lincoln would be doing if he
were alive today?
1. Writing his memoirs of the
Civil War.
2. Advising the President.
3. Desperately clawing at the
inside of his coffin.
--David Letterman
38. Once at a social gathering, Gladstone said to Disraeli, "I
predict,
Sir, that you will die either by hanging or
of some vile disease".
Disraeli replied, "That all depends, sir,
upon whether I embrace
your principles or your mistress."
39. For three days after death, hair and fingernails continue
to grow
but phone calls taper off. -- Johnny
Carson
40. I think that the team that wins game five will win the series.
Unless we lose game five. -- Charles
Barkley
41. My initial response was to sue her for defamation of character,
but
then I realized that I had no character.
-- Charles Barkley, on hearing Tonya
Harding proclaim herself
"the Charles Barkley of figure skating"
42. The most important thing in the programming language is the
name.
A language will not succeed without a good
name. I have recently
invented a very good name and now I am looking
for a suitable
language. -- D. E. Knuth, 1967
43. A slipping gear could let your M203 grenade launcher fire
when you
least expect it. That would make you
quite unpopular in what's
left of your unit. -- In the August 1993 issue,
page 9, of PS
magazine, the Army's magazine of preventive
maintenance 44. An
Animated Cartoon Theology:
1. People are animals.
2. The body is mortal and subject
to incredible pain.
3. Life is antagonistic to the
living.
4. The flesh can be sawed, crushed,
frozen, stretched, burned,
bombed, and
plucked for music.
5. The dumb are abused by the
smart and the smart destroyed by
their own cunning.
6. The small are tortured by the
large and the large destroyed
by their own
momentum.
7. We are able to walk on air,
but only as long as our illusion
supports us.
-- E. L. Doctorow "The Book of Daniel"
45. Suppose you were an idiot. And suppose you were a member
of
Congress. But I repeat myself. -- Mark
Twain
46. Calvin: People think it must be fun to be a super genius,
but they
don't realize how hard it is to put up with
all the idiots in the
world.
Hobbes: Isn't your pants' zipper supposed
to be in the front?
47. On one occasion a student burst into his office. "Professor
Stigler, I don't believe I deserve this F
you've given me." To
which Stigler replied, "I agree, but unfortunately
it is the lowest
grade the University will allow me to award."
48. The overwhelming majority of people have more than the average
(mean) number of legs. -- E. Grebenik
49. Old Yiddish proverb: "If triangles had a God, He'd have three
sides."
50. Don't worry about temptation--as you grow older, it starts
avoiding
you. -- Old Farmer's Almanac
51. G: "If we do happen to step on a mine, Sir, what
do we do?"
EB: "Normal procedure, Lieutenant, is
to jump 200 feet in the air
and scatter
oneself over a wide area."
-- Somewhere
in No Man's Land, BA4
52. The mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire to be kindled.
-- Plutarch
53. Sometimes I lie awake at night, and I ask, "Where have I gone
wrong?" Then a voice says to me, "This
is going to take more than
one night."
-- Charlie Brown, _Peanuts_
[Charles Schulz]
54. The only difference between me and a madman is that I am not
mad.
-- Salvador Dali
55. What a distressing contrast there is between the radiant
intelligence of the child and the feeble mentality
of the average
adult. -- Sigmund Freud
56. I hate to advocate drugs, alcohol, violence, or insanity to
anyone,
but they've always worked for me. --
Hunter S. Thompson
57. Sacred cows make the best hamburger. -- Mark Twain
58. "Time's fun when you're having flies." -- Kermit the
Frog