Laissez Les Bon Temps Roulez!!!!!

Many Names · Status: Offline

A little diversion

Cossack · Status: Offline

Trust, but verify.

Invictus · Status: Offline

The more things change, the more they remain the same.

Obviousman · Status: Offline

"If you want things to stay as they are, things will have to change"

Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa

BAD · Status: Offline

Pete: No one's gonna pick three dirty, unshaved strangers -- and one of them a know-it-all who can't keep his trap shut.
Ulysses Everett McGill: Pete, the personal rancor reflected in that remark I don't intend to dignify with comment. However, I would like to address your general attitude of negativity. Consider the lilies o' the goddamn field or... hell! Take Delmar here as your paradigm of hope.

Oh Brother Where Art Thou

Godless Liberal · Status: Offline

The definition of insanity is repeating the same mistakes over and over and expecting different results.

Cossack · Status: Offline

(1) Suppose you were an idiot. And suppose you were a member of Congress. But then I repeat myself. ............Mark Twain
(2) I contend that for a nation to try to tax itself into prosperity is like a man standing in a bucket and trying to lift himself up by the handle. ..Winston Churchill
(3) A government which robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend on the support of Paul. ......George Bernard Shaw
(4) A liberal is someone who feels a great debt to his fellow man, which debt he proposes to pay off with your money. ............G. Gordon Liddy
(5) Democracy must be something more than two wolves and a sheep voting on what to have for dinner.   James Bovard, Civil Libertarian (1994)
(6) Foreign aid might be defined as a transfer of money from poor people in rich countries to rich people in poor countries.   ........Douglas Casey, Classmate of Bill Clinton at GeorgetownUniv.
(7) Giving money and power to government is like giving whiskey and car keys to teenage boys. ........P.J. O'Rourke, Civil Libertarian
(8) Government is the great fiction, through which everybody endeavors to live at the expense of everybody else. .......Frederic Bastiat, French Economist (1801-1850)
(9) Government's view of the economy could be summed up in few short phrases: If it moves, tax it; If it keeps moving, regulate it; and if it stops moving, subsidize it. ...Ronald Reagan (1986)
(10) I don't make jokes. I just watch the government and report the facts. ...Will Rogers
(11) If you think health care is expensive now, wait until you see what it costs when it's free.   ....P.J. O'Rourke
(12) In general, the art of government consists of taking as much money as possible from one party of the citizens to give to the other. ...Voltaire (1764)
(13) Just because you do not take an interest in politics doesn't mean politics won't take an interest in you.   ..Pericles (430 B.C.)
(14) No man's life, liberty, or property is safe while the legislature is in session.   .....Mark Twain (1866)
(15) Talk is cheap .. except when Congress does it.   ...Unknown
(16) The government is like a baby's alimentary canal, with a happy appetite at one end and no responsibility at the other.   ..Ronald Reagan
(17) The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of the blessings. The inherent blessing of socialism is the equal sharing of misery. ..Winston Churchill
(18) The only difference between a tax man and a taxidermist is that the taxidermist leaves the skin. .....Mark Twain
(19) The ultimate result of shielding men from the effects of folly is to fill the world with fools.   ....Herbert Spencer, English Philosopher (1820-1903)
(20) There is no distinctly native American criminal class, save Congress. ...Mark Twain
(21) What this country needs are more unemployed politicians. ..Edward Langley, Artist (1928 - 1995)
22) A government big enough to give you everything you want, is strong enough to take everything you have.     Thomas Jefferson

Googler · Status: Offline

Keep your friends close, and your enemies closer.

Sun-tzu
Chinese general & military strategist (~400 BC)

Bookie · Status: Offline

I want to spend more time with my family

Incredulous · Status: Offline

He's going back to his first love, teaching.

LVN · Status: Offline

It's ironic, "more time with his family" and "going back to his first love" are both perceived to be euphemisms for getting the boot -- yet both things might possibly lead someone to a happier and less stressful life. A lot of people should ask themselves, "why am I doing this?"

My quotation:
"No matter where you go, there you are."

Emma · Status: Offline

In reference to DT's 19,000th use of "MY faculty" in the HA"

"It is better to keep your mouth closed and let people think you are a fool than to open it and remove all doubt."

Mark Twain

And in response to the whole Thamesian debacle:

"Any fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It takes a touch of genius - and a lot of courage - to move in the opposite direction."

Albert Einstein

-- Edited by Emma at 12:44, 2007-07-18

Boudreaux · Status: Offline

In honor of dat new President,

Laissez Les Bon Temps Roulez!!!!!

Boudreaux n Tibodeaux

LVN · Status: Offline

You done said a mout'ful dere, cher!

Invictus · Status: Offline

"It's a question of whether we go forward into the future or past to the back." -- Dan Quayle

"The role of faculty is to think. The role of the president is to make speeches. The role of the dean is to keep faculty from making speeches and the president from thinking." -- Anonymous SACS Speaker

"The good people sleep much better at night than the bad people. Of course, the bad people enjoy the waking hours much more." -- Woody Allen

"...one good feast on the carcass of a putrid whale lasts a long time." -- Charles Darwin

"They (could) commit suicide by leaping off their egos onto their IQs." -- Mortimer Zuckerman

"A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get is pants on, but what was the truth doing with no pants on in the first place?" -- Winston Churchill

"The idea of eating a pig-ear sandwich doesn't get appealing unless you've been drinking." -- Elvin Bishop

stephen judd · Status: Offline

Invictus -- I'm not sure how you come up with these but they make me laugh -- REALLY hard!

Invictus · Status: Offline

stephen judd wrote:
Invictus -- I'm not sure how you come up with these but they make me laugh -- REALLY hard!

Glad you enjoyed 'em, Prof. Judd!

It's really quite simple. I do a lot of presentations, so when I encounter a good line while reading -- one that reflects my own uniquely twisted Zeitgeist -- I write it down in my planner along with a note about where I found it.

Some of these (the Woody Allen, Dan Quayle & Churchill quotes) came from a quote-a-day calendar I had one time. The "carcass of a putrid whale" quote comes from Voyage of the Beagle, which biology types are fond of talking about but which few actually read. (Moral: The really good quotes sometimes require a lot of reading.) The Zuckerman quote came from a USN&WR article, and the pig-ear sandwich quote comes from a biography of McKinley Morganfield.

Here's one that may be more familiar:

"I don't know half of you half as well as I should like, and I like less than half of you half as well as you deserve." -- Bilbo Baggins (Fellowship of the Ring)

... and a couple that I encountered as "sigs" on Usenet posts:

"It could be that the purpose of your life is only to serve as a warning to others."

"There are 10 kinds of people: those who know binary, and those who don't."

-- Edited by Invictus at 09:03, 2007-07-19

BAD · Status: Offline

Invictus, the line "It could be that the purpose of your life is only to serve as a warning to others" comes from the Demotivators calendar that can be found at despair.com. The line lies beneath the picture of a sinking ship. I have that picture on my office all next to my Demotivators calendar. It's a great calendar for anyone who despises cheesy corporate motivational prints.

BAD · Status: Offline

One of my other favorites from that calendar is "Nepotism: We promote family values here almost as often as we promote family members." I was often tempted to run off multiple copies of that jewel and post in the halls of COEP.

The link to the nepotism print is: http://despair.com/nepotism.html

Rod Sterling · Status: Offline

"You've got to step on some cheeks...."
-- Pol Pot

-- Edited by Rod Sterling at 10:47, 2007-07-19

stinky cheese man · Status: Offline

"we the willing, led by the unknowing, are doing the impossible for the ungrateful. we have done so much for so long, with so little, we are now qualified to do anything with nothing."

Invictus · Status: Offline

"I know nothing." -- Sgt. Schultz

LeftASAP · Status: Offline

Death is nature's way of telling you to "slow down".

The Universe

ram · Status: Offline

Can't pass up the opportunity to inject a little Mencken into this thread:

For every complex problem there is a simple solution... and it is wrong.

After all, all (Shakespeare) did was string together a lot of old, well-known quotations.

An idealist is one who, on noticing that roses smell better than a cabbage, concludes that it will also make better soup.

The world always makes the assumption that the exposure of an error is identical with the discovery of truththat the error and truth are simply opposite. They are nothing of the sort. What the world turns to, when it is cured on one error, is usually simply another error, and maybe one worse than the first one.

No one in this world, . . . has ever lost money by underestimating the intelligence of the great masses of the plain people. Nor has anyone ever lost public office thereby.

We must respect the other fellows religion, but only in the sense and to the extent that we respect his theory that his wife is beautiful and his children smart.

The kind of man who wants the government to adopt and enforce his ideas is always the kind of man whose ideas are idiotic.

To wage a war for a purely moral reason is as absurd as to ravish a woman for a purely moral reason.

As democracy is perfected, the office of president represents, more and more closely, the inner soul of the people. On some great and glorious day the plain folks of the land will reach their heart's desire at last and the White House will be adorned by a downright moron.

'Tis more blessed to give than receive; for example, wedding presents.

And Oscar Wilde's last words: Either that wallpaper goes, or I do.

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ram wrote:

An idealist is one who, on noticing that roses smell better than a cabbage, concludes that it will also make better soup.

Hagebuttem soup far surpasses anything made with cabbage but one must be patient enough to wait for the rose hips.

DJ · Status: Offline

ram wrote:

As democracy is perfected, the office of president represents, more and more closely, the inner soul of the people. On some great and glorious day the plain folks of the land will reach their heart's desire at last and the White House will be adorned by a downright moron.

Makes one wonder if Mencken was a direct descendant of Nostradamus.

Obviousman · Status: Offline

Chesterton

No man who worships education has got the best out of education... Without a gentle contempt for education no man's education is complete.

and he even made one for stinky

The poets have been mysteriously silent on the subject of cheese.

DJ · Status: Offline

Go sell crazy someplace else. We're all stocked up here.
-- Jack Nicholson as Melvin Udall in As Good as It Gets