I always keep a supply of stimulant handy in case I see a snake - which I also keep handy.

- WC Fields

Aaah yeeesss...

On the set when the camera would run out of film someone would yell, “Refill!” Fields would reach into a compartment he had in his chair and pull out some booze and say, “Aaah, yeeesss…refill.”

This is the devilish thing about foreign affairs: they are foreign and will not always conform to our whim.

- James Reston

Anyone can do any amount of work provided it isn't the work he is supposed to be doing at the moment.

Robert Benchley

We tear down elm trees to erect institutions for people driven insane by the tearing down of elm trees. – James Thurber

I'd rather have a bottle in front of me, than a frontal lobotomy.

Dorothy Parker

“The children pressed to each other like so many roses…”

Anyone know the source to this one?

By the way, Dorothy Parker is facinating.

It is better to remain quiet and be thought a fool than to open one's mouth and confirm it.

Ancient Chinese Pronoun

Rocket, not to be picky, but that's "proverb", not "pronoun". Also I've heard thet saying (or a variant) attributed to Good Ol' Honest Abe.

I was joking, I promise B-Two. I didn't know Abe said it too, great minds...

"What are you so puffed up about? What do you have that God hasn't given you? And if all you have is from God, why act as though you have accomplished something on your own?"
Paul the Apostle, 1 Corinthians 4, vs 7

Disobedience, in the eyes of anyone who has read history, is man's original virtue. It is through disobedience and rebellion that progress has been made.

- Oscar Wilde

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"Everything is determined, the beginning as well as the end, by forces over which we have no control. It is determined for the insect as well as for the star. Human beings, vegetables or cosmic dust, we all dance to a mysterious tune, intoned in the distance by an invisible piper."

~ Albert Einstein


"A psychotic is a guy who has just found out what is going on!"

~ William Burroughs


"Get back, demon dogs!"


~ Thundarr the Barbarian

"The guy is dumb - he can't be taught!"

- Einstein's high school teachers