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"There are times when one would like to hang the whole human race, and finish the farce." -Samuel Clemens (Mark Twain)
"If we wish to know the force of human genius we should read Shakespeare. If we wish to see the insignificance of human learning we may study his commmentators." -William Hazlett
"A bad marriage is like an electric thrilling machine: it makes you dance, but you can't let go." -Ambrose Bierce
"Hell is full of musical amateurs. Music is the brandy of the damned." -GB Shaw
"War is the usual condition of Europe. A thirty years' supply of causes of war is always on hand." -FA Kropotkin
"If we wish to know the force of human genius we should read Shakespeare. If we wish to see the insignificance of human learning we may study his commmentators." -William Hazlett
"A bad marriage is like an electric thrilling machine: it makes you dance, but you can't let go." -Ambrose Bierce
"Hell is full of musical amateurs. Music is the brandy of the damned." -GB Shaw
"War is the usual condition of Europe. A thirty years' supply of causes of war is always on hand." -FA Kropotkin
To the Righteous belong the fruits of violent victory. The rest of us will have to settle for warm friends, warm lovers, and a wink from a quietly supportive universe.
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"What came first, the music or the misery? Did I listen to music because I was miserable? Or was I miserable because I listened to music? Do all those records turn you into a melancholy person?
People worry about kids playing with guns, and teenagers watching violent videos; we are scared that some sort of culture of violence will take them over. Nobody worries about kids listening to thousands - literally thousands - of songs about broken hearts and rejection and pain and misery and loss. The unhappiest people I know, romantically speaking, are the ones who like pop music the most; and I don't know whether pop music has caused this unhappiness, but I do know that they've been listening to the sad songs longer than they've been living the unhappy lives."
-Nick Hornby, High Fidelity
People worry about kids playing with guns, and teenagers watching violent videos; we are scared that some sort of culture of violence will take them over. Nobody worries about kids listening to thousands - literally thousands - of songs about broken hearts and rejection and pain and misery and loss. The unhappiest people I know, romantically speaking, are the ones who like pop music the most; and I don't know whether pop music has caused this unhappiness, but I do know that they've been listening to the sad songs longer than they've been living the unhappy lives."
-Nick Hornby, High Fidelity
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"All divination resembles an attempt by a man born blind to obtain sight by getting blind drunk." -Aleister Crowley
"As to you, sir, treacherous to private friendship...and a hypocrite in public life, the world will be puzzled to decide whether you are an apostate or an imposter, whether you have abandoned good principles or whether you ever had any." -Thomas Paine, letter to George Washington, 1796
"The General is sorry to be informed that the foolish and wicked practice of profane cursing and swearing, a vice heretofore little known in an American army, is growing into fashion. He hopes the officers will, by example as well as by influence, endeavor to check it, and that both they and the men will reflect that we can have little hope of the blessings of Heaven on our arms if we insult it by our impiety and folly." -George Washington, General Order to the Continental Army, 1776
"As to you, sir, treacherous to private friendship...and a hypocrite in public life, the world will be puzzled to decide whether you are an apostate or an imposter, whether you have abandoned good principles or whether you ever had any." -Thomas Paine, letter to George Washington, 1796
"The General is sorry to be informed that the foolish and wicked practice of profane cursing and swearing, a vice heretofore little known in an American army, is growing into fashion. He hopes the officers will, by example as well as by influence, endeavor to check it, and that both they and the men will reflect that we can have little hope of the blessings of Heaven on our arms if we insult it by our impiety and folly." -George Washington, General Order to the Continental Army, 1776
To the Righteous belong the fruits of violent victory. The rest of us will have to settle for warm friends, warm lovers, and a wink from a quietly supportive universe.
That sounds amazingly like something Joan of Arc would say (and frequently did)...Originally posted by fable:
<STRONG>"The General is sorry to be informed that the foolish and wicked practice of profane cursing and swearing, a vice heretofore little known in an American army, is growing into fashion. He hopes the officers will, by example as well as by influence, endeavor to check it, and that both they and the men will reflect that we can have little hope of the blessings of Heaven on our arms if we insult it by our impiety and folly." -George Washington, General Order to the Continental Army, 1776</STRONG>
I'd love to help you out, but unfortuneatly I've contracted this thing that prevents me from dishing out good advice lately...It's called...um...what the name of it again...uh...oh that's it...I'm an *******.
"Vile and evil, yes. But, That's Weasel" From BS's book, MD 20/20: Fine Wines of Rocky Flop.
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I have posted these two on another thread - but they are among my favourites:
Woman to Churchill:
"Sir you are drunk!"
Churchill to Woman:
"Woman you are ugly, tomorrow I will be sober!"
Woman to Churchill:
"Sir if you were my husband I would poison your coffee!"
Churchill to woman:
"Woman if you were my wife I would drink it!"

Woman to Churchill:
"Sir you are drunk!"
Churchill to Woman:
"Woman you are ugly, tomorrow I will be sober!"
Woman to Churchill:
"Sir if you were my husband I would poison your coffee!"
Churchill to woman:
"Woman if you were my wife I would drink it!"
Parachute for sale, like new! Never opened!
Guinness, black goes with everything.
Guinness, black goes with everything.
"The greatest nugget of knowledge is the knowledge that you know nothing."
The Collector (aka the Comic Shop guy from the Simpsons)"Egad!! I've been encased in Lucite!! Must...attempt to...strike...classic...Lorne Green pose...from...Battlestar Galactica. Best...death...ever!"
Mark TwainClothes make the man. Naked people have little or no influence on society.
Joseph StalinA single death is a tragedy; a million deaths is a statistic.
UnknownWork Like You Don't Need The Money,
Dance Like Nobody's Watching,
and Love Like You've Never Been Hurt.
Lord Acton, 1883"Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely."
"Vile and evil, yes. But, That's Weasel" From BS's book, MD 20/20: Fine Wines of Rocky Flop.