Category: Quotations

Look, I don’t want to wax philosophic, but I will say that if you’re alive you’ve got to flap your arms and legs, you’ve got to jump around a lot, for life is the very opposite of death, and therefore you must at [the] very least think noisy and colorfully, or you’re not alive.Mel Brooks

The first of April is the day we remember what we are the other 364 days of the year.Mark Twain

The problem with defending the purity of the English language is that English is about as pure as a cribhouse whore.  We don’t just borrow words; on occasion, English has pursued other languages down alleyways to beat them unconscious and rifle their pockets for new vocabulary.James Davis Nicoll

Love, the magician, knows this little trick whereby two people walk in different directions yet always remain side by side.Hugh Prather

The trouble with most folks isn’t so much their ignorance.  It’s know’n so many things that ain’t so.Josh Billings, 19th century humorist

It is better to light a candle than to curse the darkness.Chinese Proverb

Work is of two kinds: first, altering the position of matter at or near the Earth’s surface relative to other matter; second, telling other people to do so.Bertrand RussellAnd in the 21st Century altering the position of electrons became popular as a work activity.Dr. Wingnut