The United States is a nation of laws: badly written and randomly enforced.
- Frank Zappa
Laws are like sausages. It's better not to see them being made.
- Otto von Bismarck
Don't knock the weather. If it didn't change once in a while, nine out of ten
people couldn't start a conversation.
- Kin Hubbard
A conference is a gathering of important people who singly can do nothing, but
together can decide that nothing can be done.
- Fred Allen
- Frank Zappa
Laws are like sausages. It's better not to see them being made.
- Otto von Bismarck
Don't knock the weather. If it didn't change once in a while, nine out of ten
people couldn't start a conversation.
- Kin Hubbard
A conference is a gathering of important people who singly can do nothing, but
together can decide that nothing can be done.
- Fred Allen
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Re: Blue Bottle Quotes
Wed, January 24, 2007 - 7:15 AMThe outcome of any serious research can only be to make two questions grow where
only one grew before.
- Thorstein Veblen
Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.
- George Santayana
One can always be kind to people about whom one cares nothing.
- Oscar Wilde
Nothing changes your opinion of a friend so surely as success - yours or his.
- Franklin P. Jones
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Re: Blue Bottle Quotes
Thu, January 25, 2007 - 1:08 PM"It is always easier to believe than to deny. Our minds are naturally
affirmative."
- John Burroughs
"With Epcot Center the Disney corporation has accomplished something I didn't
think possible in today's world. They have created a land of make-believe that's
worse than regular life."
- PJ O'Rourke
"Estimated amount of glucose used by an adult human brain each day, expressed in
M&Ms: 250"
- Harper's Index
"If God had really intended men to fly, he'd make it easier to get to the
airport."
- George Winters
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Re: Blue Bottle Quotes
Tue, January 30, 2007 - 6:39 AMNothing is more admirable than the fortitude with which millionaires tolerate
the disadvantages of their wealth.
- Rex Stout
When a thing ceases to be a subject of controversy, it ceases to be a subject of
interest.
- William Hazlitt
Any intelligent 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.
- EF Schumacher
After twelve years of therapy my psychiatrist said something that brought tears
to my eyes. He said, 'No hablo ingles.'
- Ronnie Shakes
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Re: Blue Bottle Quotes
Mon, February 12, 2007 - 7:53 AMEveryone has a purpose in life. Perhaps yours is watching television.
- David Letterman
The louder he talked of his honor, the faster we counted our spoons.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The male is a domestic animal which, if treated with firmness, can be trained to
do most things.
- Jilly Cooper
Marriage is a great institution, but I'm not ready for an institution yet.
- Mae West
~~~ My fav of these is the Mae West quote. Then again, I'm infatuated with Mae West and have been since childhood.
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Re: Blue Bottle Quotes
Fri, February 16, 2007 - 6:48 AMNo matter what side of the argument you are on, you always find people on your
side that you wish were on the other.
- Jascha Heifetz
Wine makes a man more pleased with himself; I do not say that it makes him more
pleasing to others.
- Samuel Johnson
The power of hiding ourselves from one another is mercifully given, for men are
wild beasts, and would devour one another but for this protection.
- Henry Ward Beecher
The reason why so few good books are written is that so few people who can write
know anything.
- Walter Bagehot
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Re: Blue Bottle Quotes
Mon, February 19, 2007 - 6:22 AMAnger is the feeling that makes your mouth work faster than your mind.
- Evan Esar
He talked with more claret than clarity.
- Susan Ertz
It is bad luck to be superstitious.
- Andrew W. Mathis
Politics is applesauce.
- Will Rogers
What the hell did Will Rogers mean by "Politics is applesauce."? I think that I get his jist, but still....makes me think that he thought politics is nothing more than some tasty dessert, or baby food. A mushed up apple with a little cinnamon to flavor. Yum....politics is tasty! -
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Re: Blue Bottle Quotes
Tue, February 20, 2007 - 9:19 AMwww.google.com/search
education.yahoo.com/referenc...pplesauce
noun
Slang. Something that does not have or make sense: balderdash, blather, bunkum, claptrap, drivel, garbage, idiocy, nonsense, piffle, poppycock, rigmarole, rubbish, tomfoolery, trash, twaddle. Informal: tommyrot. Slang: baloney, bilge, bull 1, bunk 2, crap, hooey, malarkey. -
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Re: Blue Bottle Quotes
Wed, February 21, 2007 - 8:34 AMApplesauce I say! Applesauce!
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA I'm so gonna start using this! It's as non-sensical as it's meaning!
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Re: Blue Bottle Quotes
Thu, February 22, 2007 - 6:38 AMThe forceps of our minds are clumsy forceps, and crush the truth a little in
taking hold of it.
- HG Wells
Ask not what you can do for your country. Ask what's for lunch.
- Orson Welles
You're never too old to become younger.
- Mae West
Anybody caught selling macrame in public should be dyed a natural color and hung
out to dry.
- Calvin Trillin
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Re: Blue Bottle Quotes
Thu, February 22, 2007 - 7:29 AMSweet and sour cabbage soup
Tomato Bisque
Chili
Free 12oz coffee, tea, or soda with sandwich purchase
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Re: Blue Bottle Quotes
Thu, February 22, 2007 - 12:43 PMYUM!!!! The tomato bisque is my FAV soup at the BB! This chili is delish, but nothing compares to the bisque. Haven't have the sweet and sour cabbage soup, but it sounds tasty.
Wish I were still in Muncie (on the workday's) so I could have lunch there, but alas, I'm up here in Gas City.
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Re: Blue Bottle Quotes
Mon, February 26, 2007 - 6:57 AMBut in this world nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes.
- Benjamin Franklin
I can believe anything, provided that it is quite incredible.
- Oscar Wilde
There is no nonsense so errant that it cannot be made the creed of the vast
majority by adequate governmental action.
- Bertrand Russell
There are only two kinds of scholars; those who love ideas and those who hate
them.
- Emile Chartier
I've always loved Ben Franklin, and since my first Arch class I've been in love with Bertrand Russell....so....today's quotes are extra special to me.....and oh so true!
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Wed, February 28, 2007 - 7:05 AMThe only good ideas are the ones I can take credit for.
- R. Stevens
Literature is news that stays news.
- Ezra Pound
I don't want any yes-men around me. I want everybody to tell me the truth even
if it costs them their jobs.
- Samuel Goldwyn
A censor is a man who knows more than he thinks you ought to.
- Granville Hicks
*** the R. Stevens quote kinda reminds me of a friend, and the Hicks quote is SSSSOOOOO true!
