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I think animal testing is a terrible idea; they get all nervous and give the
wrong answers.
-- A Bit of Fry and Laurie
A Freudian slip is when you say one thing but mean your mother.
The hypothalamus is one of the most important parts of the brain, involved in
many kinds of motivation, among other functions. The hypothalamus controls the
"Four F's": 1. fighting; 2. fleeing; 3. feeding; and 4. mating.
-- Psychology professor in neuropsychology intro course
What is a committee? A group of the unwilling, picked from the unfit, to do
the unnecessary.
-- Richard Harkness, The New York Times, 1960
Slogan of 105.9, the classic rock radio station in Chicago: "Of all the radio
stations in Chicago... we're one of them."
With every passing hour our solar system comes forty-three thousand miles
closer to globular cluster 13 in the constellation Hercules, and still there
are some misfits who continue to insist that there is no such thing as
progress.
-- Ransom K. Ferm
Madness takes its toll. Please have exact change.
Applying computer technology is simply finding the right wrench to pound in
the correct screw.
The Science graduate asks: "Why does it work?"
The Engineering graduate asks: "How does it work?"
The Accounting graduate asks: "How much will it cost?"
The Liberal Arts graduate asks: "Do you want fries with that?"
Karate is a form of martial arts in which people who have had years and years
of training can, using only their hands and feet, make some of the worst
movies in the history of the world.
-- Dave Barry
I am not a vegetarian because I love animals; I am a vegetarian because I hate
plants.
-- A. Whitney Brown
A great many people think they are thinking when they are merely rearranging
their prejudices.
-- William James
Never underestimate the bandwidth of a station wagon full of tapes hurtling
down the highway.
-- Andrew Tannenbaum
We should be careful to get out of an experience only the wisdom that is in it
- and stop there; lest we be like the cat that sits down on a hot stove-lid.
She will never sit down on a hot stove-lid again,and that is well; but also
she will never sit down on a cold one anymore.
-- Mark Twain
There's so much comedy on television. Does that cause comedy in the streets?
-- Dick Cavett, mocking the TV-violence debate
If a woman has to choose between catching a fly ball and saving an infant's
life, she will choose to save the infant's life without even considering if
there are men on base.
-- Dave Barry
I am sick unto death of obscure English towns that exist seemingly for the
sole accommodation of these so-called limerick writers and even sicker of
their residents, all of whom suffer from physical deformities and spend their
time dismembering relatives at fancy dress balls.
-- Editor of the Limerick Times (Limerick, Ireland)
When cryptography is outlawed, bayl bhgynjf jvyy unir cevinpl.
Lazlo's Chinese Relativity Axiom: No matter how great your triumphs or how
tragic your defeats, approximately one billion Chinese couldn't care less.
668: The Neighbor of the Beast
Some mornings, it's just not worth chewing through the leather straps.
-- Emo Phillips
Writing about music is like dancing about architecture.
Experience is that marvelous thing that enables you to recognize a mistake
when you make it again.
-- F. P. Jones
Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the
experience of others, are also remarkable for their apparent disinclination to
do so.
-- Douglas Adams, Last Chance to See
As your attorney, it is my duty to inform you that it is not important that
you understand what I'm doing or why you're paying me so much money. What's
important is that you continue to do so.
-- Hunter S. Thompson's Samoan Attorney
When I told the people of Northern Ireland that I was an atheist, a woman in
the audience stood up and said, "Yes, but is it the God of the Catholics or
the God of the Protestants in whom you don't believe?"
-- Quentin Crisp
Boundary, n. In political geography, an imaginary line between two nations,
separating the imaginary rights of one from the imaginary rights of another.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary
I think that all right-thinking people in this country are sick and tired of
being told that ordinary, decent people are fed up in this country with being
sick and tired. I'm certainly not! But I'm sick and tired of being told that
I am!
-- Monty Python
May the forces of evil become confused on the way to your house.
-- George Carlin
Sorry, but my karma just ran over your dogma.
Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution
inevitable.
-- John F. Kennedy
Life may have no meaning. Or even worse, it may have a meaning of which I
disapprove.
-- Ashleigh Brilliant
My opinions may have changed, but what hasn't changed is the fact that I am
right.
-- Ashleigh Brilliant
Drawing on my fine command of language, I said nothing.
-- Oscar Wilde
Always try to do things in chronological order; it's less confusing that way.
Based on what you know about him in history books, what do you think Abraham
Lincoln would be doing if he were alive today?
1. Writing his memoirs of the Civil War.
2. Advising the President.
3. Desperately clawing at the inside of his coffin.
-- David Letterman
Once at a social gathering, Gladstone said to Disraeli: "I predict, Sir, that
you will die either by hanging or of some vile disease". Disraeli replied:
"That all depends, sir, upon whether I embrace your principles or your
mistress."
For three days after death, hair and fingernails continue to grow but phone
calls taper off.
-- Johnny Carson
The most important thing in the programming language is the name. A language
will not succeed without a good name. I have recently invented a very good
name and now I am looking for a suitable language.
-- D. E. Knuth, 1967
A slipping gear could let your M-203 grenade launcher fire when you least
expect it. That would make you quite unpopular in whatever is left of your
unit.
-- Army Magazine of Preventative Maintenance, August 1993
Calvin: People think it must be fun to be a super genius, but they don't
realize how hard it is to put up with all the idiots in the world. Hobbes:
Isn't your pants zipper supposed to be in the front?
On one occasion a student burst into his office saying: "Professor Stigler, I
don't believe I deserve this F you've given me."
To which Stigler replied: "I agree, but unfortunately it is the lowest grade
the University will allow me to award."
Don't worry about temptation, as you grow older, it starts avoiding you.
-- Old Farmer's Almanac
G: "Sir, if we do happen to step on a mine, what do we do?"
EB: "Normal procedure, Lieutenant, is to jump 200 feet in the air and scatter
oneself out over a wide area."
-- Somewhere in No Man's Land, BA4
The mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire to be kindled.
-- Plutarch
The only difference between me and a madman is that I am not mad.
-- Salvador Dali
I hate to advocate drugs, alcohol, violence, or insanity to anyone, but
they've always worked for me.
-- Hunter S. Thompson
Sacred cows make the best hamburger.
-- Mark Twain
Time's fun when you're having flies.
-- Kermit the Frog
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