Quotes

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"And I'm not all that decent and honorable. I'm merely well-bred, which I hope is a tolerable substitute."
-- Anne Rice (Ramses the Damned)

There's too much beauty upon this earth for lonely men to bear.
-- Richard Le Gallienne

The rich aren't like us, they pay less taxes.

"Good communication is as stimulating as black coffee, and just as hard to sleep after."
-- Anne Lindbergh

Law of Hydrodynamics: When a body is immersed in water, the telephone rings.

"Do you love any,
do you love none,
do you love many,
can you love one,
Do you love me?"
-- Suzanne Vega (Knight Moves)

"Life does not have to be perfect to be wonderful."
-- Annette Funicello

Wit is a form of arousal.
We challenge one another to be funnier and smarter.
It's high-energy play.
It's the way friends make love to one another.
-- Anne Gottlieb

"Solutions are not the answer."
-- Richard Nixon

Real love stories never have endings.
-- Richard Bach

Adultery - two wrong people doing the right thing.

"The final delusion is the belief that one has lost all delusions."
-- Maurice Chapelain

Banectomy, n: The removal of bruises on a banana.
-- Rich Hall ("Sniglets")

The only substitute for good manners is fast reflexes.

"I want a car. Chicks dig the car."
"This is why Superman works alone."
-- Richard Grayson and Bruce Wayne (Batman & Robin)

There's many a best seller that could have been prevented by a good teacher.
-- Flannery O'Connor

Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness that most frightens us.
-- Marianne Williamson (A Return to Love)

When a metric becomes a target, it ceases to be a good metric

"Grand ennui" sounds so much nicer than "annoyance."
-- Eric P. Scott

Fight for the right to pretend to work.
(graffiti, in Marylebone)

"Whether you believe you can do a thing or not, you are right."

"The conviction of the rich that the poor are happier is no more foolish than the conviction of the poor that the rich are."
-- Mark Twain

Passionate hatred can give meaning and purpose to an empty life.
-- Eric Hoffer

I am two fools, I know, For loving, and for saying so in whining poetry.
-- John Donne

Zipcuffed, adj: To be trapped in one's trousers by a faulty zipper.
-- Rich Hall ("Sniglets")

Sniglet, n: Any word that doesn't appear in the dictionary, but should.
-- Rich Hall ("Sniglets")

"Microsoft is not the problem. Microsoft is the symptom."
-- Eric S. Raymond

Whoever said women don't like porn just isn't talking to the right women. Or showing them the right porn.

"I was not lying. I said things that later on seemed to be untrue."
-- Richard Nixon

"When people are free to do as they please, they usually imitate each other."
-- Eric Hoffer

Any sufficiently advanced bug is indistinguishable from a feature.
-- Rich Kulawiec

"Not only is life a bitch, but it is always having puppies."
-- Adrienne Gusoff

"What are our schools for if not indoctrination against Communism?"
-- Richard Nixon

Choconiverous, adj: Biting off the head of the chocolate Easter bunny first.
-- Rich Hall ("Sniglets")

I listen so that I may decipher the mystery of myself and become more whole.
-- Richard Moss

"Television is to news as bumperstickers are to philosophy."
-- Richard M. Nixon

Spirtle, n: The fine stream from a grapefruit that always lands right in your eye.
-- Rich Hall ("Sniglets")

"When people are bored, it is primarily with their own selves that they are bored."
-- Eric Hoffer

Pigslice, n: The last unclaimed piece of pizza that everyone is secretly dying for.
-- Rich Hall ("Sniglets")

Spagmumps, n: Any of the millions of Styrofoam wads that accompany mail-order items.
-- Rich Hall ("Sniglets")

Elbonics, n: The actions of two people maneuvering for one armrest in a movie theater.
-- Rich Hall ("Sniglets")

Magnocartic, adj: Any automobile that, when left unattended, attracts shopping carts.
-- Rich Hall ("Sniglets")

"All dogmas perish the thinking mind, especially ones you agree with."
-- Adam Richardson