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"The most overlooked advantage to owning a computer is that if they foul up, there's no law against whacking them around a little."-- Porterfield
My psychiatrist told me I'm going crazy. I told him "If you don't mind I'd like a second opinion." He said "Alright; you're ugly too."-- Rodney Dangerfield
If at first you don't succeed, try, try, again. Then quit. There's no use being a damn fool about it.-- W. C. Fields
Poetry is the mixture of common sense, which not all have, with an uncommon sense, which very few have.-- John Masefield
Reporter to Ghandi: What do you think of western civilisation?
Ghandi: I think it would be a very good idea.
Reporter, n: A writer who guesses his way to the truth and dispels it with a tempest of words.-- Ambrose Bierce
I'll try being nicer if you'll try being smarter.
Arthur felt happy. He was terribly pleased that the day was for once working out so much according to plan. Only twenty minutes ago he had decided he would go mad, and now he was already chasing a Chesterfield sofa across the fields of prehistoric Earth.-- Douglas Adams (Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy)
Bagdikian's Observation:
Trying to be a first-rate reporter on the average American newspaper is like trying to play Bach's 'St. Matthew Passion' on a ukelele.