Use It To Line the Bird Cage

To read a newspaper is to refrain from reading something worthwhile. The first discipline of education must therefore be to refuse resolutely to feed the mind with canned chatter.
:: Aleister Crowley

Quote of the Day

When I came back to Dublin I was courtmartialed in my absence and sentenced to death in my absence, so I said they could shoot me in my absence.
:: Brendan Behan

What Are the Odds?

I've done the calculation and your chances of winning the lottery are identical whether you play or not.
:: Fran Lebowitz

Can You See the Future?

I've gone into hundreds of [fortune-teller's parlors], and have been told thousands of things, but nobody ever told me I was a policewoman getting ready to arrest her.
:: New York City detective

Quote of the Day

Justice and fairness, not religion or atheism, are needful for the protection of the state.
:: Hakim Jami

Quote of the Day

Delusions of grandeur make me feel a lot better about myself.
:: Jane Wagner

He Would Know

There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness.
:: Friedrich Nietzsche

Quote of the Day

Wise men talk because they have something to say; fools, because they have to say something.
:: Plato

Quote of the Day

How my achievements mock me!
:: William Shakespeare

First Things First

How vain it is to sit down to write when you have not stood up to live.
:: Henry David Thoreau

Define Cynic

A cynic is not merely one who reads bitter lessons from the past, he is one who is prematurely disappointed in the future.
:: Sydney J. Harris

How Long Should It Be?

The length of a film should be directly related to the endurance of the human bladder.
:: Alfred Hitchcock

Management Tip

The key to being a good manager is keeping the people who hate me away from those who are still undecided.
:: Casey Stengel

Quote of the Day

Let us be silent, that we may hear the whispers of the gods.
:: Ralph Waldo Emerson

What's it to Ya?

What is a cynic? A man who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing.
:: Oscar Wilde

The Knack for Tact

Tact is the knack of making a point without making an enemy.
:: Isaac Newton

That's a Fact, Jack!

Get the facts, or the facts will get you. And when you get them, get them right, or they will get you wrong.
:: Dr. Thomas Fuller

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He who will not economize will have to agonize.
:: Confucius

Quote of the Day

Making the simple complicated is commonplace; making the complicated simple, awesomely simple, that's creativity.
:: Charles Mingus