Quotes for the day 10-7
Posted: Mon Oct 06, 2008 7:45 pm
Committee--a group of men who individually can do nothing but as a group decide that nothing can be done.
-- Fred Allen
Fall not in love, therefore; it will stick to your face.
-- National Lampoon, "Deteriorata"
The folly of mistaking a paradox for a discovery, a metaphor for a proof, a torrent of verbiage for a spring of capital truths, and oneself for an oracle, is inborn in us.
-- Paul Valery, 1895
I know that you believe that you understood what you think I said, but I am not sure you realize that what you heard is not what I meant.
-- Robert McCloskey, State Department spokesman (attributed)
Thanks Stephen
Warmie
-- Fred Allen
Fall not in love, therefore; it will stick to your face.
-- National Lampoon, "Deteriorata"
The folly of mistaking a paradox for a discovery, a metaphor for a proof, a torrent of verbiage for a spring of capital truths, and oneself for an oracle, is inborn in us.
-- Paul Valery, 1895
I know that you believe that you understood what you think I said, but I am not sure you realize that what you heard is not what I meant.
-- Robert McCloskey, State Department spokesman (attributed)
Thanks Stephen
Warmie