Quotes: 16th September 2008

[Stephen]

The quickest way of ending a war is to lose it.
-- George Orwell, Polemic, May 1946, "Second Thoughts on James Burnham"

I wish people who have trouble communicating would just shut up.
-- Tom Lehrer

Anybody caught selling macrame in public should be dyed a natural color and hung out to dry.
-- Calvin Trillin

In my many years I have come to a conclusion that one useless man is a shame, two is a law firm, and three or more is a congress.
-- John Adams