Thursday, December 11, 2008

Quotes

Went to the "Quotes of the Day" site from iGoogle.
Found some funny ones. Thought I might share.
CNN is one of the participants in the war. I have a fantasy where Ted Turner is elected president but refuses because he doesn't want to give up power. -Arthur C. Clarke
The prime purpose of eloquence is to keep other people from talking. -Louis Vermeil

Rogues are preferable to imbeciles because they sometimes take a rest. -Alexandre Dumas

The goal of all inanimate objects is to resist man and ultimately defeat him. -Russell Baker

I am a kind of paranoiac in reverse. I suspect people of plotting to make me happy. -J.D. Salinger

The least of learning is done in the classrooms. -Thomas Merton

Charm is a way of getting the answer yes without asking a clear question. -Albert Camus
Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it whether it exists or not, diagnosing it incorrectly, and applying the wrong remedy. -Ernest Benn

3 comments:

Unknown said...

J.D. Salinger sounds incredibly familiar, and of course I know Dumas. How could I forget the aliens?

Ingenius said...

He's best known for The Catcher in the Rye.

magu said...

=X You guys make me feel stew-pod. Didn't recognize anyone....