Some of my Favorite Quotes

Wow, this blogging thing is more difficult than I thought.  I have to find something interesting to say almost every day now, when normally I can go days without saying anything interesting to anyone.  But now, apparently, I've made some sort of a commitment to be entertaining. 

Well, too bad.  I can't just sit around making you people laugh or cr or whatever.  I'm nobody's clown.  In fact, I hate clowns.

Anyway, today, rather than be charming and witty and so on myself, I've provided a short list of quotations other people have said that I find charming and witty and thought-provoking, etc.  I tried to give credit to those who said them, but some  are so old I don't remember where they came from. 



"All Things Work Together for Good." - Romans 8:28

"For in much wisdom is much grief: and he that increases knowledge increases sorrow." - Ecclesiastes 1:18

"You can't spell sarcasm without letters."

"The beatings will continue until morale improves."

"I have put my heart and soul into my work, and lost my mind in the process." - van Gogh

"Do I look like a mushroom? Because I don't like being kept in the dark and fed bull$#!t." - Rachel Caine

"Once you get past a certain threshold, everyone's problems are the same:  Fortifying your island and hiding the heat signature from your fusion reactor." - Austin Grossman

"Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic." - Clarke

"Well, maybe you hid my flamethrower, because I make poor choices with it." - ATHF

"Is there some reason a robot made of wax can't take a nap standing up in the middle of a bunch of wax robots, or does that CONFUSE you?" - Futurama

"Nothing is as frustrating as arguing with someone who knows what he's talking about."

"Except for ending slavery, Nazism, Fascism, and Communism, war has never solved anything."

"For want of a nail, the shoe was lost; for want of the shoe, the horse was lost; for want of the horse, the message was lost; for want of the message the battle was lost; for want of the battle, the war was lost; for want of the war, the kingdom was lost... and all for the want of a horseshoe nail." - Benjamin Franklin

"Who Now remembers the Armenians?" --Adolf Hitler

"No Single Raindrop believes it is responsible for the Flood" - demotivators

"Never Use a Big Word when a Diminuitive One Will Suffice."

"When you earnestly believe you can compensate for a lack of skill by doubling your efforts, there's no end to what you can't do." - Demotivators

"All I ask is for is the opportunity to prove that money can't buy happiness." - Demotivators