"Also, Penis". - SimonG, just few seconds ago.

Penis indeed.

"A clean desk is a sign of a sick mind."
Seen on a sign on tv.

"Opinions are like assholes, everyone has one."
Larry Flynt (Movie: The People vs. Larry Flynt)

My two favourites are


Youth and talent are no match for age and treachery



Better a fool who believes in dragons than a King who believes in nothing

"I may be drunk, Miss, but in the morning I will be sober and you will still be ugly."
- Winston Churchill

Where do these stairs go?

They go up!

`The spirit of the times may alter, will alter. Our rulers will become corrupt, our people careless... From the conclusion of this [Revolutionary] war we shall be going down hill. It will not then be necesary to resort every moment to the people for support. They will be forgotten, therfore, and there rights disregarded. They will forget themselves in the sole faculty of making money, and will never think of uniting to effect a due respect for their rights. The shackles, therefore, which shall not be knocked off at the conclusion of this war, will be heavier and heavier, till our rights shall revive or expire in a convulsion.'

-Thomas Jefferson

"You must require from ourselves, even if others did not require from you." JP2

One of my personal favorites, especially in these times;

"It's now very common to hear people say 'I'm rather offended by that.' As if that gives them certain rights it's actually nothing more...It's simply a whine. It's no more than a whine. 'I find that offensive,' it has no meaning, it has no purpose, it has no reason to be respected as a phrase. 'I am offended by that,' well so fucking what?"

- Stephen Fry

"Haluuminen on halpaa."

i.e. "Wanting is cheap."

From an ex-partner and from an ongoing friend. Who also stated about a desirable partner - quite wish this was my original quotaion, really, but I may yet steal it:

("from a sweetheart")

"I should like many an opinion. And to be able to converse about a number of subjects."

Just a little sarcastic about being source critcical, maybe? :-)

"I enjoy the statistics the most true to the Sampling Theory from Pravda and Power Point."

That is one of my all-time favorites!

Because I am feeling more morose this morning...



How can you frighten a man whose hunger is not only in his own cramped stomach but in the wretched bellies of his children? You can't scare him – he has known a fear beyond every other. - Grapes of Wrath




We're ashamed to live here. Our fathers are cowards...

Don't you ever say that again about your fathers, because they are not cowards. You think I am brave because I carry a gun; well, your fathers are much braver because they carry responsibility, for you, your brothers, your sisters, and your mothers. And this responsibility is like a big rock that weighs a ton. It bends and it twists them until finally it buries them under the ground. And there's nobody says they have to do this. They do it because they love you, and because they want to. I have never had this kind of courage. Running a farm, working like a mule every day with no guarantee anything will ever come of it. This is bravery. That's why I never even started anything like that... that's why I never will. - Magnificent Seven

I use this often;

We don't plan to fail, we fail to plan.