Quotes
"Don't you wish there were a knob on the TV to turn up the intelligence? There's one marked 'Brightness,' but it doesn't work." -Gallagher
"Be wary of strong drink. It can make you shoot at tax collectors... and miss." -Robert Heinlein
I am actually pro-cursing. I think it's good. I think we should teach kids to curse, so they don't use drugs. It doesn't rot your brain. It doesn't get you pregnant. It doesn't kill you, like tobacco.-Paul Begala
The harsh, useful things of the world, from pulling teeth to digging potatoes, are best done by men who are as starkly sober as so many convicts in the death-house, but the lovely and useless things, the charming and exhilarating things, are best done by men with, as the phrase is, a few sheets in the wind.-H.L. Mencken
The chief reason for drinking is the desire to behave in a certain way, and to be able to blame it on alcohol.-Mignon McLaughlin
"Anyway, no drug, not even alcohol, causes the fundamental ills of society. If we're looking for the source of our troubles, we shouldn't test people for drugs, we should test them for stupidity, ignorance, greed and love of power." -P.J. O'Rourke
I didn't arrive at my understanding of the fundamental laws of the universe through my rational mind.-Albert Einstein
Today's scientists have substituted mathematics for experiments, and they wander off through equation after equation, and eventually build a structure which has no relation to reality.-Nikola Tesla
"The production of too many useful things results in too many useless people." -Karl Marx
"To invent, you need a good imagination and a pile of junk." -Thomas Edison
"It's smarter to be lucky than it is lucky to be smart."