Quotes for the Depression Forums 10-19
Posted: Sun Oct 18, 2009 2:18 pm
Patriotism is the willingness to kill and be killed for trivial reasons.
-- Bertrand Russell
Sometimes I think the surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that none of it has tried to contact us.
-- Bill Watterson, cartoonist, "Calvin and Hobbes"
Never go to bed mad. Stay up and fight.
-- Phyllis Diller
Mankind have a great aversion to intellectual labor; but even supposing knowledge to be easily attainable, more people would be content to be ignorant than would take even a little trouble to acquire it.
-- Samuel Johnson, quoted in Boswell's Life of Johnson
-- Bertrand Russell
Sometimes I think the surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that none of it has tried to contact us.
-- Bill Watterson, cartoonist, "Calvin and Hobbes"
Never go to bed mad. Stay up and fight.
-- Phyllis Diller
Mankind have a great aversion to intellectual labor; but even supposing knowledge to be easily attainable, more people would be content to be ignorant than would take even a little trouble to acquire it.
-- Samuel Johnson, quoted in Boswell's Life of Johnson
Somehow that was funny to me...