Stolen from Insomniac’s Vent Hole.
This random thread is for people who like to stay up late at night and, well chat. I guess. I kinda don't like that word, but whatever
I like this part from IVH:
Frivolity and silliness are highly recommended for all riders (sic) Flamewars are expressly forbidden and political ranting is strongly discouraged.
However, I'm good for open discourse, whatever you might be riding, or whatever loa might be riding you.
Oh goody; an excuse to show off a few of my quotes. Y'know; the ones that are too long for my sigline, and the ones that are not...quite what I was looking for.
"The system conceded to black people the right to sit in the front of the bus - a hollow victory when one's longest trip is likely to be from the feudal South to the mechanized poverty of the North." - Julian Bond.
"Patriotism is as fierce as fever, pitiless as the grave, blind as a stone and irrational as a headless hen." - Ambrose Bierce
"The whole earth is in jail and we're plotting this incredible jailbreak." - Wavy Gravy
"If you can take the hot lead enema, then you cast the first stone." - Lenny Bruce
"Many persons pass for normal, and indeed for highly valuable members of society, who are incurably mad." - Herman Hesse
"Christianity is a Communist plot." - Tom McNamara
"I sometimes think that God in creating man somewhat overestimated His ability." - Oscar Wilde
"This is the age when the gods are diseases." - Carl Jung
"This is my prediction for the future, whatever hasn't happened will happen! And no one will be safe from it!" - J. B. S. Haldane
"I personally think we developed language because of our deep need to complain." - Lily Tomlin
"Standup comedy is the only art form to be heckled. Picasso didn't have three drunk guys in his studio yelling, 'More Green, idiot!'"
"If once a man indulges himself in murder, very soon he comes to think of robbing; and from robbing he comes next to drinking and sabbath-breaking, and from that to incivility and procrastination. Once begun upon this downward path, you never know where to stop. Many a man has dated his ruin from some murder or other that perhaps he thought little of at the time." - Thomas de Quincey
"No bird soars too high, if he soars on his own wings." - William Blake
"He who conceals his sickness cannot hope to be cured." - Ethiopian proverb
"It is sad to grow old, but nice to ripen." - Brigitte Bardot
"Old age is 15 years older than I am." - Bernard Baruch
"Admire the person who speaks the truth; beware the person who has found it." - anon
"The first and greatest commandment is; "Don't let them scare you." - Elmer Davis
"The trouble with the rat race is that even if you win, you're still a rat." - Lily Tomlin
"Happiness is the most hopeless, yet most necessary form of human gallantry." - Mary Gaitskill
"An optimist is a person who believes the future is uncertain." - anon
"Not a shred of evidence exists in favor of the idea that life is serious." - Brendan Gill