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Some favourite quotations. Not exactly
links, but they have been accumulating and I don't want to waste them.
Thomas Jefferson
- A government big enough to give you everything you want, is strong
enough to take everything you have.
- The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who
reads nothing but newspapers.
Ronald Reagan (1986)
- Government's view of the economy could be summed up in a few short
phrases: If it moves, tax it. If it keeps moving, regulate it. And if it
stops moving, subsidize it.
- Plea to officials: don't just do something, stand there.
Dorothy Parker
- Take care of the luxuries and the necessities will take care of
themselves.
Edward Gibbon
-
Unprovided with original learning, unformed in the habits of thinking,
unskilled in the arts of composition, I resolved to write a book.
Pancho Villa
(last words)
- Don't let it end like this. Tell them I said
something.
G. K. Chesterton
- If there were no God, there would be no Atheists.
Frank Zappa
- You can’t be a real country unless you have a beer and an airline. It
helps if you have some kind of a football team or some nuclear weapons,
but at the very least you need a beer.
-
Communism doesn't work because people like to own stuff.
- Art is making something out of nothing and selling it.
Dick Cavett
-
There’s so much comedy on television. Does that cause
comedy in the streets?
English prof
-
I am returning this otherwise good typing paper to you
because someone has printed gibberish all over it and put your name at the
top."
James Thurber
-
Well, if I called the wrong number, why did you answer the phone?
Calvin Trillin
- The most remarkable thing about my mother is that for thirty years she
served the family nothing but leftovers. The original meal has never been
found.
Mr. Burns (Simpsons)
-
Oooh, so Mother Nature needs a favour?! Well maybe she should have thought
of that when she was besetting us with droughts and floods and poison
monkeys! Nature started the fight for survival, and now she wants to quit
because she’s losing. Well I say, hard cheese.
Lord Kelvin (Brit scientist - 1824-1907)
- Heavier-than-air flying machines are impossible.
- Radio has no future.
H. L. Mencken
-
Puritanism: The haunting fear that someone, somewhere, may be happy.
Mohandas Gandi
(June
22, 1940, on the capitulation of France)
-
Germans of future generations will honour Herr Hitler as a genius, as a
brave man, a matchless organizer and much more.
Aga Khan
(July 25, 1940)
- The Khedive of Egypt and I will both drink
a bottle of champagne when the Führer sleeps in Windsor Castle. Churchill
was paid by Jews.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
-
I hate quotations. Tell me what
you
know.
Adrienne E. Gusoff
Any woman who thinks
the way to a man's heart is through his stomach is aiming about 10 inches
too high.
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Now, some actual links.
Need to get in shape for the beach? Fire
your personal trainer. Use
these sites instead.
How to nap.
Want to find where to go to learn about medicine or find out why your neck
is sore? Check out
these health research sites.
Why Google when all your favourite sites are
staring you in the face? Here is a
Visual logo directory that
specializes in the top 10 favourite sites of each category, making the internet an
easier place.
Foreign Policy
Magazine reviews the Think Tanks, so you don't have to.
Right
here.
Get Smarter. Thousands of Video lectures from
the world's top scholars. Go to
Harvard for free. More online Ivy League
freebies are
here.
Time Magazine's list of
best websites of 2008.
The Telegraph's list of
101 most useful websites.
10 surprising uses for aspirin.
80
beautiful typefaces for professional design. The rest of
Smashing Magazine is worth a
look as well.
Heard about
Bittorrent but don't know what it is? Read all about it
here and begin downloading your movies for free. Still more on the
subject,
here.
Now that you know how Bittorrent works, you'll
need some torrent files
to play with.
Ready to give 110%? If so, you need to stop
using sports clichés such as
these.
Top 10 worst
hereditary conditions. It begins with baldness and gets worse.
The
strangest sights in Google Earth.
Play "place the
50 states".
Didn't care for it? Well then, browse through these
200 other free online
games.
Top 10
greatest hoaxes of all
time.
Open source (free)
software you might need. And more
here.
OK, time to quit procrastinating and cease
committing all manner of other productivity crimes. Take a
Zen approach.
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