Sunday, 10 November 2013

Dunces

When a true genius appears, you can know him by this sign: 
that all the dunces are in a confederacy against him.
 — Jonathan Swift

Friday, 8 November 2013

Cops'R'Tops

I have never seen a situation so dismal that a policeman couldn't make it worse.
 — Brendan Behan

Thursday, 7 November 2013

Rabble Rousing

I never desired to please the rabble. 
What pleased them, I did not learn; 
and what I knew was far removed from their understanding.
 — Epicurus

Wednesday, 6 November 2013

Purgatory

Martyrdom covers a multitude of sins.
 — Mark Twain

Saturday, 2 November 2013

Wednesday, 30 October 2013

Tuesday, 29 October 2013

Machophilia

Man is an intelligence in servitude to his organs.
 — Aldous Huxley

Monday, 28 October 2013

One Of A Kind

Always remember that you are absolutely unique. 
Just like everyone else.
 — Margaret Mead

Sunday, 27 October 2013

Money Puppets

Money is the string with which a sardonic destiny directs the motions of its puppets.
 — William Somerset Maugham

Saturday, 26 October 2013

Doping With Hope

A leader is a dealer in hope.
 — Napoleon Bonaparte

Friday, 25 October 2013

The Selfish Egg

A hen is only an egg's way of making another egg.
 — Samuel Butler

Wednesday, 23 October 2013

Creatorism

Creationism is Bronze Age science.
Creationists are Bronze Age scientists.

Sunday, 20 October 2013

You Can't Choose Your Relations

It is even harder for the average ape to believe that he has descended from man.
 — H. L. Mencken

Saturday, 19 October 2013

Non Cogito Non Sum

Most people would sooner die than think; in fact, they do so.
 — Bertrand Russell

Friday, 18 October 2013

Occam's Eraser

Never ascribe to malice that which can adequately be explained by incompetence.
 — Napoleon Bonaparte

Thursday, 17 October 2013

The Lore Of Averages

The average person thinks he isn’t.
 — Larry Lorenzoni

Wednesday, 16 October 2013

Peerless Pressure

You laugh at me because I am different, 
but I laugh at you because you are all the same.
 — Unknown

Tuesday, 15 October 2013

It Got Worse

Imitation is the sincerest form of television.
— Fred Allen (1894-1956)

Monday, 14 October 2013

Ends And Means

Religion ends and philosophy begins,
just as alchemy ends and chemistry begins,
and astrology ends and astronomy begins.
 — Richard Dawkins

Sunday, 13 October 2013

Humbled

Don’t be so humble — you are not that great.
 — Golda Meir

Saturday, 12 October 2013

Friday, 11 October 2013

Afterthought

There is an afterlife.
It's called death.