George Carlin

George Carlin has passed on. He has shucked off his mortal coil and joined the Choir Invisible. I don't think he rates a "Raise a Glass", but I did think I would add a few funny quotes from him.

"You can tell a lot about a person by what they'll do FOR $10 and what they do WITH $10"

"Ever wonder why at the end of every package of bacon there's always one weird piece of bacon? "

"Ever notice when you blow in a dog's face he gets mad at you, but when you take him in a car he sticks his head out the window?"

"What do dogs do on their day off? They can't lie around--that's their job."

--"I like using words that have never been used together before, like 'hand me that piano.'"

Quote of the Day

"Remember, good ideas never enter through the mouth."

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"Don't go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first."

--Mark Twain

Quote of the Day:

Bill Gates earns $250 every SECOND; that’s about
$20 million a DAY and $7.8 billion a YEAR! If he drops a
thousand-dollar bill, he needn’t even bother to pick it up
because in the four seconds it would take him to pick it
up, he would’ve already earned it back.
“Little-Known Facts about Well-Known Leaders—
Bill Gates,” a June 22, 2007 post from the
AchieveMax blog

Quote of the Day:

“It ain’t what you don’t know that gets you into trouble. It’s what you know for sure that just ain’t so.” - Mark Twain

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"People sleep peaceably in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf."

George Orwell

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“When a distinguished but elderly scientist states that something is possible he is almost certainly right. When he states that something is impossible, he is very probably wrong.” -- Arthur C Clarke.

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"War is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things. The decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic feeling that thinks that nothing is worth war is much worse. The person who has nothing for which he is willing to fight, nothing which is more important than his own personal safety, is a miserable creature and has no chance of being free unless made and kept so by the exertions of better men than himself".

John Stuart Mill (You should know who he is/was).

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"One of the great mistakes is to judge policies and programs by their intentions rather than their results." -Milton Friedman.

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"Read, every day, something no one else is reading. Think, every day, something no one else is thinking. Do, every day, something no one else would be silly enough to do. It is bad for the mind to be always part of unanimity."

Christopher Morley

Quote of the Day:

Hemingway’s famous six word story: ”For sale: baby shoes, never worn.”

Makes ya think, doesn't it? That's why he was a great writer, and I'm not.

Quote of the Day

A house without books is like a body without a soul.

- Cicero (106 BC - 43 AD)