quotes and thoughts

Philosophy is a state of fermentation, a process without final outcome. ~Esa Saarinen



I never graduated from Iowa, but I was only there for two terms - Truman's and Eisenhower's. ~Alex Karras



It is hard to believe that a man is telling the truth when you know that you would lie if you were in his place. ~Henry Louis Mencken, A Little Book in C Major, 1916



Baccarat is a game whereby the croupier gathers in money with a flexible sculling oar, then rakes it home. If I could have borrowed his oar I would have stayed. ~Mark Twain



Problems are not stop signs, they are guidelines. ~Robert Schuller



You don't choose your family. They are God's gift to you, as you are to them. ~Desmond Tutu



Homecoming means parades, football and reuniting with old friends. And as I recall from my youth, a little beer. ~J. Wilson



The question for each man is not what he would do if he had the means, time, influence, and educational advantages, but what he will do with the things he has. ~Hamilton



From an aunt, long ago: "Death has come for me many times but finds me always in my lovely garden and leaves me there, I think, as an excuse to return." ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com



War does not determine who is right - only who is left. ~Bertrand Russell



Sleep is the most moronic fraternity in the world, with the heaviest dues and the crudest rituals. ~Vladimir Nabokov



All passions exaggerate; and they are passions only because they do exaggerate. ~Nicolas Chamfort



The easiest way to keep a secret is without help. ~Author Unknown



Adam blamed Eve, Eve blamed the serpent and the serpent didn't have a leg to stand on. ~Author Unknown



There are four basic food groups: milk chocolate, dark chocolate, white chocolate, and chocolate truffles. ~Author Unknown



The judicial mind is too commonly characterized by a regard for a fourth decimal as the equal of a whole number. ~Martin H. Fischer



Inflation is taxation without legislation. ~Milton Friedman



The reverse side also has a reverse side. ~Japanese Proverb



Peace to the ashes of his sin. ~"The Mission," Chapter 1



Christmas is a day of meaning and traditions, a special day spent in the warm circle of family and friends. ~Margaret Thatcher