Quotes

[PrincessFiona60]

I shouldn't think even millionaires could eat anything nicer than new bread and real butter and honey for tea.

Dodie Smith

[JoAnn L.]

Good apple pies are a considerable part of our happiness. Jane Austin

[taxlady]

We are buried beneath the weight of information, which is being confused with knowledge; quantity is being confused with abundance and wealth with happiness.

We are monkeys with money and guns.

-- Tom Waits

(Actually we are apes with money and guns. )

[cave76]

Originally Posted by taxlady

We are buried beneath the weight of information, which is being confused with knowledge; quantity is being confused with abundance and wealth with happiness.

We are monkeys with money and guns.

-- Tom Waits

(Actually we are apes with money and guns. )

Yep! And typewriters? "The infinite monkey theorem states that a monkey hitting keys at random on a typewriter keyboard for an infinite amount of time will almost surely type a given text, such as the complete works of William Shakespeare."

[PrincessFiona60]

Do you believe in fairies?...If you believe, clap your hands!

J.M. Barrie

[JoAnn L.]

My mother was the making of me. She was so true, to sure of me and I felt that I had someone to live for, someone I must not disappoint. Thomas A. Edisons

[cave76]

"People who live in glasses houses shouldn't throw stones"

Old proverb that may have originated with Chaucer

[JoAnn L.]

The thing I lose patience with the most is the clock. It's hands move to fast. Thomas A. Edison

[cave76]

“Within any important issue, there are always aspects no one wishes to discuss.”
― George Orwell

[Aunt Bea]

"Every problem contains within itself the seeds of its own solution." Stanley Arnold


"When I'm working on a problem, I never think about beauty. I think only how to solve the problem. But when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong." R. Buckminster Fuller