Thread: Quip Of The Day

I don't care who does the electing, so long as I get to do the nominating.

Boss Tweed.

“Isn't it nice to think that tomorrow is a new day with no mistakes in it yet?”
― L.M. Montgomery

"Ignore the ignorant, or argue with a fool. Perhaps I can find some middle ground, and become an ignorant fool."
-- ? Swear I heard it somewhere..

" Ignorance is bliss...for the person that has it."

"...you need to realize that most people can only accept and use information that fits their perception of reality....

Character in an LE Modesitt jr book.

“Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.”
― George Orwell, 1984

Originally Posted by MikeT

"Better a witty fool than a foolish wit."
--William Shakespeare
**Possibly Sir Francis Bacon

Mark Twain made the definitive remark about that question.. "All those plays were not written by William Shakespeare, they were actually written by another fellow of the same name."

"Truth is stranger than fiction, but it is because Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities; Truth isn't."
--Mark Twain

As long a we are on a Twain binge..

"Last week I stated this woman was the ugliest woman I had ever seen.  I have since been visited by her sister and now wish to withdraw that statement."   --Mark Twain

“Always do what you are afraid to do.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson