My arthritis is still giving me hell, so I want to conserve keystrokes, but I'm also itching to post something. So here's a small collection of some of my favorite quotes:
"If you always tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything." - Mark Twain [Samuel L. Clemens]
"Get your facts first, and then you can distort them as much as you please." - Mark Twain [Samuel L. Clemens]
"It is by the goodness of God that we have in our country three unspeakably precious things: freedom of speech, freedom of conscience, and the prudence never to practice either." - Mark Twain [Samuel L. Clemens]
"Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind." - Albert Einstein
"Great spirits have always found violent opposition from mediocre minds. The latter cannot understand it when a man does not thoughtlessly submit to hereditary prejudices but honestly and courageously uses his intelligence." - Albert Einstein
"The only difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits." - Albert Einstein
"Modern art is what happens when painters stop looking at girls and persuade themselves they have a better idea." - John Ciardi
"Sex... In America an obsession. In other parts of the world a fact." - Marlene Dietrich [Marie Magdalene Dietrich]
"Censorship reflects society's lack of confidence in itself." - [U.S. Supreme Court Justice] Potter Stewart
"There is a theory which states that if ever anybody discovers exactly what the Universe is for and why it is here, it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and inexplicable. There is another theory which states that this has already happened." - Douglas Adams.
"The two most common elements in the universe are Hydrogen and stupidity." - Harlan Ellison
"Liberals feel unworthy of their possessions. Conservatives feel they deserve everything they've stolen." - Mort Sahl
"God is a comic playing to an audience that's afraid to laugh." - François-Marie Arouet de Voltaire (1694-1778)
"All pop music is about sex. Rock is about wanting to do it, jazz is about doing it, and country and western is about feeling guilty after you've done it." - Robert Waldo Brunelle, Jr.
"Law and Order is like patriotism--anyone who comes on strong about patriotism has got something to hide; it never fails. They always turn out to be a crook or an asshole or something." - Bill Mauldin
"When we got into office, the thing that surprised me most was to find that things were just as bad as we'd been saying they were." - John F. Kennedy
"I've noticed that men generally leave married women alone and treat them with respect. It's too bad for married women. Men are always ready to respect someone who bores them. And if most married women, even the pretty ones, look so dull, it's because they're getting too much respect." - Marilyn Monroe [Norma Jean Baker]
"Lord, the money we do spend on Government and it's not one bit better than the government we got for one third the money twenty years ago." - Will Rogers
"There are no wise few. Every aristocracy that has ever existed has behaved, in all essential points, exactly like a small mob." - G. K. Chesterton, "Heretics"
"It's amazing how much 'mature wisdom' resembles being too tired." - Lazarus Long [Robert A. Heinlein]
"Place your clothes and your weapons where you can find them in the dark." - Lazarus Long [Robert A. Heinlein]
"Writing is not neccessarily something to be ashamed of--but do it in private and wash your hands afterwards." - Lazarus Long [Robert A. Heinlein]
"Perhaps the last right-wing intellectual was T. E. Lawrence." - George Orwell [Eric Blair]
"If you always tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything." - Mark Twain [Samuel L. Clemens]
"Get your facts first, and then you can distort them as much as you please." - Mark Twain [Samuel L. Clemens]
"It is by the goodness of God that we have in our country three unspeakably precious things: freedom of speech, freedom of conscience, and the prudence never to practice either." - Mark Twain [Samuel L. Clemens]
"Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind." - Albert Einstein
"Great spirits have always found violent opposition from mediocre minds. The latter cannot understand it when a man does not thoughtlessly submit to hereditary prejudices but honestly and courageously uses his intelligence." - Albert Einstein
"The only difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits." - Albert Einstein
"Modern art is what happens when painters stop looking at girls and persuade themselves they have a better idea." - John Ciardi
"Sex... In America an obsession. In other parts of the world a fact." - Marlene Dietrich [Marie Magdalene Dietrich]
"Censorship reflects society's lack of confidence in itself." - [U.S. Supreme Court Justice] Potter Stewart
"There is a theory which states that if ever anybody discovers exactly what the Universe is for and why it is here, it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and inexplicable. There is another theory which states that this has already happened." - Douglas Adams.
"The two most common elements in the universe are Hydrogen and stupidity." - Harlan Ellison
"Liberals feel unworthy of their possessions. Conservatives feel they deserve everything they've stolen." - Mort Sahl
"God is a comic playing to an audience that's afraid to laugh." - François-Marie Arouet de Voltaire (1694-1778)
"All pop music is about sex. Rock is about wanting to do it, jazz is about doing it, and country and western is about feeling guilty after you've done it." - Robert Waldo Brunelle, Jr.
"Law and Order is like patriotism--anyone who comes on strong about patriotism has got something to hide; it never fails. They always turn out to be a crook or an asshole or something." - Bill Mauldin
"When we got into office, the thing that surprised me most was to find that things were just as bad as we'd been saying they were." - John F. Kennedy
"I've noticed that men generally leave married women alone and treat them with respect. It's too bad for married women. Men are always ready to respect someone who bores them. And if most married women, even the pretty ones, look so dull, it's because they're getting too much respect." - Marilyn Monroe [Norma Jean Baker]
"Lord, the money we do spend on Government and it's not one bit better than the government we got for one third the money twenty years ago." - Will Rogers
"There are no wise few. Every aristocracy that has ever existed has behaved, in all essential points, exactly like a small mob." - G. K. Chesterton, "Heretics"
"It's amazing how much 'mature wisdom' resembles being too tired." - Lazarus Long [Robert A. Heinlein]
"Place your clothes and your weapons where you can find them in the dark." - Lazarus Long [Robert A. Heinlein]
"Writing is not neccessarily something to be ashamed of--but do it in private and wash your hands afterwards." - Lazarus Long [Robert A. Heinlein]
"Perhaps the last right-wing intellectual was T. E. Lawrence." - George Orwell [Eric Blair]
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MAR 17, 2007 03:45 AM
Yeah I used to know (helped with physical therapy) a couple of WW2 vets who swore if you take a warm bath in the morning (with epsom salts) it will ease the symptoms......... 
Something about the heat and then the cold when you get out of the bath that helps
otherwise meditate or try yoga.......... the spirit can help old bones 
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JUN 27, 2007 09:56 AM
Happy birthday to you good sir!
I read your comments in the photography group often as you make a helluva lot of sense.
So, thought I'd say hi and hope you have a wonderful day!
JUN 28, 2007 03:21 AM
My scanner's just always hated me so I have to have everything put onto disk when it's developed or nobody would ever get to see anything. 
