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Damnity damn, that's a damn good movie.

"But that's the way it goes
In war you're shat upon
Though we die, La Resistance ...
Lives ooooonnnnn!"
-- "La Resistance" in "South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut"

Now, where else would I have found out the passive transitive-verb form of "to shit"? You learn something every day. Thank you, Marc Shaiman. (Composer and co-lyricist, whom I corresponded with briefly on line to fill in some of the less-than-perfectly-audible lyrics.)

"Anyone who is capable of getting themselves into a position of
power should on no account be allowed to do the job."
-- Douglas Adams

"Taxation is nothing more than organized robbery, and there the
subject should be dropped." -- Frank Chodorov

"Ignorance is preferable to error, and he is less remote from the
truth who believes nothing than he who believes what is wrong."
-- Thomas Jefferson ("Notes on Virginia," 1782)

"I was thinking of the immortal words of Socrates, who said,
'I drank what?'" -- Chris Knight (Val Kilmer) in "Real Genius"

Two babies were born on the same day at the same hospital. They lay there and looked at each other. Their families came and took them away. Eighty years later, by a bizarre coincidence, they lay in the same hospital, on their deathbeds, next to each other. One of them looked at the other and said, "So. What did you think?" - Steven Wright

“An epigram often flashes light into regions where reason shines but dimly.” - Edwin P. Whipple

“I never have found the perfect quote. At best I have been able to find a string of quotations which merely circle the ineffible idea I seek to express.” - Caldwell O'Keefe

“Art is either plagiarism or revolution.” - Paul Gauguin

"The secret of managing is to keep the guys who hate you away from the guys who are undecided." - Casey Stengel

“A sense of duty is useful in work, but offensive in personal relations. People wish to be liked, not be endured with patient resignation”. - Bertrand Russell

“When the character of a man is not clear to you, look at his friends.” - Japanese proverb

“You cannot acquire experience by making experiments. You cannot create experience. You must undergo it.” - Albert Camus

“Experience is a hard teacher because she gives the test first, the lesson afterwards.” - Vernon Sanders Law

"We are a much improved ball club, now we lose in extra innings!" - Casey Stengel

“Nothing has a stronger influence psychologically... on children than the unlived life of the parent.” - Carl Jung

“To be without some of the things you want is an indispensable part of happiness.” - Bertrand Russell

“All truths are easy to understand once they are discovered; the point is to discover them.” - Galileo

“All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident.” - Arthur Schopenhauer

“The freethinking of one age is the common sense of the next.” - Matthew Arnold

“Painting is just another way of keeping a diary.” - Picasso

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

“We must never forget that art is not a form of propaganda; it is a form of truth.” - John F. Kennedy

“The truth is more important than the facts.” - Frank Lloyd Wright

"Great advances in thought are often the result of fortunate errors." A. N. Whitehead.

“If we don't succeed, we run the risk of failure.” - Dan Quayle

“There are few nudities so objectionable as the naked truth.” - Agnes Repplier

[This post had a dupe quote, but I've changed it to this one.]

"He's throwing grounders." - Casey Stengel

"99 percent of lawyers give the rest a bad name." - Unknown

Top Ten Favorite Dan Quayle Quotes

“I want to be Robin to Bush's Batman.”

“What a terrible thing to have lost one's mind. Or not to have a mind at all. How true that is.”

“The real question for 1988 is whether we're going to go forward to tomorrow or past to the -- to the back!”

'“Our party has been accused of fooling the public by calling tax increases 'revenue enhancement.' Not so. No one was fooled.”

“Bank failures are caused by depositors who don't deposit enough money to cover losses due to mismanagement.”

“This president is going to lead us out of this recovery.”

“Republicans have been accused of abandoning the poor. It's the other way around. They never vote for us.”

“People are not homeless if they're sleeping in the streets of their own hometowns.”

“Speaking as a man, it's not a woman's issue. Us men are tired of losing our women.”

"Welcome to President Bush, Mrs. Bush, and my fellow astronauts."

"I am not part of the problem. I am a Republican."

Top Ten George Dubya Bush Quotes

"Down in Washington they're playing with Social Security like it's some kind of government program!"

"There's a huge trust. I see it all the time when people come up to me and say, 'I don't want you to let me down again.'"

"It's clearly a budget. It's got a lot of numbers in it."

"Families is where our nation finds hope, where wings take dream."

"I think if you know what you believe, it makes it a lot easier to answer questions. I can't answer your question."

"If this were a dictatorship, it'd be a heck of a lot easier...just as long as I'm the dictator..."

"Will the highways on the Internet become more few?"

"The most important job is not to be governor, or first lady in my case."

"Rarely is the question asked: is our children learning"

"They misunderestimated me."

"My second favorite household chore is ironing. My first being hitting my head on the top bunk bed until I faint." Erma Bombeck

"The odds of going to the store for a loaf of bread and coming out with ONLY a loaf of bread are three billion to one." Erma Bombeck

"Never go to a doctor whose office plants have died." Erma Bombeck

"It takes a lot of courage to show your dreams to someone else." Erma Bombeck

"Seize the moment. Remember all those women on the Titanic who waved off the dessert cart." Erma Bombeck

"If you can laugh at it, you can live with it." Erma Bombeck

"Don't confuse fame with success. Madonna is one. Helen Keller is the other." Erma Bombeck

"There's nothing sadder in this world than to awake Christmas morning and not be a child." Erma Bombeck

"If a man watches three football games in a row, he should be declared legally dead." Erma Bombeck

Marc Shaiman seems to be a REALLY sweet guy. And Hairspray is a great show.

That may be my new favorite quote. Thanks, Reep.

You're welcome!

While you're at it, Thank LL too.

Ten Favorite Quotes From Painters

"Painting is damned difficult ... you always think you've got it, but you haven't." - Paul Cezanne

“I am always doing what I cannot do yet, in order to learn how to do it.” - Vincent Van Gogh

“I am the primitive of the way I have discovered.” - Paul Cezanne

”It has bothered me all my life that I do not paint like everybody else.” - Henri Matisse

"I've caught this magical landscape and it's the enchantment of it that I'm so keen to render. Of course lots of people will protest that it's quite unreal, but that's just too bad." - Claude Monet

"Painting from nature is not copying the object, it is realizing one's sensations." - Paul Cezanne

“I found I could say things with color and shapes that I couldn't say any other way - things I had no words for.” - Georgia O’Keefe

"Drawing is not what one sees but what one can make others see." - Edgar Degas

“It is not the language of painters but the language of nature which one should listen to, the feeling for the things themselves, for reality, is more important than the feeling for pictures.” - Vincent Van Gogh

“An empty canvas is a living wonder -- far lovelier than certain pictures." -Wassily Kandinsky

LOL! I need to learn to read!

Thanks, Scott!

Ten Favorite Einstein Quotes

“Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.”

“My sense of God is my sense of wonder about the Universe.”

“Reading, after a certain age, diverts the mind too much from its creative pursuits. Any man who reads too much and uses his own brain too little falls into lazy habits of thinking.”

“We should take care not to make the intellect our god; it has, of course, powerful muscles, but no personality.”

“The ideals which have lighted my way, and time after time have given me new courage to face life cheerfully, have been Kindness, Beauty, and Truth. The trite subjects of human efforts, possessions, outward success, luxury have always seemed to me contemptible.”

“If there is any religion that could cope with modern scientific needs, it would be Buddhism.”

”There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is.”

“The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing. One cannot help but be in awe when he contemplates the mysteries of eternity, of life, of the marvelous structure of reality. It is enough if one tries merely to comprehend a little of this mystery every day. Never lose a holy curiosity.”

“Great spirits have always found violent opposition from mediocrities. The latter cannot understand it when a man does not thoughtlessly submit to hereditary prejudices but honestly and courageously uses his intelligence.”

“The significant problems we have cannot be solved at the same level of thinking with which we created them.”

Six Favorite Gandhi Quotes

“I do not believe in the doctrine of the greatest good of the greatest number. The only real, dignified, human doctrine is the greatest good of all.”

“We are constantly being astonished at the amazing discoveries in the field of violence. But I maintain that far more undreamt of and seemingly impossible discoveries will be made in the field of nonviolence.”

“You must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is an ocean; if a few drops of the ocean are dirty, the ocean does not become dirty.”

“Earth provides enough to satisfy every man’s need, but not every man’s greed.”

“Non-cooperation is an attempt to awaken the masses, to a sense of their dignity and power. This can only be done by enabling them to realize that they need not fear brute force, if they would but know the soul within.”

“Faith is not something to grasp, it is a state to grow into.”