Thursday Thoughtful Open Comments

From a website I stumbled across while hanging ten on the ‘net:
Drawing on my fine command of language, I said nothing.
What is a committee? A group of the unwilling, picked from the unfit, to do the unnecessary. — Richard Harkness, The New York Times, 1960
With every passing hour our solar system comes forty-three thousand miles closer to globular cluster 13 in the constellation Hercules, and still there are some misfits who continue to insist that there is no such thing as progress. — Ransom K. Ferm
Madness takes its toll. Please have exact change.
The graduate with a Science degree asks, “Why does it work?” The graduate with an Engineering degree asks, “How does it work?” The graduate with an Accounting degree asks, “How much will it cost?” The graduate with a Liberal Arts degree asks, “Do you want fries with that?”
I am not a vegetarian because I love animals; I am a vegetarian because I hate plants. — A. Whitney Brown
A great many people think they are thinking when they are merely rearranging their prejudices. — William James
We should be careful to get out of an experience only the wisdom that is in it – and stop there; lest we be like the cat that sits down on a hot stove-lid. She will never sit down on a hot stove-lid again, and that is well; but also she will never sit down on a cold one anymore. — Mark Twain
When cryptography is outlawed, bayl bhgynjf jvyy unir cevinpl.
668: The Neighbor of the Beast
Some mornings, it’s just not worth chewing through the leather straps. — Emo Phillips
Experience is that marvelous thing that enables you to recognize a mistake when you make it again. — F. P. Jones
Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of others, are also remarkable for their apparent disinclination to do so. — Douglas Adams, Last Chance to See
May the forces of evil become confused on the way to your house. — George Carlin
Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable. — John F. Kennedy
Life may have no meaning. Or even worse, it may have a meaning of which I disapprove. — Ashleigh Brilliant
My opinions may have changed, but not the fact that I am right. — Ashleigh Brilliant
Drawing on my fine command of language, I said nothing.
Once at a social gathering, Gladstone said to Disraeli, “I predict, Sir, that you will die either by hanging or of some vile disease”. Disraeli replied, “That all depends, sir, upon whether I embrace your principles or your mistress.”
A slipping gear could let your M203 grenade launcher fire when you least expect it. That would make you quite unpopular in what’s left of your unit. — In the August 1993 issue, page 9, of PS magazine, the Army’s magazine of preventive maintenance
G: “If we do happen to step on a mine, Sir, what do we do?” EB: “Normal procedure, Lieutenant, is to jump 200 feet in the air and scatter oneself over a wide area.” — Somewhere in No Man’s Land, BA4
The mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire to be kindled. — Plutarch
The only difference between me and a madman is that I am not mad. — Salvador Dali
Sometimes I lie awake at night, and I ask, “Where have I gone wrong?” Then a voice says to me, “This is going to take more than one night.” — Charlie Brown, _Peanuts_ [Charles Schulz]
Calvin: People think it must be fun to be a super genius, but they don’t realize how hard it is to put up with all the idiots in the world. Hobbes: Isn’t the zipper on your pants supposed to be in the front?