Way before we had Rumsfield's known unknowns, we had Danforth

We are not ready for an unforeseen event that may or may not occur. - Dan Quayle, former U.S. Vice President

Censorship is telling a man he can't have a steak just because a baby can't chew it. -Unknown but attributed frequently to Mark Twain

"A sword by itself does not slay; it is merely the weapon used by the slayer."
—Lucius Annaeus Seneca - Letter 87.

You have to stay in shape. My grandmother, she started walking five miles a day when she was 60. She's 97 today and we don't know where the hell she is.

Ellen DeGeners.

Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away.


Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

“Patriotism is, fundamentally, a conviction that a particular country is the best in the world because you were born in it.”
—George Bernard Shaw, The World, November 15, 1893

The only difference between me and a madman is that I'm not mad.

Salvador Dali (1904-1989)

Maybe this world is another planet's Hell.

Aldous Huxley (1894-1963)

“There are no shortcuts to any place worth going.”
—Beverly Sills

"So many chances to die, so many interesting stories for our grandchildren."

Betonov, SubSim member.

Who are you kidding. Leonard Nimoy said that!

"I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word I say."

Oscar Wilde

“He may look like an idiot and talk like an idiot but don't let that fool you. He really is an idiot.” Groucho Marx

“I read in the newspapers they are going to have 30 minutes of intellectual stuff on television every Monday from 7:30 to 8. to educate America. They couldn't educate America if they started at 6:30.” Groucho Marx


"Politics is like an oil spill, it makes a huge mess of everything. It gets cleaned up eventually but there's always some residue left over sometimes for years to come." ~Me

I'm all in favor of keeping dangerous weapons out of the hands of fools. Let's start with typewriters.

Frank Lloyd Wright (1868-1959)

"Knowledge someone believes he has is no knowledge, but 100% belief. Knowledge must be not believed, but known."
—Skybird, Subsim member