The Constitution gives every American the inalienable right to make a damn fool of himself.

 

 

John Ciardi

Especially since, "inalienable right" actually was in the Declaration, not the Constitution. 

(And actually I believe it's literally written "unalienable" although both are basically correct.)

Hah, that's a good one.  I feel like it's somehow referring to Jive software "scripters/hackers".  Mine above is on a cup I have at work.

Sic transit gloria mundi.

(I didn't know Gloria was sick…)

"I haven’t felt such a hypocrite since I was caught singing The Man That Got Away in a San Francisco bathhouse two days after my column opposing gay marriage."

- Mark Steyn

That's what Leopold Stokowski was supposed to have said when his divorce came through.

I'll call you right back.

People who forget.

The trouble with the Internet is that it's replacing masturbation as a leisure activity.
~Patrick Murray

Here's a few;

"People shouldn't be treated like objects. They aren't that valuable." - P.J. O'Rourke

"Life is a cement trampoline." —Howard Nordberg

"Always be wary of any helpful item that weighs less than its operating manual." - Terry Pratchett

"English doesn't borrow from other languages. It follows them down dark alleys, knocks them over, and goes through their pockets for loose grammar." - anon.

and finally:

Johnny Carson; "Do you know how to read music?"

Louis Armstrong; "Well, not enough to hurt my playing any!"

Great quote on English; I'll have to commit it to memory for later use.

(*If you haven't already read it, I'd suggest you check out "Mother Tongue: English and How it Got that Way").

Marshal Ferdinand Foch:

“My centre is giving way, my  right is in retreat; situation excellent. I shall attack.”

That's the abbreviated...

The full version is supposed to be: ""Hard pressed on my right. My centre is yielding. Impossible to manoeuver. Situation excellent. I attack."

He went on to win the Battle of the Marne - WW I

Zen quote of the day:

Mods! Don' need no steenkin' mods!

"As nightfall does not come at once, neither does oppression. In both instances there is a twilight where everything remains seemingly unchanged. And it is in such twilight that we all must be aware of change in the air--however slight--lest we become unwitting victims of the darkness."
--Justice William O. Douglas