Life! Liberty (or Death, if you like)! And the Pursuit
of Misery!!
we all have a tendency to philosophize
about the three named things above...and if Ann Landers or Dear Abby were
cynics, between the two of us, ira.day and we would have a bunch to
send them.
"I expect little or nothing out of anyone. That way, I am always
surprised, and occasionally pleasantly so." ~Nadia Coruscani, 1999
"i have a life. i just choose not to use it." ~this is jointly owned by ira and michelle
"if what surrounds me are prime examples of the human race,
then i refuse to be one of them."
"The world's great curse is stupid people with mouths."
"Ethics: Is it right?" ~courtesy of ms. queslan, on our telling her that we still didn't have
a topic for our ethics paper due the next day.
"Assume nothing."
"Life's a bitch, and her name is Angst, and she's coming after me with a REEEALY big knife!" ~Angel Sayan
"We do not have to visit a madhouse to find disordered minds; our planet is the mental institution of the universe."
~Goethe
"The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds; and the pessimist fears this is true."
~James Branch Cabell
"Love doesn't just sit there, like a stone, it has to be made, like bread; remade all the time, made new."
~Ursula K. LeGuin
"We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars."
~Oscar Wilde
"an optimist is a guy that has never had much experience"
~Donald R.P. Marquis
"The greater the ignorance, the greater the dogmatism."
~Sir William Oster