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"Anything too stupid to be said is sung."
--Voltaire
"The five major figures of Soviet history were on a train together when it suddenly halted in a remote region where the tracks had abruptly stopped. What to do? Lenin was the first to speak, and in his revolutionary enthusiasm he issued a call for a voluntary day of work for local folk to extend the tracks. Stalin objected and ordered the leaders of the railroad ministry shot and the train engineer exiled to Siberia. The always exuberant and impulsively reformist Khrushchev had yet another idea: tear up the tracks behind the train and lay them in front and thus proceed to their destination. Brezhnev's contribution was to order the shades drawn while all the travelers rocked back and forth pretending to move ahead. Finally it was Gorbachev's turn. The architech of the glasnost had the windows thrown wide open and asked everyone to stick their heads out of the train and shout loudly, 'There are no tracks! There are no tracks!'"
--A widely told Soviet joke about the USSR's five main political figures
"This is all stupid."
--Some foolish person who did not reveal themself making a comment on this blog
"God is real, unless declared integer."
--Unknown
"'Yes,' said Martin, 'I have travelled in several provinces. In some you find half the people are fools, and in others you find them much too subtle. There are some parts of the country where people are simple and stupid, and others where they pretend to be witty. But wherever you go in France, you will find that their three-chief occupations are making love, backbiting, and talking nonsense.'
'But do you know Paris, Sir?' asked Candide.
'Oh yes,' said Martin. 'I know Paris. You will find all sorts there. It's chaos, a mob of people all out for pleasure, and scarcely a soul who finds it. At least, that is how it appeared to me. I stayed there a short while: soon after I arrived I was robbed of all I had by some pickpockets at Saint Germain's Fair, and spent eight days in prison on suspicion of being a pickpocket myself. After that I took a job as a printer's reader to earn enough to pay my way back to Holland on foot. That is how I got to know the Grub Street hacks and every corner of the whole warren of intrigue and fanaticism. I am told that there are some people in that city noted for their good mannars; I wish I could think so.'"
--Voltaire in "Candide"
"I'm scared. I am scared."
--Dane Gatewood, candidate for Sophomore class president reflecting on his chances of losing.
"You want punk rock??!!! I'll give it to you!!!! You want hip-hop??!!! I'll give it to you!!!! You want classical or country??!!! I'll stick my foot up your ***!!!!"
--Ben DeMarco, in his speech for student body president of Wilson. He will take office next year.
"An eye for an eye leaves the whole world blind."
--Ghandi
"... war is stupid."
-- Claire Davis
"War isn't good."
--Maxwell Fritz
