Entry 257

When a finger points to the moon, the imbecile looks at the finger.
Chinese proverb

The moon, like a flower
In heaven's high bower
With silent delight
Sits and smiles on the night.
William Blake

I see the moon,
And the moon sees me;
God bless the moon,
And God bless me.
Unknown

That wandering shrine of soft, yet icy flame,
Which ever is transform'd yet still the same,
And warms, but not illumines.
Percy Bysshe Shelley




You were earth and we
Had a moon---winter scales
On a summer trout.
ML Squier

[P.S. This little poem is about the author and Penny Drew]

Entry 256

We have real enemies in the world. These enemies must be found. They must be pursued and they must be defeated.
Barack Obama


Why can't I just eat my waffle?
Barack Obama

Entry 255

All morons hate it when you call them a moron.
J.D. Salinger

In my sentences I go where no man has gone before.
George W. Bush

I want to thank you for taking time out of your day to come and witness my hanging.
George W. Bush

We're concerned about AIDS inside our White House—make no mistake about it.
George W. Bush

It's clearly a budget. It's got a lot of numbers in it.
George W. Bush

Entry 254

A full-grown manatee, which can weigh more than 1,000 pounds, looks like the result of a genetic experiment involving a walrus and the Goodyear Blimp.

Dave Barry

Man is certainly stark mad; he cannot make a flea, and yet he will be making gods by dozens.
Montaigne

A man thinks he amounts to a great deal but to a flea or a
mosquito a human being is merely something good to eat.
Don Marquis

Civilization is drugs, alcohol, engines of war, prostitution, machines and machine slaves, low wages, bad food, bad taste, prisons, reformatories, lunatic asylums, divorce, perversion, brutal sports, suicides, infanticide, cinema, quackery, demagogy, strikes, lockouts, revolutions, putsches, colonization, electric chairs, guillotines, sabotage, floods, famine, disease, gangsters, money barons, horse racing, fashion shows, poodle dogs, chow dogs, Siamese cats, condoms, peccaries, syphilis, gonorrhea, insanity, neuroses, etc., etc.

Henry Miller

Entry 253

Politics has become so expensive that it takes a lot of money even to be defeated.
Will Rogers

When one may pay out over two million dollars to presidential and Congressional campaigns, the U.S. government is virtually up for sale.
John W. Gardner

You have reached the pinnacle of success as soon as you become uninterested in money, compliments, or publicity.
Thomas Wolfe

When it's a question of money, everybody is of the same religion.
Voltaire

Entry 252

Okay, he either said, "move to the back of the throat," or he "wants a root beer float.

Dory

Consider the whale: It never gets into trouble until it comes up and starts spouting.
Unkown

Time, the dark whale, spouts blithely from his spiracle
A jet of memory that makes glad the sun.
William Rose Benet

A whale is harpooned only when it spouts.
Henry Hillman

Entry 251

The pioneers and missionaries of religion have been the real cause of more trouble and war than all other classes of mankind.
Edgar Allan Poe

I don't believe in ghosts but they have been chasing me my whole life.
Edgar Allan Poe

Lord help my poor soul.
Edgar Allan Poe's last words

Entry 250

All Presidents start out to run a crusade but after a couple of years they find they are running something less heroic and much more intractable: namely the presidency. The people are well cured by then of election fever, during which they think they are choosing Moses. In the third year, they look on the man as a sinner and a bumble and begin to poke around for rumors of another Messiah.

Alistair Cooke

We are given to the cult of personality; when things go badly we look to some messiah to save us. If by chance we think we have found one, it will not be long before we destroy him.

Constantine Karamanlis

Entry 249

Suppose you were an idiot and suppose you were a memeber of Congress. But I repeat myself.
Mark Twain

The only difference between death and taxes is that death doesn't get worse every time Congress meets.
Will Rogers

We the people are the rightful masters of both Congress and the courts, not to overthrow the Constitution but to overthrow the men who pervert the Constitution.

Abraham Lincoln

America, where thanks to Congress, there are forty million laws to enforce the Ten Commandments.

Anatole France

Entry 248

Flying Saucers come from distant worlds.
Dr. Herman Oberth

Something unknown to our understanding is visiting this Earth.
Dr. Mitrovan Zverev

Information is desired if this was some new or experimental aircraft or for any explanation whatsoever.
1949 CIA memo

Reliable reports indicate there are objects coming into our atmosphere at very high speeds and controlled by thinking intelligences.
Rear Admiral Delmar Fahrney
U.S. Navy Missile Chief

The nations of the world will have to unite for the next war will be an interplanetary war. The nations of Earth must some day make a common front against attack by people from other planets.
-General Douglas MacArthur



..I've been asked about UFOs and I've said publicly I thought they were somebody else, some other civilization.

-Commander Eugene Cernan, Commanded the Apollo 17 Mission-The quote is from a 1973 article in the Los Angeles Times.

Entry 247

A poet is someone who stands outside in the rain hoping to be struck by lightning.
James Dickey

We will never be an advanced civilization as long as rain showers can delay the launching of a space rocket.
George Carlin

Sunshine is delicious, rain is refreshing, wind braces us up, snow is exhilarating; there is really no such thing as bad weather, only different kinds of good weather.
John Ruskin

Anyone who says sunshine brings happiness has never danced in the rain.
Author Unknown

Let the rain kiss you. Let the rain beat upon your head with silver liquid drops. Let the rain sing you a lullaby.
Langston Hughes

Entry 246

But I hang onto my prejudices, they are the testicles of my mind.

Eric Hoffer

What can deep water do to a fish? What can the vast sky do to a bird? What can cold do to a stone? What is married life to a eunuch? You may apply sandalwood oil to a dog, but he will still be a dog.

Sri Guru Granth Sahib

I have been accustomed for some time past, to apply leeches to the inflamed testicle, which practice has always been followed with most happy effects.

Unknown

Entry 245

The colour of my soul is iron-grey and sad bats wheel about the steeple of my dreams.
Claude Debussy

A woman drew her long black hair out tight
And fiddled whisper music on those strings
And bats with baby faces in the violet light
Whistled.
T.S. Eliot

Twinkle, twinkle little bat
How I wonder what you're at!
Up above the world you fly,
Like a tea-tray in the sky.
Lewis Carroll

Entry 244

If you asked me to name the three scariest threats facing the human race, I would give the same answer that most people would: nuclear war, global warming and Windows.

Dave Barry

I think the big mistake in schools is trying to teach children anything, and by using fear as the basic motivation. Fear of getting failing grades, fear of not staying with your class, etc. Interest can produce learning on a scale compared to fear as a nuclear explosion to a firecracker.

Stanley Kubrick

The nuclear generator of brain sludge is television.

Dave Barry

Entry 243

A vegetarian is a person who doesn't eat anything that can have children.
David Brenner

I am not a vegetarian because I love animals; I am a vegetarian because I hate plants.
A. Whitney Brown


I'm not a vegetarian, but I eat animals who are.
Groucho Marx

CARNIVOROUS, adj. - Addicted to the cruelty of devouring the timorous vegetarian, his heirs and assigns.
Ambrose Bierce


Vegetarian - that's an old Indian word meaning "lousy hunter".
Andy Rooney



I did not become a vegetarian for my health, I did it for the health of the chickens.
Isaac Bashevis Singer

Entry 242

No good fish goes anywhere without a porpoise.
Lewis Carroll

Do not tell fish stories where the people know you; but particularly, don't tell them where they know the fish.

Mark Twain

To talk much and arrive nowhere is the same as climbing a tree to catch a fish.
Chinese proverb

Last year I went fishing with Salvador Dali. He was using a dotted line. He caught every other fish.
Steven Wright

Entry 241

Mosquitoes’ lives may be ephemeral, their deaths almost always brutal. But during their transitory span, absolutely nothing will stand in the way of their two formidable guiding desires: to soak up human lifeblood, and to reproduce.
J.R. Churin

If you think you're too small to be effective, you've never been in bed with a mosquito.

Betty Reese

Entry 240

There is a heroism in crime as well as in virtue. Vice and infamy have their altars and their religion.

William Hazlitt

There ought to be limits to freedom.
George W. Bush

But there needs to be a focused, coalition effort in the region against peace -- I mean, against terror for peace.
George W. Bush
Mar. 30, 2002

There's a lot of war talk these days, as there should be, but it's all aimed at making sure the world is peaceful.
George W. Bush
July 18, 2002

Entry 239

Scientific progress makes moral progress a necessity; for if man's power is increased, the checks that restrain him from abusing it must be strengthened.

Madame de Stael

Science... never solves a problem without creating ten more.

George Bernard Shaw