Quotes calendar

Anonymous

Intelligenz ist leider nutzlos.

(Unfortunately, being intelligent is useless.)

Asterix

Nicht streiten!  Es ist genug Wildschweinzunge für alle da!

(Don't fight!  There's enough wild boar's tongue for everyone!)

From the movie Wild at Heart

They's making a porn-o-graphic movie...  Texas style.

Nigel Higson

Those of you who are members of the middle class probably have napkin rings in your home.

--- explaining what a torus is

Mark Leyner

It's difficult to adequately describe how important the sport of tetherball is to me.

-- from The Tetherballs of Bougainville

Fish

Remember, you are a surgeon, not some goon just haphazardly hitting away on a blob of copper 2000 feet in the sky.

-- his advice on placing copperheads, from http://www.fishproducts.com/

Anne M.

You know you've been welcomed into the family when my Dad brings out his prison shiv collection.

Stephen Colbert

I’m not saying your theory is wrong.  I’m saying I reject it.

Russell Jacoby

Academic honesty, which might appear to be the only possibility, is just one out of many options for the modern student.  Honesty may be too confining; other roads might be pursued.

--- Professor Jacoby is at UCLA 

Today in 1859

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle born was born today in 1859.  Believe in fairies today.