quotes on cold

Man is a credulous animal, and must believe something; in the absence of good grounds for belief, he will be satisfied with bad ones. ~Bertrand Russell Man is a dog's idea of what God should be. ~Holbrook Jackson



Most people know more about their congressmen via smear campaigns than they know about their own neighbor via conversations, and a lot of people know more about Britney Spears via tabloids than they know about their own congressmen via voting booklets. Does anyone else see the problem here? ~Brock Fiant



One of the virtues of being very young is that you don't let the facts get in the way of your imagination. ~Sam Levenson



Death is a debt we all must pay. ~Euripides



Proof of our society's decline is that Halloween has become a broad daylight event for many. ~Robert Kirby



Most of the money you'll win at poker comes not from the brilliance of your own play, but from the ineptitude of your opponents. ~Lou Krieger



All hockey players are bilingual. They know English and profanity. ~Gordie Howe



Love is not love which alters when it alteration finds. ~William Shakespeare, "Sonnet CXVI"



The Internet isn't free. It just has an economy that makes no sense to capitalism. ~Brad Shapcott



Suburb: a place that isn't city, isn't country, and isn't tolerable. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Second Neurotic's Notebook, 1966



The husband who doesn't tell his wife everything probably reasons that what she doesn't know won't hurt him. ~Leo J. Burke



The tattoo attracts and also repels precisely because it is different. ~Margo DeMello, Bodies of Inscription: A Cultural History of the Modern Tattoo Community, 2000



Is not the most erotic part of the body wherever the clothing affords a glimpse? ~Roland Barthes



Sin lies only in hurting other people unnecessarily. All other "sins" are invented nonsense. (Hurting yourself is not a sin - just stupid.) ~Robert A. Heinlein



Understanding the laws of nature does not mean that we are immune to their operations. ~David Gerrold



Most of us spend the first six days of each week sowing wild oats, then we go to church on Sunday and pray for a crop failure. ~Fred Allen



I love spring anywhere, but if I could choose I would always greet it in a garden. ~Ruth Stout



Here is my first principle of foreign policy: good government at home. ~William Ewart Gladstone



Golf is golf. You hit the ball, you go find it. Then you hit it again. ~Lon Hinkle



The promise given was a necessity of the past: the word broken is a necessity of the present. ~Niccolo Machiavelli