Quote of the Day - 2

Government is like a baby. An alimentary canal with a big appetite at one end and no sense of responsibility at the other.
~Ronald Reagan, in the Saturday Evening Post, 1965

mickey megabyte said:

Dreaming permits each and every one of us to be quietly and safely insane every night of our lives.

William C. Dement, professor of psychiatry (b. 1928)

Some of us are quietly and safely (?) insane during the day as well.

Dwarf said:

Some of us are quietly and safely (?) insane during the day as well.

....and we meet here on the Seven7Forums.

"Don't try to be a great man; just be a man, and let history make its own judgments."
-Zefram Chchrane

mickey megabyte said:

Dreaming permits each and every one of us to be quietly and safely insane every night of our lives.

William C. Dement, professor of psychiatry (b. 1928)

Any chance this professor's surname is the origin of the word "demented"?

I want to put a ding in the universe.
Steve Jobs

I have acted fearless and independent and I never will regret my course. I would rather be politically buried that to be hypocritically immortalized.
~Davy Crockett

A Guy

StalkeR said:

I want to put a ding in the universe.
Steve Jobs

There's only one thing to be said about that...



What is a committee? A group of the unwilling, picked from the unfit, to do the unnecessary.
~Richard Harkness, quoted in the New York Herald Tribune, 1960.

If at first you don't succeed, try again. Then quit: no use being a damn fool about it.
~W. C. Fields

Before a man speaks it is always safe to assume that he is a fool. After he speaks, it is seldom necessary to assume it.
~H. L. Mencken, Sententiae, 1916.