I like long walks, especially when they are taken by people who annoy me.

~Noel Coward

It is a profitable thing, if one is wise, to seem foolish.

~Aeschylus

Examinations are formidable even to the best prepared, for the greatest fool may ask more than the wisest man can answer.

~Charles Caleb Colton

Drive-in banks were established so most of the cars today could see their real owners.

~E.J. Cossman

Start with a cage containing five apes. In the cage, hang a banana on a string and put stairs under it. Before long, an ape will go to the stairs and start to climb towards the banana. As soon as he touches the stairs, spray all of the apes with cold water.

After a while, another ape makes an attempt with the same result — all the apes are sprayed with cold water. This continues through several more attempts. Pretty soon, when another ape tries to climb the stairs, the other apes all try to prevent it.

Now, turn off the cold water.

Remove one ape from the cage and replace it with a new one. The new ape sees the banana and wants to climb the stairs. To his horror, all of the other apes attack him. After another attempt and attack, he knows that if he tries to climb the stairs, he will be assaulted.

Next, remove another of the original five apes and replace it with a new one. The newcomer goes to the stairs and is attacked. The previous newcomer takes part in the punishment with enthusiasm. Again, replace a third original ape with a new one. The new one makes it to the stairs and is attacked as well. Two of the four apes that beat him have no idea why they were not permitted to climb the stairs, or why they are participating in the beating of the newest ape.

After replacing the fourth and fifth original apes, all the apes that had been sprayed with cold water have been replaced. Nevertheless, no ape ever again approaches the stairs. Why not? Because that’s the way they’ve always done it and that’s the way it’s always been around here.

And that’s how policy begins…

Author Unknown…

Spend time every day listening to what your muse is trying to tell you.

~St. Bartholomew

Whenever you are asked if you can do a job, tell ‘em, ‘Certainly I can!’ Then get busy and find out how to do it.

~Theodore Roosevelt

Winter is on my head, but eternal spring is in my heart.

~Victor Hugo

This made me laugh!

“My Zamboni, my beautiful Zamboni… You’ll pay, Pale Force… you’ll pay in Canadian currency when the exchange rate is at its weakest.”

~(some Canadian chick) on Pale Force

You can watch the whole cartoon on NBC.com if you’d like.

If misery loves company, misery has company enough.

~Henry David Thoreau

This quote is in honor of the two papers that I have to write this weekend.

I love being a writer. What I can’t stand is the paperwork.

~Peter De Vries

Brains, like hearts, go where they are appreciated.

~Robert S. McNamara

The true genius shudders at incompleteness - and usually prefers silence to saying something which is not everything it should be.

~Edgar Allan Poe

On the way to work this morning, I heard the song, “Poison,” by Bell Biv Devoe. Man, did that take me back to middle school. Then I heard the following line, and I knew it was a shoo-in for today’s “Other People’s Words” entry.

Never trust a big butt and a smile.

~Bell Biv Devoe, Poison

I mean… who sits down and writes something like that? Can you imagine sitting in on that writing session? “Hmmm… . Yo, dawg, I need some filler between the lines, ‘that girl is poison’ and, uhm, ‘that girl is poison.’” “I don’t know, man… how about, ‘you’ve got such a trusting smile?’” “Naw, dawg, you know you can’t trust a big butt and a smile.’”

I got nothin’.

If we had no winter, the spring would not be so pleasant: if we did not sometimes taste of adversity, prosperity would not be so welcome.

~Anne Bradstreet, “Mediations Divine and Moral”

We hang the petty thieves and appoint the great ones to public office.

~Aesop

Washington, DC is to lying what Wisconsin is to cheese.

~Dennis Miller

There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness.

~Friedrich Nietzsche

BTW… 10 points if you can name which movie I got the title of this post from!

If you love somebody, let them go. If they return, they were always yours. If they don’t, they never were.

~Anonymous

Hahaha… this is just a funny quote (in response to Tracy’s).

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