Thought for Friday, Feb 27, 2009

Conflicting Proverbs

Cross your bridges when you come to them.
Forewarned is forearmed.

What's good for the goose is good for the gander.
One man's meat is another man's poison.

With age comes wisdom.
Out of the mouths of babes and sucklings come all wise sayings.

The more, the merrier.
Two's company; three's a crowd

-mhennigan
Stan Kegel [Puns] Conflicting Proverbs

Thought for Thursday, Feb 26, 2009

Golden Oldie

I know that you believe that you understood
what you think I said, but I am not sure you
realize that what you heard is not what I meant.

-Robert McCloskey,
State Department spokesman
(attributed)
Quotation #26806 from Michael Moncur's (Cynical) Quotations:

Thought for Wednesday, Feb 25, 2009

Golden Oldie

Protons have mass? I didn't even know they were Catholic.

-From IDLE THOUGHTS OF A NOT SO IDLE MIND
Submitted by Montana Rose

Thought for Tuesday, Feb 24, 2009

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Steinbach's Guideline for Systems Programming
Never test for an error condition you don't know how to
handle.

Thought for Monday, Feb 23, 2009

Conflicting Proverbs

Clothes make the man.
Don't judge a book by its cover.

Nothing ventured, nothing gained.
Better safe than sorry.

The bigger, the better.
The best things come in small packages.

Absence makes the heart grow fonder.
Out of sight, out of mind.

What will be, will be.
Life is what you make it.

-mhennigan
Stan Kegel [Puns] Conflicting Proverbs

Thought for Friday, Feb 20, 2009

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No problem is so large it can't be fit in somewhere.

Thought for Thursday, Feb 19, 2009

When you stretch the truth,
watch out for the snap back.

-Author Unknown
Bits & Pieces
February 2009

Thought for Wednesday, Feb 18, 2009

Conflicting Proverbs

Actions speak louder than words.
The pen is mightier than the sword.

Look before you leap.
He who hesitates is lost.

Many hands make light work.
Too many cooks spoil the broth.

A silent man is a wise one.
A man without words is a man without thoughts.

Beware of Greeks bearing gifts.
Don't look a gift horse in the mouth.

-mhennigan
Stan Kegel [Puns] Conflicting Proverbs

Thought for Tuesday, Feb 17, 2009

Due to an unfortunate juxtaposition of circumstances tftd
has been on automatic pilot for the past week and a half or so.
If you thought it was better during that time.....
Just keep it to yourself.

When a man tell me he's going to put all his
cards on the table, I always look up his sleeve.

-Leslie Hore-Belisha
Bits & Pieces
February 2009

Thought for Monday, Feb 16, 2009

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In 1750 Issac Newton became discouraged when he fell up a flight of
stairs.

Thought for Friday, Feb 13, 2009

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Love your enemies: they'll go crazy trying to figure out what you're up
to.

Thought for Thursday, Feb 12, 2009

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Fights between cats and dogs are prohibited by statute in Barber, North
Carolina.

Thought for Wednesday, Feb 11, 2009

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An authority is a person who can tell you more about something than you
really care to know.

Thought for Tuesday, Feb 10, 2009

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Everyone talks about apathy, but no one ____does anything about it.

Thought for Monday, Feb 9, 2009

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Velilind's Laws of Experimentation:
(1) If reproducibility may be a problem, conduct the test only
once.
(2) If a straight line fit is required, obtain only two data
points.

Thought for Friday, Feb 6, 2009

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In Seattle, Washington, it is illegal to carry a concealed weapon that
is over six feet in length.

Thought for Thursday, Feb 5, 2009

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Hail to the sun god
He sure is a fun god
Ra! Ra! Ra!

Thought for Wednesday, Feb 4, 2009

When you are about 35 years old,
something terrible happens to music.

-Steve Race
Bits and Pieces
January 2009

Thought for Tuesday, Feb 3, 2009

A Curse Against Book Stealers

For him that stealeth a book from this library,
let it change into a serpent in his hand and
rend him. Let him be struck with palsy and
all his members blasted. Let him languish in
pain crying aloud for mercy and let there be
no surcease to his agony till he sink to
dissolution. Let bookworms gnaw his entrails
in token of the worm that dieth not, and when
at last he goeth to his final punishment, let
the flames of hell consume him for ever and aye.

-poster reportedly from the
Monastery of San Pedro,
Barcelona (date unknown).

A Word A Day Mail Issue 344

Thought for Monday, Feb 2, 2009

Opinion says hot and cold, but the
reality is atoms and empty space.

-Democritus
460-370 BC
Bits and Pieces
January 2009