Quotes of the Morning

“Ah the heck with it. No politics today. It looks like the rest of the week will have plenty of quote-y goodness (the Plame investigation is wrapping up), so I’ll just throw in some random stuff for the day. I’m feeling lazy..”
-Skippy

"There's no such thing as a tough child - if you parboil them first for seven hours, they always come out tender."
-W.C. Fields

"But the fact that some geniuses were laughed at does not imply that all who are laughed at are geniuses. They laughed at Columbus, they laughed at Fulton, they laughed at the Wright brothers. But they also laughed at Bozo the Clown."
-Carl Sagan

"Truth is stranger than fiction, but that may well be because we have made fiction to suit ourselves."
-G.K. Chesterton

"Government investigations have always contributed more to our amusement than they have to our knowledge."
-Will Rogers

"I am free of all prejudices. I hate everyone equally."
-W.C. Fields

"In order to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first create the universe."
-Carl Sagan

"Journalism largely consists of saying 'Lord Jones is Dead' to people who never knew that Lord Jones was alive."
-G.K. Chesterton

"A hundred years ago we were much smarter; then you lived until you died and not until you were just run over."
-Will Rogers