Eowyn's Ramblings

Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood. Now is the time to understand more, so that we may fear less.
-- Marie Curie

Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric.
-- Bertrand Russell

A sense of humor is part of the art of leadership, of getting along with people, of getting things done.
-- Dwight D. Eisenhower

One doesn't have a sense of humor. It has you.
-- Larry Gelbart

Lots of people think they're charitable if they give away their old clothes and things they don't want. It isn't charity to give away things you want to get rid of and it isn't a sacrifice to do things you don't mind doing.
-- Myrtle Reed

The computing field is always in need of new cliches.
-- Alan Perlis

The difference between a democracy and a dictatorship is that in a democracy you vote first and take orders later; in a dictatorship you don't have to waste your time voting.
-- Charles Bukowski

You don't stop laughing because you grow old. You grow old because you stop laughing.
-- Michael Pritchard

The way to deal with superstition is not to be polite to it, but to tackle it with all arms, and so rout it, cripple it, and make it forever infamous and ridiculous. Is it, perchance, cherished by persons who should know better? Then their folly should be brought out into the light of day, and exhibited there in all its hideousness until they flee from it, hiding their heads in shame.
-- H.L. Mencken (following the death of William Jennings Bryan known for his involvement in the Scopes trials)

In a country as big as the United States, you can find fifty examples of anything.
-- Jeffery F. Chamberlain

I had an epiphany a few years ago where I was out at a celebrity party and it suddenly dawned on me that I had yet to meet a celebrity who is as smart and interesting as any of my friends.
-- Moby

Is there life before death?
-- Graffito

Boys will be boys, and so will a lot of middle-aged men.
-- Kin Hubbard

The men the American public admire most extravagantly are the most daring liars; the men they detest most violently are those who try to tell them the truth.
-- H. L. Mencken

If men were angels, no government would be necessary.
-- James Madison

Economics is extremely useful as a form of employment for economists.
-- John Kenneth Galbraith

The very purpose of existence is to reconcile the glowing opinion we have of ourselves with the appalling things that other people think about us.
-- Quentin Crisp

Why is it that our memory is good enough to retain the least triviality that happens to us, and yet not good enough to recollect how often we have told it to the same person?
-- Francois de La Rochefoucauld

When they call the roll in the Senate, the Senators do not know whether to answer 'Present' or 'Not guilty.'
-- Theodore Roosevelt

Ninety-eight percent of the adults in this country are decent, hard-working, honest Americans. It's the other lousy two percent that get all the publicity. But then--we elected them.
-- Lily Tomlin

All paid jobs absorb and degrade the mind.
-- Aristotle

For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled.
-- Richard Feynman

War is much too serious a matter to be entrusted to the military.
-- Georges Clemenceau

For a generation Falwell personified the smarminess, hypocrisy and thinly veiled thuggery of a retrograde social trend. All in all, his was a baleful presence in American life.
-- David Walsh

Few people are capable of expressing with equanimity opinions which differ from the prejudices of their social environment. Most people are even incapable of forming such opinions.
-- Albert Einstein