Soon silence will have passed into legend. Man has turned his back on silence. Day after day he invents machines and devices that increase noise and distract humanity from the essence of life, contemplation, meditation. -Jean Arp-
All posts by Bill Cupp
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Rugby is a gentleman’s sport played by hooligans and soccer is a hooligan’s sport played by gentlemen. -Ken Bauer-
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Invention requires an excited mind; execution, a calm one. -Johann Peter Eckermann-
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Famous Last Words: You can beat it easy; the train’s not coming very fast.
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Famous Last Words: Are you sure this thing isn’t loaded?
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Famous Last Words: Somebody hand me a match. I can’t see where the gas is leaking from.
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The reason that every major university maintains a department of mathematics is that it is cheaper to do this than to institutionalize all those people.
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These are sad times when TV personalities can’t be trusted any more than banks. -Larry, of Larry, Darryl and Darryl, “Newhart”-
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When the government violates the people’s rights, insurrection is, for the people and for each portion of the people, the most sacred of the rights and the most indispensable of duties. -Gilbert du Motier, Marquis de Lafayette-
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Darkness cannot drive out darkness only light can; Hate cannot drive out hate only love can; Corrupt cannot drive out corrupt only honesty can. -Aro Berek-