Byron Elbows' two rules of human nature
No one is as weird as they think they are.
Everyone is weirder than others think they are.

"The Ark was built by an amateur. Professionals built the Titanic."

--Anon.

Earth is a conspiracy to keep us out of heaven long enough so that when we do go there, we don't ruin it too.

--Tim Clement

We are what we repeatedly do. - Aristotle

Life is like a 10-speed bicycle.....some people have gears they don't even use. - Snoopy.

is there an desktopx object that randomly displays a quote each day?

We have to forget art and realize beauty

- Piet Mondriaan

The thoughts we have paint the pictures of our lives

- Hmm forgot who said that

Even if it is true that 'everything has been already said', we should not conclude that everything is also heard and understood. Therefore everything has to be said again.

- Franz Liszt

There are painters that turn a sun into a yellow blob, but there are also those, who, thanks to their art and intelligence, turn a yellow blob into a sun.

- Pablo Picasso

In the book of life, the answers aren't in the back.
-- Charlie Brown, character in "Peanuts" comic strip, created by Charles Schultz

The tragedy of life is not that man loses, but that he almost wins.
-- Heywood Brown

Most people think life sucks, and then you die. Not me. I beg to differ. I think life sucks, then you get cancer, then your dog dies, your wife leaves you, the cancer goes into remission, you get a new dog, you get remarried, you owe ten million dollars in medical bills but you work hard for thirty-five years and you pay it back and then -- one day -- you have a massive stroke, your whole right side is paralyzed, you have to limp along the streets and speak out of the left side of your mouth and drool but you go into rehabilitation and regain the power to walk and the power to talk and then -- one day -- you step off a curb at Sixty-seventh Street, and BANG you get hit by a city bus and then you die. Maybe.
-- Denis Leary

motion....that's just the story line of a typical Country & Western song...

Champaign to our real friends and real pain to our sham friends --- author unknown

Remember when you see a man at the top of a mountain, he didn't fall there.

Problems are only opportunities in work clothes. - Henry J. Kaiser

Never, never, never give up. - Winston Churchill

Women's faults are many, but men have just two: Everything they say and everything they do. I really don't feel that way,I just pass it along!

Mike: I just thank God I'm an atheist! -- TV: All in the Family

We bring good things to light. ©

--General Electric.

Customer: 'E's not pinin'! 'E's passed on! This parrot is no more! He has ceased to be! 'E's expired and gone to meet 'is maker! 'E's a stiff! Bereft of life, 'e rests in peace! If you hadn't nailed 'im to the perch 'e'd be pushing up the daisies! 'Is metabolic processes are now 'istory! 'E's off the twig! 'E's kicked the bucket, 'e's shuffled off 'is mortal coil, run down the curtain and joined the bleedin' choir invisibile!! THIS IS AN EX-PARROT!! -- TV: Monty Python's Flying Circus (The Pet Shop Sketch)

The outcome is usually the same for an optimist or a pessimist, but the optimist has a more enjoyable time waiting...

"Give a man a fire and he will be warm for a night - set a man on fire and he will be warm for the rest of his life"

Terry Pratchett

Some Scientists claim that hydrogen, because it is so plentiful, is the basic building block of the universe. I dispute that. I say there is more stupidity than hydrogen, and that is the basic building block of the universe. -- Frank Zappa