“I love deadlines. I like the whooshing sound they make as they fly by.”
– Douglas Adams


Thoughts of an old curmudgeon
“I love deadlines. I like the whooshing sound they make as they fly by.”
– Douglas Adams

“After all, what is your hosts’ purpose in having a party? Surely not for you to enjoy yourself; if that were their sole purpose, they’d have simply sent champagne and women over to your place by taxi.”
– P. J. O’Rourke

“Hating the Yankees is as American as pizza pie, unwed mothers, and cheating on your income tax.”
– Mike Royko

“It is inaccurate to say that I hate everything. I am strongly in favor of common sense, common honesty, and common decency. This makes me forever ineligible for public office.”
– H. L. Mencken

“If it was raining soup, the Irish would go out with forks.”
– Brendan Behan

“Music with dinner is an insult both to the cook and the violinist.”
– G. K. Chesterton
“Advertising is a valuable economic factor because it is the cheapest way of selling goods, particularly if the goods are worthless.”
– Sinclair Lewis

“America had often been discovered before Columbus, but it had always been hushed up.”
– Oscar Wilde

“Baseball has the great advantage over cricket of being sooner ended.”
– G. B. Shaw

“For most of history, Anonymous was a woman.”
– Virginia Woolf
