Friday, December 21, 2007

Thoughts on Kids



The first half of our life is ruined by our parents and the second half by our children.

Clarence Darrow

Kids. They're not easy. But there has to be some penalty for sex.

Bill Maher

To be a successful father there's one absolute rule: when you have a kid, don't look at it for the first two years.

Ernest Hemingway

The trouble with children is that they're not returnable.

Quentin Crisp

There are only two things a child will share willingly -- communicable diseases and his mother's age.

Benjamin Spock

I love children, especially when they cry, for then someone takes them away.

Nancy Mitford

We spend the first twelve months of our children's lives teaching them to walk and talk and the next twelve telling them to sit down and shut up.

Phyllis Diller


LIBERTY

[Freedom is] the power to live as you will. Who then lives as he wills?

Marcus Tullius Cicero (106-43 BC)



STATE

So long as the state exists there is no freedom. When there is freedom, there will be no State.

Vladimir Ilyich Lenin (1870-1924)

The State and Revolution, 1919
Chapter 5 "The Economic Basis for the Withering Away of the State"
Section 4 "The Higher Phase of Communist Society"

Food for Thought

Why is it called a "building" when it is already built?

Why do they call them "apartments" when they are all stuck together?

Why does flammable and inflammable mean the same thing?

How come wrong numbers are never busy?

Is there another word for synonym?

Shouldn't there be a shorter word for "monosyllabic"?

Why is the word "abbreviate" so long?

Why did kamikaze pilots wear helmets?

What is another word for "thesaurus"?

Why is it that when you're driving and looking for an address, you turn down the volume on the radio?

If someone invented instant water, what would they mix it with?

Why is it called a TV "set" when you only get one?

Why does your nose run and your feet smell?

If pro is the opposite of con, is progress the opposite of congress?

Why is it, whether you sit up or sit down, the result is the same?

Why does "slow down" and "slow up" mean the same thing?

Why is it when two planes almost hit each other it is called a "near miss"? Shouldn't it be called a "near hit"?

Why is it called rush hour when everything moves so slow?