Quotes

Girlfriends

If there hadn’t been women we’d still be squatting in a cave eating raw meat, because we made civilization in order to impress our girlfriends.   Orson Welles George Orson Welles ( May 6, 1915 – October 10, 1985) was an American actor, director,… Read More ›

Tavern

A tavern is a place where madness is sold by the bottle.    Jonathan Swift Jonathan Swift (30 November 1667 – 19 October 1745) was an Anglo-Irish satirist, essayist, political pamphleteer (first for the Whigs, then for the Tories), poet and cleric who became Dean of St Patrick’s Cathedral, Dublin…. Read More ›

Politics

I deliberately did not read anything about the Vietnam War because I felt the politics of the war eclipsed what happened to the veterans. The politics were irrelevant to what this memorial was.    Maya Lin Maya Ying Lin (born October… Read More ›

Life

Life is like a ten speed bicycle. Most of us have gears we never use.    Charles M. Schulz Charles Schulz, born in Minneapolis, Minnesota, on November 26, 1922, launched his comic strip Peanuts in 1950. Featuring hero Charlie Brown, over the… Read More ›