I find television very educational. Every time someone switches it on I go into another room and read a good book. Groucho Marx (1895-1977) American comic actor. This seemed appropriate as I just got rid of my television yesterday.
Quotes
Simpletons
Only simpletons go to fortune-tellers. Who else would be in such a hurry to hear bad news? Issac Asimov, Fantastic Voyage II: Destination Brain And here he is a younger Issac, minus the mutton chops.
Censorship
We do not have censorship. What we have is a limitation on what newspapers can report. Louis Nel, Deputy Minister of Information, South Africa Only a person schooled deeply in law and being a lawyer could say something like this… Read More ›
Observation
It was probably not a suicide, since that form of death was not generally a team sport. From Tom Clancy’s book, The Bear and the Dragon, A deduction by Russian detectives on the discovery that a body found in a… Read More ›