Random Quotes

Whee, random quotes page! Quote movies, books, authors...yourself? Whatever. ;P

"A ship in the harbor is safe, but that is not what ships are built for." -William Shedd

"The believer is happy, the doubter is wise." -Hungarian Proverb

"9 out of 10 people love chocolate. The 10th person is allergic." -The Goddess of HTML

"He deserves someone with a heart and brains, and she has neither." -The Goddess of HTML

"I knife homework." -The Pretzel Goddess

"If you have to get a metal plate in your head, will magnets then stick to your head? That would be kind of cool." -The Pretzel Goddess

While driving the car: "10 points if you hit a person!" -someone we know... although the name is now lost to history

"Engineers should come with a warning label: prolonged exposure may cause feelings of mild confusion or an unexplained interest in fluid mechanics."

"..all must linger and gaze on a first return to the sea, who ever deserve to look upon it at all" -Jane Austen

"But why is all rum gone?" -Captain Jack Sparrow (good question)

"On a quelquefois assez souffert pour avoir le droit de ne jamais dire: Je suis trop heureux" The translation of which is : "Sometimes one has suffered enough to have the right to never say: I am too happy". -Alexandre Dumas, the last line of "La Tulipe Noire" (The Black Tulip)

Random physics limericks

Goodnight Irene
by Ken Kiger

There once was a girl named Irene,
who lived on distilled kerosene.
But she started absorbin'
A new hydrocarbon,
And since then has never benzene!

On Liquor Production
by David M. Smith

A friend who's in liquor production
Owns a still of astounding construction.
The alcohol boils
Through old magnet coils;
She says that it's "proof by induction."
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