"Why does everyone in Britain think a cup of tea can cure everything? Oh, you've broken your leg? Have a nice cup of tea! You've cracked your head open? Won't you have a cup of tea!" - Debbie Dean from Hollyoaks
"Why does everyone in Britain think a cup of tea can cure everything? Oh, you've broken your leg? Have a nice cup of tea! You've cracked your head open? Won't you have a cup of tea!" - Debbie Dean from Hollyoaks
July 20th – Man on the Moon (1969)
That's one small step for man; one giant leap for mankind.
Neil Armstrong
http://www.snopes.com/quotes/onesmall.htm
Apollo 11 astronaut flubbed his 'one small step' remark as he became the first man to set foot on the surface of the moon.
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July 21st
What we anticipate seldom occurs; what we least expected generally happens.
-- Benjamin Disraeli
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If you can't make it better, you can laugh at it."
Erma Louise Bombeck
July 23rd
All I've ever wanted was an honest week's pay for an honest day's work.
-- Steve Martin
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I was a vegetarian until I started leaning toward the sunlight.
Rita Rudner
July 25th
In Italy for thirty years under the Borgias they had warfare, terror, murder and bloodshed but they produced Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci and the Renaissance. In Switzerland, they had brotherly love; they had five hundred years of democracy and peace and what did that produce? The cuckoo clock.
-- Orson Welles
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July 26th
There are very few monsters who warrant the fear we have of them.
— Andre Gide
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An author is a fool who, not content with boring those he lives with, insists on boring future generations.
Charles de Montesquieu (1689 - 1755)
Wow -- for some reason, I missed a whole bunch of these!!!
Okay, here's my two pennies...
Frank Layden (Utah Jazz coach):
"Was your bad playing today due to ignorance or apathy?"
Jeff Wilkins (Utah Jazz forward):
"I don’t know and I don’t care."
July 28th
"There is no security on earth; there is only opportunity.
-- Douglas MacArthur
4dk - who was originally going to post something about the Bonus Army but thought it might be too political and decided to only post the link. If this post is too political, please excuse the ring, but if you are intested in this long forgotten piece of history, please read the entire article.
1932: Federal troops under General Douglas MacArthur drive the so-called Bonus Army, veterans of World War I who sought the payment of a delayed bonus, out of their encampment in Washington, D.C.
Outside of a dog, a book is man's best friend. Inside of a dog it's too dark to read.
Groucho Marx (1890 - 1977)
.......Freaky, 4dog......I think we logged in at the same time......42
July 29th
A free lunch is only found in mousetraps.
-- John Capozzi
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July 30th
If liberty and equality, as is thought by some, are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best attained when all persons alike share in government to the utmost.
-- Aristotle
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In a similar vein...
“I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty, then those attending too small a degree of it.” – Thomas Jefferson
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