Quotation challenge

[noblestknight]

"A small gourd is better than a big one."

Talmud, Ketubot 83b. Botzina tav mikrah.


Working on dean's challenge now

Dean I take it that Prodigy is some sort of ISP?

Everybody hates a prodigy, detests an old head on young shoulders.
- Desiderius Erasmus

[noblestknight]

"Roger Clemens, there isn't a penny I wouldn't give to hit your 39-year-old groin with a fungo bat."

- SNL



Challenge:Count

[Outlaw]

When angry, count to four; when very angry, swear.

-Mark Twain

Bowling

Count the almonds,
count what was bitter and kept you awake,
count me in.
- Paul Celan

Enough for you EK

Challenge : book

[noblestknight]

Having a family is like having a bowling alley installed in your brain.

Martin Mull


Challenge: Spleen

The bowling alley is the poor man's country club.
- Sanford Hansell

another journalist, sorry

[noblestknight]

It is a good thing for an uneducated man to read books of quotations.

Sir Winston Churchill (1874 - 1965)


Still Spleen


Nice one LC!

tea, a decoction that enlarges the spleen and warpest the brain, or lightly floating the spirit for a while at last lands it in a dry place.
-Herman Melville

challenge : Mindless

[noblestknight]

We must dare to think "unthinkable" thoughts. We must learn to explore all the options and possibilities that confront us in a complex and rapidly changing world. We must learn to welcome and not to fear the voices of dissent. We must dare to think about "unthinkable things" because when things become unthinkable, thinking stops and action becomes mindless.

James W. Fulbright, March 27, 1964


Challenge: Ambiguous