Showing posts with label Herb Caen. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Herb Caen. Show all posts

Tuesday, April 14, 2009

Quotaria

Cockroaches and socialites are
the only things that can stay
up all night and eat anything.
- Herb Caen

We confess our little faults to persuade
people that we have no large ones.
- Francois de La Rochefoucauld

One reason I don't drink is that I want
to know when I am having a good time.
- Nancy Astor

Riley: These spells...these really work? I mean, can you really turn your enemies inside out? Or...learn to excrete gold coins?
Anya: That one's not so much fun.
Willow: They work, Riley, but they take concentration. Being attuned with the forces of the universe.
Xander: Right. You can't just go "librum incendere" and expect...[the page of Xander's book bursts into flame. Shocked, he slams the book closed, extinguishing the fire.]
Giles: Xander, don't speak Latin in front of the books.
- Buffy the Vampire Slayer


"Then there was the man who drowned crossing
a stream with an average depth of six inches."
W.I.E. Gates

One of the indictments of civilizations is that
happiness and intelligence are so rarely found
in the same person.
- William Feather

Thursday, November 20, 2008

Quotaria

"There are more
of them than us."
- Herb Caen

"Vampires have their stakes and werewolves have their
silver bullets, but there is nothing man has yet devised
that can kill a government program."
- Bob Krumm

In the last analysis, man may be defined as a parasite on a vegetable.
-- Hans Zinsser Rats, Lice and History

There are hardly any excesses of the most crazed psychopath
that cannot easily be duplicated by a normal kindly family
man who just comes in to work every day and has a job to do.
-- Terry Pratchett, Small Gods

Bad people should have a big scar or an
eye patch so you can recognize them.
- Kitty, That 70’s Show

"I'm an idealist. I don't know where
I'm going, but I'm on my way."
- Carl Sandburg