Hair Today...

When I despair, I remember that all through history the ways of truth and love have always won. There have been tyrants, and murderers, and for a time they can seem invincible, but in the end they always fall.

Think of it--always.

-Mahatma Gandhi

The Beard

Each Player must accept the cards life deals him or her; but once they are in hand, he or she alone must decide how to play the cards in order to win the game.

-Voltaire

D’oh!

War makes good history but peace is poor reading.

- Thomas Hardy

Lipserviced

We should take care, in inculcating patriotism into our boys and girls, that is a patriotism above the narrow sentiment which usually stops at one's country, and thus inspires jealousy and enmity in dealing with others... Our patriotism should be of the wider, nobler kind which recognises justice and reasonableness in the claims of others and which lead our country into comradeship with...the other nations of the world. The first step to this end is to develop peace and goodwill within our borders, by training our youth of both sexes to its practice as their habit of life, so that the jealousies of town against town, class against class and sect against sect no longer exist; and then to extend this good feeling beyond our frontiers towards our neighbours.

- Lord Baden-Powell

Left of the dial

One of the most persistent ambiguities that we face is that everybody talks about peace as a goal. However, it does not take sharpest-eyed sophistication to discern that while everbody talks about peace, peace has become practically nobodys' business among the power-wielders. Many men cry Peace! Peace! but they refuse to do the things that make for peace.

- Martin Luther King, Jr.

Slowly and Steadily…

All who affirm the use of violence admit it is only a means to achieve justice and peace. But peace and justice are nonviolence...the final end of history. Those who abandon nonviolence have no sense of history. Rather they are bypassing history, freezing history, betraying history.

- André Trocmé

I've Fallen and I Can't Get Up!

Lincoln said, 'With malice toward none, with charity to all.' Nowadays they say, 'Think the way I do or I'll bomb the daylights outta you.'"

-"Grandpa" Martin Vanderhof

I want some hunny mummy.

Never think that war, no matter how necessary, nor how justified, is not a crime.

-Ernest Hemingway

Elementary!

How good bad music and bad reasons sound when we march against an enemy.

-Nietzsche

Hey you guys…

I prefer the most unfair peace to the most righteous war.

-Cicero

Wine, Women and Pong

War is cruelty and you cannot refine it.

-Gen. William T. Sherman

Schadenfreude

War would end if the dead could return.

-Stanley Baldwin

Ants in my pants

Everywhere is walking distance if you have the time.

-Steven Wright

Jeepers Creepers!

Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter.

- Martin Luther King Jr.

The game’s afoot!

After you have exhausted what there is in business, politics, conviviality, and so on - have found that none of these finally satisfy, or permanently wear - what remains? Nature remains.

-Walt Whitman

Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious…

Life is a moderately good play with a badly written third act.

~Truman Capote

Finder’s Keeper’s…

We in America do not have government by the majority. We have government by the majority who participate.

-Thomas Jefferson

Now I see bees I won

We are not amused.
-Queen Victoria of Britain

Memento Mori

For three days after death...hair and fingernails continue to grow, but phone calls taper off.

- Johnny Carson

Musician...heal thyself!

To stop the flow of music would be like the stopping of time itself, incredible and inconceivable.

- Aaron Copeland

Well, Excuuuuuse Meeee!

I've been on a calendar, but never on time.

-Marilyn Monroe

Potato...Po-Tah-Toe

It is a mistake to think you can solve any major problems just with potatoes.

- Douglas Adams

Omnia Gallia in tres partes divisa est…

Divide and rule...a sound motto. Unite and lead...a better one.

- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Beyond the Pale

I object to violence because when it appears to do good, the good is only temporary; the evil it does is permanent.

- Mahatma Gandhi

The Final Frontier...

The secret of staying young is to live honestly, eat slowly, and lie about your age.

- Lucille Ball

Happy Birthday, America

Those who cast the votes decide nothing. Those who count the votes decide everything.

-Josef Stalin

Ain’t worth a fit...

Anyone who is capable of getting themselves made President should on no account be allowed to do the job.

-Douglas Adams

Title Nein!

Do I contradict myself? Very well then I contradict myself. I am large, I contain multitudes.

-Walt Whitman

Subtext...

Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and not clothed. This world in arms is not spending money alone. It is spending the sweat of its laborers, the genius of its scientists, the hopes of its children. This is not a way of life at all in any true sense. Under the cloud of threatening war, it is humanity hanging from a cross of iron.

- Dwight D. Eisenhower

Whipsnade…

It is not the style of clothes one wears, neither the kind of automobile one drives, nor the amount of money one has in the bank, that counts.
These mean nothing. It is simply service that measures success.

- George Washington Carver

Forward thinning ...

Like an unchecked cancer, hate corrodes the personality and eats away its vital unity. Hate destroys a man's sense of values and his objectivity. It causes him to describe the beautiful as ugly and the ugly as beautiful, and to confuse the true with the false and the false with the true.

- Martin Luther King Jr.

Think Pink!

We need never be ashamed of our tears.

- Charles Dickens

And I smell like them, too.

What a drag it is getting old...

- The Rolling Stones

Senators say the darndest things...

The Klan is needed today as never before, and I am anxious to see its rebirth here in West Virginia…

- Senator Robert Byrd, West Virginia

or

I should rather die a thousand times and see old glory trampled in the dirt never to rise again than see this beloved land of ours become degraded by race mongrels, a throwback to the blackest specimen of the wilds.

- Senator Robert Byrd, West Virginia

Et ceterra, et cettera, etc.

Outside of a dog, a book is man's best freind. Inside of a dog, it's too dark to read.

- Groucho Marx

In your face!

No more war! Never again war! … If you wish to be brothers, drop your weapons.

-Pope Paul VI

Ubi caritas et amor...

…the people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders. That is easy. All you have to do is tell them they are being attacked and denounce the pacifists for lack of patriotism and exposing the country to danger. It works the same way in any country.

-Hermann Goering

I Drink...Therefore I am...

One should drink little...but often.

-Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec

Deus Ex Machina...

I know God will not give me anything I can't handle. I just wish that He didn't trust me so much.

-Mother Teresa

Ode on a Grecian Hair Formula

The only alternative to coexistence is codestruction.

-Jawaharlal Nehru

The Cup of Joe

Good coffee is like friendship: rich and warm and strong.

-Pan-American Coffee Bureau

Ich Bin Ein Geleebonbon.

Liebe amerikanische Landsleute, ich freue mich, Ihnen sagen zu können, dass ich ein Gesetz unterzeichnet habe, das Russland für immer für vogelfrei erklärt. Wir beginnen in fünf Minuten mit der Bombardierung.

-Ronald Reagan

The Pipes! The PIPES!

Le garçon d'Oh Danny, les pipes, les pipes appellent...

You can have no idea how much joy this brings me...

-Bob

Facts and figures…

I don't want to achieve immortality through my work... I want to achieve it through not dying.

- Woody Allen

Green with Envy…

God made the grass, the air and the rain; and the grass, the air and the rain made the Irish; and the Irish turned the grass, the air and the rain back into God.

-Seán O’Faoláin

You…out of the gene pool!

On ne voit bien qu'avec le coeur. L'essentiel est invisible pour les yeux.

-Antoine de Saint Exupéry

Pathos…

I hope we don’t lose in America this demand that those of us who want this office … must be prepared not to handle the 10-second gimmick that deals, say, with little things like war and peace.

-Walter F. Mondale

Dark Matter...

All I know is a door into the dark.

-Seamus Heaney

Whip it, whip it good.

Certainly in the next 50 years we shall see a woman president, perhaps sooner than you think. A woman can and should be able to do any political job that a man can do.

-Richard M. Nixon

A Note From Joe

I saw him yesterday, Bob, at the coffee shop. He hasn't been around for weeks. Since this blog was created. Where has he been?

To merely say that I'm worried about Bob, and the strange world in which he sets up residence, would be to understate my concern.

When I walked in, he pretended not to know me. He was scribbling something in one of his BOB'S WORLD spiral bound notebooks, the curious diaries we see but a glimpse of on this blog. He carefully hid the page from me.

"You'll never see what I just drew," he told me. "Nobody will ever see what I just drew."

He then spilled, in what I hope was an accident, some coffee over my hand.

That coffee was hot, and it burned.

Serpents among us…

The broad masses of a population are more amenable to the appeal of rhetoric than to any other force.

-Adolf Hitler

Don’t be Hatin’

Hitler was an individual of great courage...Hitler's success was not based on his extraordinary gifts alone. His genius was an intuitive sense of the mushiness, the character flaws, the weakness masquerading as morality that was in the hearts of the statesmen who stood in his path.

– Pat Buchanan