Posts in the category “quotations”

A Few Good Reasons for Drinking

I’ve a few good reasons for drinking And one just entered my head If a man can’t drink when he’s living How the hell can he drink when he’s dead? – seen on a t-shirt for McSwiggin’s Pub, “where there are no strangers, only friends yet to meet”

“Eternity is very long; especially towards the end.”
Woody Allen

For the past decade, the Eastern Division has been a two-team race to the SEC Championship Game between Florida and Tennessee. They have had absolutely no competition from the rest of the division. This year will be no exception.

If Tennessee quarterback Casey Clausen was a little more seasoned and the game wasn’t being played in Gainesville, I might give the Vols a chance in this game. But he isn’t and they aren’t, so the Volunteers will have to settle for second.
Terry Bowden on the SEC

2024-01-21: Broken links in this post have been removed and/or updated.

Gurdjieff and Marcus Aurelius

“It is the greatest mistake to think that man is always one and the same. A man is never the same for long. He is continually changing. He seldom remains the same even for half an hour.” – Gurdjieff (1873-1949) “Observe constantly that all things take place by change, and accustom thyself to consider that

Eddie

Eddie

On eddies in the space-time continuum

Apu: I have come to make amends, sir. At first, I blamed you for squealing, but then I realized, it was I who wronged you. So I have come to work off my debt. I am at your service.
Homer: You’re … selling what, now?
Apu: I am selling only the concept of karmic realignment.
Homer: You can’t sell that! Karma can only be portioned out by the cosmos. [slams the door]
Apu: He’s got me there.
link via dan

George Bernard Shaw

In which I discover some memorable quotes by George Bernard Shaw

I Think I Need Less Time to Think

“I think I need less time to think.” – fí-dël’ï-tê

“It’s never too late to be what you might have been.”
George Eliott, via lillianchan

“I hang on the picayune details of your whirlwhind, jet-set bicoastal life.”
Brad Graham

What Is This?

davidgagne.net is the personal weblog of me, David Vincent Gagne. I've been publishing here since 1999, which makes this one of the oldest continuously-updated websites on the Internet.

bartender.live

A few years ago I was trying to determine what cocktails I could make with the alcohol I had at home. I searched the App Store but couldn't find an app that would let me do that, so I built one.

Hemingway

You can read dozens of essays and articles and find hundreds of links to other sites with stories and information about Ernest Hemingway in The Hemingway Collection.