no. 452

Daughter: "Where does snow come from mommy?"

Mother: "Broken Dreams, dear. They fall to the earth, coated in cold, unforgiving reality."

from the comic "Something Positive".

This is the kind of thing I try to tell my kids, but just cant seem to be able to.

no. 451

Nick: "I didn't know being grown up is just about finding complex ways to be childish."

Philip: "Then you, my friend, haven't been paying attention to adults."


from Randy Mulholland's comic Something Positive

no. 450

"For a country that used to pride itself on a certain stoicism, the United States has become a land of whiny little boys and girls."

Ted Rall, "Wimpy Cops and Scared Soldiers: Why Are Americans Such Cowards?"

no. 449

unknown

no. 448

Which explains why really getting something right seems like such an awesome victory.

no. 447

"It's weird, they're words, but you're lining them up stupid."

Skull, in Corporate Skull

no. 446

"You boffed him so hard, he went Walden."

Amy to Shelley, in John Allison's Bobbins.

no. 445

"We’re haunted by terrible fears and paranoias. We’re frightened beings. When people are afraid, fear takes over and brings out all kind of irrationality. So, yes, we’re constantly striving to be rational, but we’re not wholly rational beings."

Karen Armstrong

no. 444

"We’ve separated religion and politics, and this was a great innovation. But so deeply embedded in our consciousness is the desire to give our lives some meaning and significance that no sooner did we do this than we infused the new nation-state with a sort of quasi-religious fervor. If you regard the sacred as something for which we are willing to give our lives, in some senses the nation has replaced God, because it’s now not acceptable to die for religion, but it is admirable to die for your country."

Karen Armstrong

no. 443

no. 442

"I would respect postmodernism if it called itself mad humanities"

Zach Wiener in Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal (bonus button)

no. 441

"First rule of superlatives, there have to be at least two participants."

from Ty Halley's comic "Jerk-Off"

no. 440

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from Extra Fabulous Comics

no. 438

go see Zen Pencils, it's a much better quote source than here.

no. 437

George Carlin, from the film Life is Worth Losing

Cartoon by Gavin Aung Than, of Zen Pencils, a wonderful site that matches Gavin's drawings with wonderful quotes, and which beats hell out of my puny efforts here.

no. 436

"You know that dream where you suddenly realize that your forgot to go to class all semester?

That's how I feel every time I remember I'm an adult."

from the comic Calm Blue Oceans, by Jesse Cline

no. 435

"Never be haughty to the humble or humble to the haughty."

Jefferson Davis

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no. 433

"There are three sides to every story -- yours, mine, and the truth."

An American Proverb