Quotes

A cactolith is a quasi-horizontal chonolith composed of anastamosing ductoliths whose distal ends curl like a harpolith, thin like a sphenolith, or bulge discordantly like an akmolith or ethmolith. C.B. Hunt, Geology and geography of the Henry Mountains region, Utah, 1953 Back to Glossary of Terms

What more can we require? Nothing but time.
James Hutton, defining uniformitarianism

Before the beginning, there were hot lumps.
Firesign Theater, I think we're all bozos on this bus, ©1971 Espeseth Music Music Music

"For purposes of paragraph (3), an organization described in paragraph (2) shall be deemed to include an organization described in section 501(c)(4), (5) or (6) which would be described in paragraph (2) if it were an organization described in section 501(c)(3)."
Internal Revenue Service Code

"The provisions of the preceeding sentence shall not be applicable with respect to the taxable year beginning January 1, 1975, or any succeeding taxable year which begins before January 1, 1978; and, for purposes of such sentence, January 1, 1978, shall be deemed to be the first January 1 occurring after January 1, 1974, and consecutive taxable years in the period commencing January 1, 1978, shall be determined as if the taxable year which begins on January 1, 1978, were the taxable year immediately succeeding the taxable year which began on January 1, 1974."
IRS Code, Section 3302(c)

Consistency is the last refuge of the unimaginitive.
Oscar Wilde (Those IRS folks must be pretty imaginitive!)

Swinehood hath no remedy.
Sidney Lanier, The Symphony 1875

A Webster's Dictionary edition was challenged in the Upper Pittsgrove Township, N.J., school district because parents objected to the definition of sexual intercourse as "the sexual joining of two individuals," said Paul Whitman, secretary of the school board.
1990 news story (Rocky Mountain News)

Show me a person who throws money into a shifting crack in the ground, and I'll show you someone who is generous to a fault.
Unknown

"On the plus side, food made from toxic waste does stay warm longer." Willy 'n' Ethel, by Joe Martin ©1994 North America Syndicate

He would contemplate the distance
With a look of pensive meaning,
As of ducks that die in tempests.
Lewis Carroll, Hiawatha's Photographing

It seems a pity, but I do not think I can write more.
Robert Falcon Scott, Journal entry, March 29, 1912.