The Attention Deficit Compan presents QUOTATIONS THAT BARTLETT MISSED (most with good reason) Great God, this is an awful place! – Robert Falcon Scott at the South Pole Despite all its faults, this is the best of all possible worlds. People notwithstanding, it has much to offer. – Rod Serling My Name is Inigo Montoya, you killed my father -- prepare to die! – Mandy Patenkin The brain is easily the least intelligent organ in the body. – Dave Barry If the human brain were simple enough for us to understand, we would be too simple to understand it. – one of the pharmacologists who developed Prozac Grab life by the beans. – TV commercial for 100% Columbian coffee There’s no such thing as Nihilism. – Dr Speedbump Give a man a fish and he eats today. Teach him to fish and you get rid of him for the whole weekend. – Zenna Schaffer You basically say to your body: "I am going to climb this thing and I’m taking you with me." – Beck Weathers, about climbing Mt. Everest Keep your stick on the ice. – Red Green The Federal Reserve specializes in precision guesswork. – Alan Greenspan The achievement of middle age is itself an achievement. – Edward Abbey Either it is a well arranged universe or a chaos huddled together, but still a universe. – Marcus Aurelius Antoninus Art thou angry with him whose arm-pits stink? Art thou angry with him whose mouth smells foul? What good will this anger do thee? – Marcus Aurelius Antoninus We know accurately only when we know little, with knowledge doubt increases. – Goethe If you cut your foot off with that lawnmower, don’t coming running to me. – Erma Bombeck Free Will. It is a bitch. – Al Pacino, in “Devil’s Advocate” You do not believe, you only believe that you believe. – Samuel Taylor Coleridge The thought of suicide is a great consolation; one can get through many a bad night with it. – Friedriche Nietzche The past is a foreign country; they do things differently there. – Leslie Poles Hartley The point of therapy is to lead a normally disillusioned life. – Carl Jung Death is the cure for all diseases. – Thomas Browne A man who carries a cat by the tail learns something he can learn no other way. – Mark Twain Hold dear to your parents for it is a scary and confusing world without them. -- Emily Dickenson I have so much to do that I’m going to bed. – Savoyard Proverb