Tom Hoff:
CLASS OF 1973

Cornell CollegeClass of 1973
Mt. vernon, IA
Tom's Story
Tom is from Mondamin, Iowa. Tom later attended Cornell College (Psychology and Philosphy) . Tom works(ed) at Self Employed, Insurance And Financial Services, Self-employed Professional Smart Ass, Aerisserve International.
Music Tom likes includes Blues, Classic rock. Movies Tom likes include Unforgiven, Little Big Man, Being There. TV shows Tom likes include CNN, Flight of the Conchords, NOVA scienceNOW.
One of Tom's favorite quotes is:"âThe society which scorns excellence in plumbing as a humble activity and tolerates shoddiness in philosophy because it is an exalted activity will have neither good plumbing nor good philosophy: neither its pipes nor its theories will hold water.â John W. Gardner, Secretary of Health Education and Welfare under JFK and author of âExcellence.â
Free thought is always a bit scary if one really is free in their thoughts..
think of something you have never thought of before.. most people cant unless there is some other input from outside themselves. that is what is scary. we must listen and observe to think free. sometimes we hear what we would prefer to not hear or see what we would not want to see but we must still think about it to be free..
I sometimes do not like things I read, see or hear but I must think about them to be free.. to block them out is to become prisoner to that which i would prefer to not know..... ME
is it further to Kansas City or by bus??..'some guy
For every complex problem there is a simple solution and it is wrong.. H.L. Menckin
So???... Me
"It only has 6 letters and Asshole don't fit" .. Barb Hoff
And those who were seen dancing were thought to be insane by those who could not hear the music... Friedrich Nietzsche
The advantage of a bad memory is that one can enjoy the same good things for the first time several times....
Friedrich Nietzsche
At times one remains faithful to a cause only because its opponents do not cease to be insipid.
Friedrich Nietzsche
The gods too are fond of a joke.
Aristotle
Humor is the only test of gravity, and gravity of humor; for a subject which will not bear raillery is suspicious, and a jest which will not bear serious examination is false wit.
Aristotle
Although prepared for martyrdom, I preferred that it be postponed.
The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent virtue of socialism is the equal sharing of miseries.
We contend that for a nation to tax itself into prosperity is like a man standing in a bucket and trying to lift himself up by the handle...Expand for more
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Sir Winston Churchill
Be careful about reading health books. You may die of a misprint.
Mark Twain
There used to be a real me, but I had it surgically removed.
Peter Sellers
Procrastinate now, don't put it off. Unknown
No matter how great your triumphs or how tragic your defeats -- approximately one billion Chinese couldn't care less. Lazlo's Chinese Relativity Axiom
Some forms of reality are so horrible we refuse to face them, unless we are trapped into it by comedy. To label any subject unsuitable for comedy is to admit defeat.
Peter Sellers
"The real reason that we can't have the Ten Commandments in a courthouse: You cannot post 'Thou shalt not steal,' 'Thou shalt not commit adultery,' and 'Thou shalt not lie' in a building full of lawyers, judges, and politicians. It creates a hostile work environment."
George Carlin
In the particular is contained the universal. > James Joyce
Darryl Lillies >>> I wanna be condescending too, but there's nobody else down here.........
The best day of your life is the one on which you decide your life is your own. No apologies or excuses. No one to lean on, rely on, or blame. The gift is yours - it is an amazing journey - and you alone are responsible for the quality of it. This is the day your life really begins. ~Bob Moawad
I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use.
Galileo Galilei
-The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary.
H. L. Mencken
Love is the delusion that one woman differs from another.
H. L. Mencken
We must respect the other fellow's religion, but only in the sense and to the extent that we respect his theory that his wife is beautiful and his children smart.
H. L. Mencken
A man may be a fool and not know it, but not if he is married.
H. L. Mencken
A judge is a law student who marks his own examination papers.
H. L. Mencken
Nobody ever went broke underestimating the taste of the American public.
H. L. Mencken
Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want, and deserve to get it good and hard.
H. L. Mencken
For every complex problem, there is a solution that is simple, neat, and wrong.
Henry Louis Mencken
You won't find a solution by saying there is no problem
William Rotsler quotes
I have sexdaily! Ooops I mean dyslexia! Fcuk........".
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