Saturday, March 05, 2005

Poetry in the Inbox

Spam writers are crafty. They have to get past your spam blocker in order to sell you fake Viagra. And just like a guy trying to get past a woman's natural emotional defenses so he can get some, they use poetry.

Consider the following famous quotes that bundled the spam I got today. I'll find out in a few weeks how well the product works, but the words of wisdom have already given me a big brain hardon.

There is a time to take counsel of your fears, and there is a time to never listen to your fear. (George Patton)

Everyone and everything around you is your teacher. (Ken Keyes Jr. )

There are glimpses of heaven to us in every act, or thought, or word, that raises us above ourselves. (Robert Quillen)

Whatever I am offered in devotion with a pure heart -- a leaf, a flower, fruit, or water -- I accept with joy. (Bhagavad Gita)

A god who let us prove his existence would be an idol. (Deitrich Bonhoeffer)

A man's interest in the world is only an overflow from his interest in himself. (George Bernard Shaw)

A good composer is slowly discovered a bad composer is slowly found out. (Ernest Newman)

Chance makes our parents, but choice makes our friends. (Jacques Delille)

A man who carries a cat by the tail learns something he can learn in no other way. (Mark Twain)

Inflation is one form of taxation that can be imposed without legislation. (Michael D.
Stephens)

Without winners, there wouldn't even be any civilization. (Woody Hayes)

It is only by not paying one's bills that one can hope to live in the memory of the commercial classes. (Oscar Wilde)

She thoroughly understands what no other Church has ever understood, how to deal
with enthusiasts. (Thomas B. Macaulay)

Beauties in vain their pretty eyes may roll charms strike the sight, but merit wins the soul. (Alexander Pope)

Beware of one who has nothing to lose. (Italian proverb)

Man will occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of the time he will pick
himself up and continue on. (Winston Churchill)

From the very fountain of enchantment there arises a taste of bitterness to spread anguish amongst the flowers. (Lucretius)

Darkness can not drive out darkness only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate only love can. (Martin Luther King Jr.)

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