I Am Misunderstood

 

 

From: Oxsan
Date: 22 Sep 2001
Time: 19:09:20

I have always stated my views with great firmness and finality. Once, in fact, while I was teaching Sunday School classes the wife of the minister said to me something like "It is obvious that you know very little about theology but you speak with such conviction and firmness that every one believes that you do". In my moments alone with myself I cannot argue greatly with that conclusion. However I am not alone. I have recently discovered that there are others who share my trait of being sometimes wrong with fervor. As below:

By 1982 sex will have become much less a theme for either poetry or analysis. Much of the romanticism and all of the hypochondria on the subject will be over.

Irwin Edman, professor of Philosophy at Columbia University in The Forum, November, 1932

Nothing will ever separate us.

Elizabeth Taylor June 1974, five days before announcing her divorce from Richard Burton

I'm definitely not anti-Semitic.

Louis Farrakhan, Dec 12, 1994

Races north of the Pyrenees never reach maturity, they are of great stature and of a white color. They lack the sharpness of wit and penetration of intellect.

Toledo (a Moorish savant) A.D. 1100

If Jesus Christ were alive today he would impeach Carter.

Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeni Nov 11, 1979

The abolishment of pain in surgery is a chimera. It is absurd to seek it.

Dr. Alfred Velpeau, French Surgeon, Professor at the Paris Faculty of Medicine, 1839

For epilepsy in adults I recommend spirit of human brain in a powder, to be compounded only in May , June or July from the livers of live green frogs.

Johann Hartmann, Professor of Chemistry, University of Marbury, 1633

A young man will not take the gout until he indulges in coition.

Hippocrates

The AIDS epidemic is a result of doctors, especially Jewish ones, who inject the AIDS virus in blacks.

Steve Cokely, aide to Chicago Mayor Eugene Sawyer as quoted in The Chicago Tribune , May 1, 1988

There will not be any violations to speak of.

Colonel Daniel Porter, Supervising Revenue Agent in charge of the enforcement of prohibition laws, Sep 16, 1920

FDR will be a one term president.

Mark Sulliuvan, New York Herald Tribune columnist , 1935

It is too early for a Polish pope.

Karol Wojtyla (Polish cardinal) two days before being elected Pope John Paul II, Oct 14, 1978

I guess that is about enough, but it does go to show that I am not the only one who says things forcefully that don't turn out that way. Nice to have company and it is the only sin I have left.