Who is responsible for each of the following quotes?

  (1)
      Perhaps in all things, when we reck the the outcome,
      It may behoove us to tally up the laughter
      As well as tears expended on the effort.

      Zounds!  How seldom count we up our humanity
      As if t'were something worthy of our measure,
      Deferring rather to the vague recountings
      Of poets who at their and others' leisure
      Regale us all with tales of heros' outings
      As if our own small lives contained no pleasure.

  (2)
      We didn't think much of Mulberry Street
      at the time.  Just an ordinary street that
      you couldn't get at all excited about,
      no matter how hard you tried.  It was so
      easy to dismiss it back then.

      Nowadays we know better, of course.  If
      ever was an instance of "time heals all
      wounds", this was it.  Whenever people
      try to describe how they feel about events
      of their distant childhood, they almost
      never fail to magnify the good points.

  (3)
      Better luck next time, thought Fred.  Even though
      each step of the process had seemed successful,
      little doubt remained that the final overall
      accomplishment was inopportune.

      Leslie, however, was the eternal optimist.  The
      ugly consequences of their actions were lost on him,
      glaringly obvious as they might be to the remainder
      of humankind.  I suppose that there is a place for
      such people in the world, as a little self-decption
      is useful psychological defense mechanism.

37 responses total.

C'mon, don't all speak up at once!

Nobody wants to take a shot at these?  Correct guessers get their
names in the conference login message.

Not a clue.  Sorry.

Please re-read the challenge in #0.

Robert Frost or John Remmers

I will admit to partial responsibility, since I typed the quotes in
and am therefore responsible for their presence.  There are, however,
other kinds of responsibility...

(I doubt that Robert Frost has any significant responsibility though.)

I know, I know.  GOD.

Well, I suppose God has a responsibility for everything and in that
sense your response is correct, but it's not what I was looking for
so I'll rule it incorrect 'cause *I* am the one who makes the rules
around here.

By way of hint, I'll state thata popular entertainer was responsible
for at least one of the quotes.

We are all responsible.

C'mon now, they're not that hard.  With all the brain power that's
floating these parts, *somebody* ought to be able to get these quotes.

That's my problem, actually.  My brain power's floating, i.e. not
securely fastened into my skull.

ok, ok.
#1 is Shakspear
#2 is Jimmy Stewart
#3 is Axel Rose

Good guesses, especially Jimmy Stewart for #2.  Not correct, though.

I should point out that true to my populist nature, these quotes are
less elitist than some others that have been entered around these parts.
You don't need a real strong literary background to figure them out.

PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE SOMEBODY GUESS THESE!!  THEY'RE NOT
THAT HARD!!!!

Is #2 from a sci-fi story, that i might have read as kid?  It sound
familar, but I don't read fiction.  It makes it too hard to remember
which is fiction and which is science.  If you've ever asked a
physics prof how a transporter works, i
'm sure you understand.

#2 - Rod Serling
#3 - Ayn Rand
#1 - T.S. Eliot

1. Euclid
2. Lawrence Kestenbaum
3. Siggy Freud

If in the country of the blind, the one-eyed man is king, then
I am the emperor and perhaps even the pope.

Try harder!!!

1. Kahlil Gibran
2. Jean-Paul Sartre
3. Woody Allen

1 Dante
2 Sheriff Taylor
3 Phil Donahue

1. Orange Gopher
2. Mulberry
3. Snord Marstin

During the Middle Ages it was believed that a stone tossed at an
angle into the air would follow a straight line to its apex, then
descend in another straight line.

For centuries they looked, but did not see.

1.      Malcom X
2.      Harriet Tubman
3.      Curious George

No correct guesses so far.  Zilch.  Rien du tout.  Nuttin'.

1. Anonymous
2. Anonymous
3. Anonymous

[md groans and slaps his forehead]
1. Pia Zadora
2. Wayne Newton
3. Bela Lugosi

Snord ought to be drawn and quartered for this.

Argh!  I just got it, too.  remmers is cruel beyond words...

Congratulations to Mr Delizia, who has correctly assigned responsibility.

Who's 'remmers'?

Who'd a thunk it?

md was right???

Absolutely.

RE #22: there was an article in Science recently, which addressed the
question of how a baseball player "calculates" the trajectory of
a fly ball, in order to run and intercept it precisely enough to
catch it. The answer turns out to be (after a century or so of study
of the question), that if you run so that the ball *appears* to rise
in a *straight line*, you and the ball will arrive at the same point
at the same time. (This also provides a clue to the way to avoid
thrown rocks, grenades, etc.) 

Hmmm... here's an exerpt from my archives:

#1 John H. Remmers:
 Just a little while ago, in a place far away,
 a certain m-net staffer decided on a whim
 not to have sliced banana on his cold cereal.
 
 When this was discovered by the media, a special
 on PBS was telecast to foster the process of
 learning necessary for an informed citizenry
 to adequately protect themseleves against the
 emerging threat to the economies of banana
 republics.
#2 Katie Geddes:
  
   Just before noon, on his way to the movies,
   our favorite professor thought aloud to
   himself that in all his life he had
   never waddled and quacked like a duck.
 
   Regretting this, he proceeded to quack at
   every person in his path, and not
   merely the ones who were near, but also
   many who were way across the street,
   each and every one that his voice would
   reach, losing track of all time and
   so he missed the beginning of the show.
#3 Josh Simon:
 Kind of an interesting item...  But
 anyhow, just after 3pm, while
 trying to tie her shoes, I was
 informed that a friend (who is
 ever the wonderful hostess of several of the
 
 Greatest parties I attended) decided,
 eventually, not only to
 drink a toast remembering those who'll miss this year's
 delightful event, but also to brew up an
 extra pot of cider for the gang who will show.  A
 silly idea, but fun nonetheless.
#4 John H. Remmers:
 [So far, folks seem to have deduced *one*, but not *all*, of the rules.
 Nice entries, though.]
#5 John H. Remmers:
 Today was a very special day for Clyde Spackle.  It had been
 only a few months earlier that Clyde, quintessential rural rube,
 never before the urban type, had ventured forth from his pig farm at
 year's end to try his hand at construction work in the big city.
 
 Certainly, the consequences of his departure were unanticipated.  For
 hardly had the Greyhound bus pulled out of the little station than
 a strange spiritual pall blanketed the countryside.  Cows stopped giving
 milk; hens laid eggs no more; the county Farm Bureau went up in a
 blaze of fire the likes of which had not been seen in this
 end of the state since the glue factory explosion of '59.  But poor
 rubish Clyde was blissfully unaware of all this, having severed upon
 leaving his farmland home all earthly ties to the soil that had been
 a home from time immemorial.  He would never consider returning, not
 in his wildest dreams; the catastrophic results of his actions were
 nuances lost upon his simple, homespun mind.

OK, I give up.  What are the other rules?

Woah......There are responses in this item that have been here since I was
in High school!

Counting the undated recycled responses in #33, probably since you were
in grade school.

It should also be pointed out that #33 is not drift.

WINSTON CHURCHILL!  He said them all!  I know it!

It's all robert frost's fault

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