Tuesday, December 5, 2006

Quotes

Illegitimacy is something we should talk about in terms of not having it.

Dan Quayle

It is better to have loved and lost than never to have lost at all.

Samuel Butler

I'm going to stay in show business until I'm the last one left.

George Burns

To be a book-collector is to combine the worst characteristics of a dope fiend with those of a miser.

Robertson Davies

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Islam is a religion in which Allah demands you send your son to die for him; Christianity is the faith in which God sent his son to die for you.

- John Ashcroft

The beginning is the most important part of the work.

- Plato

Sometimes you gotta create what you want to be a part of.

- Geri Weitzman

Don't argue about the difficulties. The difficulties will argue for themselves.

- Winston Churchill

The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man.

- George Bernard Shaw

Never go to bed mad. Stay up and fight.

- Phyllis Diller

To prophesy is extremely difficult - especially with regard to the future.

- Chinese proverb

Better a witty fool than a foolish wit.

- Shakespeare

There cannot be a crisis next week. My schedule is already full.

- Henry Kissinger

It is not the horse that draws the cart, but the oats.

- Russian proverb

I was married by a judge. I should have asked for a jury.

- George Burns

All animals except man know that the ultimate of life is to enjoy it.

- Samuel Butler

Your true value depends entirely on what you are compared with.

- Bob Wells

The whole of science is nothing more than a refinement of everyday thinking.

- Albert Einstein

"If we knew what it was we were doing, it would not be called research, would it?"

- Albert Einstein

A little learning is a dangerous thing, but a lot of ignorance is just as bad.

- Bob Edwards

If you think education is expensive, try Ignorance.

- Andy McIntyre

Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there.

- Will Rogers

It's not that I'm so smart , it's just that I stay with problems longer.

- Albert Einstein

The more you know, the less you need to show.

- Anonymous

For every action there is an equal and opposite government program.

- Bob Wells

To be upset over what you don't have is to waste what you do have.

- Anonymous

You can't build a reputation on what you are going to do.

- Henry Ford

Blessed is the person who is too busy to worry in the daytime and too sleepy to worry at night.

- Anonymous

Confidence in nonsense is a requirement for the creative process.

- Anonymous

Democracy is the worst system devised by with of man, except for all the others.

- Winston Churchill

The man who removes a mountain begins by carrying away small stones.

- Anonymous

If everything is coming your way then you're in the wrong lane.

- Anonymous

Use soft words and hard arguments.

- Anonymous

The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits

- Anonymous

The quality of an organization can never exceed the quality of the minds that make it up.

- Harold R. McAlindon

Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.

- Will Durant

Good people are good because they've come to wisdom through failure.

- William Saroyan

With stupidity the gods themselves struggle in vain.

- Friedrich von Schiller

No man's knowledge here can go beyond his experience.

- John Locke

The first rule to tinkering is to save all the parts.

- Paul Erlich

Wine is bottled poetry.

- Robert Louis Stevenson

He who cannot agree with his enemies is controlled by them.

- Chinese proverb

"Reality" is the only word in the English language that should always be used in quotes.

- Anonymous

I think; therefore I am.

- Rene Descartes

Wonder is the beginning of wisdom.

- Greek proverb

It is the province of knowledge to speak and it is the privilege of wisdom to listen.

- Oliver Wendell Holmes

I disapprove of what you say, but will defend to the death your right to say it.

- Voltaire

The key to being a good manager is keeping the people who hate me away from those who are still undecided.

- Casey Stengal

Start every day off with a smile and get it over with.

- W. C. Fields

Lady Nancy Astor: Winston, if you were my husband, I'd put arsenic in your morning coffee.

Churchill: Madam, if you were my wife, I'd drink it.

Bessie Braddock: Winston, you are drunk!

Churchill: And Madam, you are ugly. And tomorrow, I'll be sober, and you will still be ugly.

Any man who afflicts the human race with ideas must be prepared to see them misunderstood.

- H. L. Mencken

My wife dresses to kill. She cooks the same way.

- Henny Youngman

The greatest risk is to risk nothing at all.

- Leo Buscaglia

God does not play dice with the universe.

- Albert Einstein

Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.

- Albert Einstein

Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from a rigged demo.

- James Klass

Not all those who wonder are lost.

- Anonymous

A journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step.

- Lao-Tsu

These are not books, lumps of lifeless paper, but minds alive on the shelves.

- Gilbert Highet

Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler.

- Albert Einstein

Any intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It takes a touch of genius - and a lot of courage - to move in the opposite direction.

- E. F. Schumacher

If a person feels he can't communicate, the least he can do is shut up about it.

-Tom Lehrer

That's the difference between me and the rest of the world! Happiness isn't good enough for me! I demand euphoria!

-Calvin

No pressure, no diamonds.

- Mary Case

You can't be truly rude until you understand good manners.

- Rita Mae Brown

Good judgement comes from experience, and often experience comes from bad judgement.

- Rita Mae Brown

Don't be afraid to take one large step because you can't cross a chasm in two small leaps.

- Anonymous

Failure to prepare is preparing to fail.

- Anonymous

If everybody's thinking alike, somebody isn't thinking.

- Anonymous

Don't let people drive you crazy when you know it's in walking distance.

- Anonymous

Never argue with a fool. Someone watching may not be able to tell the difference.

- Anonymous

If you want to know what God thinks of money, just look at the people he gave it to.

- Dorothy Parker

Nothing endures but change.

- Heraclitus

True knowledge exists in knowing that you know nothing.

- Socrates

All jobs are easy to the person who doesn't have to do them.

- Holt's Law

Better to light a candle than to curse the darkness.

- Chinese proverb

A picture is worth a thousand words

is not an old proverb

- 1921 ad copy by Fred R Barnard

Wretched the man whose fame makes his misfortunes famous.

- Lucius Accius

'Tis better to remain silent and be thought a fool, than open one's mouth and remove all doubt.

- Samuel Johnson

Necessity is the mother of invention.

- Plato

A free society is a place where it's safe to be unpopular.

- Adlai Stevenson

Wine gives courage and makes men more apt for passion.

- Ovid

'Tis better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all.

- Alfred Lord Tennyson

It's better to be quotable than to be honest.

- Tom Stoppard