Quotable
Quotes ...
Here are a few quotes from some very famous people. Have a good laugh. I
will add more sections later.
- "Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever. " - Napoleon Bonaparte
(1769-1821)
- "Victory goes to the player who makes the next-to-last mistake. " - Chessmaster
Savielly Grigorievitch Tartakower (1887-1956)
- "Don't be so humble - you are not that great. " - Golda Meir (1898-1978)
to a visiting diplomat
- "His ignorance is encyclopedic" - Abba Eban (1915-)
- "If a man does his best, what else is there?" - General George S. Patton
(1885-1945)
- "I can write better than anybody who can write faster, and I can write
faster than anybody who can write better. " - A. J. Liebling (1904-1963)
- "People demand freedom of speech to make up for the freedom of thought
which they avoid. " - Soren Aabye Kierkegaard (1813-1855)
- "Give me chastity and continence, but not yet. " - Saint Augustine (354-430)
- "Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts
can be counted. " - Albert Einstein (1879-1955)
- "Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and
I'm not sure about the former. " - Albert Einstein (1879-1955)
- "A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to
get its pants on. " - Sir Winston Churchill (1874-1965)
- "I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us
with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgot their use. "
- Galilei Galileo
- "The artist is nothing without the gift, but the gift is nothing without
work. " - Emile Zola (1840-1902)
- "This book fills a much-needed gap. " - Moses Hadas (1900-1966) in a
review
- "The full use of your powers along lines of excellence. " - definition
of "happiness" by John F. Kennedy (1917-1963)
- "I'm living so far beyond my income that we may almost be said to be
living apart. " - E. E. Cummings (1894-1962)
- "Give me a museum and I'll fill it. " - Pablo Picasso (1881-1973)
- "Assassins!" - Arturo Toscanini (1867-1957) to his orchestra
- "I'll moider da bum. " - Heavyweight boxer Tony Galento, when asked what
he thought of William Shakespeare
- "In theory, there is no difference between theory and practice. But,
in practice, there is. " - Jan L.A. van de Snepscheut
- "I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have. " - Thomas
Jefferson (1743-1826)
- "Each problem that I solved became a rule which served afterwards to
solve other problems. " - Rene Descartes (1596-1650) "Discours de la Methode"
- "Whether you think that you can, or that you can't, you are usually right.
" - Henry Ford (1863-1947)
- "The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it. " - Oscar
Wilde (1854-1900)
- "Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo." - H. G. Wells (1866-1946)
- "Don't stay in bed, unless you can make money in bed." - George Burns
(1896-1996)
- "I don't know why we are here, but I'm pretty sure that it is not in
order to enjoy ourselves." - Ludwig Wittgenstein (1889-1951)
- "A mathematician is a device for turning coffee into theorems." - Paul
Erdos
- "If you can't get rid of the skeleton in your closet, you'd best teach
it to dance." - George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950)
- "Whenever I climb I am followed by a dog called 'Ego'." - Friedrich Nietzsche
(1844-1900)
- "We have the art to save ourselves from the truth." - Friedrich Nietzsche
(1844-1900)
- "Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake." - Napoleon
Bonaparte (1769-1821)
- "Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe."
- H. G. Wells (1866-1946)
- "The difference between 'involvement' and 'commitment' is like an eggs-and-ham
breakfast: the chicken was 'involved' - the pig was 'committed'." - unknown
- "If you are going through hell, keep going." - Sir Winston Churchill
(1874-1965)
- "I'm all in favor of keeping dangerous weapons out of the hands of fools.
Let's start with typewriters." - Frank Lloyd Wright (1868-1959)
- "Some cause happiness wherever they go; others, whenever they go." -
Oscar Wilde (1854-1900)
- "God is a comedian playing to an audience too afraid to laugh." - Voltaire
(1694-1778)
- "He is one of those people who would be enormously improved by death."
- H. H. Munro (Saki) (1870-1916)
- "I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them." - Ian L. Fleming
(1908-1964)
- "If you can count your money, you don't have a billion dollars." - J.
Paul Getty (1892-1976)
- "How wrong it is for a woman to expect the man to build the world she
wants, rather than to create it herself." - Anais Nin (1903-1977)
- "I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work." - Thomas
Alva Edison (1847-1931)
- "I begin by taking. I shall find scholars later to demonstrate my perfect
right." - Frederick (II) the Great
- "Maybe this world is another planet's Hell." - Aldous Huxley (1894-1963)
- "Blessed is the man, who having nothing to say, abstains from giving
wordy evidence of the fact." - George Eliot (1819-1880)
- "Black holes are where God divided by zero." - Steven Wright
- "I've had a wonderful time, but this wasn't it." - Groucho Marx (1895-1977)
- "We didn't lose the game; we just ran out of time." - Vince Lombardi
- "The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds,
and the pessimist fears this is true." - James Branch Cabell
- "All are lunatics, but he who can analyze his delusion is called a philosopher."
- Ambrose Bierce (1842-1914)
- "You can only find truth with logic if you have already found truth without
it." - Gilbert Keith Chesterton (1874-1936)
- "An inconvenience is only an adventure wrongly considered; an adventure
is an inconvenience rightly considered." - Gilbert Keith Chesterton (1874-1936)
- "Be nice to people on your way up because you meet them on your way down."
- Jimmy Durante
- "The significant problems we face cannot be solved at the same level
of thinking we were at when we created them." - Albert Einstein (1879-1955)
- "Basically, I no longer work for anything but the sensation I have while
working." - Albert Giacometti (sculptor)
- "All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second,
it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident." -
Arthur Schopenhauer (1788-1860)
- "Many a man's reputation would not know his character if they met on
the street." - Elbert Hubbard (1856-1915)
- "There is more stupidity than hydrogen in the universe, and it has a
longer shelf life." - Frank Zappa
- "Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when
there is nothing left to take away." - Antoine de Saint Exupery
- "Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome."
- Isaac Asimov
- "If you want to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first create
the universe." - Carl Sagan
- "It is much more comfortable to be mad and know it, than to be sane and
have one's doubts." - G. B. Burgin
- "Once is happenstance. Twice is coincidence. Three times is enemy action."
- Auric Goldfinger, in "Goldfinger" by Ian L. Fleming (1908-1964)
- "To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance" - - Oscar Wilde
(1854-1900)
- "Knowledge speaks, but wisdom listens." - Jimi Hendrix
- "A clever man commits no minor blunders." - Goethe (1749-1832)
- "Argue for your limitations, and sure enough they're yours." - Richard
Bach
- "A witty saying proves nothing." - Voltaire (1694-1778)
- "Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance." - Will Durant
- "I have often regretted my speech, never my silence." - Xenocrates (396-314
B.C.)
- "It was the experience of mystery -- even if mixed with fear -- that
engendered religion." - Albert Einstein (1879-1955)
- "If everything seems under control, you're just not going fast enough."
- Mario Andretti
- "I do not consider it an insult, but rather a compliment to be called
an agnostic. I do not pretend to know where many ignorant men are sure --
that is all that agnosticism means." - Clarence Darrow, Scopes trial, 1925.
- "Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes
off your goal." - Henry Ford (1863-1947)
- "If you gaze long into an abyss, the abyss will gaze back into you."
- Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900)
- "The instinct of nearly all societies is to lock up anybody who is truly
free. First, society begins by trying to beat you up. If this fails, they
try to poison you. If this fails too, they finish by loading honors on your
head." - Jean Cocteau (1889-1963)
- "Everyone is a genius at least once a year; a real genius has his original
ideas closer together." - Georg Lichtenberg (1742-1799)
- "Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it"
- Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862)
- "While we are postponing, life speeds by." - Seneca (3BC - 65AD)
- "Fill what's empty, empty what's full, and scratch where it itches."
- the Duchess of Windsor, when asked what is the secret of a long and happy
life
- "First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you,
then you win." - Mahatma Gandhi (1869-1948)
- "Luck is the residue of design." - Branch Rickey - former owner of the
Brooklyn Dodger Baseball Team
- "Tragedy is when I cut my finger. Comedy is when you walk into an open
sewer and die." - Mel Brooks
- "Most people would sooner die than think; in fact, they do so. " - Bertrand
Russell (1872-1970)
- "Wit is educated insolence. " - Aristotle (384-322 B.C.)
- "My advice to you is get married: if you find a good wife you'll be happy;
if not, you'll become a philosopher. " - Socrates (470-399 B.C.)
- "Egotist: a person more interested in himself than in me. " - Ambrose
Bierce (1842-1914)
- "A narcissist is someone better looking than you are. " - Gore Vidal
- "Wise men make proverbs, but fools repeat them. " - Samuel Palmer (1805-80)
- "It has become appallingly obvious that our technology has exceeded our
humanity. " - Albert Einstein (1879-1955)
- "The secret of success is to know something nobody else knows. " - Aristotle
Onassis (1906-1975)
- "Sometimes when reading Goethe I have the paralyzing suspicion that he
is trying to be funny. " - Guy Davenport
- "When you have to kill a man, it costs nothing to be polite. " - Sir
Winston Churchill (1874-1965)
- "Any man who is under 30, and is not a liberal, has not heart; and any
man who is over 30, and is not a conservative, has no brains. " - Sir Winston
Churchill (1874-1965)
- "The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. The opposite
of a profound truth may well be another profound truth. " - Niels Bohr (1885-1962)
- "We all agree that your theory is crazy, but is it crazy enough?" - Niels
Bohr (1885-1962)
- "When I am working on a problem I never think about beauty. I only think
about how to solve the problem. But when I have finished, if the solution
is not beautiful, I know it is wrong. " - Buckminster Fuller (1895-1983)
- "In science one tries to tell people, in such a way as to be understood
by everyone, something that no one ever knew before. But in poetry, it's
the exact opposite. " - Paul Dirac (1902-1984)
- "I would have made a good Pope. " - Richard M. Nixon (1913-1994)
- "Anyone who considers arithmetical methods of producing random digits
is, of course, in a state of sin. " - John von Neumann (1903-1957)
- "The mistakes are all waiting to be made. " - chessmaster Savielly Grigorievitch
Tartakower (1887-1956) on the game's opening position
- "It is unbecoming for young men to utter maxims. " - Aristotle (384-322
B.C.)
- "Grove giveth and Gates taketh away. " - Bob Metcalfe (inventor of Ethernet)
on the trend of hardware speedups not being able to keep up with software
demands
- "Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one. " - Albert
Einstein (1879-1955)
- "One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief
that one's work is terribly important. " - Bertrand Russell (1872-1970)
- "A little inaccuracy sometimes saves a ton of explanation. " - H. H.
Munro (Saki) (1870-1916)
- "There are two ways of constructing a software design; one way is to
make it so simple that there are obviously no deficiencies, and the other
way is to make it so complicated that there are no obvious deficiencies.
The first method is far more difficult." - C. A. R. Hoare
- "Make everything as simple as possible, but not simpler. " - Albert Einstein
(1879-1955)
- "What do you take me for, an idiot?" General Charles de Gaulle (1890-1970),
when a journalist asked him if he was happy.
- "I heard someone tried the monkeys-on-typewriters bit trying for the
plays of W. Shakespeare, but all they got was the collected works of Francis
Bacon. " - Bill Hirst
- "Three o'clock is always too late or too early for anything you want
to do. " - Jean-Paul Sartre (1905-1980)
- "A doctor can bury his mistakes but an architect can only advise his
clients to plant vines. " - Frank Lloyd Wright (1868-1959 )
- "It is dangerous to be sincere unless you are also stupid. " - George
Bernard Shaw (1856-1950)
- "If you haven't got anything nice to say about anybody, come sit next
to me. " - Alice Roosevelt Longworth (1884-1980)
- "A man can't be too careful in the choice of his enemies. " - Oscar Wilde
(1854-1900)
- "Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names. " - John F. Kennedy
(1917-1963)
- "No one can earn a million dollars honestly. " - William Jennings Bryan
(1860-1925)
- "Well-timed silence hath more eloquence than speech. " - Martin Fraquhar
Tupper
- "Thank you for sending me a copy of your book - I'll waste no time reading
it. " - Moses Hadas (1900-1966)
- "From the moment I picked your book up until I laid it down I was convulsed
with laughter. Some day I intend reading it. " - Groucho Marx (1895-1977)
- "It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating. " -
Oscar Wilde (1854-1900)
- "When ideas fail, words come in very handy. " - Goethe (1749-1832)
- "The nice thing about egotists is that they don't talk about other people.
" - Lucille S. Harper
- "You got to be careful if you don't know where you're going, because
you might not get there. " - Yogi Berra
- "I love Mickey Mouse more than any woman I have ever known. " - Walt
Disney (1901-1966)
- "Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths theater. "
- Gail Godwin
- "University politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so
small. " - Henry Kissinger (1923-)
- "The graveyards are full of indispensable men. " - Charles de Gaulle
(1890-1970)
- "You can pretend to be serious; you can't pretend to be witty. " - Sacha
Guitry (1885-1957)
- "Behind every great fortune there is a crime. " - Honore de Balzac (1799-1850)
- "If women didn't exist, all the money in the world would have no meaning.
" - Aristotle Onassis (1906-1975)
- "The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other
bastard die for his. " - General George Patton (1885-1945)
- "Sometimes a scream is better than a thesis. " - Ralph Waldo Emerson
(1803-1882)
- "There is no sincerer love than the love of food. " - George Bernard
Shaw (1856-1950)
- "I don't even butter my bread; I consider that cooking. " - Katherine
Cebrian
- "I have an existential map; it has 'you are here' written all over it.
" - Steven Wright
- "Mr. Wagner has beautiful moments but bad quarters of an hour. " - Gioacchino
Rossini (1792-1868)
- "Manuscript: something submitted in haste and returned at leisure. "
- Oliver Herford (1863-1935)
- "I have read your book and much like it. " - Moses Hadas (1900-1966)
- "The covers of this book are too far apart. " - Ambrose Bierce (1842-1914)
- "Everywhere I go I'm asked if I think the university stifles writers.
My opinion is that they don't stifle enough of them. " - Flannery O'Connor
(1925-1964)
- "Too many pieces of music finish too long after the end. " - Igor Stravinsky
(1882-1971)
- "Anything that is too stupid to be spoken is sung. " - Voltaire (1694-1778)
- "When choosing between two evils, I always like to try the one I've never
tried before. " - Mae West (1892-1980)
- "I don't know anything about music. In my line you don't have to. " -
Elvis Presley (1935-1977)
- "Vote early and vote often. " - Al Capone (1899-1947)
- "If I were two-faced, would I be wearing this one?" - Abraham Lincoln
(1809-1865)
- "Few things are harder to put up with than a good example. " - Mark Twain
(1835-1910)
- "I am become death, shatterer of worlds. " - Robert J. Oppenheimer (1904-1967)
(citing from the Bhagavad Gita, after witnessing the world's first nuclear
explosion)
- "Happiness is good health and a bad memory. " - Ingrid Bergman (1917-1982)
- "Friends may come and go, but enemies accumulate. " - Thomas Jones
- "You can get more with a kind word and a gun than you can with a kind
word alone. " - Al Capone (1899-1947)
- "Every day I get up and look through the Forbes list of the richest people
in America. If I'm not there, I go to work. " - Robert Orben
- "The cynics are right nine times out of ten. " - Henry Louis Mencken
(1880-1956)
- "There are some experiences in life which should not be demanded twice
from any man, and one of them is listening to the Brahms Requiem. " - George
Bernard Shaw (1856-1950)
- "Attention to health is life greatest hindrance. " - Plato (427-347 B.C.)
"Plato was a bore. " - Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900)
"Nietzsche was stupid and abnormal. " - Leo Tolstoy (1828-1910)
"I'm not going to get into the ring with Tolstoy. " - Ernest Hemingway (1899-1961)
"Hemingway was a jerk. " - Harold Robbins
- "How can I lose to such an idiot?" - A shout from chessmaster Aaron Nimzovich
(1886-1935)
- "Not only is there no God, but try finding a plumber on Sunday. " - Woody
Allen (1935-)
- "Nothing is wrong with California that a rise in the ocean level wouldn't
cure. " - Ross MacDonald (1915-1983)
- "I have never let my schooling interfere with my education. " - Mark
Twain (1835-1910)
- "It is now possible for a flight attendant to get a pilot pregnant. "
- Richard J. Ferris, president of United Airlines
- "I never miss a chance to have sex or appear on television. " - Gore
Vidal
- "I don't want to achieve immortality through my work; I want to achieve
immortality through not dying. " - Woody Allen (1935-)
- "Men and nations behave wisely once they have exhausted all the other
alternatives. " - Abba Eban (1915-)
- "Sanity is a madness put to good uses. " - George Santayana (1863-1952)
- "Imitation is the sincerest form of television. " - Fred Allen (1894-1956)
- "In America, anybody can be president. That's one of the risks you take.
" - Adlai Stevenson (1900-1965)
- "Copy from one, it's plagiarism; copy from two, it's research. " - Wilson
Mizner (1876-1933)
- "Why don't you write books people can read?" - Nora Joyce to her husband
James (1882-1941)
- "Some editors are failed writers, but so are most writers. " - T. S.
Eliot (1888-1965
- ) "Criticism is prejudice made plausible. " - Henry Louis Mencken (1880-1956)
- "It is better to be quotable than to be honest. " - Tom Stoppard
- "Being on the tightrope is living; everything else is waiting. " - Karl
Wallenda
- "Opportunities multiply as they are seized. " - Sun Tzu
- " The best way to predict the future is to invent it. " - Alan Kay
- "Never mistake motion for action. " - Ernest Hemingway (1899-1961)
- "Hell is paved with good samaritans. " - William M. Holden
- "The longer I live the more I see that I am never wrong about anything,
and that all the pains that I have so humbly taken to verify my notions
have only wasted my time. " - George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950)
- "A husband is what is left of the lover after the nerve has been extracted.
" - Helen Rowland (1876-1950)
- "Learning is what most adults will do for a living in the 21st century.
" - Perelman
- "The man who goes alone can start today; but he who travels with another
must wait till that other is ready. " - Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862)
- "There is a country in Europe where multiple-choice tests are illegal.
" - Sigfried Hulzer
- "Ask her to wait a moment - I am almost done. " - Carl Friedrich Gauss
(1777-1855), while working, when informed that his wife is dying
- "A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees
the opportunity in every difficulty. " - Sir Winston Churchill (1874-1965)
- "I think there is a world market for maybe five computers. " - Thomas
Watson (1874-1956), Chairman of IBM, 1943
- "The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to
do nothing. " - Edmund Burke (1729-1797)
- "I'm not a member of any organized political party, I'm a Democrat!"
- Will Rogers (1879-1935)
- "If Stupidity got us into this mess, then why can't it get us out?" "
- Will Rogers (1879-1935)
- "The backbone of surprise is fusing speed with secrecy. " - Von Clausewitz
(1780-1831)
- "Democracy does not guarantee equality of conditions - it only guarantees
equality of opportunity. " - Irving Kristol
- "There is no reason anyone would want a computer in their home. " - Ken
Olson, president, chairman and founder of Digital Equipment Corp., 1977
- "640K ought to be enough for anybody. " - Bill Gates (1955-), in 1981
- "The concept is interesting and well-formed, but in order to earn better
than a 'C', the idea must be feasible. " - A Yale University management
professor in response to student Fred Smith's paper proposing reliable overnight
delivery service (Smith went on to found Federal Express Corp.)
- "Who the hell wants to hear actors talk?" - H. M. Warner (1881-1958),
founder of Warner Brothers, in 1927
- "We don't like their sound, and guitar music is on the way out. " - Decca
Recording Co. rejecting the Beatles, 1962
- "A pint of sweat, saves a gallon of blood. " - General George S. Patton
(1885-1945)
- "After I'm dead I'd rather have people ask why I have no monument than
why I have one. " - Cato the Elder (234-149 BC, AKA Marcus Porcius Cato)
- "He can compress the most words into the smallest idea of any man I know.
" - Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865)
- "Don't let it end like this. Tell them I said something. " - last words
of Pancho Villa (1877-1923)
- "The right to swing my fist ends where the other man's nose begins. "
- Oliver Wendell Holmes (1841-1935)
- "The difference between fiction and reality? Fiction has to make sense.
" - Tom Clancy
- "It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight
in the dog. " - Mark Twain (1835-1910)
- "Whatever is begun in anger ends in shame. " - Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790)
- "The President has kept all of the promises he intended to keep. " -
Clinton aide George Stephanopolous speaking on Larry King Live
- "We're going to turn this team around 360 degrees. " - Jason Kidd, upon
his drafting to the Dallas Mavericks
- "Half this game is ninety percent mental. " - Yogi Berra
- "There's many a bestseller that could have been prevented by a good teacher.
" - Flannery O'Connor (1925-1964)
- "He has all the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire." -
Sir Winston Churchill (1874-1965)
- "Love is friendship set on fire." - Jeremy Taylor
- "God gave men both a penis and a brain, but unfortunately not enough
blood supply to run both at the same time." - Robin Williams, commenting
on the Clinton/Lewinsky affair
- "My occupation now, I suppose, is jail inmate." - Unibomber Theodore
Kaczynski, when asked in court what his current profession was
- "Woman was God's second mistake." - Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900)
- "This isn't right, this isn't even wrong." - Wolfgang Pauli (1900-1958),
upon reading a young physicist's paper
- "For centuries, theologians have been explaining the unknowable in terms
of the-not-worth-knowing." - Henry Louis Mencken (1880-1956)
- "Every normal man must be tempted at times to spit upon his hands, hoist
the black flag, and begin slitting throats." - Henry Louis Mencken (1880-1956)
- "Now, now my good man, this is no time for making enemies." - Voltaire
(1694-1778) on his deathbed in response to a priest asking that he renounce
Satan.
- "Fill the unforgiving minute with sixty seconds worth of distance run."
- Rudyard Kipling (1865-1936)
- "I've just learned about his illness. Let's hope it's nothing trivial."
- Irvin S. Cobb
- "I worship the quicksand he walks in." - Art Buchwald
- "Wagner's music is better than it sounds." - Mark Twain (1835-1910)
- "A poem is never finished, only abandoned. " - Paul Valery (1871-1945)
- "We are not retreating - we are advancing in another Direction." - General
Douglas MacArthur (1880-1964)
- "If you were plowing a field, which would you rather use? Two strong
oxen or 1024 chickens?" - Seymour Cray (1925-1996), father of supercomputing
- "#3 pencils and quadrille pads." - Seymoure Cray (1925-1996) when asked
what CAD tools he used to design the Cray I supercomputer; he also recommended
using the back side of the pages so that the lines were not so dominant.
- "I just bought a Mac to help me design the next Cray." - Seymoure Cray
(1925-1996) when was informed that Apple Inc. had recently bought a Cray
supercomputer to help them design the next Mac.
- "Your Highness, I have no need of this hypothesis. " - Pierre Laplace
(1749-1827), to Napoleon on why his works on celestial mechanics make no
mention of God.
- "I choose a block of marble and chop off whatever I don't need. " - Francois-Auguste
Rodin (1840-1917), when asked how he managed to make his remarkable statues.
- "The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who
cannot read them. " - Mark Twain (1835-1910)
- "Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing. " - Wernher
Von Braun (1912-1977)
- "There are only two tragedies in life: one is not getting what one wants,
and the other is getting it. " - Oscar Wilde (1854-1900)
- Don't worry about people stealing your ideas. If your ideas are any good,
you'll have to ram them down people's throats. --Howard Aiken, IBM engineer
- To be sure of hitting the target, shoot first, and then call whatever
you hit the target - Ashleigh Brilliant
- I'm a nobody. And nobody is perfect. Therefore I'm Perfect.
- Don't worry about the world coming to an end today. It's already tomorrow
in Australia. - Charles Schultz
- Put your hand on a hot stove for a minute, and it seems like an hour.
Sit with a pretty girl/boy for an hour, and it seems like a second. THAT'S
relativity." - Albert Einstein
- The brain is a wonderful organ. It starts working the moment you get up
in the morning and does not stop until you get into the office. - Robert
Frost
- The trouble with being punctual is that nobody's there to appreciate it.
- Franklin P. Jones
- We must believe in luck. For how else can we explain the success of those
we don't like ? - Jean Cocturan
- It's amazing that the amount of news that happens in the world everyday
always just exactly fits the newspaper. - Jerry Seinfeld
- If it were not for Thomas Edison, we would all be watching television
in the dark. - Michael Landon
- Always and never are two words you should always remember never to use.
- Wendell Johnson
- It matters not whether you win or lose; what matters is whether I win
or lose. - Darrin Weinberg
- Remember that as a teenager you are in the last stage of your life when
you will be happy to hear that the phone is for you.
- All human wisdom is summed up in two words - "WAIT & HOPE" - Alexander
Dumas
- All we are saying is: give peace a chance. --John Lennon
- By the time a man realizes that maybe his father was right, he usually
has a son who thinks he's wrong. -Charles Wadsworth
- Change is not merely necessary for life. It is life. – Alvin Toffler
- 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
- No man can see very far into the future. Day by day his perspective changes.
-Woodbridge N. Ferris
- "When you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable,
must be the truth." by Sherlock Holmes in The Sign of Four.
If you read this page all the way down till here, I am sure you don't need
anymore of these.