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Friday, April 29, 2011
Quotes
Good advice is always certain to be ignored, but that's no reason not to give it.
- Agatha Christie
People with courage and character always seem sinister to the rest.
- Hermann Hesse
Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.
- George Santayana
I was born not knowing and have had only a little time to change that here and there.
- Richard Feynman
Democracy is the name we give the people whenever we need them.
- Marquis de Flers Robert and Arman de Caillavet
- Agatha Christie
People with courage and character always seem sinister to the rest.
- Hermann Hesse
Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.
- George Santayana
I was born not knowing and have had only a little time to change that here and there.
- Richard Feynman
Democracy is the name we give the people whenever we need them.
- Marquis de Flers Robert and Arman de Caillavet
Thursday, April 28, 2011
Quotes
Good advice is always certain to be ignored, but that's no reason not to give it.
- Agatha Christie
One of the most obvious facts about grownups to a child is that they have forgotten what it is like to be a child.
- Randall Jarrell
The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and science.
- Albert Einstein
I want to find a voracious, small-minded predator and name it after the IRS.
- Robert Bakker
It is impossible to travel faster than the speed of light, and certainly not desirable, as one's hat keeps blowing off.
- Woody Allen
- Agatha Christie
One of the most obvious facts about grownups to a child is that they have forgotten what it is like to be a child.
- Randall Jarrell
The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and science.
- Albert Einstein
I want to find a voracious, small-minded predator and name it after the IRS.
- Robert Bakker
It is impossible to travel faster than the speed of light, and certainly not desirable, as one's hat keeps blowing off.
- Woody Allen
Wednesday, April 27, 2011
Quotes
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.
- Geroge Bernard Shaw
A propensity to hope and joy is real riches; one to fear and sorrow real poverty.
- David Hume
A strong conviction that something must be done is the parent of many bad measures.
- Daniel Webster
Three may keep a secret, if two of them are dead.
- Benjamin Franklin
We hate some persons because we do not know them; and we will not know them because we hate them.
- Charles Caleb Colton
If there are no stupid questions, then what kind of questions do stupid people ask? Do they get smart just in time to ask questions?
- Scott Adams
- Geroge Bernard Shaw
A propensity to hope and joy is real riches; one to fear and sorrow real poverty.
- David Hume
A strong conviction that something must be done is the parent of many bad measures.
- Daniel Webster
Three may keep a secret, if two of them are dead.
- Benjamin Franklin
We hate some persons because we do not know them; and we will not know them because we hate them.
- Charles Caleb Colton
If there are no stupid questions, then what kind of questions do stupid people ask? Do they get smart just in time to ask questions?
- Scott Adams
Tuesday, April 26, 2011
Quotes
The world is disgracefully managed, one hardly knows to whom to complain.
- Ronald Firbank
One way to get the most out of life is to look upon it as an adventure.
- William Feather
If you watch a game, it's fun. If you play at it, it's recreation. If you work at it, it's golf.
- Bob Hope
I like work: it fascinates me. I can sit and look at it for hours.
- Jerome K. Jerome
There is a coherent plan in the universe, though I don't know what it's a plan for.
- Fred Hoyle
Horse sense is the thing a horse has which keeps it from betting on people.
- W. C. Fields
- Ronald Firbank
One way to get the most out of life is to look upon it as an adventure.
- William Feather
If you watch a game, it's fun. If you play at it, it's recreation. If you work at it, it's golf.
- Bob Hope
I like work: it fascinates me. I can sit and look at it for hours.
- Jerome K. Jerome
There is a coherent plan in the universe, though I don't know what it's a plan for.
- Fred Hoyle
Horse sense is the thing a horse has which keeps it from betting on people.
- W. C. Fields
Monday, April 25, 2011
Quotes
Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.
- Mark Twain
A hero is one who knows how to hang on one minute longer.
- Novalis
The great enemy of clear language is insincerity. When there is a gap between one's real and one's declared aims, one turns as it were instinctively to long words and exhausted idioms, like a cuttlefish spurting out ink.
- George Orwell
There is no nonsense so gross that society will not, at some time, make a doctrine of it and defend it with every weapon of communal stupidity.
- Robertson Davies
The fascination of shooting as a sport depends almost wholly on whether you are at the right or wrong end of the gun.
- P. G. Wodehouse
What a blessing it would be if we could open and shut our ears as easily as we open and shut our eyes!
- Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
We should never despair, our Situation before has been unpromising and has changed for the better, so I trust, it will again. If new difficulties arise, we must only put forth New Exertions and proportion our Efforts to the exigency of the times.
- George Washington
- Mark Twain
A hero is one who knows how to hang on one minute longer.
- Novalis
The great enemy of clear language is insincerity. When there is a gap between one's real and one's declared aims, one turns as it were instinctively to long words and exhausted idioms, like a cuttlefish spurting out ink.
- George Orwell
There is no nonsense so gross that society will not, at some time, make a doctrine of it and defend it with every weapon of communal stupidity.
- Robertson Davies
The fascination of shooting as a sport depends almost wholly on whether you are at the right or wrong end of the gun.
- P. G. Wodehouse
What a blessing it would be if we could open and shut our ears as easily as we open and shut our eyes!
- Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
We should never despair, our Situation before has been unpromising and has changed for the better, so I trust, it will again. If new difficulties arise, we must only put forth New Exertions and proportion our Efforts to the exigency of the times.
- George Washington
Sunday, April 24, 2011
Lobbyists who cleared 'Climategate' academics funded by taxpayers and the BBC
A shadowy lobby group which pushes the case that global warming is a real threat is being funded by the taxpayer and assisted by the BBC.
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Quotes
Kindness, I've discovered, is everything in life.
- Isaac Bashevis Singer
The surprising thing about young fools is how many survive to become old fools.
- Doug Larson
All movements go too far.
- Bertrand Russell
The human race is faced with a cruel choice: work or daytime television.
- Unknown
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
- Isaac Bashevis Singer
The surprising thing about young fools is how many survive to become old fools.
- Doug Larson
All movements go too far.
- Bertrand Russell
The human race is faced with a cruel choice: work or daytime television.
- Unknown
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
Saturday, April 23, 2011
Quotes
A MAN WITHOUT DETERMINATION IS BUT AN UNTEMPERED SWORD.
- Chinese proverb
I'm a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work the more I have of it.
- Thomas Jefferson
The reason why so few good books are written is that so few people who can write know anything.
- Walter Bagehot
The scientific theory I like best is that the rings of Saturn are composed entirely of lost airline luggage.
- Mark Russell
Water, taken in moderation, cannot hurt anybody.
- Mark Twain
- Chinese proverb
I'm a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work the more I have of it.
- Thomas Jefferson
The reason why so few good books are written is that so few people who can write know anything.
- Walter Bagehot
The scientific theory I like best is that the rings of Saturn are composed entirely of lost airline luggage.
- Mark Russell
Water, taken in moderation, cannot hurt anybody.
- Mark Twain
Friday, April 22, 2011
Quotes
You can’t be brave if you’ve only had wonderful things happen to you.
- Mary Tyler Moore
The purpose of life is a life of purpose.
- Robert Byrne
Channeling is just bad ventriloquism. You use another voice, but people can see your lips moving.
- Penn Jillette
Laws are like sausages. It's better not to see them being made.
- Otto von Bismarck
My work is a game, a very serious game.
- M. C. Escher
You probably wouldn't worry about what people think of you if you could know how seldom they do.
- Olin Miller
- Mary Tyler Moore
The purpose of life is a life of purpose.
- Robert Byrne
Channeling is just bad ventriloquism. You use another voice, but people can see your lips moving.
- Penn Jillette
Laws are like sausages. It's better not to see them being made.
- Otto von Bismarck
My work is a game, a very serious game.
- M. C. Escher
You probably wouldn't worry about what people think of you if you could know how seldom they do.
- Olin Miller
Thursday, April 21, 2011
Quotes
Calmness is great advantage. He that lets
Another chafe, may warm him at his first.
- George Herbert
The more things you do, the more you can do.
- Lucille Ball
Risk! Risk anything! Care no more for the opinion of others, for those voices. Do the hardest thing on earth for you. Act for yourself. Face the truth.
- Katherine Mansfield
There is no excellent beauty that hath not some strangeness in the proportion.
- Sir Francis Bacon
You know that children are growing up when they start asking questions that have answers.
- John J. Plomp
Ninety percent of the politicians give the other ten percent a bad reputation.
- Henry Kissinger
Mustard's no good without roast beef.
- Chico Marx
Another chafe, may warm him at his first.
- George Herbert
The more things you do, the more you can do.
- Lucille Ball
Risk! Risk anything! Care no more for the opinion of others, for those voices. Do the hardest thing on earth for you. Act for yourself. Face the truth.
- Katherine Mansfield
There is no excellent beauty that hath not some strangeness in the proportion.
- Sir Francis Bacon
You know that children are growing up when they start asking questions that have answers.
- John J. Plomp
Ninety percent of the politicians give the other ten percent a bad reputation.
- Henry Kissinger
Mustard's no good without roast beef.
- Chico Marx
Wednesday, April 20, 2011
Quotes
The tragedy of life is not so much what men suffer, but rather what they miss.
- Thomas Carlyle
I'm lucky. Lord, I'm lucky.
- Carroll O'Connor
People are, if anything, more touchy about being thought silly than they are about being thought unjust.
- E. B. White
A bore is a man who deprives you of solitude without providing you with company.
- Gian Vincenzo Gravina
Imagine what it would be like if TV actually were good. It would be the end of everything we know.
- Marvin Minsky
A rumor without a leg to stand on will get around some other way.
- John Tudor
- Thomas Carlyle
I'm lucky. Lord, I'm lucky.
- Carroll O'Connor
People are, if anything, more touchy about being thought silly than they are about being thought unjust.
- E. B. White
A bore is a man who deprives you of solitude without providing you with company.
- Gian Vincenzo Gravina
Imagine what it would be like if TV actually were good. It would be the end of everything we know.
- Marvin Minsky
A rumor without a leg to stand on will get around some other way.
- John Tudor
Tuesday, April 19, 2011
Quotes
It is only in sorrow bad weather masters us; in joy we face the storm and defy it.
- Amelia Barr
The best minds are not in government. If any were, business would hire them away.
- Ronald Reagan
She got her looks from her father. He's a plastic surgeon.
- Groucho Marx
If the world should blow itself up, the last audible voice would be that of an expert saying it can't be done.
- Peter Ustinov
Hegel was right when he said that we learn from history that man can never learn anything from history.
- George Bernard Shaw
There are many ways of breaking a heart. Stories were full of hearts broken by love, but what really broke a heart was taking away its dream - whatever that dream might be.
- Pearl S. Buck
- Amelia Barr
The best minds are not in government. If any were, business would hire them away.
- Ronald Reagan
She got her looks from her father. He's a plastic surgeon.
- Groucho Marx
If the world should blow itself up, the last audible voice would be that of an expert saying it can't be done.
- Peter Ustinov
Hegel was right when he said that we learn from history that man can never learn anything from history.
- George Bernard Shaw
There are many ways of breaking a heart. Stories were full of hearts broken by love, but what really broke a heart was taking away its dream - whatever that dream might be.
- Pearl S. Buck
Monday, April 18, 2011
Quotes
What we play is life.
- Louis Armstrong
My doctor gave me six months to live, but when I couldn't pay the bill he gave me six months more.
- Walter Matthau
Cocaine is God's way of saying that you're making too much money.
- Robin Williams
Today's scientists have substituted mathematics for experiments, and they wander off through equation after equation, and eventually build a structure which has no relation to reality.
- Nikola Tesla
It is not a bad idea to get in the habit of writing down one's thoughts. It saves one having to bother anyone else with them.
- Isabel Colegate
It is a curious thing... that every creed promises a paradise which will be absolutely uninhabitable for anyone of civilized taste.
- Evelyn Waugh
- Louis Armstrong
My doctor gave me six months to live, but when I couldn't pay the bill he gave me six months more.
- Walter Matthau
Cocaine is God's way of saying that you're making too much money.
- Robin Williams
Today's scientists have substituted mathematics for experiments, and they wander off through equation after equation, and eventually build a structure which has no relation to reality.
- Nikola Tesla
It is not a bad idea to get in the habit of writing down one's thoughts. It saves one having to bother anyone else with them.
- Isabel Colegate
It is a curious thing... that every creed promises a paradise which will be absolutely uninhabitable for anyone of civilized taste.
- Evelyn Waugh
Sunday, April 17, 2011
Quotes
Happiness is the absence of the striving for happiness.
- Zhuangzi
Now, in reality, the world have paid too great a compliment to critics, and have imagined them to be men of much greater profundity than they really are.
- Henry Fielding
Words ought to be a little wild for they are the assaults of thought on the unthinking.
- John Maynard Keynes
One man's folly is another man's wife.
- Helen Rowland
Quality means doing it right when no one is looking.
- Henry Ford
I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn't learn something from him.
- Galileo Galilei
- Zhuangzi
Now, in reality, the world have paid too great a compliment to critics, and have imagined them to be men of much greater profundity than they really are.
- Henry Fielding
Words ought to be a little wild for they are the assaults of thought on the unthinking.
- John Maynard Keynes
One man's folly is another man's wife.
- Helen Rowland
Quality means doing it right when no one is looking.
- Henry Ford
I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn't learn something from him.
- Galileo Galilei
Saturday, April 16, 2011
Quotes
Let others praise ancient times. I am glad that I was born in these.
- Ovid, Roman poet
Many are called but few get up.
- Oliver Herford
There is an evil tendency underlying all our technology - the tendency to do what is reasonable even when it isn't any good.
- Robert Pirsig
In every work of genius we recognize our own rejected thoughts; they come back to us with a certain alienated majesty.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Your manuscript is both good and original, but the part that is good is not original and the part that is original is not good.
- Samuel Johnson
God help those who do not help themselves.
- Wilson Mizner
Hand: A singular instrument worn at the end of the human arm and commonly thrust into somebody's pocket.
- Ambrose Bierce
- Ovid, Roman poet
Many are called but few get up.
- Oliver Herford
There is an evil tendency underlying all our technology - the tendency to do what is reasonable even when it isn't any good.
- Robert Pirsig
In every work of genius we recognize our own rejected thoughts; they come back to us with a certain alienated majesty.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Your manuscript is both good and original, but the part that is good is not original and the part that is original is not good.
- Samuel Johnson
God help those who do not help themselves.
- Wilson Mizner
Hand: A singular instrument worn at the end of the human arm and commonly thrust into somebody's pocket.
- Ambrose Bierce
Friday, April 15, 2011
Quotes
In action a great heart is the chief qualification. In work, a great head.
- Arthur Schopenhauer
No one means all he says, and yet very few say all they mean, for words are slippery and thought is viscous.
- Henry Adams
I have read your book and much like it.
- Moses Hadas
If one morning I walked on top of the water across the Potomac River, the headline that afternoon would read "President Can't Swim".
- Lyndon B. Johnson
The only thing that saves us from the bureaucracy is inefficiency. An efficient bureaucracy is the greatest threat to liberty.
- Eugene McCarthy
- Arthur Schopenhauer
No one means all he says, and yet very few say all they mean, for words are slippery and thought is viscous.
- Henry Adams
I have read your book and much like it.
- Moses Hadas
If one morning I walked on top of the water across the Potomac River, the headline that afternoon would read "President Can't Swim".
- Lyndon B. Johnson
The only thing that saves us from the bureaucracy is inefficiency. An efficient bureaucracy is the greatest threat to liberty.
- Eugene McCarthy
Tuesday, April 12, 2011
Quotes
I must complain the cards are ill-shuffled, till I have a good hand.”
- Jonathan Swift
Give light, and the darkness will disappear of itself.
- Desiderius Erasmus
He hoped and prayed that there wasn't an afterlife. Then he realized there was a contradiction involved here and merely hoped that there wasn't an afterlife.
- Douglas Adams
A satirist is a man who discovers unpleasant things about himself and then says them about other people.
- Peter McArthur
One of the advantages of being disorderly is that one is constantly making exciting discoveries.
- A. A. Milne
I believe that a scientist looking at nonscientific problems is just as dumb as the next guy.
- Richard Feynman
- Jonathan Swift
Give light, and the darkness will disappear of itself.
- Desiderius Erasmus
He hoped and prayed that there wasn't an afterlife. Then he realized there was a contradiction involved here and merely hoped that there wasn't an afterlife.
- Douglas Adams
A satirist is a man who discovers unpleasant things about himself and then says them about other people.
- Peter McArthur
One of the advantages of being disorderly is that one is constantly making exciting discoveries.
- A. A. Milne
I believe that a scientist looking at nonscientific problems is just as dumb as the next guy.
- Richard Feynman
Monday, April 11, 2011
Quotes
Give to every human being every right that you claim for yourself.
- Robert Green Ingersoll
Do not let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do.
- John Wooden
The most savage controversies are those about matters as to which there is no good evidence either way.
- Bertrand Russell
It is a profitable thing, if one is wise, to seem foolish.
- Aeschylus
Men are not against you; they are merely for themselves.
- Gene Fowler
Good-bye. I am leaving because I am bored.
- George Saunders
- Robert Green Ingersoll
Do not let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do.
- John Wooden
The most savage controversies are those about matters as to which there is no good evidence either way.
- Bertrand Russell
It is a profitable thing, if one is wise, to seem foolish.
- Aeschylus
Men are not against you; they are merely for themselves.
- Gene Fowler
Good-bye. I am leaving because I am bored.
- George Saunders
Saturday, April 9, 2011
Quotes
Follow your bliss and the universe will open doors where there were only walls.
- Joseph Campbell
Nothing changes your opinion of a friend so surely as success - yours or his.
- Franklin P. Jones
There is no expedient to which a man will not go to avoid the labor of thinking.
- Thomas A. Edison
If you tell the truth you don't have to remember anything.
- Mark Twain
If you cannot convince them, confuse them.
- Harry S Truman
- Joseph Campbell
Nothing changes your opinion of a friend so surely as success - yours or his.
- Franklin P. Jones
There is no expedient to which a man will not go to avoid the labor of thinking.
- Thomas A. Edison
If you tell the truth you don't have to remember anything.
- Mark Twain
If you cannot convince them, confuse them.
- Harry S Truman
Friday, April 8, 2011
Climate models go cold
David Evans, Financial Post · Apr. 8, 2011 | Last Updated: Apr. 8, 2011 9:25 AM ET
The debate about global warming has reached ridiculous proportions and is full of micro-thin half-truths and misunderstandings. I am a scientist who was on the carbon gravy train, understands the evidence, was once an alarmist, but am now a skeptic. Watching this issue unfold has been amusing but, lately, worrying. This issue is tearing society apart, making fools out of our politicians.
CLICK HERE.
The debate about global warming has reached ridiculous proportions and is full of micro-thin half-truths and misunderstandings. I am a scientist who was on the carbon gravy train, understands the evidence, was once an alarmist, but am now a skeptic. Watching this issue unfold has been amusing but, lately, worrying. This issue is tearing society apart, making fools out of our politicians.
CLICK HERE.
Quotes
A good listener is not only popular everywhere, but after a while, he knows something.
- Wilson Mizner
If only we'd stop trying to be happy we could have a pretty good time.
- Edith Wharton
A fool's brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry. Hence University education.
- George Bernard Shaw
Humans are the only animals that have children on purpose with the exception of guppies, who like to eat theirs.
- P. J. O'Rourke
I enjoy being a highly overpaid actor.
- Roger Moore
- Wilson Mizner
If only we'd stop trying to be happy we could have a pretty good time.
- Edith Wharton
A fool's brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry. Hence University education.
- George Bernard Shaw
Humans are the only animals that have children on purpose with the exception of guppies, who like to eat theirs.
- P. J. O'Rourke
I enjoy being a highly overpaid actor.
- Roger Moore
Thursday, April 7, 2011
Quotes
Don't fight the problem, decide it.
- George C. Marshall
Good judgment comes from experience, and often experience comes from bad judgment.
- Rita Mae Brown
Half the money I spend on advertising is wasted; the trouble is I don't know which half.
- John Wanamaker
The beginning of knowledge is the discovery of something we do not understand.
- Frank Herbert
Everything you've learned in school as "obvious" becomes less and less obvious as you begin to study the universe. For example, there are no solids in the universe. There's not even a suggestion of a solid. There are no absolute continuums. There are no surfaces. There are no straight lines.
- R. Buckminster Fuller
- George C. Marshall
Good judgment comes from experience, and often experience comes from bad judgment.
- Rita Mae Brown
Half the money I spend on advertising is wasted; the trouble is I don't know which half.
- John Wanamaker
The beginning of knowledge is the discovery of something we do not understand.
- Frank Herbert
Everything you've learned in school as "obvious" becomes less and less obvious as you begin to study the universe. For example, there are no solids in the universe. There's not even a suggestion of a solid. There are no absolute continuums. There are no surfaces. There are no straight lines.
- R. Buckminster Fuller
Wednesday, April 6, 2011
Quotes
The time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time.
- Bertrand Russell
All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy and Jill a rich widow.
- Evan Esar
Golf and sex are about the only things you can enjoy without being good at.
- Jimmy Demaret
I no longer prepare food or drink with more than one ingredient.
- Cyra McFadden
- Bertrand Russell
All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy and Jill a rich widow.
- Evan Esar
Golf and sex are about the only things you can enjoy without being good at.
- Jimmy Demaret
I no longer prepare food or drink with more than one ingredient.
- Cyra McFadden
Tuesday, April 5, 2011
Can order be unplanned?
Can order be unplanned?
John Stossel - Spontaneous Order
Planned Orders vs. Spontaneous Orders-Which Ones are Better?
John Stossel - Spontaneous Order
Planned Orders vs. Spontaneous Orders-Which Ones are Better?
Quotes
Walk while ye have the light, lest darkness come upon you.
- John Ruskin
Seeing ourselves as others see us would probably confirm our worst suspicions about them.
- Franklin P. Adams
I have yet to see any problem, however complicated, which, when you looked at it in the right way, did not become still more complicated.
- Poul Anderson
Egotism is the anesthetic that dulls the pain of stupidity.
- Frank Leahy
Historians are like deaf people who go on answering questions that no one has asked them.
- Leo Tolstoy
- John Ruskin
Seeing ourselves as others see us would probably confirm our worst suspicions about them.
- Franklin P. Adams
I have yet to see any problem, however complicated, which, when you looked at it in the right way, did not become still more complicated.
- Poul Anderson
Egotism is the anesthetic that dulls the pain of stupidity.
- Frank Leahy
Historians are like deaf people who go on answering questions that no one has asked them.
- Leo Tolstoy
Monday, April 4, 2011
Quotes
It is a general popular error to imagine the loudest complainers for the public to be the most anxious for its welfare.
- Edmund Burke
If you can't dazzle them with brilliance, baffle them with bull.
- W. C. Fields
Old age is the most unexpected of things that can happen to a man.
- Leon Trotsky
A magician pulls rabbits out of hats. An experimental psychologist pulls habits out of rats.
- Anonymous
USA Today has come out with a new survey - apparently, three out of every four people make up 75% of the population.
- David Letterman
When I was kidnapped, my parents snapped into action. They rented out my room.
- Woody Allen
- Edmund Burke
If you can't dazzle them with brilliance, baffle them with bull.
- W. C. Fields
Old age is the most unexpected of things that can happen to a man.
- Leon Trotsky
A magician pulls rabbits out of hats. An experimental psychologist pulls habits out of rats.
- Anonymous
USA Today has come out with a new survey - apparently, three out of every four people make up 75% of the population.
- David Letterman
When I was kidnapped, my parents snapped into action. They rented out my room.
- Woody Allen
Sunday, April 3, 2011
Quotes
Arriving at one goal is the starting point to another.
- John Dewey
You need only reflect that one of the best ways to get yourself a reputation as a dangerous citizen these days is to go about repeating the very phrases which our founding fathers used in the struggle for independence.
- Charles Austin Beard
Happiness is an imaginary condition, formerly attributed by the living to the dead, now usually attributed by adults to children, and by children to adults.
- Thomas Szasz
I never think of the future - it comes soon enough.
- Albert Einstein
Any fool can tell the truth, but it requires a man of some sense to know how to lie well.
- Samuel Butler
- John Dewey
You need only reflect that one of the best ways to get yourself a reputation as a dangerous citizen these days is to go about repeating the very phrases which our founding fathers used in the struggle for independence.
- Charles Austin Beard
Happiness is an imaginary condition, formerly attributed by the living to the dead, now usually attributed by adults to children, and by children to adults.
- Thomas Szasz
I never think of the future - it comes soon enough.
- Albert Einstein
Any fool can tell the truth, but it requires a man of some sense to know how to lie well.
- Samuel Butler
Saturday, April 2, 2011
Quotes
The Soul is the voice of the body's interests.
- George Santayana
My definition of an expert in any field is a person who knows enough about what's really going on to be scared.
- P. J. Plauger
I have long been of the opinion that if work were such a splendid thing the rich would have kept more of it for themselves.
- Bruce Grocott
The best way to keep children home is to make the home atmosphere pleasant--and let the air out of the tires.
- Dorothy Parker
- George Santayana
My definition of an expert in any field is a person who knows enough about what's really going on to be scared.
- P. J. Plauger
I have long been of the opinion that if work were such a splendid thing the rich would have kept more of it for themselves.
- Bruce Grocott
The best way to keep children home is to make the home atmosphere pleasant--and let the air out of the tires.
- Dorothy Parker
Friday, April 1, 2011
Quotes
Everything has been figured out, except how to live.
- Jean-Paul Sartre
A man's silence is wonderful to listen to.
- Thomas Hardy
People want economy and they will pay any price to get it.
- Lee Iacocca
Laugh and the world laughs with you, snore and you sleep alone.
- Anthony Burgess
Boys will be boys, and so will a lot of middle-aged men.
- Kin Hubbard
- Jean-Paul Sartre
A man's silence is wonderful to listen to.
- Thomas Hardy
People want economy and they will pay any price to get it.
- Lee Iacocca
Laugh and the world laughs with you, snore and you sleep alone.
- Anthony Burgess
Boys will be boys, and so will a lot of middle-aged men.
- Kin Hubbard
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