The greatest way to live with honor in this world is to be what we pretend to be.
- Socrates
Writing well mean never having to say, 'I guess you had to be there.'
- Jef Mallett
Communism is like one big phone company.
- Lenny Bruce
Well, if crime fighters fight crime and fire fighters fight fire, what do freedom fighters fight? They never mention that part to us, do they?
- George Carlin
Always do right. This will gratify some people and astonish the rest.
- Mark Twain
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Sunday, May 29, 2011
Quotes
Tell me and I forget. Teach me and I remember. Involve me and I learn.
- Benjamin Franklin
Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood. Now is the time to understand more, so that we may fear less.
- Marie Curie
I do not have a psychiatrist and I do not want one, for the simple reason that if he listened to me long enough, he might become disturbed.
- James Thurber
We were happily married for eight months. Unfortunately, we were married for four and a half years.
- Nick Faldo
A stitch in time would have confused Einstein.
- Unknown
- Benjamin Franklin
Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood. Now is the time to understand more, so that we may fear less.
- Marie Curie
I do not have a psychiatrist and I do not want one, for the simple reason that if he listened to me long enough, he might become disturbed.
- James Thurber
We were happily married for eight months. Unfortunately, we were married for four and a half years.
- Nick Faldo
A stitch in time would have confused Einstein.
- Unknown
Saturday, May 28, 2011
Quotes
Hide not your talents. They for use were made. What's a sundial in the shade?
- Benjamin Franklin
Silence is one of the hardest arguments to refute.
- Josh Billings
Happiness makes up in height for what it lacks in length.
- Robert Frost
Cogito cogito ergo cogito sum (I think that I think, therefore I think that I am.)
- Ambrose Bierce
Every hero becomes a bore at last.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
- Benjamin Franklin
Silence is one of the hardest arguments to refute.
- Josh Billings
Happiness makes up in height for what it lacks in length.
- Robert Frost
Cogito cogito ergo cogito sum (I think that I think, therefore I think that I am.)
- Ambrose Bierce
Every hero becomes a bore at last.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Tuesday, May 24, 2011
Quotes
Habit is a cable; we weave a thread of it each day, and at last we cannot break it.
- Horace Mann
The government's view of the economy could be summed up in a few short phrases: If it moves, tax it. If it keeps moving, regulate it. And if it stops moving, subsidize it.
- Ronald Reagan
Everything in the world may be endured except continued prosperity.
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
I find television very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go into the other room and read a book.
- Groucho Marx
I suppose that I shall have to die beyond my means.
- Oscar Wilde
- Horace Mann
The government's view of the economy could be summed up in a few short phrases: If it moves, tax it. If it keeps moving, regulate it. And if it stops moving, subsidize it.
- Ronald Reagan
Everything in the world may be endured except continued prosperity.
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
I find television very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go into the other room and read a book.
- Groucho Marx
I suppose that I shall have to die beyond my means.
- Oscar Wilde
Monday, May 23, 2011
Quotes
Dream as if you'll live forever. Live as if you'll die today.
- James Dean
Facts are the enemy of truth.
- Miguel de Cervantes
It is not bigotry to be certain we are right; but it is bigotry to be unable to imagine how we might possibly have gone wrong.
- G. K. Chesterton
Everywhere I go I'm asked if I think the university stifles writers. My opinion is that they don't stifle enough of them. There's many a best-seller that could have been prevented by a good teacher.
- Flannery O'Connor
A committee is a cul-de-sac down which ideas are lured and then quietly strangled.
- Sir Barnett Cocks
- James Dean
Facts are the enemy of truth.
- Miguel de Cervantes
It is not bigotry to be certain we are right; but it is bigotry to be unable to imagine how we might possibly have gone wrong.
- G. K. Chesterton
Everywhere I go I'm asked if I think the university stifles writers. My opinion is that they don't stifle enough of them. There's many a best-seller that could have been prevented by a good teacher.
- Flannery O'Connor
A committee is a cul-de-sac down which ideas are lured and then quietly strangled.
- Sir Barnett Cocks
Sunday, May 22, 2011
Quotes
Just trust yourself, then you will know how to live.
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
The most radical revolutionary will become a conservative the day after the revolution.
- Hannah Arendt
Mediocrity knows nothing higher than itself, but talent instantly recognizes genius.
- Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
No one really listens to anyone else, and if you try it for a while you'll see why.
- Mignon McLaughlin
The only way to discover the limits of the possible is to go beyond them into the impossible.
- Arthur C. Clarke
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
The most radical revolutionary will become a conservative the day after the revolution.
- Hannah Arendt
Mediocrity knows nothing higher than itself, but talent instantly recognizes genius.
- Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
No one really listens to anyone else, and if you try it for a while you'll see why.
- Mignon McLaughlin
The only way to discover the limits of the possible is to go beyond them into the impossible.
- Arthur C. Clarke
Saturday, May 21, 2011
Quotes
Politeness is the flower of humanity.
- Joseph Joubert
I think age is a very high price to pay for maturity.
- Tom Stoppard
If the English language made any sense, a catastrophe would be an apostrophe with fur.
- Doug Larson
Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some hire public relations officers.
- Daniel J. Boorstin
Talk sense to a fool and he calls you foolish.
- Euripides
- Joseph Joubert
I think age is a very high price to pay for maturity.
- Tom Stoppard
If the English language made any sense, a catastrophe would be an apostrophe with fur.
- Doug Larson
Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some hire public relations officers.
- Daniel J. Boorstin
Talk sense to a fool and he calls you foolish.
- Euripides
Thursday, May 19, 2011
Quotes
Never cut what you can untie.
- Joseph Joubert
The future is here. It's just not widely distributed yet.
- William Gibson
The human race has one really effective weapon, and that is laughter.
- Mark Twain
Competence, like truth, beauty and contact lenses, is in the eye of the beholder.
- Laurence J. Peter
Most people ignore most poetry / because / most poetry ignores most people.
- Adrian Mitchell
- Joseph Joubert
The future is here. It's just not widely distributed yet.
- William Gibson
The human race has one really effective weapon, and that is laughter.
- Mark Twain
Competence, like truth, beauty and contact lenses, is in the eye of the beholder.
- Laurence J. Peter
Most people ignore most poetry / because / most poetry ignores most people.
- Adrian Mitchell
Tuesday, May 17, 2011
Quotes
True strength is delicate.
- Louise Berliawsky Nevelson
Read, every day, something no one else is reading. Think, every day, something no one else is thinking. Do, every day, something no one else would be silly enough to do. It is bad for the mind to be always part of unanimity.
- Christopher Morley
A truly great book should be read in youth, again in maturity and once more in old age, as a fine building should be seen by morning light, at noon and by moonlight.
- Robertson Davies
I would never die for my beliefs because I might be wrong. - Bertrand Russell
Though I am not naturally honest, I am so sometimes by chance.
- William Shakespeare
- Louise Berliawsky Nevelson
Read, every day, something no one else is reading. Think, every day, something no one else is thinking. Do, every day, something no one else would be silly enough to do. It is bad for the mind to be always part of unanimity.
- Christopher Morley
A truly great book should be read in youth, again in maturity and once more in old age, as a fine building should be seen by morning light, at noon and by moonlight.
- Robertson Davies
I would never die for my beliefs because I might be wrong. - Bertrand Russell
Though I am not naturally honest, I am so sometimes by chance.
- William Shakespeare
Sunday, May 15, 2011
Quotes
Living is more a question of what one spends than what one makes.
- Marcel Duchamp
Money can't buy happiness, but neither can poverty.
- Leo Rosten
Some editors are failed writers, but so are most writers.
- T. S. Eliot
An incompetent attorney can delay a trial for months or years. A competent attorney can delay one even longer.
- Evelle J. Younger
Everybody gets so much information all day long that they lose their common sense.
- Gertrude Stein
- Marcel Duchamp
Money can't buy happiness, but neither can poverty.
- Leo Rosten
Some editors are failed writers, but so are most writers.
- T. S. Eliot
An incompetent attorney can delay a trial for months or years. A competent attorney can delay one even longer.
- Evelle J. Younger
Everybody gets so much information all day long that they lose their common sense.
- Gertrude Stein
Saturday, May 14, 2011
Quotes
Others have seen what is and asked why. I have seen what could be and asked why not. - Pablo Picasso
Give a man a fish, and he'll eat for a day. Give a fish a man, and he'll eat for weeks! - Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata
Human beings are perhaps never more frightening than when they are convinced beyond doubt that they are right. - Laurens Van der Post
There is no kind of dishonesty into which otherwise good people more easily and frequently fall than that of defrauding the government. - Benjamin Franklin
Howard Hughes was able to afford the luxury of madness, like a man who not only thinks he is Napoleon but hires an army to prove it. - Ted Morgan
Give a man a fish, and he'll eat for a day. Give a fish a man, and he'll eat for weeks! - Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata
Human beings are perhaps never more frightening than when they are convinced beyond doubt that they are right. - Laurens Van der Post
There is no kind of dishonesty into which otherwise good people more easily and frequently fall than that of defrauding the government. - Benjamin Franklin
Howard Hughes was able to afford the luxury of madness, like a man who not only thinks he is Napoleon but hires an army to prove it. - Ted Morgan
Tuesday, May 10, 2011
Quotes
The coward dies a thousand deaths, the brave man...only five hundred.
- Meredith Willson
The lion and the calf shall lie down together but the calf won't get much sleep.
- Woody Allen
If there's anything unsettling to the stomach, it's watching actors on television talk about their personal lives.
- Marlon Brando
I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it.
- Voltaire
The way to know life is to love many things.
- Vincent Van Gogh
- Meredith Willson
The lion and the calf shall lie down together but the calf won't get much sleep.
- Woody Allen
If there's anything unsettling to the stomach, it's watching actors on television talk about their personal lives.
- Marlon Brando
I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it.
- Voltaire
The way to know life is to love many things.
- Vincent Van Gogh
Monday, May 9, 2011
Quotes
Things we do not expect, happen more frequently than we wish.
- Titus Maccius Plautus
A door is what a dog is perpetually on the wrong side of.
- Ogden Nash
The advantage of a bad memory is that one enjoys several times the same good things for the first time.
- Friedrich Nietzsche
Liberals are very broadminded: they are always willing to give careful consideration to both sides of the same side.
- Anonymous
Never put off until tomorrow what you can do the day after tomorrow.
- Mark Twain
- Titus Maccius Plautus
A door is what a dog is perpetually on the wrong side of.
- Ogden Nash
The advantage of a bad memory is that one enjoys several times the same good things for the first time.
- Friedrich Nietzsche
Liberals are very broadminded: they are always willing to give careful consideration to both sides of the same side.
- Anonymous
Never put off until tomorrow what you can do the day after tomorrow.
- Mark Twain
Sunday, May 8, 2011
Quotes
I know God will not give me anything I can’t handle. I just wish that He didn’t trust me so much.
- MOTHER TERESA
TO ENDURE THE UNENDURABLE IS TRUE ENDURANCE.
- Japanese proverb
The love of a mother is the veil of a softer light between the heart and the heavenly Father.
- Samuel Taylor Coleridge
You know you're getting old when you stoop to tie your shoelaces and wonder what else you could do while you're down there.
- George Burns
Love is the difficult realization that something other than oneself is real.
- Iris Murdoch
Technology is dominated by two types of people: those who understand what they do not manage, and those who manage what they do not understand.
- Putt's Law
Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there.
- Will Rogers
- MOTHER TERESA
TO ENDURE THE UNENDURABLE IS TRUE ENDURANCE.
- Japanese proverb
The love of a mother is the veil of a softer light between the heart and the heavenly Father.
- Samuel Taylor Coleridge
You know you're getting old when you stoop to tie your shoelaces and wonder what else you could do while you're down there.
- George Burns
Love is the difficult realization that something other than oneself is real.
- Iris Murdoch
Technology is dominated by two types of people: those who understand what they do not manage, and those who manage what they do not understand.
- Putt's Law
Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there.
- Will Rogers
Saturday, May 7, 2011
Quote
Variety's the very spice of life, that gives it all its flavor.
- William Cowper
I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them.
- Ian Fleming
The belief in a supernatural source of evil is not necessary; men alone are quite capable of every wickedness.
- Joseph Conrad
When the politicians complain that TV turns the proceedings into a circus, it should be made clear that the circus was already there, and that TV has merely demonstrated that not all the performers are well trained.
- Edward R. Murrow
If you don't find it in the index, look very carefully through the entire catalogue.
- Unknown
- William Cowper
I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them.
- Ian Fleming
The belief in a supernatural source of evil is not necessary; men alone are quite capable of every wickedness.
- Joseph Conrad
When the politicians complain that TV turns the proceedings into a circus, it should be made clear that the circus was already there, and that TV has merely demonstrated that not all the performers are well trained.
- Edward R. Murrow
If you don't find it in the index, look very carefully through the entire catalogue.
- Unknown
Friday, May 6, 2011
Quotes
Listen to many, speak to a few.
- William Shakespeare
Part of the inhumanity of the computer is that, once it is competently programmed and working smoothly, it is completely honest.
- Isaac Asimov
Life being what it is, one dreams of revenge.
- Paul Gauguin
Arithmetic is being able to count up to twenty without taking off your shoes.
- Mickey Mouse
A myth is a religion in which no one any longer believes.
- James Feibleman
- William Shakespeare
Part of the inhumanity of the computer is that, once it is competently programmed and working smoothly, it is completely honest.
- Isaac Asimov
Life being what it is, one dreams of revenge.
- Paul Gauguin
Arithmetic is being able to count up to twenty without taking off your shoes.
- Mickey Mouse
A myth is a religion in which no one any longer believes.
- James Feibleman
Thursday, May 5, 2011
Quotes
The sweetest of all sounds is praise.
- Xenophon
Discretion is not the better part of biography.
- Lytton Strachey
When we ask for advice, we are usually looking for an accomplice.
- Marquis de la Grange
Science has proof without any certainty. Creationists have certainty without any proof.
- Ashley Montague
Nothing succeeds like the appearance of success.
- Christopher Lasch
- Xenophon
Discretion is not the better part of biography.
- Lytton Strachey
When we ask for advice, we are usually looking for an accomplice.
- Marquis de la Grange
Science has proof without any certainty. Creationists have certainty without any proof.
- Ashley Montague
Nothing succeeds like the appearance of success.
- Christopher Lasch
Wednesday, May 4, 2011
Quotes
Ambition can creep as well as soar.
- Edmund Burke
I finally figured out the only reason to be alive is to enjoy it.
- Rita Mae Brown
The chief obstacle to the progress of the human race is the human race.
- Don Marquis
Classical music is the kind we keep thinking will turn into a tune.
- Kin Hubbard
There's a difference between a philosophy and a bumper sticker.
- Charles M. Schulz
- Edmund Burke
I finally figured out the only reason to be alive is to enjoy it.
- Rita Mae Brown
The chief obstacle to the progress of the human race is the human race.
- Don Marquis
Classical music is the kind we keep thinking will turn into a tune.
- Kin Hubbard
There's a difference between a philosophy and a bumper sticker.
- Charles M. Schulz
Tuesday, May 3, 2011
Quotes
Clarity is the counterbalance of profound thoughts.
- Marquis De Vauvenargues
Whenever I dwell for any length of time on my own shortcomings, they gradually begin to seem mild, harmless, rather engaging little things, not at all like the staring defects in other people's characters.
- Margaret Halsey
The people I distrust most are those who want to improve our lives but have only one course of action.
- Frank Herbert
Any American who is prepared to run for president should automatically, by definition, be disqualified from ever doing so.
- Gore Vidal
Eternity's a terrible thought. I mean, where's it all going to end?
- Tom Stoppard
You can no more win a war than you can win an earthquake.
- Jeannette Rankin
- Marquis De Vauvenargues
Whenever I dwell for any length of time on my own shortcomings, they gradually begin to seem mild, harmless, rather engaging little things, not at all like the staring defects in other people's characters.
- Margaret Halsey
The people I distrust most are those who want to improve our lives but have only one course of action.
- Frank Herbert
Any American who is prepared to run for president should automatically, by definition, be disqualified from ever doing so.
- Gore Vidal
Eternity's a terrible thought. I mean, where's it all going to end?
- Tom Stoppard
You can no more win a war than you can win an earthquake.
- Jeannette Rankin
Monday, May 2, 2011
Quotes
Cease to inquire what the future has in store, and take as a gift whatever the day brings forth.
- Horace
We know what happens to people who stay in the middle of the road. They get run over.
- Aneurin Bevan
If you believe the doctors, nothing is wholesome; if you believe the theologians, nothing is innocent; if you believe the military, nothing is safe.
- Lord Salisbury
Time is an illusion. Lunchtime doubly so.
- Douglas Adams
Politics is the art of preventing people from taking part in affairs which properly concern them.
- Paul Valery
- Horace
We know what happens to people who stay in the middle of the road. They get run over.
- Aneurin Bevan
If you believe the doctors, nothing is wholesome; if you believe the theologians, nothing is innocent; if you believe the military, nothing is safe.
- Lord Salisbury
Time is an illusion. Lunchtime doubly so.
- Douglas Adams
Politics is the art of preventing people from taking part in affairs which properly concern them.
- Paul Valery
Sunday, May 1, 2011
Quote
Anyone who knows anything of history knows that great social changes are impossible without feminine upheaval. Social progress can be measured exactly by the social position of the fair sex, the ugly ones included.
- Karl Marx
So why are there still socialists and communists? This has all come to pass under capitalism. Why do the left give a free pass to radical Islam?
- Karl Marx
So why are there still socialists and communists? This has all come to pass under capitalism. Why do the left give a free pass to radical Islam?
Quotes
The first recipe for happiness is: Avoid too lengthy meditation on the past.
- Andre Maurois
There art two cardinal sins from which all others spring: Impatience and Laziness.
- Franz Kafka
The point of quotations is that one can use another's words to be insulting.
- Amanda Cross
Politicians should read science fiction, not westerns and detective stories.
- Arthur C. Clarke
You can't have everything. Where would you put it?
- Steven Wright
- Andre Maurois
There art two cardinal sins from which all others spring: Impatience and Laziness.
- Franz Kafka
The point of quotations is that one can use another's words to be insulting.
- Amanda Cross
Politicians should read science fiction, not westerns and detective stories.
- Arthur C. Clarke
You can't have everything. Where would you put it?
- Steven Wright
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