Face the facts of being what you are, for that is what changes what you are. - Soren Kierkegaard
Whoso would be a man must be a nonconformist. - Ralph Waldo Emerson
Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one. - Albert Einstein
The penalty for success is to be bored by the people who used to snub you. - Nancy Astor
Nothing shocks me. I'm a scientist. - Harrison Ford
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Friday, September 30, 2011
Thursday, September 29, 2011
Quotes
We employ the mind to rule, the body to serve. - Sallust
Man is the only animal that laughs and weeps, for he is the only animal that is struck with the difference between what things are and what they ought to be. - William Hazlitt
Everybody lies, but it doesn't matter because nobody listens. - Nick Diamos
'Tis an ill wind that blows no minds. - Malaclypse the Younger
It is impossible to imagine Goethe or Beethoven being good at billiards or golf. - H. L. Mencken
Man is the only animal that laughs and weeps, for he is the only animal that is struck with the difference between what things are and what they ought to be. - William Hazlitt
Everybody lies, but it doesn't matter because nobody listens. - Nick Diamos
'Tis an ill wind that blows no minds. - Malaclypse the Younger
It is impossible to imagine Goethe or Beethoven being good at billiards or golf. - H. L. Mencken
Wednesday, September 28, 2011
Quotes
If you have God on your side, everything becomes clear. - Ayrton Senna
I had an epiphany a few years ago where I was out at a celebrity party and it suddenly dawned on me that I had yet to meet a celebrity who is as smart and interesting as any of my friends. - Moby
Devotees of grammatical studies have not been distinguished for any very remarkable felicities of expression. - Amos Bronson Alcott
He was a genius - that is to say, a man who does superlatively and without obvious effort something that most people cannot do by the uttermost exertion of their abilities. - Robertson Davies
My definition of a free society is a society where it is safe to be unpopular. - Adlai E. Stevenson Jr.
I had an epiphany a few years ago where I was out at a celebrity party and it suddenly dawned on me that I had yet to meet a celebrity who is as smart and interesting as any of my friends. - Moby
Devotees of grammatical studies have not been distinguished for any very remarkable felicities of expression. - Amos Bronson Alcott
He was a genius - that is to say, a man who does superlatively and without obvious effort something that most people cannot do by the uttermost exertion of their abilities. - Robertson Davies
My definition of a free society is a society where it is safe to be unpopular. - Adlai E. Stevenson Jr.
Tuesday, September 27, 2011
Quotes
The only way to predict the future is to have power to shape the future. - Eric Hoffer
All phone calls are obscene. - Karen Elizabeth Gordon
Thanks to the Interstate Highway System, it is now possible to travel from coast to coast without seeing anything. - Charles Kuralt Barnum was wrong - it's more like every 30 seconds. - Unknown
Aristotle maintained that women have fewer teeth than men; although he was twice married, it never occurred to him to verify this statement by examining his wives' mouths. - Bertrand Russell
All phone calls are obscene. - Karen Elizabeth Gordon
Thanks to the Interstate Highway System, it is now possible to travel from coast to coast without seeing anything. - Charles Kuralt Barnum was wrong - it's more like every 30 seconds. - Unknown
Aristotle maintained that women have fewer teeth than men; although he was twice married, it never occurred to him to verify this statement by examining his wives' mouths. - Bertrand Russell
Monday, September 26, 2011
Quotes
A thing well done is worth doing. - Hugh Leonard
The place where optimism most flourishes is the lunatic asylum. - Havelock Ellis
Quit worrying about your health. It'll go away. - Robert Orben
'Who are you and how did you get in here?' 'I'm a locksmith. And, I'm a locksmith.' - Leslie Nielsen
It is better to be quotable than to be honest. - Tom Stoppard
The place where optimism most flourishes is the lunatic asylum. - Havelock Ellis
Quit worrying about your health. It'll go away. - Robert Orben
'Who are you and how did you get in here?' 'I'm a locksmith. And, I'm a locksmith.' - Leslie Nielsen
It is better to be quotable than to be honest. - Tom Stoppard
Sunday, September 25, 2011
Quotes
Calmness is the cradle of power. - J. G. Holland
A positive attitude may not solve all your problems, but it will annoy enough people to make it worth the effort. - Herm
Albright Living hell is the best revenge. - Adrienne E. Gusoff
A sense of humor is part of the art of leadership, of getting along with people, of getting things done. - Dwight D. Eisenhower
Ah, this is obviously some strange usage of the word 'safe' that I wasn't previously aware of. - Douglas Adams
A positive attitude may not solve all your problems, but it will annoy enough people to make it worth the effort. - Herm
Albright Living hell is the best revenge. - Adrienne E. Gusoff
A sense of humor is part of the art of leadership, of getting along with people, of getting things done. - Dwight D. Eisenhower
Ah, this is obviously some strange usage of the word 'safe' that I wasn't previously aware of. - Douglas Adams
Saturday, September 24, 2011
Quotes
The past is really almost as much a work of the imagination as the future. - Jessamyn West
Hollywood is a place where they'll pay you a thousand dollars for a kiss and fifty cents for your soul. - Marilyn Monroe
An author is a fool who, not content with boring those he lives with, insists on boring future generations. - Charles de Montesquieu
The only winner in the War of 1812 was Tchaikovsky. - Solomon
Short 2 is not equal to 3, not even for large values of 2. - Grabel's Law
Hollywood is a place where they'll pay you a thousand dollars for a kiss and fifty cents for your soul. - Marilyn Monroe
An author is a fool who, not content with boring those he lives with, insists on boring future generations. - Charles de Montesquieu
The only winner in the War of 1812 was Tchaikovsky. - Solomon
Short 2 is not equal to 3, not even for large values of 2. - Grabel's Law
Friday, September 23, 2011
Quotes
When unhappy, one doubts everything; when happy, one doubts nothing. - Joseph Roux
We need anything politically important rationed out like Pez: small, sweet, and coming out of a funny, plastic head. - Dennis Miller
In order to preserve your self-respect, it is sometimes necessary to lie and cheat. - Robert Byrne
By the time we've made it, we've had it. - Malcolm Forbes
Some men are born mediocre, some men achieve mediocrity, and some men have mediocrity thrust upon them. - Joseph Heller
We need anything politically important rationed out like Pez: small, sweet, and coming out of a funny, plastic head. - Dennis Miller
In order to preserve your self-respect, it is sometimes necessary to lie and cheat. - Robert Byrne
By the time we've made it, we've had it. - Malcolm Forbes
Some men are born mediocre, some men achieve mediocrity, and some men have mediocrity thrust upon them. - Joseph Heller
Thursday, September 22, 2011
Quotes
The main thing is to know something and to say it. - Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
In the land of the blind, the one-eyed man is stoned to death. - Joan D. Vinge
The more I want to get something done, the less I call it work. - Richard Bach
Three may keep a secret, if two of them are dead. - Benjamin Franklin
If mankind minus one were of one opinion, then mankind is no more justified in silencing the one than the one - if he had the power - would be justified in silencing mankind. - John Stuart Mill
In the land of the blind, the one-eyed man is stoned to death. - Joan D. Vinge
The more I want to get something done, the less I call it work. - Richard Bach
Three may keep a secret, if two of them are dead. - Benjamin Franklin
If mankind minus one were of one opinion, then mankind is no more justified in silencing the one than the one - if he had the power - would be justified in silencing mankind. - John Stuart Mill
Wednesday, September 21, 2011
Quotes
The hardest thing is to take less when you can get more. - Kin Hubbard
No man needs a vacation so much as the man who has just had one. - Elbert Hubbard
Humor is everywhere, in that there's irony in just about anything a human does. - Bill Nye
Every man serves a useful purpose: A miser, for example, makes a wonderful ancestor. - Laurence J. Peter
Reminds me of my safari in Africa. Somebody forgot the corkscrew and for several days we had to live on nothing but food and water. - W. C. Fields
No man needs a vacation so much as the man who has just had one. - Elbert Hubbard
Humor is everywhere, in that there's irony in just about anything a human does. - Bill Nye
Every man serves a useful purpose: A miser, for example, makes a wonderful ancestor. - Laurence J. Peter
Reminds me of my safari in Africa. Somebody forgot the corkscrew and for several days we had to live on nothing but food and water. - W. C. Fields
Tuesday, September 20, 2011
Quotes
Nothing which has entered into our experience is ever lost. - William Ellery Channing
I hope that when I die, people say about me, 'Boy, that guy sure owed me a lot of money.' - Jack Handey
Elections are won by men and women chiefly because most people vote against somebody rather than for somebody. - Franklin P. Adams
If only we'd stop trying to be happy we could have a pretty good time. - Edith Wharton
It is only possible to live happily ever after on a day-to-day basis. - Margaret Bonnano
I hope that when I die, people say about me, 'Boy, that guy sure owed me a lot of money.' - Jack Handey
Elections are won by men and women chiefly because most people vote against somebody rather than for somebody. - Franklin P. Adams
If only we'd stop trying to be happy we could have a pretty good time. - Edith Wharton
It is only possible to live happily ever after on a day-to-day basis. - Margaret Bonnano
Monday, September 19, 2011
Quotes
Never be afraid to sit awhile and think. - Lorraine Hansberry
We Americans live in a nation where the medical-care system is second to none in the world, unless you count maybe 25 or 30 little scuzzball countries like Scotland that we could vaporize in seconds if we felt like it. - Dave Barry
About the most originality that any writer can hope to achieve honestly is to steal with good judgment. - Josh Billings
Nobody realizes that some people expend tremendous energy merely to be normal. - Albert Camus
Liberals are very broadminded: they are always willing to give careful consideration to both sides of the same side. - Anonymous
We Americans live in a nation where the medical-care system is second to none in the world, unless you count maybe 25 or 30 little scuzzball countries like Scotland that we could vaporize in seconds if we felt like it. - Dave Barry
About the most originality that any writer can hope to achieve honestly is to steal with good judgment. - Josh Billings
Nobody realizes that some people expend tremendous energy merely to be normal. - Albert Camus
Liberals are very broadminded: they are always willing to give careful consideration to both sides of the same side. - Anonymous
Sunday, September 18, 2011
Quotes
Everybody needs somebody. - Mahalia Jackson
The reason why worry kills more people than work is that more people worry than work. - Robert Frost
An economist is a surgeon with an excellent scalpel and a rough-edged lancet, who operates beautifully on the dead and tortures the living. - Nicholas Chamfort
If you're not part of the solution, you're part of the precipitate. - Henry J. Tillman
A motion to adjourn is always in order. - Robert Heinlein
The reason why worry kills more people than work is that more people worry than work. - Robert Frost
An economist is a surgeon with an excellent scalpel and a rough-edged lancet, who operates beautifully on the dead and tortures the living. - Nicholas Chamfort
If you're not part of the solution, you're part of the precipitate. - Henry J. Tillman
A motion to adjourn is always in order. - Robert Heinlein
Saturday, September 17, 2011
Friday, September 16, 2011
Quotes
I have no riches but my thoughts. Yet these are wealth enough for me. - Sara Teasdale
Saying what we think gives us a wider conversational range than saying what we know. - Cullen Hightower
People everywhere confuse what they read in newspapers with news. - A. J. Liebling
Cynics regarded everybody as equally corrupt... Idealists regarded everybody as equally corrupt, except themselves. - Robert Anton Wilson
The report of my death was an exaggeration. - Mark Twain
Saying what we think gives us a wider conversational range than saying what we know. - Cullen Hightower
People everywhere confuse what they read in newspapers with news. - A. J. Liebling
Cynics regarded everybody as equally corrupt... Idealists regarded everybody as equally corrupt, except themselves. - Robert Anton Wilson
The report of my death was an exaggeration. - Mark Twain
Thursday, September 15, 2011
Quotes
My life is every moment of my life. It is not a culmination of the past. - Hugh Leonard
There is nothing more demoralizing than a small but adequate income. - Edmund Wilson
Beware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it, and finds himself no wiser than before... He is full of murderous resentment of people who are ignorant without having come by their ignorance the hard way. - Kurt Vonnegut
To my embarrassment I was born in bed with a lady. - Wilson Mizner
Not only is there no God, but try getting a plumber on weekends. - Woody Allen
There is nothing more demoralizing than a small but adequate income. - Edmund Wilson
Beware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it, and finds himself no wiser than before... He is full of murderous resentment of people who are ignorant without having come by their ignorance the hard way. - Kurt Vonnegut
To my embarrassment I was born in bed with a lady. - Wilson Mizner
Not only is there no God, but try getting a plumber on weekends. - Woody Allen
Wednesday, September 14, 2011
Quotes
The future is no more uncertain than the present. - Walt Whitman
Life is a fatal complaint, and an eminently contagious one. - Oliver Wendell Holmes
The Constitution gives every American the inalienable right to make a damn fool of himself. - John Ciardi
If there's anything unsettling to the stomach, it's watching actors on television talk about their personal lives. - Marlon Brando
It's all right letting yourself go as long as you can let yourself back. - Mick Jagger
Life is a fatal complaint, and an eminently contagious one. - Oliver Wendell Holmes
The Constitution gives every American the inalienable right to make a damn fool of himself. - John Ciardi
If there's anything unsettling to the stomach, it's watching actors on television talk about their personal lives. - Marlon Brando
It's all right letting yourself go as long as you can let yourself back. - Mick Jagger
Tuesday, September 13, 2011
Quotes
The only way to have a friend is to be one. - Ralph Waldo Emerson
Beauty is in the eye of the beholder and it may be necessary from time to time to give a stupid or misinformed beholder a black eye. - Miss Piggy
Behind the phony tinsel of Hollywood lies the real tinsel. - Oscar Levant
That you may retain your self-respect, it is better to displease the people by doing what you know is right, than to temporarily please them by doing what you know is wrong. - William J. H. Boetcker
Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night. - Edgar Allan Poe
Beauty is in the eye of the beholder and it may be necessary from time to time to give a stupid or misinformed beholder a black eye. - Miss Piggy
Behind the phony tinsel of Hollywood lies the real tinsel. - Oscar Levant
That you may retain your self-respect, it is better to displease the people by doing what you know is right, than to temporarily please them by doing what you know is wrong. - William J. H. Boetcker
Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night. - Edgar Allan Poe
Sunday, September 11, 2011
Quotes
Let us have peace. - Ulysses S. Grant
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
I have opinions of my own -- strong opinions -- but I don't always agree with them. - George Bush
Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves. - Abraham Lincoln
In Mexico we have a word for sushi: Bait. - Jose Simon
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
I have opinions of my own -- strong opinions -- but I don't always agree with them. - George Bush
Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves. - Abraham Lincoln
In Mexico we have a word for sushi: Bait. - Jose Simon
Saturday, September 10, 2011
Quotes
Do as much as possible, and talk of yourself as little as possible.
- Sallust
Anarchism is founded on the observation that since few men are wise enough to rule themselves, even fewer are wise enough to rule others.
- Edward Abbey
A nation is a society united by delusions about its ancestry and by common hatred of its neighbors.
- William Ralph Inge
I don't know the key to success, but the key to failure is trying to please everybody.
- Bill Cosby
MTV is the lava lamp of the 1980's.
- Doug Ferrari
Friday, September 9, 2011
Life is not a problem to be solved, but a reality to be experienced.
- Soren Kierkegaard
Once the game is over, the King and the pawn go back in the same box.
- Italian Proverb
Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities.
- Voltaire
No matter how rich you become, how famous or powerful, when you die the size of your funeral will still pretty much depend on the weather.
- Michael Pritchard
History will be kind to me for I intend to write it.
- Sir Winston Churchill
- Soren Kierkegaard
Once the game is over, the King and the pawn go back in the same box.
- Italian Proverb
Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities.
- Voltaire
No matter how rich you become, how famous or powerful, when you die the size of your funeral will still pretty much depend on the weather.
- Michael Pritchard
History will be kind to me for I intend to write it.
- Sir Winston Churchill
Thursday, September 8, 2011
Wednesday, September 7, 2011
Quotes
The world is the great gymnasium where we come to make ourselves strong.
- Swami Vivekananda
If you stay in Beverly Hills too long you become a Mercedes. - Robert Redford
You can never underestimate the stupidity of the general public. - Scott Adams
Classical music is the kind we keep thinking will turn into a tune. - Kin Hubbard
An expert is a person who has made all the mistakes that can be made in a very narrow field. - Niels Bohr
If you stay in Beverly Hills too long you become a Mercedes. - Robert Redford
You can never underestimate the stupidity of the general public. - Scott Adams
Classical music is the kind we keep thinking will turn into a tune. - Kin Hubbard
An expert is a person who has made all the mistakes that can be made in a very narrow field. - Niels Bohr
Tuesday, September 6, 2011
Quotes
Caress the detail, the divine detail.
- Vladimir Nabokov
You talk to God, you're religious. God talks to you, you're psychotic.
- Doris Egan
It's a recession when your neighbor loses his job; it's a depression when you lose yours.
- Harry S Truman
The hardest thing to learn in life is which bridge to cross and which to burn.
- David Russell
The first half of our lives is ruined by our parents, and the second half by our children.
- Clarence Darrow
- Vladimir Nabokov
You talk to God, you're religious. God talks to you, you're psychotic.
- Doris Egan
It's a recession when your neighbor loses his job; it's a depression when you lose yours.
- Harry S Truman
The hardest thing to learn in life is which bridge to cross and which to burn.
- David Russell
The first half of our lives is ruined by our parents, and the second half by our children.
- Clarence Darrow
Monday, September 5, 2011
Quotes
The greater the effort, the greater the glory.
- Pierre Corneille
The only sure thing about luck is that it will change.
- Bret Harte
Why shouldn't things be largely absurd, futile, and transitory? They are so, and we are so, and they and we go very well together.
- George Santayana
Why does the Air Force need expensive new bombers? Have the people we've been bombing over the years been complaining?
- George Wallace
I am not in this world to live up to other people's expectations, nor do I feel that the world must live up to mine.
- Fritz Perls
- Pierre Corneille
The only sure thing about luck is that it will change.
- Bret Harte
Why shouldn't things be largely absurd, futile, and transitory? They are so, and we are so, and they and we go very well together.
- George Santayana
Why does the Air Force need expensive new bombers? Have the people we've been bombing over the years been complaining?
- George Wallace
I am not in this world to live up to other people's expectations, nor do I feel that the world must live up to mine.
- Fritz Perls
Sunday, September 4, 2011
Saturday, September 3, 2011
Quotes
An idea, to be suggestive, must come to the individual with the force of revelation.
- William James
All science is either physics or stamp collecting.
- Ernest Rutherford
Organized crime in America takes in over forty billion dollars a year and spends very little on office supplies.
- Woody Allen
There is no reason for any individual to have a computer in his home.
- Ken Olsen
There is no doubt that the first requirement for a composer is to be dead.
- Arthur Honegger
- William James
All science is either physics or stamp collecting.
- Ernest Rutherford
Organized crime in America takes in over forty billion dollars a year and spends very little on office supplies.
- Woody Allen
There is no reason for any individual to have a computer in his home.
- Ken Olsen
There is no doubt that the first requirement for a composer is to be dead.
- Arthur Honegger
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