bank is a place that will
lend you money if you can prove that you don't need it.
Bob Hope
A billion here, a billion
there, and pretty soon you're talking about real money. Everett
Dirksen
A bird in the hand will
probably shit on your wrist. Anon.
A celebrity is one who is
known to many persons he is glad he doesn't know.H. L.
Mencken
A child becomes an adult when
he realizes that he has a right not only to be right but
also to be wrong. Thomas Szasz
A city is a large community
where people are lonesome together. Herbert Prochnow
A classic is something that
everybody wants to have read and nobody wants to read. Mark
Twain
A committee is a thing which
takes a week to do what one good man can do in an hour.
Elbert Hubbard
A conclusion is simply the
place where you got tired of thinking. Anon.
A conference is a gathering
of important people who singly can do nothing, but
together can decide that nothing can be done. Fred
Allen
A conservative is a man who
does not think that anything should be done for the first
time. Frank Vanderlip
A conservative is a man who
sits and thinks, mostly sits. Woodrow Wilson
A conservative is one who
admires radicals centuries after they're dead. Leo C.
Rosten
A critic is a legless man who
teaches running. Anon.
A cynic is a person who knows
the prize of everything and the value of nothing - Oscar
Wilde
A diplomat is a man who
always remembers a woman's birthday but never remembers
her age. Robert Frost
A diplomat is a person who
can tell you to go to hell in such a way that you
actually look forward to the trip. Caskie Stinnett
A dress makes no sense unless
it inspires men to want to take it off you. Francois
Sagan
A fool always finds a greater
fool to admire him. Nicolas Boileau
A fool will learn nothing
from a wise man, but a wise man will learn much from a
fool. Confucius
A friend is someone who will
help you move; A GOOD friend is someone who will help you
move a body.
A good manager is best when
people barely know that he exists. Not so good when
people obey and acclaim him. Worse when they
despise him. Lao-Tzu
A good rest is half the work.
Yugoslav Proverb
A great many people think
they are thinking when they are merely rearranging their
prejudices. William James
A journey of a thousand miles
must begin with a single step. Lao-Tsu, The Way of
Lao-Tsu
A jury consists of twelve
persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer. Robert
Frost
A little inaccuracy sometimes
saves tons of explanation. Anon.
A man seldom makes a mistake
twice. Generally it's three times or more.
A man who makes trouble for
others is also making trouble for himself. Chinua
Achebe, Things Fall Apart.
A man will fight harder for
his interests than for his rights. Napoleon
A man with a briefcase can
steal more money than any man with a gun.Anon.
A man with a watch knows what
time it is. A man with two watches is never sure.
Segal's Law
A myth is a religion in which
no one any longer believes. James Feibleman
A newspaper consists of just
the same number of words, whether there be any news in it
or not.Henry Fielding
A people that values its
privileges above its principles soon loses both.
Dwight D. Eisenhower
A person who trusts no one
can't be trusted. Jerome Blattner
A satirist is a man who
discovers unpleasant things about himself and then says
them about other people. Peter McArthur
A single death is a tragedy;
a million deaths is a statistic. Joseph Stalin
A smile is a curve that can
set a lot of things straight. Anon.
A succesful man is one who
makes more money than his wife can spend. A succesful
woman is one who can find such a man. Lana Turner
A synonym is a word you use
when you can't spell the word you first thought of.
Burt Bacharach
A timid person is frightened
before a danger, a coward during the time, and a
courageous person afterward. Jean Paul Richter
A wise man can see more from
the bottom of a well than a fool can from a mountain top .
Anon.
A wise man's question
contains half the answer. Solomon Ibn Gabirol
A witty saying proves
nothing. Voltaire
A woman may very well form a
friendship with a man, but for this toendure, it
must be assisted by a little physical antipathy.
Nietzsche
Ability is of little account
without opportunity. Napoleon Bonaparte
Absence diminishes small
loves and increases great ones, as the wind blows out the
candle and fans the bonfire. La Rochefoucald
Absence of proof is not proof
of absence.Michael Crichton
Act quickly, think slowly. Greek
Proverb
Action may not always bring
happiness, but there is no happiness without action. Benjamin
Disraeli
After all, all he did was
string together a lot of old, well-known quotations.
H. L. Mencken on Shakespeare
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
Aldous Huxley once
said that an intellectual is a person who's found one
thing that's more interesting than sex.....
All animals are equal but
some animals are more equal than others. George
Orwell, Animal Farm
All general statements are
false. The Ultimate Law
All happy families are alike,
but an unhappy family is unhappy after its own fashion. Leo
Tolstoy, opening line of Anna Karenina
All I want is a warm bed and
a kind word and unlimited power - Ashleigh Brilliant
All jobs are easy to the
person who doesn't have to do them. Holt's Law
All of the animals except man
know that the principal business of life is to enjoy it.
All our knowledge merely
helps us to die a more painful death than animals that
know nothing. Maurice Maeterlinck
All religions are founded on
the fear of the many and the cleverness of the few.
Stendhal
All science is either physics
or stamp collecting. E. Rutherford
All truth passes through 3
stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently
opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident.
Arthur Schopenhauer
Always and never are two
words you should always remember never to use.Wendell
Johnson
Always bear in mind that your
own resolution to succeed is more important than any
other one thing. Abraham Lincoln
Always do right. This will
gratify some people and astonish the rest. Mark Twain
1835-1910
always do that, but the
really great make you feel that you, too, can become
great. Mark Twain
Always do what you are afraid
to do. Ralph Waldo Emerson
Always forgive your enemies.
Nothing annoys them more - Oscar Wilde
Always we
like those who admire us, but we do not always like those
whom we admire. Francois de la Rochefoucauld
An ambassador is an honest
man sent abroad to lie for his country. Sir Henry
Wotton (1568-1639)
An apology for the devil: it
must be remembered that we have heard one side of the
case. God has written all the books. Samuel
Butler
An author is a fool who, not
content with boring those he lives with,insists on boring
future generations. Charles de Montesquieu
An economist is a man who
states the obvious in terms of the incomprehensible.Alfred
A. Knopf
An economist is an expert who
will know tomorrow why the things he predicted yesterday
didn't happen today. Laurence J. Peter
An egotist is a person of low
taste--more interested in himself than in me. Ambrose
Bierce
An expert is a man who has
made all the mistakes which can be made, in a narrow
field. Niels Bohr
An expert is a person who
avoids small error as he sweeps on to the grand fallacy.Benjamin
Stolberg
An expert is one who knows
more and more about less and less. Nicholas Murray
Butler
An honest politician is one
who when he is bought will stay bought. Simon Cameron
An idea isn't responsible for
the people who believe in it. Don Marquis
An ignorant person is one who
doesn't know what you have just found out. Will Rogers
An incompetent attorney can
delay a trial for months or years. A competent attornety
can delay one even longer.Evelle J. Younger
An intelligent hell would be
better than a stupid paradise. Victor Hugo,
Ninetythree, 1874
An undefined problem has an
infinite number of solutions. Robert A. Humphrey
And so, my fellow Americans,
ask not what your country can do for you -- ask what you
can do for your country. John F. Kennedy, Inaugural
Address, Jan. 20, 1961
Any fool can criticize,
condemn, and complain -- and most fools do. Dale
Carnegie
Any fool can tell the truth,
but it requires a man of some sense to know how to lie
well. Samuel Butler
Any man who afflicts the
human race with ideas must be prepared to see them
misunderstood. H. L. Mencken
Any sufficiently advanced
technology is indistinguishable from magic.Arthur C.
Clarke, Rama. Clarke's Third Law
Analyzing humor is like
dissecting a frog. Few people are interestedand the frog
dies of it. E.B. White
Anybody can start something.
John A. Shedd
Anyone who can walk to the
welfare office can walk to work. Al Capp
Anyone who isn't confused
really doesn't understand the situation. Edward R.
Murrow
Anything that is too stupid
to be spoken is sung. Voltaire 1694-1778
appointment by the corrupt
few. George Bernard Shaw
Art is making something out
of nothing and selling it. Frank Zappa
As far as the laws of
mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain; and
as far as they are certain, they do not refer to reality.
Albert Einstein
Asking a working writer what
he thinks about critics is like asking a lamppost how it
feels about dogs.
Assassination is the extreme
form of censorship. George Bernard Shaw
At the beginning and at the
end of love, the two lovers are embarrassed to find
themselves alone. La Bruyere
Attempt the
impossible in order to improve your work. Bette Davis
Bachelors know more about
women than married men do. If they didn't, they'd be
married too. H. L. Mencken
Bad artists copy. Great
artists steal. Picasso from Alice Camina
Bad officials are elected by
good citizens who do not vote. George Jean Nathan
Barking dogs seldom bite. Proverb
Based on what you know about
him in history books, what do you thinkAbraham
Lincoln would be doing if he were alive today? 1. Writing
his memoirs of the Civil War. 2. Advising the
President. 3. Desperately clawing at the inside of his
coffin. David Letterman
Be careful what you pretend
to be because you are what you pretend to be. Kurt
Vonnegut
Be the change you want to see
in this world. Gandhi
Be wiser than other people if
you can; but do not tell them so. Lord Chesterfield
Beauty without grace is the
hook without the bait. Ralph Waldo Emerson
Bees are not as busy as we
think they are. They just can't buzz any slower.Kin
Hubbard
Before you criticize someone,
walk a mile in his shoes. That way, if he gets angry,
he'll be a mile away--and barefoot. Sarah Jackson
Behind every great fortune
there is a crime. Honore de Balzac
Behind every succesful man
stand a surprised mother-in-law. Hubert Humphrey
Being human is a sin. Ryan
Carlberg
Believe those who are seeking
the truth; doubt those who find it. Andr Gide
besurprised at how little you
have. Ernest Haskins
Better a diamond with a flaw
than a pebble without. Confucius, Analects
Better keep your mouth shut
and give the impression that you'restupid then
open it and remove any doubt. Rami Belson
Better to light a candle than
to curse the darkness. Chinese Proverb
Blessed is he who expects
nothing, for he shall never be disappointed.Jonathan
Swift
By all means, let's not
confuse ourselves with the facts! Anon.
By means of shrewd lies,
unremittingly repeated, it is possible to make people
believe that heaven is hell -- and hell heaven. The
greater the lie, the more readily it will be believed.
Adolph Hitler, Mein Kampf
By the time we've made it,
we've had it. Malcolm Forbes
Cat: a pygmy lion who loves
mice, hates dogs, and patronizes human beings. Oliver
Herford
Charm is a way of getting the
answer yes without asking a clear question. Albert
Camus
Choosing the lesser of two
evils, is still choosing evil. Christopher Hampton
Cogito cogito ergo cogito sum
I think that I think, therefore I think that I am.
Ambrose Bierce
Coming together is the
beginning. Keeping together is progress. Working together
is success. Henry Ford
Common sense is the
collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen.
Albert Einstein
Complete equality means
universal irresponsibility. T. S. Elliot
Computers aren't intelligent,
they only think they are.
Conscience is the inner voice
that warns us somebody may be looking. H. L. Mencken
Conservatives are not
necessarily stupid, but most stupid people are
conservatives. John Stuart Mill
Continental people have
sex-lives; the English have hot-water bottles.George
Mikes
Continually strive to improve
yourself. Anthony J. D'Angelo, The College Blue Book
Conversation is the slowest
form of human communication.
Copmuters are useless. They
can only give you answers. Pablo Picasso
Copy from one, it's
plagiarism; copy from two, it's research. Wilson
Mizner (1876-1933)
Crash programs fail because
they are based on theory that, with nine women pregnant,
you can get a baby a month. Wernher von Braun
Crude classifications and
false generalizations are the curse of organized life.
George Bernard Shaw
Cyanobacteria were once the
dominant life form on Earth - oxygen was their toxic
waste product.from Anthony E Smart
Cynicism is an unpleasant way
of saying the truth. Lillian Hellman, The Little Foxes
Cynics regarded everybody as
equally corrupt... Idealists regarded everybody as
equally corrupt, except themselves. Robert Anton
Wilson
Data is not information,
Information is not knowledge, Knowledge is not
understanding, Understanding is not wisdom. Cliff
Stoll & Gary Schubert
Democracy is a device that
insures we shall be governed no betterthan we
deserve. George Bernard Shaw
Democracy is also a form of
worship. It is the worship of Jackals by Jackasses. H.
L. Mencken
Democracy is the art and
science of running the circus from the monkey cage. H.
L. Mencken
Democracy: The substitution
of election by the incompetent many for appointment by
the corrupt few. George Bernard Shaw
Der Drache lehrt: Wer hoch
steigen will, muss es gegen den Wind tun. Chinesisch
Schprichwort
Develop a passion for
learning. If you do, you will never cease to grow.
Anthony J. D'Angelo, The College Blue Book
Diplomacy is the art of
saying: Nice Doggie! till you can find a rock. Wynn
Catlin
Discovery consists in seeing
what everyone else has seen and thinking what no one else
has thought. Albert Szent-Gyorgi
Do not fear your enemies. The
worst they can do is kill you. Do not fear friends. At
worst, they may betray you. Fear those who do not care;
they neither kill nor betray, but betrayal and murder
exists because of their silent consent. Bruno
Jasienski Yasensky
Do not say a little in many
words but a great deal in a few. Pythagoras (BC
582-507)
Do what you can with what you
have where you are. Theodore Roosevelt
Do what's right. Do it
right. Do it right now. Barry Forbes
Do your job and demand your
compensation - but in that order. Cary Grant
Do, or do not. There is no
'try'.Yoda,The Empire Strikes Back
do. Olin Miller
Documentation is like sex:
when it is good, it is very, very good; and when it is
bad, it is better than nothing. Dick Brandon
Dogs believe they are humans.
Cats believe they are God. Anon.
Don't be afraid to take a big
step if one is indicated; you can't cross a chasm in two
small jumps. David Lloyd George
Don't be so humble - you are
not that great. Golda Meir
Don't count your chickens
before they cross the road.from Larry Burgess
Don't tell people how to do
things. Tell them what to do and let them surprise you
with their results. George Patton
Dont use your conscious
past. Use your creative imagination to create a past that
belongs to your characters. Stella Adler
Don't walk behind me, I may
not lead. Don't walk in front of me, I may not follow.
Just walk beside me and be my friend. Albert Camus
Dream as if you'll live
forever... Live as if you'll die today.James Dean
Each problem that I solved
became a rule which served afterwards to solve other
problems. Rene Descartes
Eat a live frog, every
morning, and nothing worse will happen to you all day. Anon.
Eat SHIT! -- ten billion
flies can't be wrong. Quoted from a USENET argument
about the popularity of Microsoft products
Economics is extremely useful
as a form of employment for economists. John Kenneth
Galbraith
Education is a progressive
discovery of our own ignorance. Will Durant
Education is not the filling
of a pail, but the lighting of a fire. W. B. Yeats
Education is what survives
when what has been learned has been forgotten. B.F.
Skinner
Education makes a people easy
to lead, but difficult to drive; easy to govern but
impossible to enslave. Baron Henry Peter Brougham
England expects every man to
do his duty. Lord Nelson
Even if I knew that tomorrow
the world would go to pieces, Iwould still plant
my apple tree. Martin Luther
Even if you do learn to speak
correct English, whom are you going to speak it to? Clarence
Darrow
Even if youre on the right
track, you'll get run over if you just sit there. Will
Rogers 1879-1935
Even the longest journey
begins with a single step. Confucius
Events in the past may be
roughly divided into those which probably never happened
and those which do not matter.W. R. Inge
Every nation ridicules other
nations, and all are right. Arthur Schopenhauer
Everybody knows good counsel
except him, that has need of it. German Proverb
Everybody wants to be
somebody; nobody wants to grow. Goethe
Everybody wants to go to
heaven, but nobody wants to die. Joe Louis
Everyone complains of his
lack of memory, but nobody of his want of judgment. La
Rochefoucauld
Everyone has a right to be
stupid. Some just abuse the priviledge. from James T.
Hammond
Everyone has talent. What is
rare is the courage to follow that talent to the dark
place where it leads. Erica Jong
Everyone rises to their level
of incompetence. The Peter Principle, Dr. Lawrence J.
Peter
Everyone thinks of changing
the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.Leo
Tolstoy
Everyone wants to see justice
done, to somebody else. Anon.
Everything is funny as long
as it is happening to someone else. Will Rogers
Everything may happen.
(Omnio fieri possent.-latin.) Seneca, Epistuloe
ad Lucilium, Epis. LXX, 9
Everything should be made as
simple as possible, but not simpler. Albert Einstein
Everything you can imagine is
real. Picasso
Expecting something for
nothing is the most popular form of hope. Arnold
Glasow
Experience is a dear teacher,
but fools will learn at no other. Benjamin Franklin
Experience is a great
advantage. The problem is that when you get the
experience, you're too damned old to do anything about
it. Jimmy Connors
Experience is a hard teacher
because she gives the test first, the lesson afterward.
Anon.
Experience is simply the name
we give our mistakes. Oscar Wilde
Failure to prepare is
preparing to fail. Anon.
Few people think more than
two or three times a year. I have made an international
reputation for myself by thinking once or twice a week.
George Bernard Shaw
Few rich men own their own
property. The property owns them. Robert G. Ingersoll
Fiction is the truth inside
the lie. Stephen King
First secure an independent
income, then practice virtue.Greek saying
Focus 90% of your time on
solutions and only 10% of your time on problems.
Anthony J. D'Angelo, The College Blue Book
For economists, the real
world is often a special case. Anon.
For every action there is an
equal and opposite government program. Bob Wells
For every human problem,
there is a neat, simple solution; and it is always wrong
- Mencken's Metalaw
For every problem there is a
solution which is simple, clean and wrong. Henry Louis
Mencken
For most folks, no news is
good news; for the press, good news is not news.Gloria
Borger
For of all sad words of
tongue or pen,The saddest are these: 'It might
have been!' John GreenleafWhittier
Forgive your enemies, but
never forget their names. John F. Kennedy
Friends may come and go, but
enemies accumulate. Thomas Jones
Friendship is like money,
easier made than kept. Samuel Butler
From each according to his
abilities, to each according to his needs. Karl Marx
From the sublime to the
ridiculous is but a step. Napoleon
Genius is one percent
inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration.
Thomas Edison
Genius is the talent of a
person who is dead. Anon.
Get your facts first, and
then you can distort them as much as you please. Mark
Twain 1835-1910
Getting divorced just because
you don't love a man is almost as silly as getting
married just because you do. Zsa Zsa Gabor
Give me a museum and I'll
fill it. Pablo Picasso
Give me chastity and
continence, but not yet. Saint Augustine
Give more than take.
Anthony J. D'Angelo, The College Blue Book
Given a choice between two
theories, take the one which is funnier. Blore's Razor
God gave us a penis and a
brain, but not enough blood to use both at the same time.
Robin Williams
God help those who do not
help themselves. Wilson Mizner
God is a comedian playing to
an audience too afraid to laugh. Voltaire
God made everything out of
nothing, but the nothingness shows through. Paul
Valery
God will forgive me. It's
his job. Heinrich Heine
God, give us grace to accept
with serenity the things that cannot be changed, courage
to change the things which should be changed, and the
wisdom to distinguish the one from the other. Reinhold
Niebuhr, The Serenity Prayer 1934
Good advice is something a
man gives when he is too old to set a bad example. La
Rouchefoucauld
Good judgment comes from
experience, and experience comes from bad judgment.
Barry LePatner
Good questions outrank easy
answers. Paul A. Samuelson
Good teaching is one-forth
preparation and three-fourths theater. Gail Godwin
Government is like a baby. An
alimentary canal with a big appetite at one end and no
sense of responsibility at the other. Ronald Reagan
Gratitude is merely the
secret hope of further favors. Francious de la
Rochefoucauld
Great things can be reduced
to small things, and small things to nothing. Chinese
proverb
Half of the American people
have never read a newspaper. Half never voted for
President. One hopes it is the same half. Gore
Vidal
Happiness is not doing what
you want. It's wanting what you do. Leo
Tolstoy
Hard work has a future
payoff. Laziness pays off NOW! from Rex Nall
He can compress the most
words into the smallest ideas of any man I ever met.Abraham
Lincoln
He hasn't an enemy in the
world - but all his friends hate him.Eddie Cantor
he knows. Laurence Lee
The quality of an
organization can never exceed the quality of the minds
that make it up. Harold R. McAlindon
He that has no children
brings then up well. Proverb
He that has one eye is a
prince among those that have none. Thomas Fuller
He that will not reason is a
bigot, He that cannot reason is a fool, He that dares not
reason is a slave. William Drummond
He who asks is a fool for
five minutes, but he who does not ask remains a fool
forever. Chinese proverb
He who does not hope to win
has already lost. Anon.
He who is not busy being born
is busy dying.- Bob Dylan from John Huber
He who laughs last thinks
slowest! from Rex Nall
Heaven never helps the man
who will not act. Sophocles
Hegel was right when he said
that we learn from history that man can never learn
anything from history. George Bernard Shaw 1856-1950
Hello, I must be going.
Groucho Marx
Hi! I'm a shareware
signature! Send $5 if you use me, send $10 for manual! from
Bruce Graham
Historians are like deaf
people who go on answering questions that noone has asked
them. Leo Tolstoy
History is the version of
past events that people have decided to agree upon.
Napoleon Bonaparte 1769-1821
History teaches us that men
and nations behave wisely once they have exhausted all
other alternatives. Abba Eban
Honesty is the best policy -
when there is money in it.Mark Twain
Hope is a good breakfast, but
it is a bad supper. Francis Bacon
How long a minute is depends
upon which side of the bathroom door you're on. Anon.
How to Raise your I.Q. by
Eating Gifted Children. Book title by Lewis B. Frumkes
1983
How you get so big, eating
food of this kind? Yoda
Human beings were invented by
water as a means of transporting itself from one place to
another. Tom Robbins from Randy Keck
Hypocrisy is the lubricant of
society. David Hull
I am a Bear of Very Little
Brain, and long words bother me. A. A. Milne,
Winnie-the-Pooh
I am a deeply superficial
person. Andy Warhol 1928-1987
I am enough of an artist to
draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more
important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination
encircles the world. Albert Einstein
I am free of all prejudices.
I hate everyone equally. W.C. Fields
I am not young enough to know
everything. Oscar Wilde (1854-1900)
I am ready to meet my Maker.
Whether my Maker is prepared for the great ordeal of
meeting me is another matter. Winston Churchill
I can explain it to them, but
I can't understand it for them. Dan Rather
I can teach anybody how to
get what they want out of life. The problem is that I
can't find anybody who can tell me what they want.
Mark Twain
I cannot afford to waste my
time making money. Jean Louis Agassiz
I cannot be bought... but I
can be rented. Don O'Shaughnessy
I cannot control the
direction of the winds, but I can always adjust my sails
to reach my destination. Anon.
I cannot say whether things
will get better if we change; what I can say is they must
change if they are to get better. G. C. Lichtenberg
I can't understand it. I
can't even understand the people who can understand it.
Queen Juliana of the Netherlands
I can't understand why people
are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old
ones.John Cage
I could prove God
statistically. George Gallup
I didn't think; I
experimented. Wilhelm Roentgen
I disapprove of what you say,
but will defend to the death your right to say it.
Voltaire
I do not feel obliged to
believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense,
reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use.
Galileo Galilei
I do not know whether I was
then a man dreaming I was a butterfly, or whether I am
now a butterfly dreaming I am a man. Chang-tzu
I don't believe in the
afterlife but I am taking along a change of underwear
just in case.- Woody Allen
I don't care to belong to a
club that accepts people like me as members. Groucho
Marx
I don't have any solution,
but I certainly admire the problem. Ashleigh Brilliant
I don't have time to
distinguish between the unfortunate and the incompetent.
General Curtis Le May
I don't know anything about
music. In my line you don't have to. Elvis Presley
1935-1977
I don't know if God exists,
but it would be better for His reputation if He didn't.
Jules Renard
I don't know the key to
success, but the key to failure is trying to please
everybody. Bill Cosby
I don't know why I did it, I
don't know why I enjoyed it, and I don't know why I'll do
it again. Burt Simpson
I don't measure a man's
success by how high he climps but how high hebounces
when he hits bottom. General Patton
I don't mind where people
make love, so long as they don't do it in the street and
frighten the horses.Mrs. Patrick
Campbell
I don't necessarily agree
with everything I say. Marshall McLuhan
I don't need drugs to make my
life tragic.Eddie Vedder
I don't want any
"yes-men" around me. I want everybody to tell
me the truth even if it costs them their jobs. Samuel
Goldwyn
I give myself sometimes
admirable advice, but I am incapable of taking it. Mary
Wortley Montagu
I find that a great part of
the information I have was acquired by looking up
something and finding something else on the way. Franklin
P. Adams
I find that the harder I
work, the more luck I seem to have.President Thomas
Jefferson
I have always thought the
actions of men the best interpreters of their thoughts.
John Locke
I have discovered that all
human evil comes from this, man's being unable to sit
still in a room. Blaise Pascal
I have enough money to last
me the rest of my life, unless I buysomething. Jackie
Mason
I have given two cousins to
war and I stand ready to sacrifice my wife's brother.Artemus
Ward
I have made this letter
longer than usual because I lack the time to make it
shorter. Blaise Pascal
I have never made but one
prayer to God, a very short one: O Lord,make my enemies
ridiculous. And God granted it. Voltaire
I have not failed. I've
just found 10,000 ways that won't work. Thomas Edison
I have taken more out of
alcohol than alcohol has taken out of me. Winston
Churchill
I have the simplest of
tastes. I am always satisfied with the best. Oscar
Wilde
I hear and I forget. I see
and I remember. I do and I understand.
Confucius
I just bought a microwave
fireplace. You can spend an evening in front of it in
only eight minutes. Groucho Marx
I know Kung Fu, Karate, and
47 other dangerous words. Jo Ramos
I know not with what weapons
World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be
fought with sticks and stones. Albert Einstein
1879-1955
I like a man who grins when
he fights. Winston Churchill
I like pigs. Dogs look up to
us. Cats look down on us. Pigs treat us as equals.
Winston Churchill
I loathe people who keep
dogs. They are cowards who haven't got the guts to bite
people themselves. August Strindberg
I love being married. It's so
great to find that one special person you want to annoy
for the rest of your life.Rita Rudner
I love Mickey Mouse more than
any woman I have ever known. Walt Disney
I may not be totally perfect,
but parts of me are excellent. Ashleigh Brilliant
I never lecture, not because
I am shy or a bad speaker, but simply because I detest
the sort of people who go to lectures and don't want
tomeet them. H. L. Mencken
I never miss a chance to have
sex or appear on television. Gore Vidal
I never think of the future.
It comes soon enough. Albert Einstein
I never travel without my
diary. One should always have something sensational to
read in the train. Oscar Wilde
I sometimes think that God,
in creating man, overestimated Hisability. Oscar Wilde
I tend to live in the past
because most of my life is there. Herb Caen
I think that God in creating
Man somewhat overestimated his ability. Oscar Wilde
I think; therefore I am.
Rene Descartes
I use emotion for the many
and reserve reason for the few. Adolph Hitler
I want to know all Gods
thoughts...all the rest are just details. Albert
Einstein
I wanted to change the world.
But I have found that the only thing one can be sure of
changing is oneself. Aldous Huxley
I was born not knowing and
have only had a little time to change that here and there.
Richard Feynman
I was gratified to be able to
answer promptly. I said I don't know. Mark
Twain
I was like a boy playing on
the sea-shore, and diverting myself now and then finding
a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary,
whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered
before me. Isaac Newton
I was thrown out of college
for cheating on the metaphysics exam; I looked into the
soul of the boy sitting next to me. Woody Allen
I would never die for my
beliefs because I might be wrong. Bertrand Russell
I wouldn't belong to any club
that would have someone like me as a member.Groucho
Marx
If a dog jumps in your lap,
it is because he is fond of you; but if a cat does the
same thing, it is because your lap is warmer. Alfred
North Whitehead
If a man will begin with
certainties, he shall end in doubts; but if he will be
content to begin with doubts, he shall end in certainties.
Francis Bacon
If a pessimist is always
right, is he a realist? Anon.
If all men knew what others
say of them, there would not be four friends in the world.
Blaise Pascal
If at first you don't
succeed, try, try again. Then give up. no use being a
damned fool about it. W.C. Fields
If everybody's thinking
alike, somebody isn't thinking. Anon.
If fifty million people say a
foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing. Anatole
France
If God did not exist, it
would be necessary to invent him. Voltaire 1694-1778
If I am not for myself, who
will be for me? If I am not for others, what am I? And if
not now, when? Rabbi Hillel, 12th Century
If I have seen farther than
others, it is because I was standing on the shoulders of
giants. Isaac Newton
If it can't be expressed in
figures, it is not science; it is opinion. Lazarus
Long
If one does not know to which
port one is sailing, no wind is favorable. Seneca (the
Younger)
If one has not given
everything, one has given nothing. Georges Guynemer
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
If people really liked to
work, we'd still be plowing the land with sticks and
transporting goods on our backs. Eilliam Feather
If the facts don't fit the
theory, change the facts. Albert Einstein
If the only tool you have is
a hammer, you tend to see every problemas a nail.
Abraham Maslow
If there is anything the
nonconformist hates worse than aconformist, it's another
nonconformist who doesn't conform tothe prevailing
standard of nonconformity. Bill Vaughan
If there is no struggle,
there is no progress. Frederick Douglass
If we judge of love by its
usual effects, it resembles hatred more than friendship.
La Rochefoucauld
If you are going to do
something wrong at least enjoy it. Leo Rosten
If you believe everything you
read, better not read. Japanese proverb
If you believe that
discrimination exists, it will. Anthony J. D'Angelo,
The College Blue Book
If you can count your money,
you don't have a billion dollars. J. Paul Getty
If you can read this, thank a
teacher. Anonymous teacher
If you can't feed a hundred
people, then feed just one. Mother Teresa
If you can't learn to do it
well, learn to enjoy doing it badly. Ashleigh
Brilliant
If you don't believe in
something, you'll fall for anything. Anon.
If you don't control your
mind, someone else will. John Allston
If you had your life to live
over again--you'd need more money. Construction Digest
If you have built castles in
the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they
should be. Now put foundations under them. Henry David
Thoreau
If you judge someone, you
have no time to love them.Mother Teresa
If you read in the bathroom,
is that multitasking? from Carl Saathoff
If you think education is
expensive, try ignorance. Derek Bok
If you think nobody cares if
you're alive, try missing a couple of car payments.
Earl Wilson
If you want something said,
ask a man; if you want something done, ask a woman. Margaret
Thatcher
If you wish to be a success
in the world, promise everything, deliver nothing.
Napoleon
If your parents never had
children, chances are you won't, either. Dick Cavett
If your plan is for a year,
plant rice. If your plan is for a decade, plant trees. If
your plan is for a lifetime, educate children.
Confucius
I'll come up and make love to
you at five o'clock. If I'm late, start without me.
Tallulah Bankhead
I'm all in favor of keeping
dangerous weapons out of the hands of fools. Let's start
with typewriters. Solomon Short
I'm not afraid to die. I just
don't want to be there when it happens. Woody Allen
I'm not against the police;
I'm just afraid of them. Alfred Hitchcock
I'm still an atheist, thank
God. Luis Bunuel
I'm writing a book. I have
the page numbers down...I just have to fill in the rest.
Groucho Marx
Imagination is more important
than knowledge. Albert Einstein
Imagination is the one weapon
in the war against reality. Jules de Gaultier
imagine that they can reach
one another. In reality they only pass each other
by. Franz Schubert
Immature love says, "I
love you because I need you." Mature love says,
"I need you because I love you." Erich
Fromm
In a country as big as the
United States, you can find fifty examples of anything.
Jeffery F. Chamberlain
In a hierarchy every employee
tends to rise to his level of incompetence. Laurence
Peter
In answer to the question of
why it happened, I offer the modest proposal that our
Universe is simply one of those things which happen from
time to time. Edward P. Tryon
In archaeology you uncover
the unknown. In diplomacy you cover the known.Thomas
Pickering
In between lies art. John
A. Locke
In great attempts it is
glorious even to fail. Vince Lombardi
In politics stupidity is not
a handicap. Napoleon
In preparing for battle I
have always found that plans are useless, but planning is
indispensable. Dwight D. Eisenhower
In real life, unlike in
Shakespeare, the sweetness of the rose depends upon the
name it bears. Things are not only what they are. They
are, in very important respects, what they seem to be.
Hubert H. Humphrey 1911-78
In science as in love, too
much concentration on technique can often lead to
impotence. P. L. Berger
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)
In science the credit goes to
the man who convinces the world, not to the man to whom
the idea first occurs. William Osler
In spite of the cost of
living, it's still popular. Kathy Norris
In the book of life, the
answers aren't in the back. Charlie Brown
In the constant confrontation
between the rock and the water, the water wins finally,
not by strength, but by perseverance. Anon.
In the early days all I hoped
was to make a living out of what I did best. But, since
there's no real market for masturbation I had to fall
back on my bass playing abilities. Les Claypool
In the End, we will remember
not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our
friends. Martin Luther King Jr. 1929-1968
In the middle of difficulty
lies opportunity. Albert Einstein
In times like these, it is
helpful to remember that there have always been times
like these. Paul Harvey
In war there is no substitute
for victory. General Douglas MacArthur
In youth we learn; in age we
understand. M. Ebner-Eschenbach
Indecision is the key to
flexibility. from Terry Beck
Is there life before death? Belfast
Graffito
Isn't it interesting that the
same people who laugh at science fiction listen to
weather forecasts and economists? Kelvin Throop, III
It does not matter how slowly
you go so long as you do not stop. Confucius
It doesn't matter what
temperature the room is; it's always room-temperature.Groucho
Marx
It has been my experience
that folks who have no vices have very few virtues.
Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865)
It is a common delusion that
you make things better by talking aboutthem. Dame Rose
Macaulay
It is a sin to believe evil
of others, but seldom a mistake -H. L. Mencken
It is always good policy to
tell the truth unless of course you are an exceptionally
good liar. Jerome K. Jerome
It is better to be defeated
on principle than to win on lies. Arthur Calwell
It is better to be quotable
than to be honest. Tom Stoppard
It is better to deserve
honours and not have them than to have them and not to
deserve them. Mark Twain Samuel Clemens
It is better to die on your
feet than to live on your knees! Emiliano Zapata
It is better to fail in
originality than to succeed in imitation. Herman
Melville
It is better to have a
permanent income than to be fascinating. Oscar Wilde
It is better to light one
candle than to curse the darkness. Old Chinese Proverb
It is by universal
misunderstanding that all agree. For if, by ill luck,
people understood each other, they would never agree.Charles
Baudelaire
It is dangerous to be sincere
unless you are also stupid. George Bernard Shaw
1856-1950
It is easier to be a lover
than a husband for the simple reason that it is more
difficult to be witty every day than to say pretty things
from time to time. Honore de Balzac, "The
Physiology of Marriage" 1829
It is easier to fight for
one's principles than to live up to them. Alfred Adler
It is easier to forgive an
enemy than to forgive a friend. William Blake
It is easier to get
forgiveness than permission. Stewart's Law of
Retroaction, Murphy's Law, Book Two
It is easier to stay out than
get out. Mark Twain
It is easier to suppress the
first desire than to satisfy all thatfollow it. Ben
Franklin
It is easy to bear
misfortunes of others. Proverb
It is good to be without
vices, but it is not good to be without temptations. Walter
Bagehot, Biographical Studies 1863
It is hard enough to remember
my opinions, without also remembering myreasons for them!
Nietzsche
It is hard to be brave, when
you're only a Very Small Animal. Piglet, Pooh's
Little Instruction Book, inspired by A. A. Milne
It is impossible to design a
system so perfect that no one needs to be good. T. S.
Eliot
It is impossible to travel
faster than the speed of light, and certainly not
desirable, as one's hat keeps blowing off. Woody Allen
It is much easier to
apologize than to ask permission.- Grace Murray
It is much easier to be
critical than to be correct.Benjamin Disraeli
It is much more secure to be
feared than to be loved. Niccolo Machiavelli
It is not because things are
difficult that we do not dare, it is because we do not
dare that things are difficult. Seneca
It is not easy to find
happiness in ourselves, and impossible tofind it
elsewhere. Agnes Repplier
It is not enough to have a
good mind. The main thing is to use it well.Ren?
Descartes 1596-1650
It is not enough to succeed.
Others must fail. Gore Vidal
It is not of importance where
we stand, but in what direction we aremoving.
Anon.
It is only the wisest and the
stupidest that cannot change. Confucius Analects
It is seldom that liberty of
any kind is lost all at once. David Hume
It is true that liberty is
precious - so precious that it must be rationed.
Vladimir Lenin
It is with true love as it is
with ghosts; everyone talks about it, but few have seen
it. La Rochefoucauld
It matters not whether you
win or lose; what matters is whether I winor lose.
Darrin Weinberg
It may be that our role on
this planet is not to worship God, but to create him. Arthur
C. Clarke
It requires a very unusual
mind to undertake the analysis of the obvious. Alfred
North Whitehead (1861-1947)
It takes less time to do a
thing right than explain why you did it wrong. Henry
Wadsworth Longfellow
It took me fifteen years to
discover I had no talent for writing, but I couldn't give
it up because by that time I was too famous. Robert
Benchley
It usually takes a long time
to find a shorter way. Anon.
It usually takes more than
three weeks to prepare a good impromptu speech. Mark
Twain
It was such a lovely day I
thought it a pity to get up.W. Somerset Maugham
It's a good thing for an
uneducated man to read books of quotations. Winston
Churchill
It's all very well in
practice, but it will never work in theory. French
management saying
It's amazing how nice people
are to you when they know you're going away. Michael
Arlen
It's hard to be nostalgic
when you can't remember anything. Anon.
It's not enough to succeed.
Others must fail. Gore Vidal
It's not that I'm afraid to
die. I just don't want to be there when it
happens. Woody Allen
It's only words . . . unless
they're true. David Mamet
I've been trying for some
time to develop a lifestyle that doesn't require my
presence. Gary Trudeau
J. Frank Dobie, "A
Texan in England" 1945
Just because something
doesn't do what you planned it to do doesn't mean it's
useless. Thomas Alva Edison
Just because you're smart
does not mean that the other guy is stupid. Anon.
Keep away from people who try
to belittle your ambitions. Small people
Kind words can be short and
easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless.
Mother Theresa
Knowledge is of two kinds: we
know a subject ourselves, or we know where we can find
information upon it. Samuel Johnson
Knowledge is power.(Nam
et ipsa scientia potestas est-latin.). Francis
Bacon
Lack of money is no obstacle.
Lack of an idea is an obstacle. Ken Hakuta
Lady Astor:Mr.
Churchill, you're drunk! Winston Churchill:Yes,and you, Madam, are ugly. But tomorrow, I
shall be sober.
Language is not only the
vehicle of thought, it is a great and efficient
instrument in thinking. Humphrey Davy
Last words are for fools who
haven't said enough.Karl Marx
Laughter is the closest
distance between two people. Victor Borge
Laws were made to be broken.
Christopher North
Laziness is nothing more than
the habit of resting before you get tired. Jules
Renard
Learn all you can from the
mistakes of others. You won't have time to make them all
yourself. Alfred Sheinwold
Learn to obey before you
command. Solon
Learning is finding out what
you already know. Richard Bach
Life can only be understood
backwards; but it must be lived forwards. Soren
Kierkegaard
Life does not cease to be
funny when people die any more than itceases to be
serious when people laugh. George Bernard Shaw
Life has taught us that love
does not consist in gazing at each other but in looking
outward together in the same direction. Antoine de
Saint-Exupery
Life is a shit sandwich &
everyday you take another bite. Anon.
Life is a tragedy for those
who feel, but a comedy to those who think. Horace
Walpole
Life is God's way of
preserving meat. from Fred Reichart
Life IS pain...anyone who
says differently is selling something. Westley in The
Princess Bride Contributed by: Keith Browning
Life is something that
happens when you can't get to sleep. Fran Lebowitz
Life is too important to be
taken seriously. Oscar Wilde
Life is what's happening when
you're busy making plans. John Lennon
Life takes its toll. Bring
change. Anon.
Life's Tragedy is that we get
old to soon and wise too late. Benjamin Franklin
Live every day as if it were
your last and then some day you'll be right. Anon.
Live so that your friends can
defend you but never have to. Arnold H. Glasgow
Love and a cough cannot be
hid. George Herbert
Love ceases to be a pleasure,
when it ceases to be a secret. Aphra Behn
Love is a matter of
chemistry, but Sex is a matter of physics. Anon.
Love is like pi -- natural,
irrational, and VERY important. Lisa Hoffman
Love is only the dirty trick
played on us to achieve continuation of the species. W.
Somerset Maugham, "A Writer's Notebook" 1949
Love is the triumph of
imagination over intelligence. H. L. Mencken
Love many, trust few, learn
to paddle your own canoe. Anon.
Love thy neighbor as
yourself, but choose your neighborhood. Louise Beal
Luck is what happens when
preparation meets opportunity. Seneca
Malform follows malfunction.from
R. Lee Duvlea
Man errs so long as he
strives. J.W. Goethe
Man invented language to
satisfy his deep need to complain. Lily Tomlin
Man is the only animal that
blushes. Or needs to. Mark Twain
Man is the only animal that
can remain on friendly terms with the victims he intends
to eat until he eats them.Samuel Butler
Many a young lady does not
realize just how strong her love for a young man is until
he fails to pass the approval test with her parents. Anon.
Many candles can be kindled
from one candle without diminishing it. The Midrash
Many forms of Government have
been tried, and will be tried in this world of sin and
woe. No one pretends that democracy is perfect or
all-wise. Indeed, it has been said that democracy is the
worst form of Government except all those others that
have been tried from time to time. Winston Churchill
Marriage is the alliance of
two people, one of whom never remembers birthdays and the
other never forgets them. Ogden Nash
Marriage is the triumph of
imagination over intelligence. Secondmarriage is
the triumph of hope over experience.Anon.
Maybe I'm lucky to be going
so slowly, because I may be going in the wrong direction.
Ashleigh Brilliant
Men need some
kind of external activity, because they are inactive
within. Arthur Schopenhauer
Men always want to be a
woman's first love - women like to be a man's last
romance. Oscar Wilde
Middle age is when you've met
so many people that every new person you meet reminds you
of someone else. Ogden Nash
Money often costs too much.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Money, it turned out, was
exactly like sex, you thought of nothing else if you
didn't have it and thought of other things if you did. James
Baldwin, Nobody Knows My Name
Morality is the herd-instinct
in the individual. Nietzsche
Most of the time I don't have
much fun. The rest of the time I don't have any fun at
all.Woody Allen
Most people would like to be
delivered from temptation but would like it to keep in
touch. Robert Orben
Most things, except
agriculture, can wait. Jawaharlal Nehru
Mummy, mummy, what's an
orgasm? I dunno. Ask your father. Anon.
My evening visitors, if they
cannot see the clock, should find the time in my face.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
My friend asked me how long I
was going to be gone on this tour. I said, The
whole time Groucho Marx
My goal is simple. It is
complete understanding of the universe, why it as it is
and why it exists as all.
My play was a complete
success. The audience was a failure. Ashleigh
Brilliant
My theology, briefly, is that
the universe was dictated but not signed. Christopher
Morley
My watch is three hours fast
and I can't fix it, so I'm going to move to New York.Groucho
Marx 1890-1977
Never argue with a fool.
Someone watching may not be able to tell the difference.
Anonymous
Never attribute to malice
what can be adequately explained by stupidity. Hanlon's Razor
Never believe anything until
it has been officially denied. Claud Cockburn
Never deprive someone of hope
-- it may be all they have. Anon.
Never do anything against
conscience even if the state demands it. Albert
Einstein
Never do today what you can
put off till tomorrow.Mathew Browne
Never drive faster than your
guardian angel can fly. Anon.
Never fear shadows. They
simply mean that there's a light somewhere nearby. Ruth
E. Renkei
Never give up on a dream just
because of the time it will take toaccomplish it.
The time will pass anyway. Anon.
Never judge a book by its
movie.J. W. Eagan
Never mistake motion for
action. Ernest Hemingway
Never offend people with
style when you can offend them with substance. Sam
Brown,Washington Post, 1977
Never put off till tomorrow
what you can do the day after tomorrow. Mark Twain
Never speak ill of yourself;
your friends will always say enough on that subject. Charles
Maurice de Talleyrand
Never underestimate the power
of human stupidity. Anon.
No good deed goes unpunished.
Clare Boothe Luce
No Man is fit to command
another that cannot command himself -William Penn
No matter what, no matter
where, it's always home, if love is there. Anon.
No one feels another's grief,
no one understands another's joy. People
Nobody believes the official
spokesman... but everybody trusts an unidentified source.
Ron Nesen
Nobody realizes that some
people expend tremendous energy merely to be normal.
Albert Camus
Not only is there no God, but
try finding a plumber on Sunday. Woody Allen 1935-
Nothing can be made foolproof
because fools are so ingenious. Anon.
Nothing endures but change.
Heraclitus
Nothing fixes a thing so
intensely in the memory as the wish to forget it.
Montaigne
Nothing happens unless first
a dream. Carl Sandburg
Nothing in life is to be
feared. It is only to be understood. Marie Curie
Nothing in this world is so
powerful as an idea whose time has come. Victor Hugo
Nothing is impossible for the
man who doesn't have to do it himself. A. H. Weiler
Nothing is more useful than
silence. Menander
Nothing is particularly hard
if you divide it into small jobs. Henry Ford
Nothing is said that has not
been said before. Terence 185-159 B.C.
Nothing is so firmly believed
as that which we least know. Michel de Montaigne
Nothing is wrong with
California that a rise in the ocean level wouldn't cure.
Ross MacDonald 1915-1983
Now that I have it all, can I
give some of it back? Anon.
Numbers are like people;
torture them enough and they'll tell you anything. Anon.
Of those who say nothing, few
are silent. Thomas Neill
Often the test of courage is
not to die but to live. Vittorio Alfieri
Oh, I don't blame Congress.
If I had $600 billion at my disposal, I'd be
irresponsible, too. Lichty & Wagner
OK, so you've got a Ph.D. Now,
don't touch anything. Anon.
Old age is not so bad when
you consider the alternatives. Maurice Chevalier
On the whole human beings
want to be good, but not to good and not quite all the
time. George Orwell
Once you replace negative
thoughts with positive ones, you'll start having positive
results. Willie Nelson
Once you've accumulated
sufficient knowledge to get by, you're too old to
remember it. Anon.
One can survive everything,
nowadays, except death, and live down everything except a
good reputation.Oscar Wilde
One good turn gets most of
the blanket.Anon.
One never
notices what has been done; one can only see what remains
to be done... Marie Curie
One of the symptoms of an
approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's
work is terribly important. Bertrand Russell
One should dies proudly when
it is no longer possible to live proudly. Friedrich
Nietzsche
One who walks in another's
tracks leaves no footprints. Proverb
Only little people pay taxes.
Leona Helmsley
Only the winners decide what
were war crimes. Gary Wills
Only those who dare to fail
greatly can ever achieve greatly. Robert F. Kennedy
opinion is that they don't
stifle enough of them. Flannery O'Connor 1925-1964
Opportunity is missed by most
people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like
work. Thomas Edison
Ordinarily he was insane, but
he had lucid moments when he was merely stupid.
Heinrich Heine
Organic chemistry is the
chemistry of carbon compounds. Biochemistry is the study
of carbon compounds that crawl. Mike Adams
Originality is the fine art
of remembering what you hear but forgetting where you
heard it. Laurance Peter
Paradise is exactly like
where you are right now, only much, much better.
Laurie Anderson
Patriotism is the last refuge
of the scoundrel. Samuel Johnson
People ask for criticism, but
they only want praise. Somerset Maugham
People demand freedom of
speech as a compensation for the freedom of thought which
they seldom use. Kierkegaard
People forget how fast you
did a job -- but they remember how well you did it.
Howard W. Newton
People who can keep their
heads while everyone else around them is losing theirs,
probably aren't grasping the situation. Anon.
People, like nails, lose
their effectiveness when they lose direction and begin to
bend. Walter Savage Landor
Philosophy is a game with
objectives and no rules. Mathematics is a game with rules
and no objectives.
Physics is becoming so
unbelievably complex that it is taking longer and longer
to train a physicist. It is taking so long, in fact, to
train a physicist to the place where he understands the
nature of physical problems that he is already too old to
solve them. Eugene Wigner
Plain women know more about
men than beautiful ones do. But beautiful women don't
need to know about men. It's the men who have to know
about beautiful women. Katherine Hepburn
Plans are nothing, planning
is everything. Dwight D. Eisenhower
Please don't ask me what the
score is, I'm not even sure what the game is. Ashleigh
Brilliant
Poetry begins in delight and
ends in wisdom. Robert Frost
Politicians are the same all
over. They promise to build bridges even when there are
no rivers. Nikita Khruschev
Politics is not a bad
profession. If you succeed there are many rewards, if you
disgrace yourself you can always write a book. Ronald
Reagan
Politics is the skilled use
of blunt objects.Lester B. Pearson
Programming today is a race
between software engineers stirring to build bigger and
better idiot-proof programs, and the universe trying to
produce bigger and better idiots. So far, the
universe is winning. Anon.
Push to test. <click>
Release to detonate. from Bruce Graham
Quarrels would not last long
if the fault were only on one side. Francois de La
Rochefoucauld
Reality is merely an
illusion, albeit a very persistent one. Albert
Einstein 1879-1955
Science is organized
knowledge. Wisdom is organized life. Immanuel
Kant
Selfishness is not living as
one wishes to live, it is asking others to live as one
wishes to live. Oscar Wilde
Sex alleviates tension. Love
causes it. Woody Allen
Sex is an emotion in motion. Mae
West
Sex is not the answer. Sex
is the question. "Yes" is the answer. Swami
X
Sex without love is a
meaningless experience, but as meaningless experiences go
its pretty good. Woody Allen
She had a pretty gift for
quotation, which is a serviceable substitute for wit.
W. Somerset Maugham
Show my head to the people,
it is worth seeing. Georges Danton, to his executioner
Silence is the most perfect
expression of scorn. George Bernard Shaw
Since the house is on fire
let us warm ourselves. Italian Proverb
Sir, if you were my husband,
I would poison your drink. Lady Astor to Winston
Churchill Madam, if you were my wife, I would drink
it. His reply
Sir Stafford Cripps has all
the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire.
Winston Churchill
So far as modern science is
concerned, we have to abandon completely the idea that by
going into the realm of the small we shall reach the
ultimate foundations of the universe. I believe we can
abandon this idea without any regret. The universe is
infinite in all directions, not only above us in the
large but also below us in the small. Emil Wiechert
So many books...So little
time. Anon.
So you think *I'm* the
murderer? What do I have to do to convince you that I'm
not, be the next victim? - Well that would be a start. Cary
Grant & Audrey Hepburn in Charade, 1963
Some men see things as they
are and ask why. Others dream things that never were and
ask why not. George Bernard Shaw
Some people will never learn
anything, for this reason, because they understand
everything too soon. Alexander Pope
Someday is not a day of the
week. Anon.
Someone who thinks logically
is a nice contrast to the real world. from Sonja
Monsen
Sometimes democracy must be
bathed in blood. Augusto Pinochet
Sometimes I need what only
you can provide - your absence. Ashleigh Brilliant
Sometimes i sit and think.
and sometimes i just sit.David B. Newberry
Sometimes it's useful to know
how large your zero is. Anon.
Somewhere in the world
there's somebody better than me....But I haven't met him
yet.- Arthur Hobson from CSLP
Somewhere on this globe,
every ten seconds, there is a woman giving birth to a
child. She must be found and stopped. Sam Levenson
1911-1980
Speak the truth, but leave
immediately after. Slovenian Proverb
Stoop and you'll be stepped
on; stand tall and you'll be shot at. Carlos A. Urbizo
Strength lies not in defense
but in attack. Adolf Hitler
Success folows doing what you
want to do. There is no other way to be successfull. Malcolm
Forbes
Success is a state of mind.
If you want success, start thinking ofyourself as
a success. Dr. Joyce Brothers
Success is the sole earthly
judge of right and wrong. Adolf Hitler
Sure, everyone always said
'Socrates what is the meaning of life?' or 'Socrates how
can I find happiness?', did anyone ever say 'Socrates
hemlock is poison.'????? -Socrates minutes before
death
Sure, it's going to kill a
lot of people, but they may be dying of something else
anyway. Othal Brand, member of a Texas pesticide
review board, on chlordane
Tact is the ability to
describe others as they see themselves. Abraham
Lincoln
Talk low, talk slow, and
dont say too much. John Wayne
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
Television - a medium. So
called because it is neither rare nor well-done. Ernie
Kovacs
Television is the first truly
democratic culture - the first culture available to
everybody and entirely governed by what the people want.
The most terrifying thing is what people do want.
Clive Barnes
Television: chewing gum for
the eyes.Frank Lloyd Wright 1869-1959
Ten people who speak make
more noise than ten thousand who are silent. Napoleon
I
Thank you for sending me a
copy of your book - I'll waste no time reading it.
Moses Hadas
That government is best which
governs least. Thomas Jefferson
That which does not kill me
makes me stronger. Friedrich Wilheim Nietzsche
That which is dynamic and
random is confusing. That which is static and repetitive
is boring.
That's one small step for
man, one giant leap for mankind. Neil Armstrong
The art of medicine consists
in amusing the patient while naturecures the disease.
Voltaire
The average Ph.D. thesis is
nothing but a transference of bones from one graveyard to
another. Anon.
The basic fact about human
existence is not that it is a tragedy, but that it is a
bore. It is not so much a war as an endless standing in
line. H. L. Mencken
The best argument against
democracy is a five minute conversation with the average
voter. Winston Churchill
The best time to hold your
tongue is the time you feel you must say something or
bust. Josh Billings
The best way to have a good
idea is to have a lot of ideas. Dr. Linus Pauling
The best way to keep one's
word is not to give it. Napoleon Bonaparte 1769-1821
The best way to predict the
future is to invent it. Alan Kay
The big thieves hang the
little ones.Czech proverb
The cat could very well be
man's best friend but would never stoop to admitting it.Doug
Larson
The central problem of
politics: Do you paint simplistic pictures that make
people act and leave them with too simplistic a view of
the world or do you paint baffingly shaded and contingent
scenes that leave people paralysed by indecision? Brian
Eno
The condition upon which God
has given liberty to man is eternal vigilance. John
Philpot Curran, in a speech July 10, 1790
The creator of the universe
works in mysterious ways. But he usesa base ten counting
system and likes round numbers.Scott Adams
The crux... is that the vast
majority of the mass of the universeseems to be missing.
William J. Broad
The difference between a
violin and a viola is that a viola burns longer.Victor
Borge
The difference between
fiction and reality? Fiction has to make sense. Tom
Clancy
The difference between genius
and stupidity is that genius has its limits. Anon.
The difference between
literature and journalism is that journalism isunreadable
and literature is not read. Oscar Wilde
The doctors X-rayed my head
and found nothing. Dizzy Dean explaining how he felt
after being hit in the head by a ball in the 1934 World
Series.
The earth laughs in flowers.
E.E. Cummings
The easiest way for your
children to learn about money is for you not to have any.
Katharine Whitehorn
The enemy is anybody who's
going to get you killed, no matter which side he's on.
Joseph Heller, Catch-22
The engineer's first problem
in any design situation is to discover what the problem
really is. Anon.
The fact that a believer is
happier than a skeptic is no more to the point than the
fact that a drunken man is happier than a sober one.George
Bernard Shaw
The first half of our lives
is ruined by our parents, and the second half by our
children. Clarence Darrow
The future belongs to those
who dare. Anon.
The future is like heaven -
everyone exalts it, but no one wants to go there now.
James Baldwin
The generation of random
numbers is too important to be left to chance. Robert
R. Coveyou
The good die young - because
they see it's no use living if you've got to be good. Anon.
The great masses of the
people... will more easily fall victims to a big lie than
to a small one. Adolph Hitler
The great tragedy of Science
-- the slaying of a beautiful hypothesis by an ugly fact.
Thomas Henry Huxley
The greatest lesson in life
is to know that even fools are right sometimes.
Winston Churchill (1874-1965)
The greatest pleasure in life
is doing what people say you cannot do.Walter Bagehot
The highest compliment one
can be paid by another human being is to be told :
'Because of what you are, you are essential to my
happiness'. Nathaniel Branden
The hunger for love is much
more difficult to remove than the hunger for bread.
Mother Teresa
The illegal we do
immediately. The unconstitutional takes a little longer.
Henry Kissinger
The illiterate of the 21st
century will not be those who cannot read and write, but
those who cannot learn, unlearn, and relearn. Alvin
Toffler
The important thing is not to
stop questioning. Albert Einstein
The intermediate stage
between socialism and capitalism is alcoholism. Norman
Brenner
The key to being a good
manager is keeping the people who hate me away from those
who are still undecided. Casey Stengel
The little I know I owe to my
ignorance. Sacha Guitry
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
The man who removes a
mountain begins by carrying away small stones.
Anonymous
The meeting of two
personalities is like the contact of two chemical
substances; if there is any reaction, both are
transformed. Carl G. Jung
The more I study religions
the more I am convinced that man neverworshipped
anything but himself. Sir Richard F. Burton
The more opinions you have,
the less you see. Wim Wenders
The more you know, the less
you need to show. Anonymous
The more you say, the less
people remember. The fewer the words, the greater the
profit. Felelon
The most exciting phrase to
hear in science, the one that heralds new discoveries, is
not 'Eureka!' (I've found it!), but "That's
funny..." Isaac Asimov
The most incomprehensible
thing about the world is that it is comprehensible.
Albert Einstein
The most likely way for the
world to be destroyed, most experts agree, is by
accident. That's where we come in; we're computer
professionals. We cause accidents. Nathaniel
Borenstein
The old believe everything,
the middle-aged suspect everything, the young know
everything. Oscar Wilde
The older I grow the more I
distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom.
H. L. Mencken
The one function TV news
performs very well is that when there is no news we give
it to you with the same emphasis as if there were.David
Brinkley
The only difference between
graffiti & philosophy is the word fuck...Anon.
The only man who never makes
a mistake is the man who never does anything. Theodore
Roosevelt
The only normal people are
the ones you don't know very well. Joe Ancis
The only place where success
comes before work is in a dictionary.Vidal Sassoon
The only reward for love is
the experience of loving. John LeCarre, The Secret
Pilgrim
The only thing necessary for
the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.
Edmund Burke
The only thing that saves us
from the bureaucracy is inefficiency. An efficient
bureaucracy is the greatest threat to liberty.Eugene
McCarthy
The only thing worse than
being talked about is not being talked about. Oscar
Wilde
The only thing wrong with
immortality is that it tends to go on forever. Herb
Caen
The only way to discover the
limits of the possible is to go beyond them into the
impossible. Arthur C. Clarke, Technology and the
Future
The only way to get rid of a
temptation is to yield to it. Oscar Wilde
The opposite of a correct
statement is a false statement. The opposite of a
profound truth may
well be another profound
truth. Niels Bohr
The people who get on in this
world are the people who get up and look for the
circumstances they want, and, if they cant find them,
make them. George Bernard Shaw
The person who knows how will
always have a job. The person who knows why will always
be his boss. Diane Ravitch, quoted in "Quotable
Business," by Louis E. Boone
The police are not here to
create disorder; they're here to preserve disorder.
Former Mayor of Chicago Daly
The price for independance is
often isolation and solitude. Steve Schmidt
The public is wonderfully
tolerant. It forgives everything except genius.Oscar
Wilde
The pure and simple truth is
rarely pure and never simple. Oscar Wilde
The purpose of a liberal
education is to make you philisophical enough to accept
the fact that you will never make much money. Anon.
The purpose of life is to
fight maturity. Dick Werthimer
The quality of an
organization can never exceed the quality of the minds
that make it up. Harold R. McAlindon
The real measure of your
wealth is how much you'd be worth if you lost all your
money. Anon.
The reasonable man adapts
himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in
trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore
all progress depends on the unreasonable man. George
Bernard Shaw
The reports of my death are
greatly exaggerated. Mark Twain
The right to be heard does
not automatically include the right to be taken seriously.
Hubert H. Humphrey
The right to swing my fist
ends where the other man's nose begins. Oliver Wendell
Holmes 1841-1935
The secret of success is to
know something nobody else knows. Aristotle Onassis
1906-1975
The secret to creativity is
knowing how to hide your sources. Albert Einstein
The shortest distance between
two points is under construction. Noelie Altito
The sooner you make your
first five thousand mistakes the sooner you will be able
to correct them. Anon.
The streets are safe in
Philadelphia, it's only the people that make them unsafe.
Frank Rizzo, former Mayor and Police Chief of
Philadelphia
The successful revolutionary
is a statesman, the unsuccessful one a criminal. Erich
Fromm
The surest sign that
intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universeis that
it has never tried to contact us. Calvin and Hobbes
Bill Watterson
The surprising thing about
young fools is how many survive to become old fools.
Doug Larson
The tragedy of life is not
that it ends so soon, but that we wait so long to begin
it. Anon.
The tree of liberty must be
refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots
and tyrants. Thomas Jefferson
The trouble with being
punctual is that nobody's there to appreciate it.
Franklin P. Jones
The trouble with the
dictionary is you have to know how the word is spelled
before you can look it up to see how it is spelled.
Will Cuppy
The trouble with the rat-race
is that even if you win, you're still a rat. Lily
Tomlin
The Truth is Out There. So
what are you doing Here! Anon.
The victor will never be
asked if he told the truth. Adolf Hitler
The whole of science is
nothing more than a refinement of everyday thinking.
Albert Einstein, Physics and Reality [1936]
The whole problem with the
world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of
themselves, but wiser people so full of doubts.
Bertrand Russell
The will to do, the soul to
dare. Sir Walter Scott
The will to win is nothing -
everyone has the will to win. The will to prepare to win
is what counts. Bobby Knight
The world began without man,
and it will complete itself without him. Claude
Levi-Strauss
The world cares very little
about what a man or woman know; it is what the man or
woman is able to do that counts. Booker T. Washington
The world does not pay for
what a person knows. But it pays for what a person does
with what
The world is full of willing
people, some willing to work, the restwilling to let them.
Robert Frost
There are a number of
mechanical devices which increase sexual arousal,
particularly in women. Chief among these is the
Mercedes-Benz 380SL convertible. P. J. O'Rouke
There are more things in
heaven and earth, Horatio, than are dreamt of in your
philosophy. William Shakespeare, Hamlet, Act I, Scene
5
There are no accidents. God's
just trying to remain anonymous. Brett Butler's
unnamed friend
There are no facts, only
interpretations. Friedrich Nietzsche
There are only two truly
infinite things, the universe and stupidity. And I
am unsure about the universe. Albert Einstein
There are only two ways to
live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle.
The other is as though everything is a miracle. Albert
Einstein
There are things that are so
serious that you can only joke about them. Werner
Heisenberg
There are three kinds of
people in thisworld: Those who make things happen; Those
who watch things happen; And those that wonder what
happen. Anon.
There are three roads to
ruin; women, gambling and technicians. The most pleasant
is with women, the quickest is with gambling, but the
surest is with technicians. Georges Pompidou
There are two major products
that come out of Berkeley: LSD and UNIX. We don't believe
this to be a coincidence. Jeremy S. Anderson
There are two perfectly good
men, one dead, and the other unborn. Chinese Proverb
contributed by: Nader Shureih
There are two types of people
-those who come into a room and say,'Well, here I am!'
and those who come in and say, 'Ah, there you are.' Anon.
Believe those who are seeking
the truth. Doubt those who find it.Andre Gide
There are two ways to be rich
--, make more or need less. Kimo's Rules
There are, of course, several
things in Ontario that are more dangerous than wolves.
For instance, the step-ladder. J.W. Curran
There is but one step from
the sublime to the ridiculous. Napoleon I
There is hardly anyone whose
sexual life, if it were broadcast, would not fill the
world at large with surprise and horror. W. Somerset
Maugham
There is no expedient to
which a man will not go to avoid the real labor of
thinking. Anon.
There is no God. But it does
not matter. Man is enough. Edna St. Vincent Milay,
Conversation at Midnight
There is no monument
dedicated to the memory of a committee. Lester J.
Pourciau
There is no shame in not
knowing; the shame lies in not finding out. Russian
proverb
There is no such things as a
moral or an immoral book. Books are well written or bady
written. That is all. Oscar Wilde, "The
Picture of Dorian Gray"
There is nothing in this
world constant but inconstancy. Swift
There is nothing more
difficult to take in hand, more perilous to conduct or
more uncertain in its success than to take the lead in
the introduction of a new order of things. Niccolo
Machiavelli, The Prince (1532)
There is nothing more
frightful than ignorance in action. Goethe
There is nothing permanent
except change. Heraclitus
There is nothing quite so
good as burial at sea. It is simple, tidy, and not
very incriminating. Alfred Hitchcock
There is nothing so absurd
but some philosopher has said it. Cicero
There is nothing that can be
said by mathematical symbols and relations which cannot
also be said by words. The converse, however, is false.
Much that can be and is said by words cannot successfully
be put into equations, because it is nonsense. C.
Truesdell, "Six Lectures on Modern Natural
Philosophy"
There is only one blasphemy,
and that is the refusal to experience joy. Paul
Rudnick
There is only one thing a
philosopher can be relied upon to do, and that is to
contradict other philosophers.William James
There's a difference between
beauty and charm. A beautiful woman is one I notice. A
charming woman is one who notices me. John Erskine
There's nothing remarkable
about it. All one has to do is hit the right keys at the
right time and the instrument plays itself. Johann
Sebastian Bach
They are able because they
think they are able. Vergil
Things always look better
when you can't see them. Craig Bruce
THINK -- it gives you
something to do while the computer is down. Anon.
Thinking is the best way to
travel. Michael Pinder from Doug & Lesley Moody
This is my happening baby,
and it freaks me out! Austin Powers
This isn't right. This isn't
even wrong! Wolfgang Pauli
Those that can, do. Those
who can't, don't. Anon.
Those who are absend are
always wrong. English Proverb
Those who cannot remember the
past are condemned to repeat it. George Santayana
(1863-1952)
Those who make peaceful
revolution impossible will make violent revolution
inevitable. John F. Kennedy
Three passions, simple but
overwhelmingly strong, have governed my life: the longing
for love, the search for knowledge, and unbearable pity
for the suffering of mankind. Bertrand Russell,
Autobiography
Time is a great teacher, but
unfortunately it kills all its pupils. Hector Berlioz
Tis better to be silent and
be thought a fool, than to speak andremove all
doubt. Abraham Lincoln
To achive great things we
must live as though we were never going to die. Luc de
Vauvenargues
To achieve the impossible
dream, try going to sleep. Joan Klempner
To be loved, be lovable.
Ovid
To be stupid, selfish, and
have good health are three requirements for happiness,
though if stupidity is lacking, all is lost.Gustave
Flaubert
to discover them. Galileo
Galilei
To do is to be. Plato
To be is to do. Kant Do be do be do.Sinatra
from Bruce Graham
To escape criticism - Do
nothing, say nothing, be nothing. Elbert Hubbard
To obtain a man's opinion of
you, make him mad. Oliver Wendell Holmes
To philosophize is to
doubt. Montaigne
To secure peace is to prepare
for war. Carl von Clausewitz
To succeed in the world it is
not enough to be stupid, you must also be well-mannered.
Voltaire
Too many people are thinking
of security instead of opportunity. They seem more
afraid of life than death. James F. Byrnes
True friendship comes when
silence between two people iscomfortable.
David Tyson Gentry
True friendship is like sound
health, the value of it is seldom known until it be lost.
Charles Caleb Colton
Trust in Allah, but tie your
camel. Old Muslim Proverb
Truth fears no questions.
Anon.
Try a thing you haven't done
three times. Once, to get over the fearof doing
it. Twice, to learn how to do it. And a third time, to
figureout whether you like it or not. Virgil
Thomson Advice given at age 93
Try to relax and enjoy the
crisis. Ashleigh Brilliant
Usability is like oxygen --
you never notice it until it is missing... Anon.
Use soft words and hard
arguments. Anon.
Violence is the last refuge
of the incompetent. Salvor Hardin
Wagner's music is better than
it sounds. Mark Twain
War is much too serious a
matter to be entrusted to the military. Georges
Clemenceau
Watch what people are cynical
about, and one can often discover what they lack.
George S. Patton
We adore chaos because we
love to produce order. M. C. Escher
We always admire the other
person more after we've tried to do his job. William
Feather
We always love those who
admire us, but we do not always love those whom we admire.
Anon.
We are drowning in
information, but starved for knowledge. John Naisbilt
We are going to have peace
even if we have to fight for it. Dwight D.Eisenhower
We are, each of us angels
with only one wing; and we can only fly by embracing one
another. -Luciano de Crescenzo
We can do no great things;
only small things with great love. Mother Teresa
We can't all be heroes
because somebody has to sit on the curb and clapas they
go by. Will Rogers
We give nothing so freely as
advice. Francois de la Rochefoucauld
We confess our little faults
to persuade people that we have no large ones. L.
Rochefoucauld
We have two ears and one
mouth so that we can listen twice as much as we speak.
Epictetus
We spend the first twelve
months of our children's lives teaching them to walk and
talk and the next twelve telling them to sit down and
shut up.Phyllis Diller
We too often love things and
use people when we should USEthings and LOVE
people. Anon.
We would often be sorry if
our wishes were gratified. Aesop
Well done is better than well
said. Benjamin Franklin
We're all proud of making
little mistakes. It gives us the feeling we don't make
any big ones.
What counts is not
necessarily the size of the dog in the fight - it's the
size of the fight in the dog. Dwight D. Eisenhower
What does not destroy me,
makes me strong. Friedrich Nietzsche
What I look forward to is
continued immaturity followed by death. Dave Barry
What is a friend? A single
soul dwelling in two bodies. Aristotle
What is a true gift? One for
which nothing is expected in return. Chinese proverb
What is the difference
between unethical and ethical advertising? Unethical
advertising uses falsehoods to deceive the public;
ethical advertising uses truth to deceive the public.Vilhjalmur
Stefansson
What is written without
effort is in general read without pleasure. Samuel
Johnson
What luck for the rulers that
men do not think.Adolf Hitler
What no wife of a writer can
ever understand is that a writer is working when he's
staring out the window. Burton Rascoe
What we call human nature, is
actually human habit. Jewel
What we call 'Progress' is
the exchange of one nuisance for anothernuisance.
Henry Havelock Ellis
What we do not understand, we
do not possess. J.W. Goethe
What we imagine is order is
merely the prevailing form of chaos. Kerry Thornley,
Principia Discordia, 5th edition
What we need, gentlemen, is a
completely brand new idea that has been thoroughly tested.
New Yorker Cartoon
Whatever advice you give, be
brief. Horace
What's this thing? It's
called a MODEM. And what's this button for? Whatever you
do, don't touc{{{7bh6xx!{@%%hxbd&$#$% NO CARRIER from
Bruce Graham
When a Banker jumps out of a
window, jump after him -- that's where the money is.
Robespierre
When a distinguished but
elderly scientist states that something is possible, he
is almost certainly right. When he states that something
is impossible, he is very probably wrong. Clarke's
First Law
When a fellow says it ain't
the money but the principle of the thing, it's the money.
Kin Hubbard
When a husband acts like a
child he forces his wife to act like his mother.
Promise Keepers
When a man points finger at
someone else, he should remember that three of his
fingers are pointing at himself. Anon.
When a man says he approves
of something in principle, it means he hasn't the
slightest intention of putting it into practice.
Bismarck
When a man steals your wife,
there is no better revenge than to let him keep her.
Sacha Guitry
When a man wants to murder a
tiger, it's called sport; when the tiger wants to murder
him it's called ferocity. George Bernard Shaw
When a stupid man is doing
something he is ashamed of, he always declares that it is
his duty. George Bernard Shaw
When a thing has been said,
and said well, have no scruple. Take it and copy it.
Anatole France
When a true genius appears in
the world, you may know him by this sign, that the dunces
are all in a confederacy against him. Swift
When did I realize I was God?
Well, I was praying and I suddenly realized I was talking
to myself. Peter O'Toole, The Ruling Class
When I'm working on a
problem, I never think about beauty. I think only how to
solve the problem. But when I have finished, if the
solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong. Richard
Buckminster Fuller
When it's a question of
money, everybody is of the same religion. Voltaire
When money talks, nobody
notices what grammar it uses. Anon.
When people are free to do as
they please, they usually imitate each other. Eric
Hoffer
When science finally locates
the center of the universe, some people will be surprised
to learn they're not it. Anon.
When the effective leader is
finished with his work, the people say it happened
naturally. Lao Tse
When the president does it,
that's means it is not illegal. Richard Nixon
When you have an efficient
government, you have a dictatorship. Harry S Truman
When you have eliminated the
impossible, that which remains, however improbable, must
be the truth. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
When you're away, I'm
restless, lonely, wretched, bored, dejected; only here's
the rub, my darling dear, I feel the same when you're
near. Samuel Hoffenstein
Whenever I'm caught between
two evils, I take the one I've never tried. Mae West
Whenever people agree with me
I always feel I must be wrong. Oscar Wilde
Where facts are few, experts
are many. Donald R. Gannon
Where shall I begin, please
your Majesty?He asked. Begin at the beginning,the King said, very gravely, and go on till you come
to the end: then stop.- Lewis Carroll, Alice
In Wonderland
Which is it, is man one of
God's blunders or is God one of man's? Friedrich Wilhelm
Nietzsche
While we are postponing, life
speeds by. Seneca
Who begins too much
accomplishes little. German proverb
Who controls the past
controls the future. Who controls the present controls
the past. George Orwell
Who's more foolish: the fool,
or the fool who follows him? -Obi Wan, Star Wars
Why be a man when you can be
a success? Bertold Brecht
Why does a woman work ten
years to change a man's habits and then complain that
he's not the man she married? Barbra Streisand
Why was I born with such
contemporaries? Oscar Wilde
Wine is bottled poetry.
Robert Louis Stevenson
Wisdom is the reward for a
lifetime of listening ... when you'd havepreferred
to talk.D.J. Kaufman
Wise men don't need advice.
Fools don't take it. Benjamin Franklin
Wise men make proverbs, but
fools repeat them. Samuel Palmer 1805-80
Wise men talk because they
have something to say; fools,because they have to
say something. -Plato
With love and patience,
nothing is impossible. Daisaku Ikeda
With stupidity the gods
themselves struggle in vain. Friedrich von Schiller
Wonder is the beginning of
wisdom. Anonymous (Greek Proverb)
You are better off not
knowing how sausages and laws are made. Anon.
You are here: X Anon.
You are only young once, but
you can stay immature indefinitely. Anon.
you are, you are essential to
my happiness'. Nathaniel Branden
You can discover more about a
person in an hour of play than in a year of conversation.
Plato
You can discover what your
enemy fears most by observing the means he uses to
frighten you. Eric Hoffer
You can do no great things --
only small things with great love. Mother Teresa
You can fool all the people
some of the time, and some of the people all the time,
but you cannot fool all the people all the time.
Abraham Lincoln
You can get much farther with
a kind word and a gun than you can with a kind word alone.
Al Capone
You can outdistance that
which is running after you, but not what is running
inside you. Rwandan proverb
You can pretend to be
serious; you can't pretend to be witty. Sacha Guitry
1885-1957
You cannot teach a man
anything; you can only help him find it within himself.
Galileo
You can't be truly rude until
you understand good manners. Rita Mae Brown
You can't build a reputation
on what you are going to do. Henry Ford
You can't do anything about
the length of your life, but you can do something about
its width and depth. Shira Tehrani
You can't have
everything...where would you put it? Groucho Marx
You can't hold a man down
without staying down with him. Booker T. Washington
You can't shake hands with a
clenched fist. Indira Gandhi
You do not destroy an idea by
killing people; you replace it with a better one.
Edward Keating
You enemy is never a villain
in his own eyes. Keep this in mind, it may offer a
way to make him your friend. If not, you can kill
him without hate and quickly. Lazarus Long
You must do the thing you
think you cannot do. Eleanor Roosvelt
You must first have a lot of
patience to learn to have patience.Stanislaw Lec
You probably wouldn't worry
about what people think of you if you could know how
seldom they do. Olin Miller
You will never find time for
anything. If you want time you must make it.
Charles Buxton
You'll see it when you
believe it. Anon.
Your theory is crazy, but
it's not crazy enough to be true. Niels Bohr
Your true value depends
entirely on what you are compared with. Bob Wells