Famous Quotes |
| It is by universal misunderstanding
that all agree. For if, by ill luck, people understood each other, they would never agree. |
Charles Baudelaire |
French poet (1821 - 1867) |
| Truth is more of a stranger than fiction. |
Mark Twain |
US humorist, novelist, short story author, & wit (1835 - 1910) |
| Politics is supposed to be the
second oldest profession. I have come to realize that it bears a very close resemblance to the first. |
Ronald Reagan |
40th president of US (1911 - 2004) |
| Skill without imagination is
craftsmanship and gives us many useful objects such as wickerwork picnic baskets. Imagination without skill gives us modern
art. |
Tom Stoppard, "Artist Descending a Staircase" |
British dramatist & screenwriter
(1937 - ) |
| There is no moral precept that does not have something inconvenient about
it. |
Denis Diderot |
French author, encyclopedist, & philosopher (1713 - 1784) |
| The average, healthy, well-adjusted
adult gets up at seven-thirty in the morning feeling just plain terrible. |
Jean Kerr |
| The movies are the only business where you can go out front and applaud
yourself. |
Will Rogers |
US humorist & showman (1879 -
1935) |
| Classical music is the kind we keep thinking will turn into a tune. |
Kin Hubbard |
(1868 - 1930) |
| A nation is a society united by
delusions about its ancestry and by common hatred of its neighbors. |
William Ralph Inge |
English author & Anglican prelate
(1860 - 1954) |
| Dealing with network executives is like being nibbled to death by ducks. |
Eric Sevareid |
| Trying to determine what is going on
in the world by reading newspapers is like trying to tell the time by watching the second hand of a clock. |
Ben Hecht |
US author & dramatist (1893 -
1964) |
| This is the devilish thing about
foreign affairs: they are foreign and will not always conform to our whim. |
James Reston, New York Times, June 12 1968 |
(1909 - ) |
| A newspaper consists of just the same number of words, whether there be
any news in it or not. |
Henry Fielding |
English dramatist & novelist
(1707 - 1754) |
| No opera plot can be sensible, for people do not sing when they are
feeling sensible. |
W. H. Auden |
US (English-born) critic & poet
(1907 - 1973) |
| I find nothing more depressing than optimism. |
Paul Fussell |
| Parents were invented to make children happy by giving them something to
ignore. |
Ogden Nash |
US humorist & poet (1902 -
1971) |
| You must first have a lot of patience to learn to have patience. |
Stanislaw J. Lec, "Unkempt Thoughts" |
Polish writer (1909 - 1966) |
| Patriotism is your conviction that
this country is superior to all other countries because you were born in it. |
George Bernard Shaw |
Irish dramatist & socialist
(1856 - 1950) |
| People will buy anything that is one to a customer. |
Sinclair Lewis |
US novelist (1885 - 1951) |
| There are more fools in the world than there are people. |
Heinrich Heine |
German critic & poet (1797 -
1856) |
| Acting is merely the art of keeping a large group of people from
coughing. |
Sir Ralph Richardson, quoted in New York Herald Tribune, May 19, 1946 |
(1902 - 1983) |
| There is only one thing a
philosopher can be relied upon to do, and that is to contradict other philosophers. |
William James |
US Pragmatist philosopher & psychologist (1842 - 1910) |
| Illusion is the first of all pleasures. |
Oscar Wilde |
Irish dramatist, novelist, & poet
(1854 - 1900) |
| I despise the pleasure of pleasing people that I despise. |
Lady Mary Wortley Montagu |
English letter author & poet
(1689 - 1762) |
| Politics is the art of looking for
trouble, finding it whether it exists or not, diagnosing it incorrectly, and applying the wrong remedy. |
Ernest Benn |
| Politics is the skilled use of blunt objects. |
Lester B. Pearson |
Canadian Prime Minister 1963-1968
(1897 - 1972) |
| Politics is perhaps the only profession for which no preparation is
thought necessary. |
Robert Louis Stevenson |
Scottish author (1850 - 1894) |
| If absolute power corrupts absolutely, does absolute powerlessness make
you pure? |
Harry Shearer |
| Any American who is prepared to run
for president should automatically, by definition, be disqualified from ever doing so. |
Gore Vidal |
US author & dramatist (1925
- ) |
| Under certain circumstances, profanity provides a relief denied even to
prayer. |
Mark Twain |
US humorist, novelist, short story author, & wit (1835 - 1910) |
| Usually, terrible things that are
done with the excuse that progress requires them are not really progress at all, but just terrible things. |
Russell Baker |
US columnist & journalist
(1925 - ) |
| Everything in the world may be endured except continued prosperity. |
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe |
German dramatist, novelist, poet, & scientist (1749 - 1832) |
| To err is dysfunctional, to forgive co-dependent. |
Berton Averre |
| The public is wonderfully tolerant. It forgives everything except genius. |
Oscar Wilde, The Critic as Artist, 1891 |
Irish dramatist, novelist, & poet
(1854 - 1900) |
| The public will believe anything, so long as it is not founded on truth. |
Edith Sitwell |
English biographer, critic, novelist, & poet (1887 - 1964) |
| One can survive everything,
nowadays, except death, and live down everything except a good reputation. |
Oscar Wilde |
Irish dramatist, novelist, & poet
(1854 - 1900) |
| Everything is funny as long as it is happening to Somebody Else. |
Will Rogers, Illiterate Digest (1924), "Warning to Jokers: lay off
the prince" |
US humorist & showman (1879 -
1935) |
| An ardent supporter of the hometown
team should go to a game prepared to take offense, no matter what happens. |
Robert Benchley |
US actor, author, & humorist
(1889 - 1945) |
| The surest way to make a monkey of a man is to quote him. |
Robert Benchley |
US actor, author, & humorist
(1889 - 1945) |
| The penalty for success is to be bored by the people who used to snub
you. |
Nancy Astor |
British politician (1879 - 1964) |
| The avoidance of taxes is the only intellectual pursuit that carries any
reward. |
John Maynard Keynes |
English economist (1883 - 1946) |
| For a list of all the ways technology has failed to improve the quality
of life, please press three. |
Alice Kahn |
| Television has done much for
psychiatry by spreading information about it, as well as contributing to the need for it. |
Alfred Hitchcock |
British movie director (1899 -
1980) |
| 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 |
US television newscaster (1920 -
2003) |
| Television has raised writing to a new low. |
Samuel Goldwyn |
US (Polish-born) movie producer
(1882 - 1974) |
| There is no expedient to which a man will not go to avoid the labor of
thinking. |
Thomas A. Edison |
US inventor (1847 - 1931) |
| He can compress the most words into the smallest ideas of any man I ever
met. |
Abraham Lincoln |
16th president of US (1809 - 1865) |
| His lack of education is more than compensated for by his keenly
developed moral bankruptcy. |
Woody Allen |
US movie actor, comedian, & director
(1935 - ) |
| The difference between a violin and a viola is that a viola burns longer. |
Victor Borge |
US (Danish-born) comedian & pianist
(1909 - 2000) |
| Wars teach us not to love our enemies, but to hate our allies. |
W. L. George |
| Half our life is spent trying to
find something to do with the time we have rushed through life trying to save. |
Will Rogers, New York TImes, Apr. 29, 1930 |
US humorist & showman (1879 -
1935) |
| Washington is a city of Southern efficiency and Northern charm. |
John F. Kennedy |
US Democratic politician (1917 -
1963) |
| Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing
himself. |
Leo Tolstoy |
Russian mystic & novelist
(1828 - 1910) |
| Talking with you is sort of the conversational equivalent of an out of
body experience. |
Bill Watterson, Calvin & Hobbes |
US cartoonist (1958 - ) |
| Speak the truth, but leave immediately after. |
Slovenian Proverb |
| Anything not worth doing is worth not doing well. Think about it. |
Elias Schwartz |
| Everything you can imagine is real. |
Pablo Picasso |
Spanish Cubist painter (1881 -
1973) |
| Your true value depends entirely on what you are compared with. |
Bob Wells |
| For every action there is an equal and opposite government program. |
Bob Wells |
| Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance. |
Will Durant |
US historian (1885 - 1981) |
| Whatever you do will be insignificant, but it is very important that you
do it. |
Mahatma Gandhi |
Indian ascetic & nationalist leader
(1869 - 1948) |
| Any fool can make a rule, and any fool will mind it. |
Henry David Thoreau |
US Transcendentalist author (1817
- 1862) |
| The key to being a good manager is
keeping the people who hate me away from those who are still undecided. |
Casey Stengel |
US baseball manager (1890 - 1975) |
| Words ought to be a little wild for they are the assaults of thought on
the unthinking. |
John Maynard Keynes |
English economist (1883 - 1946) |
| They that can give up essential
liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety. |
Benjamin Franklin, Historical Review of Pennsylvania, 1759 |
US author, diplomat, inventor, physicist, politician, & printer (1706 - 1790) |
| 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 |
| My definition of a free society is a society where it is safe to be
unpopular. |
Adlai E. Stevenson Jr., Speech in Detroit, 7 Oct. 1952 |
US diplomat & Democratic politician
(1900 - 1965) |
| The real art of conversation is not
only to say the right thing at the right place but to leave unsaid the wrong thing at the tempting moment. |
Dorothy Nevill |
| The direct use of force is such a
poor solution to any problem, it is generally employed only by small children and large nations. |
David Friedman |
| I have found the best way to give
advice to your children is to find out what they want and then advise them to do it. |
Harry S Truman |
33rd president of US (1884 - 1972) |
| 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 |
US politician (1911 - 1978) |
| The most beautiful thing we can
experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and science. |
Albert Einstein |
US (German-born) physicist (1879 -
1955) |
| God is a comedian playing to an audience too afraid to laugh. |
Voltaire |
French author, humanist, rationalist, & satirist (1694 - 1778) |
| Grown-ups never understand anything
for themselves, and it is tiresome for children to be always and forever explaining things to them. |
Antoine de Saint-Exupery, "The Little Prince", 1943 |
French writer (1900 - 1944) |
| She had a pretty gift for quotation, which is a serviceable substitute
for wit. |
W. Somerset Maugham |
English dramatist & novelist
(1874 - 1965) |
| It is by the goodness of God that in
our country we have those three unspeakably precious things: freedom of speech, freedom of conscience, and the
prudence never to practice either of them. |
Mark Twain, Following the Equator (1897) |
US humorist, novelist, short story author, & wit (1835 - 1910) |
| The point of philosophy is to start
with something so simple as not to seem worth stating, and to end with something so paradoxical that no one will
believe it. |
Bertrand Russell, The Philosophy of Logical Atomism |
British author, mathematician, & philosopher (1872 - 1970) |
| Punctuality is the virtue of the bored. |
Evelyn Waugh, Diaries of Evelyn Waugh (1976) |
English novelist & satirist
(1903 - 1966) |
| It has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few
virtues. |
Abraham Lincoln |
16th president of US (1809 - 1865) |
| The most wasted of all days is one without laughter. |
e e cummings |
US poet (1894 - 1962) |
| Nobody realizes that some people expend tremendous energy merely to be
normal. |
Albert Camus |
French existentialist author & philosopher (1913 - 1960) |
| A little nonsense now and then, is cherished by the wisest men. |
Roald Dahl, (Willy Wonka) Charlie and the Chocolate Factory |
British juvenile author (1916 -
1990) |
| Cynics regarded everybody as equally
corrupt... Idealists regarded everybody as equally corrupt, except themselves. |
Robert Anton Wilson |
| A lot of people mistake a short memory for a clear conscience. |
Doug Larson |
| My theory of evolution is that Darwin was adopted. |
Steven Wright |
US comedian and actor (1955 - ) |
| The young have aspirations that
never come to pass, the old have reminiscences of what never happened. |
Saki |
British (Burman-born) short story author
(1870 - 1916) |
| Never offend people with style when you can offend them with substance. |
Sam Brown, Washington Post, 1977 |
| What is written without effort is in general read without pleasure. |
Samuel Johnson |
English author, critic, & lexicographer (1709 - 1784) |
| My work is a game, a very serious game. |
M. C. Escher |
Dutch artist (1898 - 1972) |
| Democracy is a process by which the people are free to choose the man who
will get the blame. |
Laurence J. Peter |
US educator & writer (1919 -
1988) |
| Dreaming permits each and every one
of us to be quietly and safely insane every night of our lives. |
William Dement |
| 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 |
| Wise men talk because they have something to say; fools, because they
have to say something. |
Plato |
Greek author & philosopher in Athens
(427 BC - 347 BC) |
| Solutions are not the answer. |
Richard Nixon |
| Make money, money, honestly if you can;<br>if not, by any means at
all, make money. |
Quintus Horatius Flaccus [Horace] 65BC - 8BC |
| A nation which does not remember
what it was yesterday, does not know what it is today, nor what it is trying to do. We are trying to do a futile
thing if we do not know where we came from or what we have been about. |
Woodrow Wilson |
28th president of US (1856 - 1924) |
| We have staked the whole future of
American civilization, not upon the power of government, far from it. We have staked the future of all of our political
institutions upon the capacity of mankind of self-government; upon the
capacity of each and all of us to govern ourselves, to control ourselves, to
sustain ourselves according to the Ten Commandments of God. |
James Madison, (attributed) |
4th president of US (1751 - 1836) |
| ... Religion ... [is] the basis and
foundation of government ... before any man can be considered as a member of civil society, he must be considered as a
subject of the Governor of the Universe. |
James Madison |
4th president of US (1751 - 1836) |
| We have no government armed with
power capable of contending with human passions unbridled by morality and religion. Avarice, ambition, revenge or
gallantry would break the strongest cords of our Constitution as a whale goes
through a net. Our Constitution is designed only for a moral and religious
people. It is wholly inadequate for any other. |
John Adams |
US diplomat & politician (1735
- 1826) |
| Get your facts first, then you can distort them as you please |
Mark Twain |
US humorist, novelist, short story author, & wit (1835 - 1910) |
| If you choose not to decide, you still have made a choice. |
Rush (the band), "Freewill" |
| History will be kind to me, for I intend to write it. |
Churchill |
| A dog will look up on you; a cat
will look down on you; however, a pig will see you eye to eye and know it has found an equal. |
Churchill |
| The unexamined life is not worth living to a human. |
Attributed by Plato to Socrates, "Apology" |
| Love is much like a wild rose, beautiful and calm, but willing to draw
blood in its defense. |
Mark A. Overby |
| Lack of money is no obstacle. Lack of an idea is an obstacle. |
Ken Hakuta |
| May the road rise to meet
you,<br> May the wind be always at your back,<br> May the sun
shine warm upon your face,<br> the rains
fall soft upon your fields and,<br> until we meet again may god hold
you in the palm of his hand |
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Quotations by unknown authors |
| May you be in heaven a half hour before the devil knows your dead |
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Quotations by unknown authors |
| The point of philosophy is to start
with something so simple as not to seem worth stating, and to end with something so paradoxical that no one will
believe it. |
Bertrand Russell, "The Philosophy of Logical Atomism" |
British author, mathematician, & philosopher (1872 - 1970) |
| You believe that there is one God. Good! Even the demons believe that -
and shudder. |
Bible, James 2:19 (New International Version) |
| Rem tene, verba sequntur<br> (Keep to the subject, and the words
will follow) |
Cato the Censor (?) |
| USA Today has come out with a new
survey - apparently, three out of every four people make up 75% of the population. |
Dave Letterman |
| But the only way of discovering the
limits of the possible is to venture a little way past them into the impossible. |
Arthur C. Clarke |
English physicist & science fiction author (1917 -
) |
| Procrastination is the art of keeping up with yesterday. |
Don Marquis |
US humorist (1878 - 1937) |
| The world itself is the will to
power - and nothing else! And you yourself are the will to power - and nothing else! |
Friedrich Nietzsche, "The Will to Power" |
German philosopher (1844 - 1900) |
| It is a mistake to suppose that God is only, or even chiefly, concerned
with religion. |
Archbishop William Temple, 1955 |
| To become a popular religion, it is only necessary for a superstition to
enslave a philosohpy. |
William Ralph Inge, 1920 |
English author & Anglican prelate
(1860 - 1954) |
| Without a doubt the greatest injury
of all was done by basing morals on myth. For, sooner or later, myth is recognized for what it is, and disappears. Then
morality loses the foundation on which it has been built. |
Lord Samuel, "Romanes Lecture", 1947 |
| The Churches must learn humility as well as teach it. |
George Bernard Shaw, "St. Joan" |
Irish dramatist & socialist
(1856 - 1950) |
| Pluralitas non ponenda est sine necessitate |
Occam |
| Life is like an ice-cream cone, you have to lick it one day at a time. |
Charles M. Schulz, as "Charlie Brown", Peanuts, cartoon strip |
US cartoonist (1922 - 2000) |
| How do you govern a country which has 246 different kinds of cheese? |
Charles De Gaulle |
French general & politician
(1890 - 1970) |
| Too bad all the people who know how
to run the country are busy driving taxi cabs and cutting hair. |
George Burns |
US actor & comedian (1896 -
1996) |
| He has a splendid repertoire of 500 words. Why does he insist on using
only 150? |
Abba Eban |
Israeli (S. African-born) diplomat & politician (1915 - 2002) |
| "If you were my husband, i
would feed you poison."<br> "If you were my wife, madam, i
would take it! |
Lady Astor and William Churchill |
| I get plenty of exercise carrying the coffins of my friends who exercise. |
Red Skelton |
| "Coolidge is dead"<br> "How could they tell? |
Dorothy Parker |
US author, humorist, poet, & wit
(1893 - 1967) |
| I call that a scumhead. |
James Joyce, "Finnegans Wake" |
Irish author (1882 - 1941) |
| The Bible tells us to love our
neighbors, and also to love our enemies; probably because generally they are the same people. |
G.K. Chesterton |
| A thorough knowledge of the Bible is worth more than a college education. |
Theodore Roosevelt |
26th president of US (1858 - 1919) |
| If we abide by the principles taught by the Bible, our country will go on
prospering. |
Daniel Webster |
US diplomat, lawyer, orator, & politician (1782 - 1852) |
| When you have read the Bible, you
will know it is the word of God, because you will have found it the key to your own heart, your own happiness, and your
own duty. |
Woodrow Wilson |
28th president of US (1856 - 1924) |
| It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick
society. |
Krishnamurti |
| Where life is possible at all, a
right life is possible; life in a palace is possible; therefore even in a palace a right life is possible. |
Marcus Aurelius Antoninus, "Meditations", book 5. |
Roman Emperor, A.D. 161-180 (121
AD - 180 AD) |
| A little flesh, a little breath, and a Reason to rule all - that is
myself. |
Marcus Aurelius Antoninus, "Meditations", book 2. |
Roman Emperor, A.D. 161-180 (121
AD - 180 AD) |
| To refrain from imitation is the best revenge. |
Marcus Aurelius Antoninus, "Meditations", book 6. |
Roman Emperor, A.D. 161-180 (121
AD - 180 AD) |
| To stand up -- or be setup? |
Marcus Aurelius Antoninus, "Meditations", book 6. |
Roman Emperor, A.D. 161-180 (121
AD - 180 AD) |
| A man does not sin by commission only, but often by ommission. |
Marcus Aurelius Antoninus, "Meditations", book 9. |
Roman Emperor, A.D. 161-180 (121
AD - 180 AD) |
| To succeed in the world it is not enough to be stupid, you must also be
well-mannered. |
Voltaire |
French author, humanist, rationalist, & satirist (1694 - 1778) |
| A candour affected is a dagger concealed. |
Marcus Aurelius Antoninus, "Meditations", book 9. |
Roman Emperor, A.D. 161-180 (121
AD - 180 AD) |
| Those who do not understand UNIX are condemned to reinvent it -- badly. |
Henry Spencer |
| I believe that sex is one of the most beautiful, natural, wholesome
things that money can buy. |
Steve Martin |
US comedian & movie actor
(1945 - ) |
| Politics is no exact science. |
Otto von Bismark |
| In Christianity neither morality nor religion come into contact with
reality at any point. |
Friedrich Nietzsche |
German philosopher (1844 - 1900) |
| Faith: not *wanting* to know what is true. |
Friedrich Nietzsche |
German philosopher (1844 - 1900) |
| When in doubt, use brute force |
Ken Thompson |
| Maybe I should have screwed up. |
Ken Thompson |
| SCCS is the source-code motel -- your code checks in but it never checks
out. |
Ken Thompson |
| I know nothing. |
Ken Thompson |
| Suburbia is where the developer bulldozes out the trees, then names the
streets after them. |
Bill Vaughan |
| Just think -- IBM and DEC in the same room -- and we did it. Makes you
feel warm inside. |
Ken Thompson |
| If you want to go somewhere, goto is the best way to get there. |
Ken Thompson |
| Oh, the tangled webs we weave When we practice to deceive. |
Sir Walter Scott, "Marmion" |
Scottish author & novelist
(1771 - 1832) |
| In this world of sin and sorrow,
there is always something to be thankful for; as for me, I rejoice that I am not a Republican. |
H. L. Mencken |
US editor (1880 - 1956) |
| If language is not correct, then
what is said is not what is meant; if what is said is not what is meant, then what must be done remains undone; if this
remains undone, morals and art will deteriorate; if justice goes astray, the
people will stand about in helpless confusion. Hence there must be no
arbitrariness in what is said. This matters above everything. |
Confucius |
Chinese philosopher & reformer
(551 BC - 479 BC) |
| Anyone who has got a book collection and a garden wants for nothing. |
Cicero |
Roman author, orator, & politician
(106 BC - 43 BC) |
| I think there are innumerable gods.
What we here on earth call God is a little tribal God who has made an awful mess. Certainly forces operating trough
human conciousness control events. |
William S. Buroughs, Paris Review, Fall 1965 |
| God is the immemorial refuge of the
incompetent, thehelpless, the miserable. They find not only sanctuary in His arms, but also a kind of superiority,
soothing to their macerated egos; He will set them above their betters. |
H. L. Mencken |
US editor (1880 - 1956) |
| Trapped, like a trap in a trap. |
Dorothy Parker |
US author, humorist, poet, & wit
(1893 - 1967) |
| The inherent vice of capitalism is
the unequal sharing of blessings. The inherent virtue of socialism is the equal sharing of misery. |
Churchill |
| Gratitude is merely the secret hope of further favors. |
Francois de La Rochefoucauld |
French author & moralist (1613
- 1680) |
| The two most evangelical groups in
the world are atheists and vegetarians, especially the least knowledgeable and least intelligent individuals within
those groups. |
Clark Coleman |
| Do not meddle in the affairs of wizards, for they are subtle and quick to
anger. |
Tolkien |
| May you never know hunger<br>
May you love with a full heart<br> The light burn in your eyes<br> <br> May the fire be your friend<br>
And the sea rock you gently<br> May the moon light your way<br>
Till the wind sets you free |
Shriekback, "Cradle Song" |
| The peasants of the Asturias believe
that in every litter of wolves there is one pup that is killed by the mother for fear that on growing up it would devour
the other little ones. |
Victor Hugo, "Les Miserables" |
French dramatist, novelist, & poet
(1802 - 1885) |
| Truth is more of a stranger than fiction. |
Mark Twain |
US humorist, novelist, short story author, & wit (1835 - 1910) |
| Truth is beautiful, without doubt; but so are lies. |
Ralph Waldo Emerson |
US essayist & poet (1803 -
1882) |
| If a cluttered desk signs a cluttered mind, Of what, then, is an empty
desk a sign? |
Albert Einstein. |
| A mind forever voyaging through strange seas of thought, alone. |
William Wordsworth |
English poet (1770 - 1850) |
| Ignorance is king, many would not prosper by its abdication. |
"A Canticle for Leibowitz" |
| A cult is a religion with no political power. |
Tom Wolfe |
US author & journalist (1931
- ) |
| All Bibles are man-made. |
Thomas A. Edison |
US inventor (1847 - 1931) |
| To laugh often and much; to win the
respect of intelligent people and the affection of children; to earn the appreciation of honest critics and endure the
betrayal of false friends; to appreciate beauty; to find the best in others;
to leave the world a bit better, whether by a healthy child, a garden patch
or a redeemed social condition; to know even one life has breathed easier
because you have lived. This is to have succeeded. |
Ralph Waldo Emerson |
US essayist & poet (1803 -
1882) |
| To be conservative at 20 is heartless and to be a liberal at 60 is plain
idiocy. |
Sir Winston Churchill |
British politician (1874 - 1965) |
| Thought: why does man kill? He kills
for food. And not only for food: frequently there must be a beverage. |
Woody Allen, Without Feathers |
US movie actor, comedian, & director
(1935 - ) |
| On the plus side, death is one of the few things that can be done as
easily lying down. |
Woody Allen, Without Feathers |
US movie actor, comedian, & director
(1935 - ) |
| A DAY IN THE LIFE OF A DOE<br>
<br> Unbearably lovely music is heard as the curtain rises, and we see the woods on a summer afternoon. A fawn dances
on and nibbles slowly at some leaves. He drifts lazily through the soft
foliage. Soon he starts coughing and drops dead. |
Woody Allen, Without Feathers |
US movie actor, comedian, & director
(1935 - ) |
| Doing abominations is against the
law, particularly if the abominations are done while wearing a lobster bib. |
Woody Allen, Without Feathers |
US movie actor, comedian, & director
(1935 - ) |
| Whosoever shall not fall by the
sword or by famine, shall fall by pestilence so why bother shaving? |
Woody Allen, Without Feathers |
US movie actor, comedian, & director
(1935 - ) |
| Is it better to be the lover or the
loved one? Neither, if your cholesterol is over six hundred. By love, of course, I refer to romantic love -- the love between
man and woman, rather than between mother and child, or a boy and his dog, or
two headwaiters. |
Woody Allen, Without Feathers |
US movie actor, comedian, & director
(1935 - ) |
| I never did give them hell. I just told the truth, and they thought it
was hell. |
Harry S Truman, in Look, Apr. 3, 1956 |
33rd president of US (1884 - 1972) |
| Internet is so big, so powerful and
pointless that for some people it is a complete substitute for life. |
Andrew Brown |
| The universe is made of stories, not atoms. |
Muriel Rukeyser |
| ...in the lexicon of the political
class, the word "sacrifice" means that the citizens are supposed to mail even more of their income to Washington so that
the political class will not have to sacrifice the pleasure of spending it. |
George Will, Newsweek, 2/22/93 |
| The society which scorns excellence
in plumbing as a humble activity and tolerates shoddiness in philosophy because it is an exalted activity will have
neither good plumbing nor good philosophy...neither its pipes nor its
theories will hold water. |
John W. Gardner |
US administrator (1912 - ) |
| Many, if not all, of my presidential opponents are certifiable idiots. |
Miriam Defensor Santiago, The World Almanac and Book of Facts, 1993 |
| Half of the American people never
read a newspaper. Half never voted for President. One hopes it is the same half. |
Gore Vidal, The World Almanac and Book of Facts, 1993 |
US author & dramatist (1925
- ) |
| Your food stamps will be stopped
effective March, 1992, because we received notice that you passed away. May God bless you. You may reapply if there is
a change in your circumstances. |
Greenville County (S.C.) Department
of Social Services, The World Almanac and Book of Facts, 1993 |
| We believe he wanted to win in the worst way. |
Don Eslinger, The World Almanac and Book of Facts, 1993 |
| It is about a socialist, anti-family
political movement that encourages women to leave their husbands, kill their children, practice witchcraft, destroy
capitalism and become lesbians. |
Pat Robertson, The World Almanac and Book of Facts, 1993 |
| Would you please shut up and sit down! |
George Bush, The World Almanac and Book of Facts, 1993 |
US Republican politician (1924
- ) |
| He who joyfully marches to music in
rank and file has already earned my contempt. He has been given a large brain by mistake, since for him the spinal
cord would fully suffice. This disgrace to civilization should be done away
with at once. Heroism at command, senseless brutality, deplorable patriotism,
how violently I hate all this, how despicable and ignoble war is; I would
rather be torn to shreds than be part of so base an action! It is my
conviction that killing under the cloak of war is nothing but an act of
murder. |
Albert Einstein |
US (German-born) physicist (1879 -
1955) |
| The best way to predict the future is to invent it. |
Alan Kay |
| When I received the Nobel Prize, the
only big lump sum of money I have ever seen, I had to do something with it. The easiest way to drop this hot potato
was to invest it, to buy shares. I knew that World War II was coming and I
was afraid that if I had shares which rise in case of war, I would wish for
war. So I asked my agent to buy shares which go down in the event of war.
This he did. I lost my money and saved my soul. |
Albert Szent-Gyorgyi, The Crazy Ape |
| Time is what prevents everything from happening at once. |
John Archibald Wheeler, American J. of Physics, 1978, 46, 323 |
| I have lived some thirty years on
this planet and I have yet to hear the first syllable of valuable or even earnest advice from my seniors. |
Henry David Thoreau |
US Transcendentalist author (1817
- 1862) |
| Seek not for fresher founts afar, Just drop you bucket where you are. |
Sam Walter Foss, Back Country Poems, 1892 |
| The Pope! How many divisions has _he_ got ? |
Joseph Stalin, Winston Chuirchill, The Second World War, vol 1 |
Georgian Soviet politician (1879 -
1953) |
| Patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel. |
Samuel Johnson, Letter to Lord Chesterfield, 1775 |
English author, critic, & lexicographer (1709 - 1784) |
| I could not say I believe. I know! I
have had the experience of being gripped by something that is stronger than myself, something that people call God. |
Carl Jung |
Swiss psychologist (1875 - 1961) |
| That old saw about the early bird just proves that the worm should have
stayed in bed. |
Robert Heinlein, Time Enough For Love |
US science fiction author (1907 -
1988) |
| The modern definition of "racist" is "someone who is
winning an argument with a liberal |
Peter Brimelow, National Review (2/1/93) |
| One of the advantages of being disorderly is that one is constantly
making exciting discoveries. |
A. A. Milne |
English juvenile author (1882 -
1956) |
| Not many people know this ... but I happen to be famous. |
Sam Malone, Cheers |
| Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it. |
George Santayana |
US (Spanish-born) philosopher
(1863 - 1952) |
| The history of science is everywhere
speculative. It is a marvelous hiatory. It makes you proud to be a human being. |
Karl R. Popper |
| The ability to quote is a serviceable substitute for wit. |
Somerset Maugham |
| When I was one-and-twenty,<br>
I heard a wise man say,<br> Give pounds and crowns and guineas,<br> But not your heart away."<br>
<br> Give pearls away and rubies,<br> But keep your fancy
free."<br> But I was one-and-twenty,<br> No use to talk to
me. |
A.E. Houseman |
| You can never get the smell of smoke out. Like the smell of failure in
life. |
John Updike, Rabbit Redux |
US author (1932 - ) |
| "We are survival machines -
robot vehicles blindly programmed to preserve the selfish molecules known as genes. |
Richard Dawkings:, "The Selfish Gene" |
| Too many have dispensed with generosity in order to practice charity. |
Albert Camus |
French existentialist author & philosopher (1913 - 1960) |
| Personally I rather look forward to
a computer program winning the world [chess] championship. Humanity needs a lesson in humility. |
Richard Dawkings:, "The Selfish Gene" |
| If Beethoven had been killed in a
plane crash at the age of 22, it would have changed the history of music... and of aviation. |
Tom Stoppard |
British dramatist & screenwriter
(1937 - ) |
| There are two kinds of people, those who finish what they start and so
on. |
Robert Byrne |
| I take the view, and always have,
that if you cannot say what you are going to say in twenty minutes you ought to go away and write a book about it. |
Lord Brabazon |
(1884 - 1964) |
| Better to write for yourself and have no public, than to write for the
public and have no self. |
Cyril Connolly |
(1903 - 1974) |
| Do not fear death so much but rather the inadequate life. |
Bertolt Brecht |
German Communist & dramatist
(1898 - 1956) |
| In the future everyone will be famous for fifteen minutes. |
Andy Warhol |
US artist (1928 - 1987) |
| We must love one another or die. |
W.H. Auden, "September 1, 1939" |
| Because he once wrote, "We must love one another or die," he
can command me to follow him. |
E.M. Forster |
| We must love one another and die. |
W.H. Auden, revised "Sept. 1, 1939" |
| Poets are the unacknowledged legislators of the world. |
Shelley, incomplete, poets |
| Stone walls do not a prison make, nor iron bars a cage. |
Richard Lovelace, To Althea from Prison |
| Streets full of water; please advise. |
Robert Benchley |
US actor, author, & humorist
(1889 - 1945) |
| That ready wit, which you so
partially allow me, ... may create many admirers; but, take my word for it, it makes few friends. It shines and dazzles like
the noonday sun, but, like that, too, it is very apt to scorch, and therefore
is always feared. The milder morning and evening light and heat of that
planet soothe and calm our minds. Never seek for wit; if it present itself,
well and good; but even then, let your judgement interpose, and take care
that it be not at the expense of anybody. |
Philip Dormer Stanhope, 4th earl of Chesterfield, 1749 |
| ... Nature, whose sweet rains fall
of just and unjust alike, will have clefts in the rocks where I may hide, and secret valleys in whose silence I may weep
undetected. She will hang the night with stars so that I may walk abroad in
the darkness without stumbling, and send the wind over my footprints so that
none may track me to my hurt: she will cleanse me in great waters, and with
bitter herbs make me whole. |
Oscar Wilde, "De Profundis" |
Irish dramatist, novelist, & poet
(1854 - 1900) |
| Power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely. |
Lord Acton, in a letter to Bishop Mandell Creighton, April 3, 1887. |
| 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 |
US (German-born) physicist (1879 -
1955) |
| Our love is God. Lets go grab a slushie. |
J.D., "Heathers" |
| The discovery of this strange
society was a curiously refreshing thing; to realize that there were ten new trades in the world was like looking at the first
ship or the first plough. It made a man feel what he should feel, that he was
still in the childhood of the world. |
G. K. Chesterton, The Tremendous Adventures of Major Brown |
English author & mystery novelist
(1874 - 1936) |
| Money is like muck, not good except it be spread. |
Sir Francis Bacon |
English author, courtier, & philosopher (1561 - 1626) |
| It has beeen said that the love of
money is the root of all evil. The want of money is so quite as truly. |
Samuel Butler |
English composer, novelist, & satiric author (1835 - 1902) |
| Alexander Hamilton started the U.S.
Treasury with nothing -- and that was the closest our country has ever been to being even. |
Will Rogers |
US humorist & showman (1879 -
1935) |
| The more original a discovery, the more obvious it seems afterwards. |
Arthur Koestler |
British (Hungarian-born) author
(1905 - 1983) |
| I belong to no organized party. I am a Democrat. |
Will Rogers |
US humorist & showman (1879 -
1935) |
| On account of us being a democracy
and run by the people, we are the only nation in the world that has to keep a government four years, no matter what
it does. |
Will Rogers |
US humorist & showman (1879 -
1935) |
| People love high ideals, but they got to be about 33-percent plausible. |
Will Rogers |
US humorist & showman (1879 -
1935) |
| Disbelief in magic can force a poor soul into believing in government and
business. |
Tom Robbins |
US novelist (1936 - ) |
| I have one of those real old American built cars. The kind that just
PUNCHES through accidents. |
Kevin Rooney |
| No one can make you feel inferior without your consent. |
Eleanor Roosevelt |
US diplomat & reformer (1884 -
1962) |
| A conservative is a man with two perfectly good legs who has never
learned to walk. |
Franklin D. Roosevelt |
32nd president of US (1882 - 1945) |
| I think we consider too much the
good luck of the early bird, and not enough the bad luck of the early worm. |
Franklin D. Roosevelt |
32nd president of US (1882 - 1945) |
| Do what you can, with what you have, where you are. |
Theodore Roosevelt |
26th president of US (1858 - 1919) |
| The great virtue of my radicalism
lies in the fact that I am perfectly ready, if necessary, to be radical on the conservative side. |
Theodore Roosevelt |
26th president of US (1858 - 1919) |
| There is nobody so irritating as somebody with less intelligence and more
sense than we have. |
Don Herold |
| The best executive is one who has
sense enough to pick good people to do what he wants done, and self-restraint enough to keep from meddling with
them while they do it. |
Theodore Roosevelt |
26th president of US (1858 - 1919) |
| I long ago came to the conclusion that all life is six to five against. |
Damon Runyon |
| Many people would rather die than think; in fact, most do. |
Bertrand Russell |
British author, mathematician, & philosopher (1872 - 1970) |
| In all things it is a good idea to
hang a question mark now and then on the things we have taken for granted. |
Bertrand Russell |
British author, mathematician, & philosopher (1872 - 1970) |
| 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 |
British author, mathematician, & philosopher (1872 - 1970) |
| Patriotism is the willingness to kill and be killed for trivial reasons. |
Bertrand Russell |
British author, mathematician, & philosopher (1872 - 1970) |
| The important thing is not to stop questioning. |
Albert Einstein |
US (German-born) physicist (1879 -
1955) |
| Sanity calms, but madness is more interesting. |
John Russell |
| You should never bet against anything in science at odds of more than
about 10-12 to 1. |
Ernest Rutherford |
British chemist & physicist
(1871 - 1937) |
| All military type firearms are to be
handed in immediately... The SS, SA and Stahlhelm give every respectable German man the opportunity of campaigning
with them. Therefore anyone who does not belong to one of the above named
organisations and who unjustifiably nevertheless keeps his weapon... must be
regarded as an enemy of the national government. |
SA Oberfuhrer of Bad Tolz, March, 1933. |
| You say that my way of thinking
cannot be tolerated? What of it? The man who alters his way of thinking to suit others is a fool. My way of thinking is
the result of my reflections. It is part of my inner being, the way I am
made. I do not contradict them, and would not even if I wished to. For my
system, which you disapprove of, is also my greatest comfort in life, the
source of all my happiness --- it means more to me than my life itself. |
Marquis de Sade |
| A poor fool indeed is he who adopts a manner of thinking (meant) for
others! |
Donatien-Alphonse-Francois de Sade |
| Knowing how things work is the basis for appreciation, and is thus a
source of civilized delight. |
William Safire |
US columnist & speechwriter
(1929 - ) |
| All of the books in the world
contain no more information than is broadcast as video in a single large American city in a single year. Not all bits have
equal value. |
Carl Sagan |
US astronomer & popularizer of astronomy (1934 - 1996) |
| It is of interest to note that while
some dolphins are reported to have learned English -- up to fifty words used in correct context -- no human being has been
reported to have learned dolphinese. |
Carl Sagan |
US astronomer & popularizer of astronomy (1934 - 1996) |
| Skeptical scrutiny is the means, in
both science and religion, by which deep insights can be winnowed from deep nonsense. |
Carl Sagan |
US astronomer & popularizer of astronomy (1934 - 1996) |
| The universe is not required to be in perfect harmony with human
ambition. |
Carl Sagan |
US astronomer & popularizer of astronomy (1934 - 1996) |
| Who are we? We find that we live on
an insignificant planet of a humdrum star lost in a galaxy tucked away in some forgotten corner of a universe in which
there are far more galaxies than people. |
Carl Sagan |
US astronomer & popularizer of astronomy (1934 - 1996) |
| In order to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first create the
universe. |
Carl Sagan, Cosmos |
US astronomer & popularizer of astronomy (1934 - 1996) |
| A celibate clergy is an especially
good idea, because it tends to suppress any hereditary propensity toward fanaticism. |
Carl Sagan, Contact |
US astronomer & popularizer of astronomy (1934 - 1996) |
| But the fact that some geniuses were
laughed at does not imply that all who are laughed at are geniuses. They laughed at Columbus, they laughed at
Fulton, they laughed at the Wright brothers. But they also laughed at Bozo
the Clown. |
Carl Sagan |
US astronomer & popularizer of astronomy (1934 - 1996) |
| In an optimal world, I would not be necessary. |
James Price Salsman |
| Remember folks. Street lights timed for 35 mph are also timed for 70 mph. |
Jim Samuels |
| This is no time to act like a gentleman. I am a cad and shall react like
one. |
George Sanders |
| Skepticism is the chastity of the
intellect, and it is shameful to surrender it too soon or to the first comer: there is nobility in preserving it coolly and
proudly through long youth, until at last, in the ripeness of instinct and
discretion, it can be safely exchanged for fidelity and happiness. |
George Santayana |
US (Spanish-born) philosopher
(1863 - 1952) |
| I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up
where I needed to be. |
Douglas Adams |
English humorist & science fiction novelist (1952 - 2001) |
| Each religion, by the help of more
or less myth which it takes more or less seriously, proposes some method of fortifying the human soul and enabline it
to make its peace with its destiny. |
George Santayana |
US (Spanish-born) philosopher
(1863 - 1952) |
| Oh, what tangled webs we weave, When we first practice to deceive. |
Sir Walter Scott |
Scottish author & novelist
(1771 - 1832) |
| If someone tells you that the fully
armored man of the Middle Ages was so encumbered by his armor that he could not rise if he fell, you may well ask
yourself, first, if it is reasonable to assume that professional soldiers
would go on wearing armor that kept them from fighting and second, if this
theory is in line with what you know of the heavily armored men of your
personal acquaintance. |
Niccola Sebastiani |
| Immortality -- a fate worse than death. |
Edgar A. Shoaff |
| If you want to know your true
opinion of someone, watch the effect produced in you by the first sight of a letter from him. |
Arthur Schopenhauer |
German philosopher (1788 - 1860) |
| For four-fifths of our history, our planet was populated by pond scum. |
J.W. Schopf |
| You can discover what your enemy fears most by observing the means he
uses to frighten you. |
Eric Hoffer |
(1902 - 1983) |
| If we are going to stick to this
damned quantum-jumping, then I regret that I ever had anything to do with quantum theory. |
Erwin Schrodinger |
| Any intelligent fool can make things
bigger, more complex, and more violent. It takes a touch of genius -- and a lot of courage -- to move in the opposite
direction. |
E. F. Schumacher |
| One form to rule them all, one form
to find them, one form to bring them all and in the darkness rewrite the hell out of them |
sendmail ruleset 3 comment from DEC. |
| ...adults are just obsolete children and the hell with them. |
Dr. Seuss, (as quoted in his obit in Time) |
US author & illustrator (1904
- 1991) |
| To thine own self be true -; And it
must follow as the night the day; Thou canst not be false to any man |
William Shakespeare |
Greatest English dramatist & poet
(1564 - 1616) |
| One of the advantages of being a
captain is being able to ask for advice without necessarily having to take it. |
William Shatner as Kirk, in "Dagger of the Mind" |
| Nobody knows the age of the human
race, but everybody agrees that it is old enough to know better. |
Anonymous |
| There is no satisfaction in hanging a man who does not object to it |
G. B. Shaw |
| Do you know what a pessimist is? A
person who thinks everybody is as nasty as himself and hates them for it. |
George Bernard Shaw |
Irish dramatist & socialist
(1856 - 1950) |
| Except during the nine months before
he draws his first breath, no man manages his affairs as well as a tree does. |
George Bernard Shaw |
Irish dramatist & socialist
(1856 - 1950) |
| Life is a disease; and the only
diference between one another is the stage of the disease at which he lives. |
George Bernard Shaw |
Irish dramatist & socialist
(1856 - 1950) |
| Democracy is a device that insures we shall be governed no better than we
deserve. |
George Bernard Shaw |
Irish dramatist & socialist
(1856 - 1950) |
| England and America are two countries seperated by the same language. |
George Bernard Shaw |
Irish dramatist & socialist
(1856 - 1950) |
| Success covers a multitude of blunders. |
George Bernard Shaw |
Irish dramatist & socialist
(1856 - 1950) |
| When a stupid man is doing something he is ashamed of, he always declares
that it is his duty. |
GB Shaw |
| The trouble with our times is that the future is not what it used to be. |
Paul Valery |
French critic & poet (1871 -
1945) |
| Martyrdom is the only way a person can become famous without ability. |
George Bernard Shaw |
Irish dramatist & socialist
(1856 - 1950) |
| Common sense is instinct. Enough of it is genius. |
George Bernard Shaw |
Irish dramatist & socialist
(1856 - 1950) |
| The only winner in the War of 1812 was Tchaikovsky |
Solomon Short |
| Pay no attention to what the critics say; there has never been set up a
statue in honor of a critic. |
Jean Sibelius |
Finnish composer & patriot
(1865 - 1957) |
| Life is too important to take seriously. |
Corky Siegel |
| Fortunately, the second-to-last bug has just been fixed. |
Ray Simard |
| Goto, n.: A programming tool that
exists to allow structured programmers to complain about unstructured programmers. |
Ray Simard |
| In the beginning was the word. But
by the time the second word was added to it, there was trouble. For with it came syntax... |
John Simon |
| The chief value of money lies in the fact that one lives in a world in
which it is overestimated. |
H. L. Mencken |
US editor (1880 - 1956) |
| When you betray somebody else, you also betray yourself. |
Isaac Bashevis Singer |
US (Polish-born) Jewish author
(1904 - 1991) |
| Education is what survives when what has been learned has been forgotten |
B.F. Skinner |
| The future, according to some scientists, will be exactly like the past,
only far more expensive. |
John Sladek |
| I found out that when you get
married the man becomes the head of the house. And the woman becomes the neck, and she turns the head any way she wants
to. |
Yakov Smirnoff |
| He had occasional flashes of silence, that made his conversation
perfectly delightful. |
Sydney Smith, referring to Macaulay |
English essayist (1771 - 1845) |
| I have been thinking that I would
make a proposition to my Republican friends... that if they will stop telling lies about the Democrats, we will stop telling
the truth about them. |
Adlai E. Stevenson Jr., Speech during 1952 Presidential Campaign |
US diplomat & Democratic politician
(1900 - 1965) |
| The creator of the universe works in
mysterious ways. But he uses a base ten counting system and likes round numbers. |
Scott Adams |
US cartoonist (1957 - ) |
| Democracy is a form of government in
which it is permitted to wonder aloud what the country could do under first-class management. |
Senator Soaper |
| The only truly secure system is one
that is powered off, cast in a block of concrete and sealed in a lead-lined room with armed guards -- and even then I
have my doubts. |
Eugene H. Spafford |
| We Americans want peace, and it is
now evident that we must be prepared to demand it. For other peoples have wanted peace, and the peace they received
was the peace of death. |
Rev. Francis J. Spellman, Archbishop of New York. 22 September, 1940 |
| A Multitasking Timex Sinclair |
Matt Sorrels in reference to Andrew running X-Windows |
| Start slow and taper off. |
Walt Stack |
| Science cannot stop while ethics
catches up -- and nobody should expect scientists to do all the thinking for the country. |
Elvin Stackman |
| If the programmer can simulate a
construct faster then the compiler can implement the construct itself, then the compiler writer has blown it badly. |
Guy L. Steele Jr., Tartan Laboratories |
| The mark of an immature man is that
he wants to die nobly for a cause, while the mark of a mature man is that he wants to live humbly for one. |
William Stekel |
| The greatest pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do. |
Walter Bagehot |
English economist & journalist
(1826 - 1877) |
| Distributed file systems are a cruel hoax. |
Zalman Stern, former ITC hacker diety |
| The problem with the cutting edge is that someone has to bleed. |
Zalman Stern |
| Newpaper editors are men who separate the wheat from the chaff, and then
print the chaff. |
Adlai E. Stevenson Jr. |
US diplomat & Democratic politician
(1900 - 1965) |
| Anyone can hold the helm when the sea is calm. |
Publilius Syrus |
(~100 BC) |
| Never express yourself more clearly than you are able to think. |
Niels Bohr |
Danish physicist (1885 - 1962) |
| Better stop short than fill to the
brim. Oversharpen the blade, and the edge will soon blunt. Amass a store of gold and jade, and no one can protect it.
Claim wealth and titles, and disaster will follow. Retire when the work is
done. This is the way of heaven. |
Tao Te Ching |
| Take your work seriously but never
take yourself seriously; and do not take what happens either to yourself or your work seriously. |
Booth Tarkington |
US novelist (1869 - 1946) |
| A wizard cannot do everything; a
fact most magicians are reticent to admit, let alone discuss with prospective clients. Still, the fact remains that there
are certain objects, and people, that are, for one reason or another,
completely immune to any direct magical spell. It is for this group of beings
that the magician learns the subtleties of using indirect spells. It also
does no harm, in dealing with these matters, to carry a large club near your
person at all times. |
The Teachings of Ebenezum, Volume VIII |
| In the Norse mythology Loki
originally was on the side of the rest of the gods, helping them once or twice using a particularly nast forms of trickery. He
was a cunning negotiator with a talent for technicalities. He was sort of the
Norse equivalent of a lawyer, no doubt the reason they tied him down in a pit
dripping acidic venom on him. |
Martin Terman |
| A cap of good acid costs five
dollars and for that you can hear the Universal Symphony with God singing solo and the Holy Ghost on drums. |
Hunter S. Thompson |
US journalist (1939 - 2005) |
| I have a theory that the truth is never told during the 9 to 5 hours. |
Hunter S. Thompson |
US journalist (1939 - 2005) |
| Just think, IBM and DEC in the same room, and we did it. |
Ken Thompson, quoted by Dennis Ritchie |
| For most folks, no news is good news; for the press, good news is not
news. |
Gloria Borger |
| Andrew is the operating system of the future and always will be. |
Mary R. Thompson |
| It is something to be able to paint
a particular picture, or to carve a statue, and so to make a few objects beautiful; but it is far more glorious to carve
and paint the very atmosphere and medium through which we look, which morally
we can do. To affect the quality of the day, that is the highest of arts. |
Henry David Thoreau, "Where I Live" |
US Transcendentalist author (1817
- 1862) |
| I have learned this at least by my
experiment: if one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life he has imagined, he
will meet with a success unexpected in common hours. |
Henry David Thoreau |
US Transcendentalist author (1817
- 1862) |
| Why should we be in such desperate
haste to succeed, and in such desperate enterprises? If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is
because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music which he
hears, however measured or far away. |
Henry David Thoreau, "Walden" |
US Transcendentalist author (1817
- 1862) |
| Do not be too moral. You may cheat
yourself out of much life so. Aim above morality. Be not simply good; be good for something. |
Henry David Thoreau |
US Transcendentalist author (1817
- 1862) |
| Be true to your work, your word, and your friend. |
Henry David Thoreau |
US Transcendentalist author (1817
- 1862) |
| Its better to know some of the questions, than all of the answers. |
James Thurber |
US author, cartoonist, humorist, & satirist (1894 - 1961) |
| Sorry for the disaster. And thanks for your patience! |
Chris Thyberg |
| An honest politician is one who, when he is bought, will stay bought. |
Simon Cameron |
US financier & politician
(1799 - 1889) |
| Truly great madness can not be achieved without significant intelligence. |
Henrik Tikkanen |
| Benson, you are so free of the ravages of intelligence |
Time Bandits |
| I know that most men, including
those at ease with problems of the greatest complexity, can seldom accept even the simplest and most obvious truth if it
be such as would oblige them to admit the falsity of conlusions which they
have delighted in explaining to colleages, which they have proudly taught to
others, and which they have woven, thread by thread, into the fabric of their
lives. |
Leo Tolstoy |
Russian mystic & novelist
(1828 - 1910) |
| The strongest of all warriors are these two -- Time and Patience. |
Leo Tolstoy |
Russian mystic & novelist
(1828 - 1910) |
| Old age is the most unexpected of things that can happen to a man. |
Trotsky |
| If there is one basic element in our Constitution, it is civilian control
of the military. |
Harry S. Truman |
| Whenever you find that you are on the side of the majority, it is time to
reform. |
Mark Twain |
US humorist, novelist, short story author, & wit (1835 - 1910) |
| God made the Idiot for practice, and then He made the School Board |
Mark Twain |
US humorist, novelist, short story author, & wit (1835 - 1910) |
| I thoroughly disapprove of duels. If
a man should challenge me, I would take him kindly and forgivingly by the hand and lead him to a quiet place and kill
him. |
Mark Twain |
US humorist, novelist, short story author, & wit (1835 - 1910) |
| Sacred cows make the best hamburger. |
Mark Twain |
US humorist, novelist, short story author, & wit (1835 - 1910) |
| How come we rejoice at a birth and
grieve at a funeral? It is because we are not the person involved. |
Mark Twain |
US humorist, novelist, short story author, & wit (1835 - 1910) |
| If a person offend you and you are
in doubt as to whether it was intentional or not, do not resort to extreme measures. Simply watch your chance and hit him
with a brick. |
Mark Twain, "Advice to Youth" Speech, 1882 |
US humorist, novelist, short story author, & wit (1835 - 1910) |
| We are just tenants on this world.
We have just been given a new lease, and a warning from the landlord. |
Arthur C. Clarke, 2010 |
English physicist & science fiction author (1917 -
) |
| The woman of my dreams knows how to break into systems. |
Doug Tygar |
| Fundamentalists are to Christianity what paint-by-numbers is to art. |
Robin Tyler |
| Human beings are the only creatures that allow their children to come
back home. |
Bill Cosby |
US comedian & television actor
(1937 - ) |
| To conquer the enemy without
resorting to war is the most desirable. The highest form of generalship is to conquer the enemy by strategy. |
Sun Tzu, The Art of War |
| War is a matter of vital importance
to the State; the province of life or death; the road to survival or ruin. It is mandatory that it be thoroughly studied. |
Sun Tzu |
| The biggest things are always the easiest to do because there is no
competition. |
William Van Horne |
| "Animals have these advantages
over man: they never hear the clock strike, they die without any idea of death, they have no theologians to instruct them,
their last moments are not disturbed by unwelcome and unpleasant ceremonies,
their funerals cost them nothing, and no one starts lawsuits over their
wills. |
Voltaire |
French author, humanist, rationalist, & satirist (1694 - 1778) |
| It is an infantile superstition of
the human spirit that virginity would be thought a virtue and not the barrier that separates ignorance from knowledge |
Voltaire |
French author, humanist, rationalist, & satirist (1694 - 1778) |
| The first half of our lives is ruined by our parents, and the second half
by our children. |
Clarence Darrow |
US defense lawyer (1857 - 1938) |
