My good intentions are completely lethal.
Margaret Atwood
My interest is in the future because I am
going to spend the rest of my life there.
Charles F. Kettering
My life has a superb cast but I can't figure
out the plot.
Ashleigh Brilliant
My play was a complete success. The audience
was a failure.
Ashleigh Brilliant
My poor head is in such a whirl, my mind is
all in bits.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749-1832)
My sun sets to raise again.
Elizabeth Barret Browning
My theology, briefly, is that the universe
was dictated but not signed.
Christopher Morley
My way of joking is to tell the truth; it's
the funniest joke in the world.
Anonymous
Miscellaneous is always the largest category.
Joel Rosenberg - The Warrior Lives
Moderation is a fatal thing. Nothing succeeds
like excess.
Oscar Wilde (1854-1900)
Modesty: the gentle art of enhancing your
charm by pretending not to be aware of it.
Anonymous
Money couldn't buy friends, but you get a
better class of enemy.
Spike Milligan
Money is always there but the pockets change;
it is not in the same pockets after a change, and that is all there is to say
about money.
Gertrude Stein
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
Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo.
H. G. Wells (1866-1946)
Most people are other people. Their thoughts
are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation.
Oscar Wilde (1854-1900)
Mothers all want their sons to grow up to be
President, but they don't want them to become politicians in the process.
John F. Kennedy (1917-1963)
Move the chair
Frank Lloyd Wright (1868-1959) , to a client
who phoned him to complain of rain leaking through the roof of the house onto
the dining table.
Mr. Clarke played the king all evening as
though under constant fear that someone else was about to play the ace.
Eugene Field , Critic
Mr. Wagner has beautiful moments but bad
quarters of an hour.
Gioacchino Rossini (1792-1868)
Music is Love in search of a word.
Sidney Lanier
Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if
you want to test a man's character, give him power.
Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865)
Never argue with a fool, people might not
know the difference.
Anonymous
Never buy shoes early in the day when your
feet are their smallest.
Francis Patiky Stein
Never do today what you can put off till
tomorrow.
Mathew Browne
Never feel self-pity, the most destructive
emotion there is. How awful to be caught up in the terrible squirrel cage of
self.
Millicent Fenwick
Never floss with a stranger.
Joan River
Never interrupt your enemy when he is making
a mistake.
Napoleon Bonaparte (1769-1821)
Never let your sense of morals prevent you
from doing what's right.
Isaac Asimov
Once a man indulges himself in murder, very
soon he comes to think little of robbing; and from robbing he comes next to
drinking and Sabbath-breaking, and from that to incivility and procrastination.
Thomas De Quincey
One lives in the hope of becoming a memory.
Antonio Porchia
One morning I shot an elephant in my pajamas.
How he got into my pajamas I'll never know.
Groucho Marx (1895-1977)
One of the greatest pieces of economic wisdom is to know what you do not
know.
John Kenneth Galbraith
One of the lessons of history is that nothing
is often a good thing to do and always a clever thing to say.
Will Durant
One should dies proudly when it is no longer
possible to live proudly.
Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900)
One was never married, and that's his hell;
another is, and that's his plague.
Robert Burton
One who knows that enough is enough will
always have enough.
Lao-Tzu (570?-490? B.C.)
Only a brave person is willing to honestly
admit, and fearlessly to face, what a sincere and logical mind discovers.
Rodan of Alexandria
Only those who attempt the absurd...will
achieve the impossible. I think...I think it's in my basement...Let me go
upstairs and check.
Escher
Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever
achieve greatly.
Robert F. Kennedy
Once a word has been allowed to escape, it
cannot be recalled.
Horace
Once all struggle is grasped, miracles are
possible.
Mao Tse-Tung (1893-1976) , Chinese political
leader
Once conform, once do what others do because
they do it, and a kind of lethargy steals over all the finer senses of the
soul.
Michel de Montaigne
Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered
weak and weary....
Edgar Allen Poe
One can be instructed in society, one is
inspired only in solitude.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749-1832)
One can win a war with either atomic weapons
or by simply placing a 9mm pistol in the right room.
Nick Lappos
One cool judgment is worth a thousand hasty counsels. The thing to do is
to supply light and not heat.
Woodrow Wilson
Sometimes it's a little better to travel than
to arrive.
Robert M. Pirsig - Zen and the Art of
Motorcycle Maintenance
Still more labyrinthine buds the rose.
Elizabeth Barret Browning
Taking a new step... is what people fear most.
Dostoyevski
Television is bubble-gum for the eyes
Frank Lloyd Wright (1868-1959)
Television is bubble-gum for the mind
Frank Lloyd Wright (1868-1959)
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
Telling the truth to people who misunderstand
you is generally promoting a falsehood, isn't it?
Anonymous
Ten people who speak make more noise than ten
thousand who are silent.
Napoleon Bonaparte (1769-1821)
Thank God, I have done my duty.
Horatio, Viscount Nelson
That life is worth living is the most necessary
of assumptions, and were it not assumed, the most impossible of conclusions.
George Santayana (1863-1952)
The act of policing is, in order to punish
less often, to punish more severely.
Napoleon Bonaparte (1769-1821)
The aeroplane will never fly.
Lord Haldane , Minister of War, Britain,
1907, four years after Kitty Hawk
Talent develops in tranquillity, character in
the full current of human life.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749-1832)
Talent does what it can; genius does what it
must.
Edward George Bulwer-Lytton (1803-1873)
Talk sense to a fool and he calls you
foolish.
Euripides
Study nature, love nature, stay close to
nature. It will never fail you
Frank Lloyd Wright (1868-1959)
Success is dependent on effort.
Sophocles
Success usually comes to those who are too
busy to be looking for it
David Henry Thoreau (1817-1862)
Success without honor is an unseasoned dish;
it will satisfy your hunger, but it won't taste good.
Joe Paterno
Suddenly, as rare things will, it vanished.
Elizabeth Barret Browning
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 art of making a point without
making an enemy.
Anonymous
Take all the fools out of this world and
there wouldn't be any fun living in it, or profit.
Josh Billings
Sometimes one pays most for the things one
gets for nothing.
Albert Einstein (1879-1955)
Sometimes when reading Goethe I have the
paralyzing suspicion that he is trying to be funny.
Guy Davenport
Son, where did you go to school? If I were
you, I'd write them and get my fucking money back.
Dimitri "Jimmie" Viner , in
discussions with his flight test engineers
Spaghetti can be eaten most successfully if
you inhale it like a vacuum cleaner.
Sophia Loren
Spare no expense to make everything as
economical as possible.
Samuel Goldwyn
Start every day off with a smile and get it
over with.
W. C. Fields
Stay humble. Always answer your phone - no
matter who else is in the car.
Jack Lemmon
Sex is hereditary. If your parents never had
it, chances are you wont either.
Joseph Fischer
Sex is like bridge: If you don't have a good partner, you better have a
good hand.
Charles Pierce
Sex is not the answer. Sex is the question.
"Yes" is the answer.
Swami X
Sex is one of the nine reasons for
reincarnation... the other eight are unimportant.
Henry Miller
She unbent her mind afterwards - over a book.
Charles Lamb
She's descended from a long line her mother
listened to.
Gypsy Rose Lee
Show me a sane man and I will cure him for
you.
Carl Gustav Jung (1875-1961)
Shun no toil to make yourself remarkable by
some talent or other; yet do not devote yourself to one branch exclusively.
Strive to get clear notions about all. Give up no science entirely; for science
is but one.
Seneca (3 B.C. - 65 A.D.)
Silence is the virtue of fools.
Francis Bacon
Simplicity is the natural result of profound
thought.
Anonymous
Sin has many tools, but a lie is the handle
which fits them all.
Anonymous
Sin is a dangerous toy in the hands of the
virtuous. It should be left to the congenitally sinful, who know when to play
with it and when to let it alone.
Henry Louis Mencken (1880-1956)
Since when was genius found respectable?
Elizabeth Barret Browning
Single-mindedness is all very well in cows or
baboons; in an animal claiming to belong to the same species as Shakespeare it
is simply disgraceful.
Aldous Huxley
Sir Francis Drake circumcised the world with
a 100-foot clipper.
Anonymous history student
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 infinit
Emile Wiechert
So foul and fair a day I have not seen.
William Shakespeare - Macbeth
So little done, so much to do.
Cecil Rhodes
Sober, steadfast, and demure.
John Milton
Some men see things as they are and say why?
I dream things that never were and say "Why not?"
Robert F. Kennedy
Some people have so much respect for their
superiors they have none left for themselves.
Peter McArthur
Some people like my advice so much that they
frame it upon the wall instead of using it.
Gordon R. Dickson
Something attempted, something done, Has
earned a nights repose.
H. W. Longfellow
Sometimes a cigar is just a cigar.
Sigmund Freud
Sometimes democracy must be bathed in blood.
Augusto Pinochet
Sometimes I think we're alone in the
universe, and sometimes I think we're not. In either case the idea is quite staggering.
Arthur C. Clarke
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My advice to you is get
married: if you find a good wife you'll be happy; if not, you'll become a
philosopher.
Socrates (470-399 B.C.)
Now and then an innocent
man is sent to the legislature.
Kin Hubbard
Nobody can be exactly like
me. Even I have trouble doing it.
Tallulah Bankhead
No man is rich enough to
buy back his past.
Oscar Wilde (1854-1900)
Nobody believes the
official spokesman... but everybody trusts an unidentified source.
Ron Nesen
Nothing ruins the truth
like stretching it.
Anonymous
Nothing unites the
English like war. Nothing divides them like Picasso.
Hugh Mills
Nothing would please the
Kremlin more than to have the people of this country choose a second rate
president.
Richard M. Nixon
(1913-1994) , Former U.S. President
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No man means all he says, and yet very few
say all they mean, for words are slippery and thought is viscous.
Henry Brooks Adams
Mingle some brief folly with your wisdom.
Horace
Never touch a butterfly's wing with your
finger.
Colette
Of all the varieties of virtues, liberalism
is the most beloved.
Aristotle (384-322 B.C.)
Oh, how fine it is to know a thing or two.
Moliere
Middle age is when you've met so many people
that every new person you meet reminds you of someone else.
Ogden Nash
Nothing is so admirable in politics as a
short memory.
John Kenneth Galbraith
Nothing is so aggravating than calmness.
Oscar Wilde (1854-1900)
Nothing is wrong with California that a rise
in the ocean level wouldn't cure.
Ross MacDonald (1915-1983)
Nothing like a little judicious levity.
Robert Louis Stevenson
Now is the time for drinking, now the time to
beat the earth with unfettered foot.
Horace
Number 3 pencils and quadrille pads.
Seymoure Cray (1925-1996) , when asked what
CAD tools he used to design the Cray I; he also recommended using the back side
of the pages so that the lines were not so dominant.
Now, in reality, the world have paid too
great a compliment to critics, and have imagined them to be men of much greater
profundity then they really are.
Henry Fielding
My goal is simple. It is complete
understanding of the universe, why it as it is and why it exists as all.
Stephen Hawking
Never look down on anybody unless you're
helping him up.
Jesse Jackson
No one can make you feel inferior without your
consent.
Eleanor Roosevelt
No one ever gets far unless he accomplishes
the impossible at least once a day.
Elbert Hubbard (1856-1915)
Nobody in football should be called a genius.
A genius is a guy like Norman Einstein.
Joe Theismann , football commentator and
former player
Nobody is more dangerous than he who imagines
himself pure in heart; for his purity, by definition, is unassailable.
James Baldwin - Nobody Knows My Name, 1961
Nobody kicks on being interrupted if it's by
applause.
Kin Hubbard
None are so old as those who have outlived
enthusiasm.
Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862)
Nothing else in the world...not all the
armies...is so powerful as an idea whose time has come.
Victor Hugo
Nothing endures but change.
Heraclitus
Nothing good ever ends.
William Saroyan
Nothing is built on stone; all is built on
sand, but we must build as if the sand were stone.
Jorge Luis Borges
Nothing is comprehensible except by virtue of
its edges.
Indian Proverb
Nothing is particularly hard if you divide it
into small jobs.
Henry Ford (1863-1947)
No one should drive a hard bargain with an
artist.
Ludwig von Beethoven
No other success can compensate for failure
in the home.
David O. McKay - Encyclopedia of Mormonism,
Advice to parents at General Conference of the LDS Church, April, 1964
No pain, no palm; no thorns, no throne; no
gall, no glory, no glory; no cross, no crown.
William Penn
No Sane man will dance.
Cicero (106-43 B.C.)
No stream rises higher than its source. What
ever man might build could never express or reflect more than he was. He could
record neither more nor less than he had learned of life when the buildings
were built.
Frank Lloyd Wright (1868-1959)
Never mistake motion for action.
Ernest Hemingway (1899-1961)
Never settle with words what you can accomplish
with a flame-thrower.
Bruce Feirstein
Newspapers are unable, seemingly, to
discriminate between a bicycle accident and the collapse of civilization.
George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950)
Next week there can't be any crisis. My
schedule is already full.
Henry Kissinger (1923- )
Nietzsche was stupid and abnormal.
Leo Tolstoy (1828-1910)
Nirvana is not the blowing out of the candle. It is the extinguishing of
the flame because day is come.
Rabindranath Tagore
Nirvana or lasting enlightenment or true
spiritual growth can be achieved only through persistent exercise of real love.
M. Scott Peck
No aptitude at all for long division, but
never mind. It's him they ask to split the atom. How he talked his way into the
Nobel prize is beyond me. But then, I suppose it's like the man says, 'It's not
what you know...'
Karl Arbeiter , Former teacher of Albert
Einstein
No doubt, a scientist isn't necessarily
penalized for being a complex, versatile, eccentric individual with lots of
extra-scientific interests. But it certainly doesn't help him a bit.
Stephen Toulmin
No good deed goes unpunished.
Clare Boothe Luce
No man is an Island, entire of itself; every
man is a piece of the Continent, a part of the main.
John Donne - Meditation XVII
No matter how lovesick a woman is, she
shouldn't take the first pill that comes along.
Joyce Brothers
No one but a fool would measure their
satisfaction by what the world thinks of it.
Oliver Goldsmith
Never tell people how to do things. Tell them
what to do and they will surprise you with their ingenuity.
George S. Patton, General (1885-1945)
My good intentions are completely lethal.
Margaret Atwood
My interest is in the future because I am
going to spend the rest of my life there.
Charles F. Kettering
My life has a superb cast but I can't figure
out the plot.
Ashleigh Brilliant
My play was a complete success. The audience
was a failure.
Ashleigh Brilliant
My poor head is in such a whirl, my mind is
all in bits.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749-1832)
My sun sets to raise again.
Elizabeth Barret Browning
My theology, briefly, is that the universe
was dictated but not signed.
Christopher Morley
My way of joking is to tell the truth; it's
the funniest joke in the world.
Anonymous
Miscellaneous is always the largest category.
Joel Rosenberg - The Warrior Lives
Moderation is a fatal thing. Nothing succeeds
like excess.
Oscar Wilde (1854-1900)
Modesty: the gentle art of enhancing your
charm by pretending not to be aware of it.
Anonymous
Money couldn't buy friends, but you get a
better class of enemy.
Spike Milligan
Money is always there but the pockets change;
it is not in the same pockets after a change, and that is all there is to say
about money.
Gertrude Stein
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
Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo.
H. G. Wells (1866-1946)
Most people are other people. Their thoughts
are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation.
Oscar Wilde (1854-1900)
Mothers all want their sons to grow up to be
President, but they don't want them to become politicians in the process.
John F. Kennedy (1917-1963)
Move the chair
Frank Lloyd Wright (1868-1959) , to a client
who phoned him to complain of rain leaking through the roof of the house onto
the dining table.
Mr. Clarke played the king all evening as
though under constant fear that someone else was about to play the ace.
Eugene Field , Critic
Mr. Wagner has beautiful moments but bad
quarters of an hour.
Gioacchino Rossini (1792-1868)
Music is Love in search of a word.
Sidney Lanier
Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if
you want to test a man's character, give him power.
Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865)
Never argue with a fool, people might not
know the difference.
Anonymous
Never buy shoes early in the day when your
feet are their smallest.
Francis Patiky Stein
Never do today what you can put off till
tomorrow.
Mathew Browne
Never feel self-pity, the most destructive
emotion there is. How awful to be caught up in the terrible squirrel cage of
self.
Millicent Fenwick
Never floss with a stranger.
Joan River
Never interrupt your enemy when he is making
a mistake.
Napoleon Bonaparte (1769-1821)
Never let your sense of morals prevent you
from doing what's right.
Isaac Asimov
Once a man indulges himself in murder, very
soon he comes to think little of robbing; and from robbing he comes next to
drinking and Sabbath-breaking, and from that to incivility and procrastination.
Thomas De Quincey
One lives in the hope of becoming a memory.
Antonio Porchia
One morning I shot an elephant in my pajamas.
How he got into my pajamas I'll never know.
Groucho Marx (1895-1977)
One of the greatest pieces of economic wisdom is to know what you do not
know.
John Kenneth Galbraith
One of the lessons of history is that nothing
is often a good thing to do and always a clever thing to say.
Will Durant
One should dies proudly when it is no longer
possible to live proudly.
Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900)
One was never married, and that's his hell;
another is, and that's his plague.
Robert Burton
One who knows that enough is enough will
always have enough.
Lao-Tzu (570?-490? B.C.)
Only a brave person is willing to honestly
admit, and fearlessly to face, what a sincere and logical mind discovers.
Rodan of Alexandria
Only those who attempt the absurd...will
achieve the impossible. I think...I think it's in my basement...Let me go
upstairs and check.
Escher
Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever
achieve greatly.
Robert F. Kennedy
Once a word has been allowed to escape, it
cannot be recalled.
Horace
Once all struggle is grasped, miracles are
possible.
Mao Tse-Tung (1893-1976) , Chinese political
leader
Once conform, once do what others do because
they do it, and a kind of lethargy steals over all the finer senses of the
soul.
Michel de Montaigne
Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered
weak and weary....
Edgar Allen Poe
One can be instructed in society, one is
inspired only in solitude.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749-1832)
One can win a war with either atomic weapons
or by simply placing a 9mm pistol in the right room.
Nick Lappos
Woodrow WilsonOne cool judgment is worth a thousand hasty counsels. The thing to do is to supply light and not heat.
Sometimes it's a little better to travel than
to arrive.
Robert M. Pirsig - Zen and the Art of
Motorcycle Maintenance
Still more labyrinthine buds the rose.
Elizabeth Barret Browning
Taking a new step... is what people fear most.
Dostoyevski
Television is bubble-gum for the eyes
Frank Lloyd Wright (1868-1959)
Television is bubble-gum for the mind
Frank Lloyd Wright (1868-1959)
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
Telling the truth to people who misunderstand
you is generally promoting a falsehood, isn't it?
Anonymous
Ten people who speak make more noise than ten
thousand who are silent.
Napoleon Bonaparte (1769-1821)
Thank God, I have done my duty.
Horatio, Viscount Nelson
That life is worth living is the most
necessary of assumptions, and were it not assumed, the most impossible of
conclusions.
George Santayana (1863-1952)
The act of policing is, in order to punish
less often, to punish more severely.
Napoleon Bonaparte (1769-1821)
The aeroplane will never fly.
Lord Haldane , Minister of War, Britain,
1907, four years after Kitty Hawk
Talent develops in tranquillity, character in
the full current of human life.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749-1832)
Talent does what it can; genius does what it
must.
Edward George Bulwer-Lytton (1803-1873)
Talk sense to a fool and he calls you
foolish.
Euripides
Study nature, love nature, stay close to
nature. It will never fail you
Frank Lloyd Wright (1868-1959)
Success is dependent on effort.
Sophocles
Success usually comes to those who are too
busy to be looking for it
David Henry Thoreau (1817-1862)
Success without honor is an unseasoned dish;
it will satisfy your hunger, but it won't taste good.
Joe Paterno
Suddenly, as rare things will, it vanished.
Elizabeth Barret Browning
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 art of making a point without
making an enemy.
Anonymous
Take all the fools out of this world and
there wouldn't be any fun living in it, or profit.
Josh Billings
Sometimes one pays most for the things one
gets for nothing.
Albert Einstein (1879-1955)
Sometimes when reading Goethe I have the
paralyzing suspicion that he is trying to be funny.
Guy Davenport
Son, where did you go to school? If I were you, I'd write them and get
my fucking money back.
Dimitri "Jimmie" Viner , in
discussions with his flight test engineers
Spaghetti can be eaten most successfully if
you inhale it like a vacuum cleaner.
Sophia Loren
Spare no expense to make everything as
economical as possible.
Samuel Goldwyn
Start every day off with a smile and get it
over with.
W. C. Fields
Stay humble. Always answer your phone - no
matter who else is in the car.
Jack Lemmon
Sex is hereditary. If your parents never had
it, chances are you wont either.
Joseph FischerSex is like bridge: If you don't
have a good partner, you better have a good hand.
Charles Pierce
Sex is not the answer. Sex is the question.
"Yes" is the answer.
Swami X
Sex is one of the nine reasons for
reincarnation... the other eight are unimportant.
Henry Miller
She unbent her mind afterwards - over a book.
Charles Lamb
She's descended from a long line her mother
listened to.
Gypsy Rose Lee
Show me a sane man and I will cure him for
you.
Carl Gustav Jung (1875-1961)
Shun no toil to make yourself remarkable by
some talent or other; yet do not devote yourself to one branch exclusively.
Strive to get clear notions about all. Give up no science entirely; for science
is but one.
Seneca (3 B.C. - 65 A.D.)
Silence is the virtue of fools.
Francis Bacon
Simplicity is the natural result of profound
thought.
Anonymous
Sin has many tools, but a lie is the handle
which fits them all.
Anonymous
Sin is a dangerous toy in the hands of the
virtuous. It should be left to the congenitally sinful, who know when to play
with it and when to let it alone.
Henry Louis Mencken (1880-1956)
Since when was genius found respectable?
Elizabeth Barret Browning
Single-mindedness is all very well in cows or
baboons; in an animal claiming to belong to the same species as Shakespeare it
is simply disgraceful.
Aldous Huxley
Sir Francis Drake circumcised the world with
a 100-foot clipper.
Anonymous history student
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 infinit
Emile Wiechert
So foul and fair a day I have not seen.
William Shakespeare - Macbeth
So little done, so much to do.
Cecil Rhodes
Sober, steadfast, and demure.
John Milton
Some men see things as they are and say why?
I dream things that never were and say "Why not?"
Robert F. Kennedy
Some people have so much respect for their
superiors they have none left for themselves.
Peter McArthur
Some people like my advice so much that they
frame it upon the wall instead of using it.
Gordon R. Dickson
Something attempted, something done, Has
earned a nights repose.
H. W. Longfellow
Sometimes a cigar is just a cigar.
Sigmund Freud
Sometimes democracy must be bathed in blood.
Augusto Pinochet
Sometimes I think we're alone in the
universe, and sometimes I think we're not. In either case the idea is quite
staggering.
Arthur C. Clarke
Prosperity
is a great teacher; adversity a greater.~ William Hazlitt
Practice
is the best of all instructors.~
Publilius Syrus
Real
knowledge is to know the extent of ones ignorance.~ Confucius
Result!
Why, I have gotten a lot of results. I know several thousand things that
won't work.~ Thomas Edison
Science
is organized knowledge.~ Herbert Spencer
Science
is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life.~ Immanuel Kant
Science
when well digested is nothing but good sense and reason.~ Stanislaw I.
Leszczynski
Science itself, therefore, may be regarded as a
minimal problem, consisting of the completest possible presentment of facts
with the least possible expenditure of thought.~ Ernest Mach
Scientists
are the easiest to fool. They think in straight, predictable, direct able, and
therefore misdirect able, lines. The only world they know is the one where
everything has a logical explanation and things are what they appear to be.
Children and con~ James P. Hogan - Code of the Lifemaker
Reality
is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.~ Albert Einstein
(1879-1955)
Reality
is nothing but a collective hunch. ~ Lily Tomlin
Reality
is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away. ~Philip K. Dick
Rejoice
in the things that are present; all else is beyond thee.~ Michel de Montaigne
Prediction
is very difficult, especially about the future.~ Niels Bohr (1885-1962)
Reality
is a crutch for people who can't cope with drugs~ Lily Tomlin
Reality
is good for you...in small doses.~ Anonymous
Reason is
the substance of the universe, the design of the world is absolutely rational.~
Hegel
People
demand freedom of speech to make up for the freedom of thought which they
avoid.~ Soren Aabye Kierkegaard (1813-1855)
People
don't ask for facts in making up their minds. They would rather have one good,
soul-satisfying emotion than a dozen facts.~ Robert Keith Leavitt
Self-education
is, I firmly believe, the only kind of education there is.~ Isaac Asimov
Research
is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.~Wernher Von Braun
(1912-1977)
Optimism:
The doctrine that everything is beautiful, including what is ugly, everything
good, especially the bad, and everything right that is wrong. ... It is
hereditary, but fortunately not contagious.
Prejudice
is just another word for ignorance.~ Thomas A. D. Weston
Programming today is a race between software
engineers striving to build bigger and better idiot-proof programs, and the
Universe trying to produce bigger and better idiots. So far, the Universe is
winning.~ Rich Cook
Repentance is not so much remorse for what we
have done as the fear of the consequences.~ Francois de La Rouchefoucauld -
Maxims, 1665
Sex appeal is 50% what you've got and 50%
what people think you've got.
Sophia Loren
Sex is God's joke on human beings.
Bette Davis
Sex is hardly ever just about sex.
Shirley Maclaine
Same old slippers, Same old rice; Same old
glimpse of paradise.
William James (1842-1910)
Save a boyfriend for a rainy day--and
another, in case it doesn't rain.
Mae West (1892-1980)
Science may have found a cure for most evils;
but it has found no remedy for the worst of them all- the apathy of human
beings.
Helen Keller
Self-reliance is the only road to true
freedom, and being one's own person is its ultimate reward.
Patricia Sampson
Self-sacrifice enables us to sacrifice other
people without blushing.
George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950)
Service to others is the rent you pay for
your room here on earth.
Mohammed Ali
Retire? I'm going to stay in show business
until I'm the only one left.
George Burns , at age 90
Room Service? Send up a larger room.
Groucho Marx (1895-1977)
Procrastination is the thief of time.
John Dos Pasos
Quote me as saying I was mis-quoted.
Groucho Marx (1895-1977)
Recent medical research into the secrets of
biology confirms what we always knew: that women are tougher, stronger and lustier
than anyone ever thought. Our challenge is to surpass these expectations!
Jennie Chua , General Manager of the Raffles
Hotel
Pick battles big enough to matter, small
enough to win.
Jonathan Kozol
Picture yourself in a boat on a river with
tangerine trees and marmalade skies.
John Lennon
Pizza is a lot like sex. When it's good, it's
really good. When it's bad, it's still pretty good.
Anonymous
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
Plato had slaves...George Washington had
slaves...So, do I feel intrinsically better than these two men? Of course I do!
They're dead!
Todd Andrew Reid ]
Please don't ask me what the score is, I'm
not even sure what the game is.
Ashleigh Brilliant
Please don't lie to me, unless you're
absolutely sure I'll never find out the truth.
Ashleigh Brilliant
Plunge boldly into the thick of life!
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749-1832)
Politicians are the same all over. They
promise to build bridges even when there are no rivers.
Nikita Khruschev
Politics I supposed to be the second-oldest
profession. I have come to realize that it bears a very close resemblance to
the first.
Ronald Reagan , Former U.S. President
Popularity is the crown of laurel that the
world puts on bad art. Whatever is popular is wrong.
Oscar Wilde (1854-1900)
Ours is a world of nuclear giants and ethical
infants. If we continue to develop our technology without wisdom or prudence,
our servant may prove to be our executioner.
Omar Bradley, General
Outside of the killings, Washington has one
of the lowest crime rates in the country.
Mayor Marion Barry , Washington, DC
Papa, potatoes, poultry, prunes and prism,
are all very good words for the lips....
Charles Dickens (1812-1870)
Paranoids are people, too; they have their
own problems. It's easy to criticize, but if everybody hated you, you'd be
paranoid too.
D. J. Hicks
Parents are the bones upon which children
sharpen their teeth.
Peter Ustinov
People can travel faster than sound, yes, but
not nearly so fast as rumor!
Anonymous
People find life entirely too time-consuming.
Stanislaw J. Lec
People may or may not say what they mean ...
but they always say something designed to get what they want.
David Mamet
People say "I want peace." If you
remove I {ego}, and your want {desire}, you are left with peace.
Satya Sai Baba
People think we make $3 million and $4
million a year. They don't realize that most of us only make $500,000.
Pete Incaviglia , baseball player, 1990
The artist is nothing without the gift, but
the gift is nothing without work.
Emile Zola (1840-1902)
The attempt and not the deed confounds us.
William Shakespeare - Macbeth
The average person thinks he isn't.
Larry Lorenzoni, Father
The average Ph.D. thesis is nothing but a
transference of bones from one graveyard to another.
J. Frank Dobie - A Texan in England, 1945
The backbone of surprise is fusing speed with
secrecy.
Von Clausewitz (1780-1831)
The Beauty of Mother Nature is her ability to
make complex things appear simple.
Louis E. Samuels, M.D.
The beginning of knowledge is the discovery
of something we do not understand.
Frank Herbert
The best defense is a good offense.
Anonymous
The best way to be boring is to leave nothing
out.
Voltaire (1694-1778)
The best way to become acquainted with a
subject is to write a book about it.
Benjamin Disraeli
The Bible has noble poetry in it; and some
clever fables; and some blood-drenched history; and a wealth of obscenity; and
upwards of a thousand lies.
Mark Twain (1835-1910)
The big difference between sex for money and
sex for free is that sex for money usually costs a lot less.
Brendon Behan
The bigger the real-life problems, the
greater the tendency for the discipline to retreat into a reassuring
fantasy-land of abstract theory and technical manipulation.
Tom Naylor
The bitterest tears shed over graves are for
words left unsaid and deeds left undone.
Harriet Beecher Stowe
The bravest are surely those who have the
clearest vision of what is before them, glory and danger alike, and yet
notwithstanding go out to meet it.
Thucydides
The brighter you are, the more you have to
learn.
Don Herold
The camera cannot lie. But it can be an accessory to untruth.
Harold Evans
The cautious seldom err.
Confucius
The charm of history and its enigmatic lesson
consist in the fact that, from age to age, nothing changes and yet everything
is completely different.
Aldous Huxley - The Devils of Loudun
The cheerful loser is the winner.
Elbert Hubbard (1856-1915)
The deepest principle in human nature is the
craving to be appreciated.
William James (1842-1910)
The difference between 'involvement' and
'commitment' is like an eggs-and-ham breakfast: the chicken was 'involved' -
the pig was 'committed'.
Anonymous
The difference between perseverance and
obstinacy is that one often comes from a strong will, and the other from a
strong won't.
Beecher
The difference between pornography and
erotica is lighting.
Gloria Leonard
The chief product of an automated society is
a widespread and deepening sense of boredom.
Cyril Parkinson
The closest I've ever come to saying
"no" is "Not now, we're landing."
Sam Malone , character played by Ted Danson
on Cheers, U.S. television show, in respsonse to Diane telling him to say
"no" to her friend's alleged sexual advances.
The conventional view serves to protect us
from the painful job of thinking.
J. K. Galbraith
The cure for boredom is curiosity. There is
no cure for curiosity.
Ellen Parr
The difference between science and the fuzzy
subjects is that science requires reasoning while those other subjects merely
require scholarship.
Robert Heinlein
The difference between the right word and the
almost right word is the difference between lightning and a lightning bug.
Mark Twain (1835-1910)
The doctors X-rayed my head and found
nothing.
Dizzy Dean , after being hit on the head by a
ball in the 1934 World Series.
The doer alone learneth.
Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900)
The dreadful burden of having nothing to do.
Nicolas Boileau
The duration of passion is proportionate with
the original resistance of the woman.
Honoré de Balzac (1799-1850) - The Physiology
of Marriage, 1829
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