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Er ekki endirinn á öllum Íslendingasögum sá að Njáll er brendur?
- Halldór Laxness
Vanmet þú aldrei þann, sem ofmetur sjálfan sig."
- Franklin D. Roosevelt 1882-1945
- Halldór Laxness
Vanmet þú aldrei þann, sem ofmetur sjálfan sig."
- Franklin D. Roosevelt 1882-1945
Tuesday, November 25, 2003
I know that you believe that you understood what you think I said, but I am not sure you realize that what you heard is not what I meant.
Robert McCloskey, State Department spokesman (attributed)
Robert McCloskey, State Department spokesman (attributed)
George Bernard Shaw
A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.
George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950)
Hegel was right when he said that we learn from history that man can never learn anything from history.
George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950)
Lack of money is the root of all evil.
George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950)
The fact that a believer is happier than a skeptic is no more to the point than the fact that a drunken man is happier than a sober one.
George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950)
The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man.
George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950), Man and Superman (1903) "Maxims for Revolutionists"
I often quote myself. It adds spice to my conversation.
George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950)
Democracy is a device that ensures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.
George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950)
Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all other countries because you were born in it.
George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950)
The golden rule is that there are no golden rules.
George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950), Man and Superman (1903) "Maxims for Revolutionists"
A fool's brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry. Hence University education.
George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950)
When a thing is funny, search it carefully for a hidden truth.
George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950)
You see things; and you say, 'Why?' But I dream things that never were; and I say, "Why not?"
George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950), "Back to Methuselah" (1921), part 1, act 1
The worst sin toward our fellow creatures is not to hate them, but to be indifferent to them: that's the essense of inhumanity.
George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950), "The Devil's Disciple" (1901), act I
The more things a man is ashamed of, the more respectable he is.
George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950), "Man and Superman" (1903), act I
One man that has a mind and knows it can always beat ten men who haven't and don't.
George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950), "The Apple Cart" (1930), act I
A fashion is nothing but an induced epidemic.
George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950)
Everything happens to everybody sooner or later if there is time enough.
George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950)
Do not do unto others as you would that they should do unto you. Their tastes may not be the same.
George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950), Man and Superman (1903), Maxims for
When a stupid man is doing something he is ashamed of, he always declares that it is his duty.
George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950), Caesar and Cleopatra (1901)
Youth is a wonderful thing. What a crime to waste it on children.
George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950)
Reading made Don Quixote a gentleman. Believing what he read made him mad.
George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950)
Hell is full of musical amateurs.
George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950)
You are going to let the fear of poverty govern your life and your reward will be that you will eat, but you will not live.
George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950)
Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it.
George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950), Man and Superman (1903) "Maxims for Revolutionists"
Silence is the most perfect expression of scorn.
George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950), Back to Methuselah (1921) pt. 5
He who has never hoped can never despair.
George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950), Caesar and Cleopatra (1901) act 4
Beware of the man whose God is in the skies.
George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950), Man and Superman (1903) "Maxims for Revolutionists"
I never resist temptation because I have found that things that are bad for me do not tempt me.
George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950), The Apple Cart (1930)
We have no more right to consume happiness without producing it than to consume wealth without producing it.
George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950), Candida (1898) act 1
Do you think that the things people make fools of themselves about are any less real and true than the things they behave sensibly about? They are more true: they are the only things that are true.
George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950), Candida (1898) act 1
He knows nothing; and he thinks he knows everything. That points clearly to a political career.
George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950), Major Barbara (1907)
Youth, which is forgiven everything, forgives itself nothing: age, which forgives itself everything, is forgiven nothing.
George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950), Man and Superman (1903) "Maxims for Revolutionists"
Take care to get what you like or you will be forced to like what you get.
George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950), Man and Superman (1903) "Maxims for Revolutionists"
There is only one religion, though there are a hundred versions of it.
George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950), Plays Pleasant and Unpleasant (1898)
Assassination is the extreme form of censorship.
George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950), Shewing-Up of Blanco Posnet (1911) "Limits to Toleration"
"Do you know what a pessimist is?" "A man who thinks everybody is as nasty as himself, and hates them for it."
George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950), An Unsocial Socialist (1887) ch. 5
The trouble with her is that she lacks the power of conversation but not the power of speech.
George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950)
The moment we want to believe something, we suddenly see all the arguments for it, and become blind to the arguments against it.
George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950)
The liar's punishment ... is that he cannot believe anyone else.
George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950)
There is no satisfaction in hanging a man who does not object to it.
George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950)
What God hath joined together no man shall put asunder: God will take care of that.
George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950)
I've posed nude for a photographer in the manner of Rodin's Thinker, but I merely looked constipated.
George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950)
Patriotism is a pernicious, psychopathic form of idiocy.
George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950)
If more than ten percent of the population likes a painting it should be burned, for it must be bad.
George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950)
My main reason for adopting literature as a profession was that, as the author is never seen by his clients, he need not dress respectably.
George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950)
All my life, affection has been showered upon me, and every forward step I have made has been taken in spite of it.
George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950)
We should all be obliged to appear before a board every five years and justify our existence...on pain of liquidation.
George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950)
Marriage is popular because it combines the maximum of temptation with the maximum of opportunity.
George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950)
The world is populated in the main by people who should not exist.
George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950)
We learn from experience that men never learn anything from experience.
George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950)
If history repeats itself, and the unexpected always happens, how incapable must Man be of learning from experience.
George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950)
Self-sacrifice enables us to sacrifice other people without blushing.
George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950)
A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.
George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950)
Hegel was right when he said that we learn from history that man can never learn anything from history.
George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950)
Lack of money is the root of all evil.
George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950)
The fact that a believer is happier than a skeptic is no more to the point than the fact that a drunken man is happier than a sober one.
George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950)
The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man.
George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950), Man and Superman (1903) "Maxims for Revolutionists"
I often quote myself. It adds spice to my conversation.
George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950)
Democracy is a device that ensures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.
George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950)
Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all other countries because you were born in it.
George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950)
The golden rule is that there are no golden rules.
George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950), Man and Superman (1903) "Maxims for Revolutionists"
A fool's brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry. Hence University education.
George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950)
When a thing is funny, search it carefully for a hidden truth.
George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950)
You see things; and you say, 'Why?' But I dream things that never were; and I say, "Why not?"
George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950), "Back to Methuselah" (1921), part 1, act 1
The worst sin toward our fellow creatures is not to hate them, but to be indifferent to them: that's the essense of inhumanity.
George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950), "The Devil's Disciple" (1901), act I
The more things a man is ashamed of, the more respectable he is.
George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950), "Man and Superman" (1903), act I
One man that has a mind and knows it can always beat ten men who haven't and don't.
George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950), "The Apple Cart" (1930), act I
A fashion is nothing but an induced epidemic.
George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950)
Everything happens to everybody sooner or later if there is time enough.
George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950)
Do not do unto others as you would that they should do unto you. Their tastes may not be the same.
George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950), Man and Superman (1903), Maxims for
When a stupid man is doing something he is ashamed of, he always declares that it is his duty.
George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950), Caesar and Cleopatra (1901)
Youth is a wonderful thing. What a crime to waste it on children.
George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950)
Reading made Don Quixote a gentleman. Believing what he read made him mad.
George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950)
Hell is full of musical amateurs.
George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950)
You are going to let the fear of poverty govern your life and your reward will be that you will eat, but you will not live.
George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950)
Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it.
George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950), Man and Superman (1903) "Maxims for Revolutionists"
Silence is the most perfect expression of scorn.
George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950), Back to Methuselah (1921) pt. 5
He who has never hoped can never despair.
George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950), Caesar and Cleopatra (1901) act 4
Beware of the man whose God is in the skies.
George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950), Man and Superman (1903) "Maxims for Revolutionists"
I never resist temptation because I have found that things that are bad for me do not tempt me.
George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950), The Apple Cart (1930)
We have no more right to consume happiness without producing it than to consume wealth without producing it.
George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950), Candida (1898) act 1
Do you think that the things people make fools of themselves about are any less real and true than the things they behave sensibly about? They are more true: they are the only things that are true.
George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950), Candida (1898) act 1
He knows nothing; and he thinks he knows everything. That points clearly to a political career.
George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950), Major Barbara (1907)
Youth, which is forgiven everything, forgives itself nothing: age, which forgives itself everything, is forgiven nothing.
George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950), Man and Superman (1903) "Maxims for Revolutionists"
Take care to get what you like or you will be forced to like what you get.
George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950), Man and Superman (1903) "Maxims for Revolutionists"
There is only one religion, though there are a hundred versions of it.
George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950), Plays Pleasant and Unpleasant (1898)
Assassination is the extreme form of censorship.
George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950), Shewing-Up of Blanco Posnet (1911) "Limits to Toleration"
"Do you know what a pessimist is?" "A man who thinks everybody is as nasty as himself, and hates them for it."
George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950), An Unsocial Socialist (1887) ch. 5
The trouble with her is that she lacks the power of conversation but not the power of speech.
George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950)
The moment we want to believe something, we suddenly see all the arguments for it, and become blind to the arguments against it.
George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950)
The liar's punishment ... is that he cannot believe anyone else.
George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950)
There is no satisfaction in hanging a man who does not object to it.
George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950)
What God hath joined together no man shall put asunder: God will take care of that.
George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950)
I've posed nude for a photographer in the manner of Rodin's Thinker, but I merely looked constipated.
George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950)
Patriotism is a pernicious, psychopathic form of idiocy.
George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950)
If more than ten percent of the population likes a painting it should be burned, for it must be bad.
George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950)
My main reason for adopting literature as a profession was that, as the author is never seen by his clients, he need not dress respectably.
George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950)
All my life, affection has been showered upon me, and every forward step I have made has been taken in spite of it.
George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950)
We should all be obliged to appear before a board every five years and justify our existence...on pain of liquidation.
George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950)
Marriage is popular because it combines the maximum of temptation with the maximum of opportunity.
George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950)
The world is populated in the main by people who should not exist.
George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950)
We learn from experience that men never learn anything from experience.
George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950)
If history repeats itself, and the unexpected always happens, how incapable must Man be of learning from experience.
George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950)
Self-sacrifice enables us to sacrifice other people without blushing.
George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950)
"Death is nothing to us, since when we are, death has not come, and when death has come, we are not."
- Epicurus (341 BC - 270 BC), from Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers
- Epicurus (341 BC - 270 BC), from Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers
"For certain is death for the born
And certain is birth for the dead;
Therefore over the inevitable
Thou shouldst not grieve."
- Bhagavad Gita (250 BC - 250 AD), Chapter 2
And certain is birth for the dead;
Therefore over the inevitable
Thou shouldst not grieve."
- Bhagavad Gita (250 BC - 250 AD), Chapter 2
Mark Twain
"All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence; then success is sure."
- Mark Twain (1835 - 1910), Letter to Mrs Foote, Dec. 2, 1887
"A classic is something that everybody wants to have read and nobody wants to read."
- Mark Twain (1835 - 1910), Speech in New York, Nov. 20, 1900
"Familiarity breeds contempt - and children."
- Mark Twain (1835 - 1910), Notebooks (1935)
"Good breeding consists of concealing how much we think of ourselves and how little we think of the other person."
- Mark Twain (1835 - 1910), Notebooks (1935)
"Few things are harder to put up with than the annoyance of a good example."
- Mark Twain (1835 - 1910), Pudd'nhead Wilson (1894)
"A banker is a fellow who lends you his umbrella when the sun is shining, but wants it back the minute it begins to rain."
- Mark Twain (1835 - 1910)
"The report of my death was an exaggeration."
- Mark Twain (1835 - 1910), New York Journal, June 2, 1897
"Man is the Only Animal that Blushes. Or needs to."
- Mark Twain (1835 - 1910), Following the Equator (1897)
"Truth is more of a stranger than fiction."
- Mark Twain (1835 - 1910)
"All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence; then success is sure."
- Mark Twain (1835 - 1910), Letter to Mrs Foote, Dec. 2, 1887
"A classic is something that everybody wants to have read and nobody wants to read."
- Mark Twain (1835 - 1910), Speech in New York, Nov. 20, 1900
"Familiarity breeds contempt - and children."
- Mark Twain (1835 - 1910), Notebooks (1935)
"Good breeding consists of concealing how much we think of ourselves and how little we think of the other person."
- Mark Twain (1835 - 1910), Notebooks (1935)
"Few things are harder to put up with than the annoyance of a good example."
- Mark Twain (1835 - 1910), Pudd'nhead Wilson (1894)
"A banker is a fellow who lends you his umbrella when the sun is shining, but wants it back the minute it begins to rain."
- Mark Twain (1835 - 1910)
"The report of my death was an exaggeration."
- Mark Twain (1835 - 1910), New York Journal, June 2, 1897
"Man is the Only Animal that Blushes. Or needs to."
- Mark Twain (1835 - 1910), Following the Equator (1897)
"Truth is more of a stranger than fiction."
- Mark Twain (1835 - 1910)
Karl Marx
"Philosophy is to the real world as masturbation is to sex."
- Karl Marx (1818 - 1883)
"Last words are for people who haven't said anything in life."
- Karl Marx (1818 - 1883)
"Reason has always existed, but not always in a reasonable form."
- Karl Marx (1818 - 1883)
"Philosophy is to the real world as masturbation is to sex."
- Karl Marx (1818 - 1883)
"Last words are for people who haven't said anything in life."
- Karl Marx (1818 - 1883)
"Reason has always existed, but not always in a reasonable form."
- Karl Marx (1818 - 1883)
Sunday, November 23, 2003
"Wagner's music is better than it sounds."
- Mark Twain (1835-1910)
"He would make a lovely corpse."
- Charles Dickens (1812-1870)
"We are not retreating - we are advancing in another Direction."
- General Douglas MacArthur (1880-1964)
"The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them."
- Mark Twain (1835-1910)
"Whatever is begun in anger ends in shame."
- Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790)
"Denial ain't just a river in Egypt."
- Mark Twain (1835-1910)
"He can compress the most words into the smallest idea of any man I know."
- Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865)
"The man who goes alone can start today; but he who travels with another must wait till that other is ready."
- Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862)
"The average person thinks he isn't."
- Father Larry Lorenzoni
"The longer I live the more I see that I am never wrong about anything, and that all the pains that I have so humbly taken to verify my notions have only wasted my time."
- George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950)
"I am not young enough to know everything."
- Oscar Wilde (1854-1900)
"The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his."
- General George Patton (1885-1945)
"No Sane man will dance."
- Cicero (106-43 B.C.)
"Show me a sane man and I will cure him for you."
- Carl Gustav Jung (1875-1961)
"It is dangerous to be sincere unless you are also stupid."
- George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950)
"Everything has been figured out, except how to live."
- Jean-Paul Sartre (1905-1980)
"I would have made a good Pope."
- Richard M. Nixon (1913-1994)
"It is unbecoming for young men to utter maxims."
- Aristotle (384-322 B.C.)
"Make everything as simple as possible, but not simpler."
- Albert Einstein (1879-1955)
"God, please save me from your followers!"
- Bumper Sticker
"I have often regretted my speech, never my silence."
- Xenocrates (396-314 B.C.)
"Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance."
- Will Durant
"A witty saying proves nothing."
- Voltaire (1694-1778)
"To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance"
- Oscar Wilde (1854-1900)
"Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome."
- Isaac Asimov
"The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good."
- Samuel Johnson (1709-1784)
"I've had a wonderful time, but this wasn't it."
- Groucho Marx (1895-1977)
"I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work."
- Thomas Alva Edison (1847-1931)
"I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them."
- Ian L. Fleming (1908-1964)
"He is one of those people who would be enormously improved by death."
- H. H. Munro (Saki) (1870-1916)
"Some cause happiness wherever they go; others, whenever they go."
- Oscar Wilde (1854-1900)
"The power of accurate observation is frequently called cynicism by those who don't have it."
- George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950)
"The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it."
- Oscar Wilde (1854-1900)
"Assassins!"
- Arturo Toscanini (1867-1957) to his orchestra
"Don't be so humble - you are not that great."
- Golda Meir (1898-1978) to a visiting diplomat
"Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake."
- Napoleon Bonaparte (1769-1821)
"Most people would sooner die than think; in fact, they do so."
- Bertrand Russell (1872-1970)
"Wit is educated insolence."
- Aristotle (384-322 B.C.)
- Mark Twain (1835-1910)
"He would make a lovely corpse."
- Charles Dickens (1812-1870)
"We are not retreating - we are advancing in another Direction."
- General Douglas MacArthur (1880-1964)
"The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them."
- Mark Twain (1835-1910)
"Whatever is begun in anger ends in shame."
- Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790)
"Denial ain't just a river in Egypt."
- Mark Twain (1835-1910)
"He can compress the most words into the smallest idea of any man I know."
- Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865)
"The man who goes alone can start today; but he who travels with another must wait till that other is ready."
- Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862)
"The average person thinks he isn't."
- Father Larry Lorenzoni
"The longer I live the more I see that I am never wrong about anything, and that all the pains that I have so humbly taken to verify my notions have only wasted my time."
- George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950)
"I am not young enough to know everything."
- Oscar Wilde (1854-1900)
"The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his."
- General George Patton (1885-1945)
"No Sane man will dance."
- Cicero (106-43 B.C.)
"Show me a sane man and I will cure him for you."
- Carl Gustav Jung (1875-1961)
"It is dangerous to be sincere unless you are also stupid."
- George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950)
"Everything has been figured out, except how to live."
- Jean-Paul Sartre (1905-1980)
"I would have made a good Pope."
- Richard M. Nixon (1913-1994)
"It is unbecoming for young men to utter maxims."
- Aristotle (384-322 B.C.)
"Make everything as simple as possible, but not simpler."
- Albert Einstein (1879-1955)
"God, please save me from your followers!"
- Bumper Sticker
"I have often regretted my speech, never my silence."
- Xenocrates (396-314 B.C.)
"Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance."
- Will Durant
"A witty saying proves nothing."
- Voltaire (1694-1778)
"To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance"
- Oscar Wilde (1854-1900)
"Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome."
- Isaac Asimov
"The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good."
- Samuel Johnson (1709-1784)
"I've had a wonderful time, but this wasn't it."
- Groucho Marx (1895-1977)
"I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work."
- Thomas Alva Edison (1847-1931)
"I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them."
- Ian L. Fleming (1908-1964)
"He is one of those people who would be enormously improved by death."
- H. H. Munro (Saki) (1870-1916)
"Some cause happiness wherever they go; others, whenever they go."
- Oscar Wilde (1854-1900)
"The power of accurate observation is frequently called cynicism by those who don't have it."
- George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950)
"The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it."
- Oscar Wilde (1854-1900)
"Assassins!"
- Arturo Toscanini (1867-1957) to his orchestra
"Don't be so humble - you are not that great."
- Golda Meir (1898-1978) to a visiting diplomat
"Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake."
- Napoleon Bonaparte (1769-1821)
"Most people would sooner die than think; in fact, they do so."
- Bertrand Russell (1872-1970)
"Wit is educated insolence."
- Aristotle (384-322 B.C.)
Wednesday, November 19, 2003
"Plato was a bore."
- Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900)
"Nietzsche was stupid and abnormal."
- Leo Tolstoy (1828-1910)
"I'm not going to get into the ring with Tolstoy."
- Ernest Hemingway (1899-1961)
"Hemingway was a jerk."
- Harold Robbins
- Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900)
"Nietzsche was stupid and abnormal."
- Leo Tolstoy (1828-1910)
"I'm not going to get into the ring with Tolstoy."
- Ernest Hemingway (1899-1961)
"Hemingway was a jerk."
- Harold Robbins
"There are only two tragedies in life: one is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it."
- Oscar Wilde (1854-1900)
"There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle."
- Albert Einstein (1879-1955)
"He would make a lovely corpse."
- Charles Dickens (1812-1870)
"I worship the quicksand he walks in."
- Art Buchwald
"Wagner's music is better than it sounds."
- Mark Twain (1835-1910)
"We are not retreating - we are advancing in another Direction."
- General Douglas MacArthur (1880-1964)
"The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them."
- Mark Twain (1835-1910)
"Now, now my good man, this is no time for making enemies."
- Voltaire (1694-1778) on his deathbed in response to a priest asking that he renounce Satan.
"I criticize by creation - not by finding fault."
- Cicero (106-43 B.C.)
"Woman was God's second mistake."
- Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900)
"This isn't right, this isn't even wrong."
- Wolfgang Pauli (1900-1958), upon reading a young physicist's paper
"The difference between fiction and reality? Fiction has to make sense."
- Tom Clancy
"Whatever is begun in anger ends in shame."
- Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790)
"Denial ain't just a river in Egypt."
- Mark Twain (1835-1910)
"A pint of sweat, saves a gallon of blood."
- General George S. Patton (1885-1945)
"After I'm dead I'd rather have people ask why I have no monument than why I have one."
- Cato the Elder (234-149 BC, AKA Marcus Porcius Cato)
"He can compress the most words into the smallest idea of any man I know."
- Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865)
"Don't let it end like this. Tell them I said something."
- last words of Pancho Villa (1877-1923)
"The right to swing my fist ends where the other man's nose begins."
- Oliver Wendell Holmes (1841-1935)
"I think there is a world market for maybe five computers."
- Thomas Watson (1874-1956), Chairman of IBM, 1943
"The man who goes alone can start today; but he who travels with another must wait till that other is ready."
- Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862)
"There is a country in Europe where multiple-choice tests are illegal."
- Sigfried Hulzer
"Ask her to wait a moment - I am almost done."
- Carl Friedrich Gauss (1777-1855), while working, when informed that his wife is dying
"Silence is argument carried out by other means."
- Ernesto"Che"Guevara (1928-1967)
"The average person thinks he isn't."
- Father Larry Lorenzoni
"Why don't you write books people can read?"
- Nora Joyce to her husband James (1882-1941)
"Some editors are failed writers, but so are most writers."
- T. S. Eliot (1888-1965)
"Hell is paved with good samaritans."
- William M. Holden
"The longer I live the more I see that I am never wrong about anything, and that all the pains that I have so humbly taken to verify my notions have only wasted my time."
- George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950)
"I don't feel good."
- The last words of Luther Burbank (1849-1926)
"I have never let my schooling interfere with my education."
- Mark Twain (1835-1910)
"I don't want to achieve immortality through my work; I want to achieve immortality through not dying."
- Woody Allen (1935-)
"Sanity is a madness put to good uses."
- George Santayana (1863-1952)
"Always do right- this will gratify some and astonish the rest."
- Mark Twain (1835-1910)
"In America, anybody can be president. That's one of the risks you take."
- Adlai Stevenson (1900-1965)
"How can I lose to such an idiot?"
- A shout from chessmaster Aaron Nimzovich (1886-1935)
"Men are not disturbed by things, but the view they take of things."
- Epictetus (55-135 A.D.)
"What about things like bullets?"
- Herb Kimmel, Behavioralist, Professor of Psychology, upon hearing the above quote (1981)
"I am not young enough to know everything."
- Oscar Wilde (1854-1900)
"The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his."
- General George Patton (1885-1945)
"There is no sincerer love than the love of food."
- George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950)
"Mr. Wagner has beautiful moments but bad quarters of an hour."
- Gioacchino Rossini (1792-1868)
"Everywhere I go I'm asked if I think the university stifles writers. My opinion is that they don't stifle enough of them."
- Flannery O'Connor (1925-1964)
"Anything that is too stupid to be spoken is sung."
- Voltaire (1694-1778)
"No Sane man will dance."
- Cicero (106-43 B.C.)
"Show me a sane man and I will cure him for you."
- Carl Gustav Jung (1875-1961)
"If I were two-faced, would I be wearing this one?"
- Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865)
"Few things are harder to put up with than a good example."
- Mark Twain (1835-1910)
"Hell is other people."
- Jean-Paul Sartre (1905-1980)
"Happiness is good health and a bad memory."
- Ingrid Bergman (1917-1982)
"The gods too are fond of a joke."
- Aristotle (384-322 B.C.)
"There are some experiences in life which should not be demanded twice from any man, and one of them is listening to the Brahms Requiem."
- George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950)
"What do you take me for, an idiot?"
- General Charles de Gaulle (1890-1970), when a journalist asked him if he was happy
"I heard someone tried the monkeys-on-typewriters bit trying for the plays of W. Shakespeare, but all they got was the collected works of Francis Bacon."
- Bill Hirst
"Three o'clock is always too late or too early for anything you want to do."
- Jean-Paul Sartre (1905-1980)
"It is dangerous to be sincere unless you are also stupid."
- George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950)
"A man can't be too careful in the choice of his enemies."
- Oscar Wilde (1854-1900)
"Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names."
- John F. Kennedy (1917-1963)
"Everything has been figured out, except how to live."
- Jean-Paul Sartre (1905-1980)
"Well-timed silence hath more eloquence than speech."
- Martin Fraquhar Tupper
"Thank you for sending me a copy of your book - I'll waste no time reading it."
- Moses Hadas (1900-1966)
"It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating."
- Oscar Wilde (1854-1900)
"The graveyards are full of indispensable men."
- Charles de Gaulle (1890-1970)
"I would have made a good Pope."
- Richard M. Nixon (1913-1994)
"It is unbecoming for young men to utter maxims."
- Aristotle (384-322 B.C.)
"One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is terribly important."
- Bertrand Russell (1872-1970)
"A little inaccuracy sometimes saves a ton of explanation."
- H. H. Munro (Saki) (1870-1916)
"Make everything as simple as possible, but not simpler."
- Albert Einstein (1879-1955)
"First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win."
- Mahatma Gandhi (1869-1948)
"Fill what's empty, empty what's full, and scratch where it itches."
- the Duchess of Windsor, when asked what is the secret of a long and happy life
"Where are we going, and why am I in this handbasket?"
- Bumper Sticker
"God, please save me from your followers!"
- Bumper Sticker
"Everyone is a genius at least once a year; a real genius has his original ideas closer together."
- Georg Lichtenberg (1742-1799)
"I do not consider it an insult, but rather a compliment to be called an agnostic. I do not pretend to know where many ignorant men are sure -- that is all that agnosticism means."
- Clarence Darrow, Scopes trial, 1925.
"I have often regretted my speech, never my silence."
- Xenocrates (396-314 B.C.)
"Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance."
- Will Durant
"A witty saying proves nothing."
- Voltaire (1694-1778)
]
"A clever man commits no minor blunders."
- Goethe (1749-1832)
"Knowledge speaks, but wisdom listens."
- Jimi Hendrix
"To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance"
- Oscar Wilde (1854-1900)
"It is much more comfortable to be mad and know it, than to be sane and have one's doubts."
- G. B. Burgin
"Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome."
- Isaac Asimov
"There is more stupidity than hydrogen in the universe, and it has a longer shelf life."
- Frank Zappa
"A people that values its privileges above its principles soon loses both."
- Dwight D. Eisenhower (1890-1969), Inaugural Address, January 20, 1953
"The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good."
- Samuel Johnson (1709-1784)
"The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds, and the pessimist fears this is true."
- James Branch Cabell
"I've had a wonderful time, but this wasn't it."
- Groucho Marx (1895-1977)
"Maybe this world is another planet's Hell."
- Aldous Huxley (1894-1963)
"I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work."
- Thomas Alva Edison (1847-1931)
"I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them."
- Ian L. Fleming (1908-1964)
"I am ready to meet my Maker. Whether my Maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me is another matter."
- Sir Winston Churchill (1874-1965)
"He is one of those people who would be enormously improved by death."
- H. H. Munro (Saki) (1870-1916)
"God is a comedian playing to an audience too afraid to laugh."
- Voltaire (1694-1778)
"Some cause happiness wherever they go; others, whenever they go."
- Oscar Wilde (1854-1900)
"I'm all in favor of keeping dangerous weapons out of the hands of fools. Let's start with typewriters."
- Frank Lloyd Wright (1868-1959)
"If you are going through hell, keep going."
- Sir Winston Churchill (1874-1965)
"We have art to save ourselves from the truth."
- Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900)
"The power of accurate observation is frequently called cynicism by those who don't have it."
- George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950)
"Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way around the laws."
- Plato (427-347 B.C.)
"If you can't get rid of the skeleton in your closet, you'd best teach it to dance."
- George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950)
"The only difference between me and a madman is that I'm not mad."
- Salvador Dali (1904-1989)
"Don't stay in bed, unless you can make money in bed."
- George Burns (1896-1996)
"The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it."
- Oscar Wilde (1854-1900)
"In theory, there is no difference between theory and practice. But, in practice, there is."
- Jan L.A. van de Snepscheut
"Assassins!"
- Arturo Toscanini (1867-1957) to his orchestra
"I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use."
- Galileo Galilei
"A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on."
- Sir Winston Churchill (1874-1965)
"Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former."
- Albert Einstein (1879-1955)
"Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted."
- Albert Einstein (1879-1955)
"People demand freedom of speech to make up for the freedom of thought which they avoid."
- Soren Aabye Kierkegaard (1813-1855)
"Don't be so humble - you are not that great."
- Golda Meir (1898-1978) to a visiting diplomat
"Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake."
- Napoleon Bonaparte (1769-1821)
"Most people would sooner die than think; in fact, they do so."
- Bertrand Russell (1872-1970)
"Wit is educated insolence."
- Aristotle (384-322 B.C.)
"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.)
"Egotist: a person more interested in himself than in me."
- Ambrose Bierce (1842-1914)
"A narcissist is someone better looking than you are."
- Gore Vidal
"It has become appallingly obvious that our technology has exceeded our humanity."
- Albert Einstein (1879-1955)
"The secret of success is to know something nobody else knows."
- Aristotle Onassis (1906-1975)
"When you have to kill a man, it costs nothing to be polite."
- Sir Winston Churchill (1874-1965)
"Any man who is under 30, and is not a liberal, has not heart; and any man who is over 30, and is not a conservative, has no brains."
- Sir Winston Churchill (1874-1965)
"The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. The opposite of a profound truth may well be another profound truth."
- Niels Bohr (1885-1962)
"We all agree that your theory is crazy, but is it crazy enough?"
- Niels Bohr (1885-1962)
- Oscar Wilde (1854-1900)
"There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle."
- Albert Einstein (1879-1955)
"He would make a lovely corpse."
- Charles Dickens (1812-1870)
"I worship the quicksand he walks in."
- Art Buchwald
"Wagner's music is better than it sounds."
- Mark Twain (1835-1910)
"We are not retreating - we are advancing in another Direction."
- General Douglas MacArthur (1880-1964)
"The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them."
- Mark Twain (1835-1910)
"Now, now my good man, this is no time for making enemies."
- Voltaire (1694-1778) on his deathbed in response to a priest asking that he renounce Satan.
"I criticize by creation - not by finding fault."
- Cicero (106-43 B.C.)
"Woman was God's second mistake."
- Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900)
"This isn't right, this isn't even wrong."
- Wolfgang Pauli (1900-1958), upon reading a young physicist's paper
"The difference between fiction and reality? Fiction has to make sense."
- Tom Clancy
"Whatever is begun in anger ends in shame."
- Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790)
"Denial ain't just a river in Egypt."
- Mark Twain (1835-1910)
"A pint of sweat, saves a gallon of blood."
- General George S. Patton (1885-1945)
"After I'm dead I'd rather have people ask why I have no monument than why I have one."
- Cato the Elder (234-149 BC, AKA Marcus Porcius Cato)
"He can compress the most words into the smallest idea of any man I know."
- Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865)
"Don't let it end like this. Tell them I said something."
- last words of Pancho Villa (1877-1923)
"The right to swing my fist ends where the other man's nose begins."
- Oliver Wendell Holmes (1841-1935)
"I think there is a world market for maybe five computers."
- Thomas Watson (1874-1956), Chairman of IBM, 1943
"The man who goes alone can start today; but he who travels with another must wait till that other is ready."
- Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862)
"There is a country in Europe where multiple-choice tests are illegal."
- Sigfried Hulzer
"Ask her to wait a moment - I am almost done."
- Carl Friedrich Gauss (1777-1855), while working, when informed that his wife is dying
"Silence is argument carried out by other means."
- Ernesto"Che"Guevara (1928-1967)
"The average person thinks he isn't."
- Father Larry Lorenzoni
"Why don't you write books people can read?"
- Nora Joyce to her husband James (1882-1941)
"Some editors are failed writers, but so are most writers."
- T. S. Eliot (1888-1965)
"Hell is paved with good samaritans."
- William M. Holden
"The longer I live the more I see that I am never wrong about anything, and that all the pains that I have so humbly taken to verify my notions have only wasted my time."
- George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950)
"I don't feel good."
- The last words of Luther Burbank (1849-1926)
"I have never let my schooling interfere with my education."
- Mark Twain (1835-1910)
"I don't want to achieve immortality through my work; I want to achieve immortality through not dying."
- Woody Allen (1935-)
"Sanity is a madness put to good uses."
- George Santayana (1863-1952)
"Always do right- this will gratify some and astonish the rest."
- Mark Twain (1835-1910)
"In America, anybody can be president. That's one of the risks you take."
- Adlai Stevenson (1900-1965)
"How can I lose to such an idiot?"
- A shout from chessmaster Aaron Nimzovich (1886-1935)
"Men are not disturbed by things, but the view they take of things."
- Epictetus (55-135 A.D.)
"What about things like bullets?"
- Herb Kimmel, Behavioralist, Professor of Psychology, upon hearing the above quote (1981)
"I am not young enough to know everything."
- Oscar Wilde (1854-1900)
"The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his."
- General George Patton (1885-1945)
"There is no sincerer love than the love of food."
- George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950)
"Mr. Wagner has beautiful moments but bad quarters of an hour."
- Gioacchino Rossini (1792-1868)
"Everywhere I go I'm asked if I think the university stifles writers. My opinion is that they don't stifle enough of them."
- Flannery O'Connor (1925-1964)
"Anything that is too stupid to be spoken is sung."
- Voltaire (1694-1778)
"No Sane man will dance."
- Cicero (106-43 B.C.)
"Show me a sane man and I will cure him for you."
- Carl Gustav Jung (1875-1961)
"If I were two-faced, would I be wearing this one?"
- Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865)
"Few things are harder to put up with than a good example."
- Mark Twain (1835-1910)
"Hell is other people."
- Jean-Paul Sartre (1905-1980)
"Happiness is good health and a bad memory."
- Ingrid Bergman (1917-1982)
"The gods too are fond of a joke."
- Aristotle (384-322 B.C.)
"There are some experiences in life which should not be demanded twice from any man, and one of them is listening to the Brahms Requiem."
- George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950)
"What do you take me for, an idiot?"
- General Charles de Gaulle (1890-1970), when a journalist asked him if he was happy
"I heard someone tried the monkeys-on-typewriters bit trying for the plays of W. Shakespeare, but all they got was the collected works of Francis Bacon."
- Bill Hirst
"Three o'clock is always too late or too early for anything you want to do."
- Jean-Paul Sartre (1905-1980)
"It is dangerous to be sincere unless you are also stupid."
- George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950)
"A man can't be too careful in the choice of his enemies."
- Oscar Wilde (1854-1900)
"Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names."
- John F. Kennedy (1917-1963)
"Everything has been figured out, except how to live."
- Jean-Paul Sartre (1905-1980)
"Well-timed silence hath more eloquence than speech."
- Martin Fraquhar Tupper
"Thank you for sending me a copy of your book - I'll waste no time reading it."
- Moses Hadas (1900-1966)
"It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating."
- Oscar Wilde (1854-1900)
"The graveyards are full of indispensable men."
- Charles de Gaulle (1890-1970)
"I would have made a good Pope."
- Richard M. Nixon (1913-1994)
"It is unbecoming for young men to utter maxims."
- Aristotle (384-322 B.C.)
"One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is terribly important."
- Bertrand Russell (1872-1970)
"A little inaccuracy sometimes saves a ton of explanation."
- H. H. Munro (Saki) (1870-1916)
"Make everything as simple as possible, but not simpler."
- Albert Einstein (1879-1955)
"First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win."
- Mahatma Gandhi (1869-1948)
"Fill what's empty, empty what's full, and scratch where it itches."
- the Duchess of Windsor, when asked what is the secret of a long and happy life
"Where are we going, and why am I in this handbasket?"
- Bumper Sticker
"God, please save me from your followers!"
- Bumper Sticker
"Everyone is a genius at least once a year; a real genius has his original ideas closer together."
- Georg Lichtenberg (1742-1799)
"I do not consider it an insult, but rather a compliment to be called an agnostic. I do not pretend to know where many ignorant men are sure -- that is all that agnosticism means."
- Clarence Darrow, Scopes trial, 1925.
"I have often regretted my speech, never my silence."
- Xenocrates (396-314 B.C.)
"Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance."
- Will Durant
"A witty saying proves nothing."
- Voltaire (1694-1778)
]
"A clever man commits no minor blunders."
- Goethe (1749-1832)
"Knowledge speaks, but wisdom listens."
- Jimi Hendrix
"To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance"
- Oscar Wilde (1854-1900)
"It is much more comfortable to be mad and know it, than to be sane and have one's doubts."
- G. B. Burgin
"Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome."
- Isaac Asimov
"There is more stupidity than hydrogen in the universe, and it has a longer shelf life."
- Frank Zappa
"A people that values its privileges above its principles soon loses both."
- Dwight D. Eisenhower (1890-1969), Inaugural Address, January 20, 1953
"The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good."
- Samuel Johnson (1709-1784)
"The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds, and the pessimist fears this is true."
- James Branch Cabell
"I've had a wonderful time, but this wasn't it."
- Groucho Marx (1895-1977)
"Maybe this world is another planet's Hell."
- Aldous Huxley (1894-1963)
"I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work."
- Thomas Alva Edison (1847-1931)
"I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them."
- Ian L. Fleming (1908-1964)
"I am ready to meet my Maker. Whether my Maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me is another matter."
- Sir Winston Churchill (1874-1965)
"He is one of those people who would be enormously improved by death."
- H. H. Munro (Saki) (1870-1916)
"God is a comedian playing to an audience too afraid to laugh."
- Voltaire (1694-1778)
"Some cause happiness wherever they go; others, whenever they go."
- Oscar Wilde (1854-1900)
"I'm all in favor of keeping dangerous weapons out of the hands of fools. Let's start with typewriters."
- Frank Lloyd Wright (1868-1959)
"If you are going through hell, keep going."
- Sir Winston Churchill (1874-1965)
"We have art to save ourselves from the truth."
- Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900)
"The power of accurate observation is frequently called cynicism by those who don't have it."
- George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950)
"Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way around the laws."
- Plato (427-347 B.C.)
"If you can't get rid of the skeleton in your closet, you'd best teach it to dance."
- George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950)
"The only difference between me and a madman is that I'm not mad."
- Salvador Dali (1904-1989)
"Don't stay in bed, unless you can make money in bed."
- George Burns (1896-1996)
"The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it."
- Oscar Wilde (1854-1900)
"In theory, there is no difference between theory and practice. But, in practice, there is."
- Jan L.A. van de Snepscheut
"Assassins!"
- Arturo Toscanini (1867-1957) to his orchestra
"I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use."
- Galileo Galilei
"A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on."
- Sir Winston Churchill (1874-1965)
"Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former."
- Albert Einstein (1879-1955)
"Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted."
- Albert Einstein (1879-1955)
"People demand freedom of speech to make up for the freedom of thought which they avoid."
- Soren Aabye Kierkegaard (1813-1855)
"Don't be so humble - you are not that great."
- Golda Meir (1898-1978) to a visiting diplomat
"Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake."
- Napoleon Bonaparte (1769-1821)
"Most people would sooner die than think; in fact, they do so."
- Bertrand Russell (1872-1970)
"Wit is educated insolence."
- Aristotle (384-322 B.C.)
"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.)
"Egotist: a person more interested in himself than in me."
- Ambrose Bierce (1842-1914)
"A narcissist is someone better looking than you are."
- Gore Vidal
"It has become appallingly obvious that our technology has exceeded our humanity."
- Albert Einstein (1879-1955)
"The secret of success is to know something nobody else knows."
- Aristotle Onassis (1906-1975)
"When you have to kill a man, it costs nothing to be polite."
- Sir Winston Churchill (1874-1965)
"Any man who is under 30, and is not a liberal, has not heart; and any man who is over 30, and is not a conservative, has no brains."
- Sir Winston Churchill (1874-1965)
"The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. The opposite of a profound truth may well be another profound truth."
- Niels Bohr (1885-1962)
"We all agree that your theory is crazy, but is it crazy enough?"
- Niels Bohr (1885-1962)
Tuesday, November 18, 2003
"There are only two tragedies in life: one is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it."
- Oscar Wilde (1854-1900)
"There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle."
- Albert Einstein (1879-1955)
"He would make a lovely corpse."
- Charles Dickens (1812-1870)
"I worship the quicksand he walks in."
- Art Buchwald
"Wagner's music is better than it sounds."
- Mark Twain (1835-1910)
"We are not retreating - we are advancing in another Direction."
- General Douglas MacArthur (1880-1964)
"The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them."
- Mark Twain (1835-1910)
"Now, now my good man, this is no time for making enemies."
- Voltaire (1694-1778) on his deathbed in response to a priest asking that he renounce Satan.
"I criticize by creation - not by finding fault."
- Cicero (106-43 B.C.)
"Woman was God's second mistake."
- Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900)
"This isn't right, this isn't even wrong."
- Wolfgang Pauli (1900-1958), upon reading a young physicist's paper
"The difference between fiction and reality? Fiction has to make sense."
- Tom Clancy
"Whatever is begun in anger ends in shame."
- Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790)
"Denial ain't just a river in Egypt."
- Mark Twain (1835-1910)
"A pint of sweat, saves a gallon of blood."
- General George S. Patton (1885-1945)
"After I'm dead I'd rather have people ask why I have no monument than why I have one."
- Cato the Elder (234-149 BC, AKA Marcus Porcius Cato)
"He can compress the most words into the smallest idea of any man I know."
- Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865)
"Don't let it end like this. Tell them I said something."
- last words of Pancho Villa (1877-1923)
"The right to swing my fist ends where the other man's nose begins."
- Oliver Wendell Holmes (1841-1935)
"I think there is a world market for maybe five computers."
- Thomas Watson (1874-1956), Chairman of IBM, 1943
"The man who goes alone can start today; but he who travels with another must wait till that other is ready."
- Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862)
"There is a country in Europe where multiple-choice tests are illegal."
- Sigfried Hulzer
"Ask her to wait a moment - I am almost done."
- Carl Friedrich Gauss (1777-1855), while working, when informed that his wife is dying
"Silence is argument carried out by other means."
- Ernesto"Che"Guevara (1928-1967)
"The average person thinks he isn't."
- Father Larry Lorenzoni
"Why don't you write books people can read?"
- Nora Joyce to her husband James (1882-1941)
"Some editors are failed writers, but so are most writers."
- T. S. Eliot (1888-1965)
"Hell is paved with good samaritans."
- William M. Holden
"The longer I live the more I see that I am never wrong about anything, and that all the pains that I have so humbly taken to verify my notions have only wasted my time."
- George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950)
"I don't feel good."
- The last words of Luther Burbank (1849-1926)
"I have never let my schooling interfere with my education."
- Mark Twain (1835-1910)
"I don't want to achieve immortality through my work; I want to achieve immortality through not dying."
- Woody Allen (1935-)
"Sanity is a madness put to good uses."
- George Santayana (1863-1952)
"Always do right- this will gratify some and astonish the rest."
- Mark Twain (1835-1910)
"In America, anybody can be president. That's one of the risks you take."
- Adlai Stevenson (1900-1965)
"How can I lose to such an idiot?"
- A shout from chessmaster Aaron Nimzovich (1886-1935)
"Men are not disturbed by things, but the view they take of things."
- Epictetus (55-135 A.D.)
"What about things like bullets?"
- Herb Kimmel, Behavioralist, Professor of Psychology, upon hearing the above quote (1981)
"Attention to health is life's greatest hindrance."
- Plato (427-347 B.C.)
"Plato was a bore."
- Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900)
"Nietzsche was stupid and abnormal."
- Leo Tolstoy (1828-1910)
"I'm not going to get into the ring with Tolstoy."
- Ernest Hemingway (1899-1961)
"Hemingway was a jerk."
- Harold Robbins
"I am not young enough to know everything."
- Oscar Wilde (1854-1900)
"The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his."
- General George Patton (1885-1945)
"There is no sincerer love than the love of food."
- George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950)
"Mr. Wagner has beautiful moments but bad quarters of an hour."
- Gioacchino Rossini (1792-1868)
"Everywhere I go I'm asked if I think the university stifles writers. My opinion is that they don't stifle enough of them."
- Flannery O'Connor (1925-1964)
"Anything that is too stupid to be spoken is sung."
- Voltaire (1694-1778)
"No Sane man will dance."
- Cicero (106-43 B.C.)
"Show me a sane man and I will cure him for you."
- Carl Gustav Jung (1875-1961)
"If I were two-faced, would I be wearing this one?"
- Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865)
"Few things are harder to put up with than a good example."
- Mark Twain (1835-1910)
"Hell is other people."
- Jean-Paul Sartre (1905-1980)
"Happiness is good health and a bad memory."
- Ingrid Bergman (1917-1982)
"The gods too are fond of a joke."
- Aristotle (384-322 B.C.)
"There are some experiences in life which should not be demanded twice from any man, and one of them is listening to the Brahms Requiem."
- George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950)
"What do you take me for, an idiot?"
- General Charles de Gaulle (1890-1970), when a journalist asked him if he was happy
"I heard someone tried the monkeys-on-typewriters bit trying for the plays of W. Shakespeare, but all they got was the collected works of Francis Bacon."
- Bill Hirst
"Three o'clock is always too late or too early for anything you want to do."
- Jean-Paul Sartre (1905-1980)
"It is dangerous to be sincere unless you are also stupid."
- George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950)
"A man can't be too careful in the choice of his enemies."
- Oscar Wilde (1854-1900)
"Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names."
- John F. Kennedy (1917-1963)
"Everything has been figured out, except how to live."
- Jean-Paul Sartre (1905-1980)
"Well-timed silence hath more eloquence than speech."
- Martin Fraquhar Tupper
"Thank you for sending me a copy of your book - I'll waste no time reading it."
- Moses Hadas (1900-1966)
"It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating."
- Oscar Wilde (1854-1900)
"The graveyards are full of indispensable men."
- Charles de Gaulle (1890-1970)
"I would have made a good Pope."
- Richard M. Nixon (1913-1994)
"It is unbecoming for young men to utter maxims."
- Aristotle (384-322 B.C.)
"One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is terribly important."
- Bertrand Russell (1872-1970)
"A little inaccuracy sometimes saves a ton of explanation."
- H. H. Munro (Saki) (1870-1916)
"Make everything as simple as possible, but not simpler."
- Albert Einstein (1879-1955)
"First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win."
- Mahatma Gandhi (1869-1948)
"Fill what's empty, empty what's full, and scratch where it itches."
- the Duchess of Windsor, when asked what is the secret of a long and happy life
"Where are we going, and why am I in this handbasket?"
- Bumper Sticker
"God, please save me from your followers!"
- Bumper Sticker
"Everyone is a genius at least once a year; a real genius has his original ideas closer together."
- Georg Lichtenberg (1742-1799)
"I do not consider it an insult, but rather a compliment to be called an agnostic. I do not pretend to know where many ignorant men are sure -- that is all that agnosticism means."
- Clarence Darrow, Scopes trial, 1925.
"I have often regretted my speech, never my silence."
- Xenocrates (396-314 B.C.)
"Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance."
- Will Durant
"A witty saying proves nothing."
- Voltaire (1694-1778)
"A clever man commits no minor blunders."
- Goethe (1749-1832)
"Knowledge speaks, but wisdom listens."
- Jimi Hendrix
"To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance"
- Oscar Wilde (1854-1900)
"It is much more comfortable to be mad and know it, than to be sane and have one's doubts."
- G. B. Burgin
"Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome."
- Isaac Asimov
"There is more stupidity than hydrogen in the universe, and it has a longer shelf life."
- Frank Zappa
"A people that values its privileges above its principles soon loses both."
- Dwight D. Eisenhower (1890-1969), Inaugural Address, January 20, 1953
"The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good."
- Samuel Johnson (1709-1784)
"The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds, and the pessimist fears this is true."
- James Branch Cabell
"We didn't lose the game; we just ran out of time."
- Vince Lombardi
"I've had a wonderful time, but this wasn't it."
- Groucho Marx (1895-1977)
"Maybe this world is another planet's Hell."
- Aldous Huxley (1894-1963)
"I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work."
- Thomas Alva Edison (1847-1931)
"I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them."
- Ian L. Fleming (1908-1964)
"I am ready to meet my Maker. Whether my Maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me is another matter."
- Sir Winston Churchill (1874-1965)
"He is one of those people who would be enormously improved by death."
- H. H. Munro (Saki) (1870-1916)
"God is a comedian playing to an audience too afraid to laugh."
- Voltaire (1694-1778)
"Some cause happiness wherever they go; others, whenever they go."
- Oscar Wilde (1854-1900)
"I'm all in favor of keeping dangerous weapons out of the hands of fools. Let's start with typewriters."
- Frank Lloyd Wright (1868-1959)
"If you are going through hell, keep going."
- Sir Winston Churchill (1874-1965)
"We have art to save ourselves from the truth."
- Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900)
]
"The power of accurate observation is frequently called cynicism by those who don't have it."
- George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950)
"Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way around the laws."
- Plato (427-347 B.C.)
"If you can't get rid of the skeleton in your closet, you'd best teach it to dance."
- George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950)
"The only difference between me and a madman is that I'm not mad."
- Salvador Dali (1904-1989)
"Don't stay in bed, unless you can make money in bed."
- George Burns (1896-1996)
"The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it."
- Oscar Wilde (1854-1900)
"In theory, there is no difference between theory and practice. But, in practice, there is."
- Jan L.A. van de Snepscheut
"Assassins!"
- Arturo Toscanini (1867-1957) to his orchestra
"I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use."
- Galileo Galilei
"A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on."
- Sir Winston Churchill (1874-1965)
"Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former."
- Albert Einstein (1879-1955)
"Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted."
- Albert Einstein (1879-1955)
"People demand freedom of speech to make up for the freedom of thought which they avoid."
- Soren Aabye Kierkegaard (1813-1855)
"Don't be so humble - you are not that great."
- Golda Meir (1898-1978) to a visiting diplomat
"Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake."
- Napoleon Bonaparte (1769-1821)
"Most people would sooner die than think; in fact, they do so."
- Bertrand Russell (1872-1970)
"Wit is educated insolence."
- Aristotle (384-322 B.C.)
"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.)
"Egotist: a person more interested in himself than in me."
- Ambrose Bierce (1842-1914)
"A narcissist is someone better looking than you are."
- Gore Vidal
"It has become appallingly obvious that our technology has exceeded our humanity."
- Albert Einstein (1879-1955)
"The secret of success is to know something nobody else knows."
- Aristotle Onassis (1906-1975)
"When you have to kill a man, it costs nothing to be polite."
- Sir Winston Churchill (1874-1965)
"Any man who is under 30, and is not a liberal, has not heart; and any man who is over 30, and is not a conservative, has no brains."
- Sir Winston Churchill (1874-1965)
"The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. The opposite of a profound truth may well be another profound truth."
- Niels Bohr (1885-1962)
"We all agree that your theory is crazy, but is it crazy enough?"
- Niels Bohr (1885-1962)
- Oscar Wilde (1854-1900)
"There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle."
- Albert Einstein (1879-1955)
"He would make a lovely corpse."
- Charles Dickens (1812-1870)
"I worship the quicksand he walks in."
- Art Buchwald
"Wagner's music is better than it sounds."
- Mark Twain (1835-1910)
"We are not retreating - we are advancing in another Direction."
- General Douglas MacArthur (1880-1964)
"The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them."
- Mark Twain (1835-1910)
"Now, now my good man, this is no time for making enemies."
- Voltaire (1694-1778) on his deathbed in response to a priest asking that he renounce Satan.
"I criticize by creation - not by finding fault."
- Cicero (106-43 B.C.)
"Woman was God's second mistake."
- Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900)
"This isn't right, this isn't even wrong."
- Wolfgang Pauli (1900-1958), upon reading a young physicist's paper
"The difference between fiction and reality? Fiction has to make sense."
- Tom Clancy
"Whatever is begun in anger ends in shame."
- Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790)
"Denial ain't just a river in Egypt."
- Mark Twain (1835-1910)
"A pint of sweat, saves a gallon of blood."
- General George S. Patton (1885-1945)
"After I'm dead I'd rather have people ask why I have no monument than why I have one."
- Cato the Elder (234-149 BC, AKA Marcus Porcius Cato)
"He can compress the most words into the smallest idea of any man I know."
- Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865)
"Don't let it end like this. Tell them I said something."
- last words of Pancho Villa (1877-1923)
"The right to swing my fist ends where the other man's nose begins."
- Oliver Wendell Holmes (1841-1935)
"I think there is a world market for maybe five computers."
- Thomas Watson (1874-1956), Chairman of IBM, 1943
"The man who goes alone can start today; but he who travels with another must wait till that other is ready."
- Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862)
"There is a country in Europe where multiple-choice tests are illegal."
- Sigfried Hulzer
"Ask her to wait a moment - I am almost done."
- Carl Friedrich Gauss (1777-1855), while working, when informed that his wife is dying
"Silence is argument carried out by other means."
- Ernesto"Che"Guevara (1928-1967)
"The average person thinks he isn't."
- Father Larry Lorenzoni
"Why don't you write books people can read?"
- Nora Joyce to her husband James (1882-1941)
"Some editors are failed writers, but so are most writers."
- T. S. Eliot (1888-1965)
"Hell is paved with good samaritans."
- William M. Holden
"The longer I live the more I see that I am never wrong about anything, and that all the pains that I have so humbly taken to verify my notions have only wasted my time."
- George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950)
"I don't feel good."
- The last words of Luther Burbank (1849-1926)
"I have never let my schooling interfere with my education."
- Mark Twain (1835-1910)
"I don't want to achieve immortality through my work; I want to achieve immortality through not dying."
- Woody Allen (1935-)
"Sanity is a madness put to good uses."
- George Santayana (1863-1952)
"Always do right- this will gratify some and astonish the rest."
- Mark Twain (1835-1910)
"In America, anybody can be president. That's one of the risks you take."
- Adlai Stevenson (1900-1965)
"How can I lose to such an idiot?"
- A shout from chessmaster Aaron Nimzovich (1886-1935)
"Men are not disturbed by things, but the view they take of things."
- Epictetus (55-135 A.D.)
"What about things like bullets?"
- Herb Kimmel, Behavioralist, Professor of Psychology, upon hearing the above quote (1981)
"Attention to health is life's greatest hindrance."
- Plato (427-347 B.C.)
"Plato was a bore."
- Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900)
"Nietzsche was stupid and abnormal."
- Leo Tolstoy (1828-1910)
"I'm not going to get into the ring with Tolstoy."
- Ernest Hemingway (1899-1961)
"Hemingway was a jerk."
- Harold Robbins
"I am not young enough to know everything."
- Oscar Wilde (1854-1900)
"The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his."
- General George Patton (1885-1945)
"There is no sincerer love than the love of food."
- George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950)
"Mr. Wagner has beautiful moments but bad quarters of an hour."
- Gioacchino Rossini (1792-1868)
"Everywhere I go I'm asked if I think the university stifles writers. My opinion is that they don't stifle enough of them."
- Flannery O'Connor (1925-1964)
"Anything that is too stupid to be spoken is sung."
- Voltaire (1694-1778)
"No Sane man will dance."
- Cicero (106-43 B.C.)
"Show me a sane man and I will cure him for you."
- Carl Gustav Jung (1875-1961)
"If I were two-faced, would I be wearing this one?"
- Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865)
"Few things are harder to put up with than a good example."
- Mark Twain (1835-1910)
"Hell is other people."
- Jean-Paul Sartre (1905-1980)
"Happiness is good health and a bad memory."
- Ingrid Bergman (1917-1982)
"The gods too are fond of a joke."
- Aristotle (384-322 B.C.)
"There are some experiences in life which should not be demanded twice from any man, and one of them is listening to the Brahms Requiem."
- George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950)
"What do you take me for, an idiot?"
- General Charles de Gaulle (1890-1970), when a journalist asked him if he was happy
"I heard someone tried the monkeys-on-typewriters bit trying for the plays of W. Shakespeare, but all they got was the collected works of Francis Bacon."
- Bill Hirst
"Three o'clock is always too late or too early for anything you want to do."
- Jean-Paul Sartre (1905-1980)
"It is dangerous to be sincere unless you are also stupid."
- George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950)
"A man can't be too careful in the choice of his enemies."
- Oscar Wilde (1854-1900)
"Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names."
- John F. Kennedy (1917-1963)
"Everything has been figured out, except how to live."
- Jean-Paul Sartre (1905-1980)
"Well-timed silence hath more eloquence than speech."
- Martin Fraquhar Tupper
"Thank you for sending me a copy of your book - I'll waste no time reading it."
- Moses Hadas (1900-1966)
"It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating."
- Oscar Wilde (1854-1900)
"The graveyards are full of indispensable men."
- Charles de Gaulle (1890-1970)
"I would have made a good Pope."
- Richard M. Nixon (1913-1994)
"It is unbecoming for young men to utter maxims."
- Aristotle (384-322 B.C.)
"One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is terribly important."
- Bertrand Russell (1872-1970)
"A little inaccuracy sometimes saves a ton of explanation."
- H. H. Munro (Saki) (1870-1916)
"Make everything as simple as possible, but not simpler."
- Albert Einstein (1879-1955)
"First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win."
- Mahatma Gandhi (1869-1948)
"Fill what's empty, empty what's full, and scratch where it itches."
- the Duchess of Windsor, when asked what is the secret of a long and happy life
"Where are we going, and why am I in this handbasket?"
- Bumper Sticker
"God, please save me from your followers!"
- Bumper Sticker
"Everyone is a genius at least once a year; a real genius has his original ideas closer together."
- Georg Lichtenberg (1742-1799)
"I do not consider it an insult, but rather a compliment to be called an agnostic. I do not pretend to know where many ignorant men are sure -- that is all that agnosticism means."
- Clarence Darrow, Scopes trial, 1925.
"I have often regretted my speech, never my silence."
- Xenocrates (396-314 B.C.)
"Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance."
- Will Durant
"A witty saying proves nothing."
- Voltaire (1694-1778)
"A clever man commits no minor blunders."
- Goethe (1749-1832)
"Knowledge speaks, but wisdom listens."
- Jimi Hendrix
"To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance"
- Oscar Wilde (1854-1900)
"It is much more comfortable to be mad and know it, than to be sane and have one's doubts."
- G. B. Burgin
"Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome."
- Isaac Asimov
"There is more stupidity than hydrogen in the universe, and it has a longer shelf life."
- Frank Zappa
"A people that values its privileges above its principles soon loses both."
- Dwight D. Eisenhower (1890-1969), Inaugural Address, January 20, 1953
"The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good."
- Samuel Johnson (1709-1784)
"The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds, and the pessimist fears this is true."
- James Branch Cabell
"We didn't lose the game; we just ran out of time."
- Vince Lombardi
"I've had a wonderful time, but this wasn't it."
- Groucho Marx (1895-1977)
"Maybe this world is another planet's Hell."
- Aldous Huxley (1894-1963)
"I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work."
- Thomas Alva Edison (1847-1931)
"I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them."
- Ian L. Fleming (1908-1964)
"I am ready to meet my Maker. Whether my Maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me is another matter."
- Sir Winston Churchill (1874-1965)
"He is one of those people who would be enormously improved by death."
- H. H. Munro (Saki) (1870-1916)
"God is a comedian playing to an audience too afraid to laugh."
- Voltaire (1694-1778)
"Some cause happiness wherever they go; others, whenever they go."
- Oscar Wilde (1854-1900)
"I'm all in favor of keeping dangerous weapons out of the hands of fools. Let's start with typewriters."
- Frank Lloyd Wright (1868-1959)
"If you are going through hell, keep going."
- Sir Winston Churchill (1874-1965)
"We have art to save ourselves from the truth."
- Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900)
]
"The power of accurate observation is frequently called cynicism by those who don't have it."
- George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950)
"Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way around the laws."
- Plato (427-347 B.C.)
"If you can't get rid of the skeleton in your closet, you'd best teach it to dance."
- George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950)
"The only difference between me and a madman is that I'm not mad."
- Salvador Dali (1904-1989)
"Don't stay in bed, unless you can make money in bed."
- George Burns (1896-1996)
"The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it."
- Oscar Wilde (1854-1900)
"In theory, there is no difference between theory and practice. But, in practice, there is."
- Jan L.A. van de Snepscheut
"Assassins!"
- Arturo Toscanini (1867-1957) to his orchestra
"I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use."
- Galileo Galilei
"A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on."
- Sir Winston Churchill (1874-1965)
"Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former."
- Albert Einstein (1879-1955)
"Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted."
- Albert Einstein (1879-1955)
"People demand freedom of speech to make up for the freedom of thought which they avoid."
- Soren Aabye Kierkegaard (1813-1855)
"Don't be so humble - you are not that great."
- Golda Meir (1898-1978) to a visiting diplomat
"Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake."
- Napoleon Bonaparte (1769-1821)
"Most people would sooner die than think; in fact, they do so."
- Bertrand Russell (1872-1970)
"Wit is educated insolence."
- Aristotle (384-322 B.C.)
"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.)
"Egotist: a person more interested in himself than in me."
- Ambrose Bierce (1842-1914)
"A narcissist is someone better looking than you are."
- Gore Vidal
"It has become appallingly obvious that our technology has exceeded our humanity."
- Albert Einstein (1879-1955)
"The secret of success is to know something nobody else knows."
- Aristotle Onassis (1906-1975)
"When you have to kill a man, it costs nothing to be polite."
- Sir Winston Churchill (1874-1965)
"Any man who is under 30, and is not a liberal, has not heart; and any man who is over 30, and is not a conservative, has no brains."
- Sir Winston Churchill (1874-1965)
"The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. The opposite of a profound truth may well be another profound truth."
- Niels Bohr (1885-1962)
"We all agree that your theory is crazy, but is it crazy enough?"
- Niels Bohr (1885-1962)
