Here are some of my favorite quotes. Share and Enjoy!
- "Show me a sane man and I will cure him for you."
- Carl Gustav Jung (1875-1961)
- "I have never let my schooling interfere with my education."
- Mark Twain (1835-1910)
- "Some editors are failed writers, but so are most writers."
- T. S. Eliot (1888-1965)
- "It is better to be quotable than to be honest."
- Tom Stoppard
- "Hell is paved with good samaritans."
- William M. Holden
- "The difference between fiction and reality? Fiction has to make sense."
- Tom Clancy
- "In science one tries to tell people, in such a way as to be understood by
everyone, something that no one ever knew before. But in poetry, it's the
exact opposite."
- Paul Dirac (1902-1984)
- "Whether you think that you can, or that you can't, you are usually
right."
- Henry Ford (1863-1947)
- "In theory, there is no difference between theory and practice. But, in
practice, there is."
- Jan L.A. van de Snepscheut
- When privacy is outlawed, only outlaws will have privacy.
- Phillip Zimmerman
- If it were meant to be understood, it wouldn't be called code.
- Brad Baker
- Things that go away by themselves can come back by themselves.
- Windoze 95 tip of the day
- Probability is the very guide to life.
- Bishop Butler
- And, behold, thusly was the Law formulated:IMPOSITION OF ORDER =
ESCALATION OF CHAOS!
- Lord Omar Khayaam Ravenhurst, "The Gospel
According to Fred," The Honest Book of Truth
- The difference between myself and a madman is that i am not mad.
- Salvador Dali
- A Freudian slip is when you say one thing but mean your mother.
- Unknown
- The hypothalamus is one of the most important parts of the brain,
involved in many kinds of motivation, among other functions. The
hypothalamus controls the "Four F's": 1. fighting; 2. fleeing;
3. feeding; and 4. mating.
- Psychology professor in
neuropsychology intro course
- What is a committee? A group of the unwilling, picked from the
unfit, to do the unnecessary.
- Richard Harkness,
The New York Times, 1960
- Slogan of 105.9, the classic rock radio station in Chicago: "Of
all the radio stations in Chicago ... we're one of them."
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- I am not a vegetarian because I love animals; I am a vegetarian
because I hate plants.
- A. Whitney Brown
- A great many people think they are thinking when they are merely
rearranging their prejudices.
- William James
- We should be careful to get out of an experience only the wisdom
that is in it - and stop there; lest we be like the cat that
sits down on a hot stove-lid. She will never sit down on a hot
stove-lid again, and that is well; but also she will never sit
down on a cold one anymore.
- Mark Twain
- "Time's fun when you're having flies."
- Kermit the Frog
- Sometimes I lie awake at night, and I ask, "Where have I gone
wrong?" Then a voice says to me, "This is going to take more than
one night."
- Charlie Brown,
_Peanuts_ [Charles Schulz]
- The mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire to be kindled.
- Plutarch
- Once at a social gathering, Gladstone said to Disraeli, "I
predict, Sir, that you will die either by hanging or of some vile
disease". Disraeli replied, "That all depends, sir, upon whether
I embrace your principles or your mistress."
- Lazlo's Chinese Relativity Axiom: No matter how great your
triumphs or how tragic your defeats, approximately one billion
Chinese couldn't care less.
- Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent
revolution inevitable.
- John F. Kennedy
- Life may have no meaning. Or even worse, it may have a meaning
of which I disapprove.
- Ashleigh Brilliant
- My opinions may have changed, but not the fact that I am right.
- Ashleigh Brilliant
- Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to
learn from the experience of others, are also remarkable for
their apparent disinclination to do so.
- Douglas Adams,
Last Chance to See
- As your attorney, it is my duty to inform you that it is not
important that you understand what I'm doing or why you're paying
me so much money. What's important is that you continue to do so.
- Hunter S. Thompson's
Samoan Attorney
- When I told the people of Northern Ireland that I was an atheist,
a woman in the audience stood up and said, "Yes, but is it the
God the Catholics or the God of the Protestants in whom you don't
believe?"
- Quentin Crisp
- Boundary, n. In political geography, an imaginary line between
two nations, separating the imaginary rights of one from the
imaginary rights of another.
- Ambrose Bierce,
The Devil's Dictionary
- I think that all right-thinking people in this country are sick
and tired of being told that ordinary, decent people are fed up
in this country with being sick and tired. I'm certainly not!
But I'm sick and tired of being told that I am!
- Monty Python
- May the forces of evil become confused on the way to your house.
- George Carlin
- The most important thing in the programming language is the name.
A language will not succeed without a good name. I have recently
invented a very good name and now I am looking for a suitable
language.
- D. E. Knuth, 1967