"A witty saying proves nothing." - Voltaire

Nov 08, 2004 22:59

"People demand freedom of speech to make up for the freedom of thought which they avoid."
- Soren Aabye Kierkegaard

"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

"Whether you think that you can, or that you can't, you are usually right."
- Henry Ford

"Don't stay in bed, unless you can make money in bed."
- George Burns

"I don't know why we are here, but I'm pretty sure that it is not in order to enjoy ourselves."
- Ludwig Wittgenstein

"If you can't get rid of the skeleton in your closet, you'd best teach it to dance."
- George Bernard Shaw

"The power of accurate observation is frequently called cynicism by those who don't have it."
- George Bernard Shaw

"We have art to save ourselves from the truth."
- Friedrich Nietzsche

"Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe."
- H. G. Wells

"If you are going through hell, keep going."
- Sir Winston Churchill

"I'm all in favor of keeping dangerous weapons out of the hands of fools. Let's start with typewriters."
- Frank Lloyd Wright

"God is a comedian playing to an audience too afraid to laugh."
- Voltaire

"If you can count your money, you don't have a billion dollars."
- J. Paul Getty

"I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work."
- Thomas Alva Edison

"Maybe this world is another planet's Hell."
- Aldous Huxley

"We didn't lose the game; we just ran out of time."
- Vince Lombardi

"I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth."
- Umberto Eco

"If you want to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first create the universe."
- Carl Sagan

"It is much more comfortable to be mad and know it, than to be sane and have one's doubts."
- G. B. Burgin
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