quotes in no particular order
It is a good rule in life never to apologize. The right sort of people do not want apologies, and the wrong sort take a mean advantage of them.
-- P. G. Wodehouse, The Man Upstairs (1914)
I am prepared to meet my Maker. Whether my Maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me is another matter.
-- Sir Winston Churchill, on the eve of his 75th birthday
In heaven all the interesting people are missing.
-- Friedrich Nietzsche
Too bad the only people who know how to run the country are busy driving cabs and cutting hair.
-- George Burns
A fact is a simple statement that everyone believes. It is innocent, unless found guilty. A hypothesis is a novel suggestion that no one wants to believe. It is guilty, until found effective.
-- Edward Teller
The only winner in the War of 1812 was Tchaikovsky
-- Solomon Short
A synonym is a word you use when you can't spell the word you first thought of.
-- Burt Bacharach
My toughest fight was with my first wife.
-- Muhammad Ali
This paperback is very interesting, but I find it will never replace a hardcover book - it makes a very poor doorstop.
-- Alfred Hitchcock
We are here on Earth to do good to others. What the others are here for, I don't know.
-- W. H. Auden
One of the few good things about modern times: If you die horribly on television, you will not have died in vain. You will have entertained us.
-- Kurt Vonnegut, "Cold Turkey", In These Times, May 10, 2004
To read a newspaper is to refrain from reading something worthwhile. The first discipline of education must therefore be to refuse resolutely to feed the mind with canned chatter.
-- Aleister Crowley
Men live in a fantasy world. I know this because I am one, and I actually receive my mail there.
-- Scott Adams
Hell, there are no rules here-- we're trying to accomplish something.
-- Thomas A. Edison
Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men.
-- Martin Luther King Jr., Strength to Love, 1963
It was on my fifth birthday that Papa put his hand on my shoulder and said, 'Remember, my son, if you ever need a helping hand, you'll find one at the end of your arm.'
-- Sam Levenson
My theology, briefly, is that the universe was dictated but not signed.
-- Christopher Morley
The world is full of willing people, some willing to work, the rest willing to let them.
-- Robert Frost
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-- P. G. Wodehouse, The Man Upstairs (1914)
I am prepared to meet my Maker. Whether my Maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me is another matter.
-- Sir Winston Churchill, on the eve of his 75th birthday
In heaven all the interesting people are missing.
-- Friedrich Nietzsche
Too bad the only people who know how to run the country are busy driving cabs and cutting hair.
-- George Burns
A fact is a simple statement that everyone believes. It is innocent, unless found guilty. A hypothesis is a novel suggestion that no one wants to believe. It is guilty, until found effective.
-- Edward Teller
The only winner in the War of 1812 was Tchaikovsky
-- Solomon Short
A synonym is a word you use when you can't spell the word you first thought of.
-- Burt Bacharach
My toughest fight was with my first wife.
-- Muhammad Ali
This paperback is very interesting, but I find it will never replace a hardcover book - it makes a very poor doorstop.
-- Alfred Hitchcock
We are here on Earth to do good to others. What the others are here for, I don't know.
-- W. H. Auden
One of the few good things about modern times: If you die horribly on television, you will not have died in vain. You will have entertained us.
-- Kurt Vonnegut, "Cold Turkey", In These Times, May 10, 2004
To read a newspaper is to refrain from reading something worthwhile. The first discipline of education must therefore be to refuse resolutely to feed the mind with canned chatter.
-- Aleister Crowley
Men live in a fantasy world. I know this because I am one, and I actually receive my mail there.
-- Scott Adams
Hell, there are no rules here-- we're trying to accomplish something.
-- Thomas A. Edison
Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men.
-- Martin Luther King Jr., Strength to Love, 1963
It was on my fifth birthday that Papa put his hand on my shoulder and said, 'Remember, my son, if you ever need a helping hand, you'll find one at the end of your arm.'
-- Sam Levenson
My theology, briefly, is that the universe was dictated but not signed.
-- Christopher Morley
The world is full of willing people, some willing to work, the rest willing to let them.
-- Robert Frost
la dee da