Feb 01, 2005 22:38
Here are some quotes I enjoy:
Death is one of the few things that can be done as easily lying down. The difference between sex and death is that with death you can do it alone and no one is going to make fun of you.
- Woody Allen
A competent and self-confident person is incapable of jealousy in anything. Jealousy is invariably a symptom of neurotic insecurity.
- Robert Heinlein
A finely tempered nature longs to escape from the personal life into the world of objective perception and thought.
- Albert Einstein
Cute little babies that fall out of swings - These are a few of my favorite things.
- Oscar Hammerstein, working line for Sound of Music
Never look at the trombones. You'll only encourage them.
- Richard Strauss, on conducting
Blessed is he who has learned to laugh at himself, for he shall never cease to be entertained.
- John Powell
Every man gets a narrower and narrower field of knowledge in which he must be an expert in order to compete with other people. The specialist knows more and more about less and less and finally knows everything about nothing.
- Konrad Lorenz
The trouble with the world is that the stupid are cocksure and the intelligent are full of doubt.
- Bertrand Russell
You cannot create experience. You must undergo it.
- Albert Camus
Love is like racing across the frozen tundra on a snowmobile which flips over, trapping you underneath. At night, the ice-weasels come.
- Friedrich Nietzsche
Once a boy becomes a man, he's a man all his life, but a woman is only sexy until she becomes your wife.
- Al Bundy, Married with Children