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Jun 08, 2006 15:26

"Being in the army is like being in the Boy Scouts, except that the Boy Scouts have adult supervision."
-- Blake Clark

"What you risk reveals what you value."
-- Jeanette Winterson

"Idleness is not doing nothing. Idleness is being free to do anything."
-- Floyd Dell

"An enemy can partly ruin a man, but it takes a good-natured injudicious friend to complete the thing and make it perfect."
-- Mark Twain

"All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence; then success is sure."
-- Mark Twain

"Many a small thing has been made large by the right kind of advertising."
-- Mark Twain

"When in doubt, tell the truth."
-- Mark Twain

"When I was younger, I could remember anything, whether it had happened or not."
-- Mark Twain

"Truth is more of a stranger than fiction."
-- Mark Twain

"Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great."
-- Mark Twain

"It could probably be shown by facts and figures that there is no distinctly American criminal class except Congress."
-- Mark Twain

"If you pick up a starving dog and make him prosperous, he will not bite you. This is the principal difference between a dog and a man."
-- Mark Twain

"I thoroughly disapprove of duels. If a man should challenge me, I would take him kindly and forgivingly by the hand and lead him to a quiet place and kill him."
-- Mark Twain

"I have never taken any exercise except sleeping and resting."
-- Mark Twain

"I have never let my schooling interfere with my education."
-- Mark Twain

"Honesty is the best policy - when there is money in it."
-- Mark Twain

"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

"It is a good thing for an uneducated man to read books of quotations."
-- Sir Winston Churchill

"There are a terrible lot of lies going around the world, and the worst of it is half of them are true."
-- Sir Winston Churchill

"Success is the ability to go from one failure to another with no loss of enthusiasm."
-- Sir Winston Churchill

"If I had only known, I would have been a locksmith."
-- Albert Einstein

"I never think of the future - it comes soon enough."
-- Albert Einstein

"America is the only country that went from barbarism to decadence without civilization in between."
-- Oscar Wilde

"I want to know God's thoughts; the rest are details."
-- Albert Einstein

"What is the difference between genius and stupidity? Genius has limits."
-- Albert Einstein

"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

"All I ask is the chance to prove that money can't make me happy."
-- Spike Milligan

"Instead of getting married again, I'm going to find a woman I don't like and just give her a house."
-- Rod Stewart

"There's very little advice in men's magazines, because men think, 'I know what I'm doing. Just show me somebody naked."
-- Jerry Seinfeld

"People willing to trade their freedom for temporary security deserve neither and will lose both."
-- Benjamin Franklin

"The difference between fiction and reality? Fiction has to make sense."
-- Tom Clancy

"I don't know anything about music. In my line you don't have to."
-- Elvis Presley

"Where are we going, and why am I in this handbasket?"
-- Puskuritarra

"If everything seems under control, you're just not going fast enough."
-- Mario Andretti

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

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

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

""Pepsi brings your ancestors back from the grave." - Ad slogan "Pepsi comes alive" as initially translated into Chinese."
-- Tuntematon

"I am not a vegetarian because I love animals. I am a vegetarian because I hate plants."
-- A. Whitney Brown

"If swimming is so good for your figure, how do you explain whales?"
-- Tuntematon

"If you think something small can´t make a difference, try going to sleep with a mosquito in the room."
-- Unknown

"Some people are alive only because it is illegal to kill them."
-- Tuntematon

"You´re not drunk if you can lie on the floor without holding on."
-- Dean Martin

"Love makes the world go round? Not at all. Whiskey makes it go round twice as fast."
-- Compton Mackenzie

"The very powerful and the very stupid have one thing in common. Instead of altering their views to fit the facts, they alter the facts to fit their views ... which can be very uncomfortable if you happen to be one of the facts that needs altering."
-- Doctor Who

"It may be that your sole purpose in life is simply to serve as a warning to others"
-- John Kirinrich

"Interviewer: "So Frank, you have long hair. Does that make you a woman?" Frank Zappa: "You have a wooden leg. Does that make you a table?""
-- Frank Zappa

"Nuclear explosions under the Nevada desert? What the fuck are we testing for? We already know the shit blows up."
-- Frank Zappa
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