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Quotations Humorous 640K ought to be enough for anybody. --Bill Gates, 1981 When women are depressed they either eat or go shopping. Men invade another country. --Elayne Boosler If the whole human
race lay in one grave, the epitaph on its headstone might well be: ‘It
seemed like a good idea at the time.’ --Rebecca West If at first you don’t succeed, try, try again. Then quit. No use being a damn fool about it. -- W.C. Fields If two men agree on everything, you may be sure that one of them is doing the thinking. --Lyndon Baines Johnson Even if you’re on the right track, you’ll get run over if you just sit there. --Will Rogers All I want is a warm bed, a kind word and unlimited power. --Ashleigh Brilliant If I were running the world I would have it rain only between 2 and 5 a.m. Anyone who was out then ought to get wet. --William Phelps Love is just a system for getting someone to call you darling after sex. --Julian Barnes I hate television. I hate it as much as I hate peanuts. But I can not stop eating peanuts. --Orson Welles If the world were a logical place, men would ride side-saddle. --Rita Mae Brown When I hear somebody sigh, "Life is hard," I am always tempted to ask, "Compared to what?" --Sydney J. Harris For every action there is an equal and opposite government program. --Bob Wells If confusion is the first step to knowledge, I must be a genius. --Larry Leissner Never argue with a fool. Someone watching may not be able to tell the difference. --Anonymous If men can run the world, why can’t they stop wearing neckties? How intelligent is it to start the day by tying a little noose around your neck? --Linda Ellerbee I never married because there was no need. I have three pets at home which answer the same purpose as a husband. I have a dog which growls every morning, a parrot which swears all afternoon, and a cat that comes home late at night. --Marie Corelli Trust in Allah, but tie in your camel. --Old Muslim Proverb Random A society grows great when old men plant trees whose shade they know they shall never sit in. --Greek Proverb Any coward can sit in his home and criticize a pilot for flying into a mountain in a fog. But I would rather, by far, die on a mountainside than in bed. What kind of man would live where there is no daring? And is life so dear that we should blame men for dying in adventure? Is there a better way to die? --Charles Lindbergh Jr. The greatest mistake you can make is to be continually fearing you will make one. --ElbertHubbard Experience is not what happens to you. It is what you do with what happens to you. --Aldous Huxley You must be careful each time you go out your door because your front porch is really a road, and the road leads ever onward. --J. R. R. Tolkien Few men have imagination enough for the truth of reality. --Johann Wolfgang von Goethe I make the most of all that comes and the least of all that goes. --Sarah Teasdale An idea that is not dangerous is unworthy of being called an idea at all. --Oscar Wilde A thing is not necessarily true because a man dies for it. --Oscar Wilde Life ought to be a struggle of desire toward adventures whose nobility will fertilize the soul. --Rebecca West We must walk consciously only part way toward our goal, and then leap in the dark to our success. --Henry David Thoreau I honestly think its better to be a failure at something you love than to be a success at something you hate. --George Burns Life’s what’s important. Walking, houses, family. Birth and pain and joy. Acting’s just waiting for a custard pie. That’s all. --Katharine Hepburn Hollywood is a place where they’ll pay you a thousand dollars for a kiss and fifty cents for your soul. --Marilyn Monroe I have never liked sex. I do not think I ever will. It seems just the opposite of love. --Marilyn Monroe To be an atheist requires an indefinitely greater measure of faith than to receive all the great truths which atheism would deny. --Joseph Addison People talking without speaking, People hearing without listening, People writing songs that voices never share, and no one dare disturb the Sound of Silence. --Simon and Garfunkel Sounds of Silence Those who do not look back cannot see the road ahead. --J. Mendoza We can do no great things; only small things with great love. --Mother Teresa Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names. --John F. Kennedy If everything’s under control, you’re going too slow. --Mario Andretti Practice random beauty and senseless acts of love. --Anonymous Simply the thing that I am shall make me live. --William Shakespeare What sane person could live in this world and not be crazy? --Ursula LeGuin Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it. --George Santayana When you have completed 95% of your journey you are halfway there. --Japanese Proverb Yesterday’s the past, tomorrow’s the future, but today is a gift. That’s why it’s called the present. --Bil Keane Always acknowledge a fault. This will throw those in authority off their guard and give you an opportunity to commit more. --Mark Twain Don't go around saying the world owes you a living. The world was here first. --Mark Twain Motivational There are new words now that excuse everybody. Give me the good old days of heroes and villains. the people you can bravo or hiss. There was a truth to them that all the slick credulity of today cannot touch. -- Bette Davis (1908 - 1989), The Lonely Life, 1962 Being defeated is often a temporary condition. Giving up is what makes it permanent. --Marilyn vos Savant Do not follow where the path may lead. Go instead where there is no path and leave a trail. --Muriel Strode Discovery is seeing what everybody else has seen, and thinking what nobody else has thought. --Albert Szent-Gyorgi Lord, grant that I may always desire more than I can accomplish. --Michelangelo The road to success is always under construction. --Jim Miller Never let yesterday use up too much of today. --Will Rogers No matter how far you have gone on the wrong road, turn back. --Turkish proverb To be nobody-but-yourself—in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you everybody else—means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight; and never stop fighting. --e. e. cummings Do not pray for easy lives. Pray to be stronger men! Do not pray for tasks equal to your powers. Pray for power equal to your tasks. --Philip Brooks Act as if it were impossible to fail. --Dorothea Broude Two roads diverged in a woods, and I— I took the one less traveled by, And that has made all the difference. --Robert Frost The only way round is through. --Robert Frost The man who views the world at fifty the same as he did at twenty has wasted thirty years of his life. --Muhammad Ali Better to light a candle than to curse the darkness. Chinese Proverb The man who rolls up his sleeves seldom loses his shirt. --Thomas Cowan You miss 100 percent of the shots you never take. --Wayne Gretzky Scientists We should take care not to make intellect our god; it has, of course, powerful muscles, but no personality. --Albert Einstein I think and think for months and years. Ninety-nine times, the conclusion is false. The hundredth time I am right. --Albert Einstein Results! Why, man, I have gotten a lot of results. I know several thousand things that won’t work. --Thomas Edison There is no expedient to which a man will not go to avoid the real labor of thinking. --Thomas Edison Nothing in life is to be feared. It is only to be understood. --Marie Curie If I have ever made any valuable discoveries, it has been owing more to patient attention, than any other talent. --Sir Issac Newton We especially need imagination in science. It is not all mathematics, nor all logic, but it is somewhat beauty and poetry. --Maria Mitchell Heavier-than-air flying machines are impossible. --Lord Kelvin, President, Royal Society, 1895. If I knew then what I know now, I would have become a watchmaker. --Albert Einstein Imagination is more important than knowledge. --Albert Einstein There are two kinds of truths: small truth and great truth. You can recognize a small truth because its opposite is a falsehood. The opposite of a great truth is another great truth. --Niels Bohr Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls, and looks like work. --Thomas Edison Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new. --Albert Einstein If I have a thousand ideas and only one turns out to be good, I am satisfied. --Alfred Nobel Genius is one per cent inspiration, ninety-nine per cent perspiration. -- Thomas A. Edison (1847 - 1931), Harper's Monthly, 1932 Philosophers / Politicians Politics is still the greatest and most honorable adventure. --John Buchan The things we have to learn before we do them, we can learn by doing them. --Aristotle He who learns but does not think, is lost! He who thinks but does not learn is in great danger. --Confucius Well begun is half done. --Aristotle I don’t want to be a genius— I have enough problems just trying to be a man. --Albert Camus Give your whole mind to courage and it can be achieved. If your sword snapped in a battle, you could fight with your arms; if your arms were cut off, you could twist down your enemy with your shoulders; if your shoulders were severed, you could still bite off ten to fifteen heads of enemies with your mouth. --Oki Hyobu Norikiyo A company commander of the Nabeshima Clan 1568-1651 All great deeds and all great thoughts have a ridiculous beginning. Great works are often born on a street corner or in a restaurant's revolving door. --Albert Camus There is no evil as terrible as a woman. --Euripedes Most men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing happened. --Winston Churchill Resolve to perform what you ought; perform without fail what you resolve. --"Stonewall" Jackson US Confederate Army General There is one thing stronger than all the armies in the world: and that is an idea whose time has come. --Victor Hugo The more sand that has escaped from the hourglass of our life, the clearer we should see through it. --Jean-Paul Sartre The hardest thing in the world to understand is the income tax. --Albert Einstein A woman is the only thing that I am afraid of that I know will not hurt me. --Abraham Lincoln The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved∙ loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves. --Victor Hugo I disapprove of what you say, but will defend to the death your right to say it. --Voltaire Whatever you do will be insignificant, but it is very important that you do it. --Mahatma Gandhi True knowledge exists in knowing that you know nothing. And in knowing that you know nothing, that makes you the smartest of all. --Socrates To know one thing, you must know the opposite. --Henry Moore In politics, if you want anything said, ask a man; if you want anything done, ask a woman. --Margret Thatcher Politics would be a helluva good business if it weren’t for the goddamned people. --Richard M. Nixon Lead me, follow me, or get out of my way. --General George S. Patton Success is how high you bouncewhen you hit the bottom. --General George S. Patton No arsenal or weapon in the arsenals of the world is so formidable as the will and moral courage of free men and women. --Ronald Reagan You can tell a lot about a fellow’s character by the way he eats jelly beans. --Ronald Reagan It is not enough to conquer, one must learn to seduce. --Voltaire To be without some of the things you want is an indispensable part of happiness. --Bertrand Russell Live the questions. --Rilke The great masses of the people… will more easily fall victims to a big lie than to a small one. --Adolf Hitler Books / Literature There is a lot more in him than you guess, and a deal more than he has any idea himself. --Gandalf, The Hobbit Cowards die many times before their deaths; the valiant never taste of death but once. Of all the wonders I yet have heard, it seems to me most strange that men should fear; seeing that death, a necessary end, will come when it will come. --William Shakespeare Julius Caesar Vain the ambition
of kings Humanity does not ask us to be happy. It merely asks us to be brilliant on its behalf. Survival first, then happiness as we can manage it. --Mazer Rackham Ender’s Game Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing is going to get better. It’s not. --Dr. Suess, The Lorax When did I realize I was God? Well, I was praying and I suddenly realized I was talking to myself. --Peter O’Toole, The Ruling Class Emancipate yourself from mental slavery, None but ourselves can free our minds. --Bob Marley A journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step. --Lao-Tsu, The Way of Lao-Tsu What does not kill me makes me stronger. --Friedrich Nietzsche Anything not worth doing is worth not doing well. Think about it. --Elias Schwartz Ten people who speak make more noise than ten thousand who are silent. --Napoleon Bonaparte Movies / Television Every man dies. Not every man really lives. --William Wallace, Braveheart A child without mischief is like a bowling ball without a liquid center. --Homer Simpson, The Simpsons The real truth is that I probably don’t want to be too happy or content, ‘ cause then what? I actually like the quest, the search. The more lost you are, the more you have to look forward to. --Ally McBeal, Ally McBeal Do. Or do not. There is no try. --Yoda The Empire Strikes Back Don’t try to be a great man, just be a man, and let history make it’s own judgments. --Zephren Cochrane Star Trek: First Contact The reward lies in the struggle, not in the prize. --Data Star Trek: TNG Knowing is half the battle. --GI Joe Yet sometimes the weight of this burden causes us to bend and falter, allowing evil to breach the fragile fortress of our mind. Allowing the monsters without to turn within and we are left alone staring into the abyss; into the laughing face of madness. --Fox Mulder The X-Files Luke Skywalker: I don’t believe it. Yoda: That is why you fail. --The Empire Strikes Back Luke, you’ll find that many of the truths we cling to depend greatly upon our own point of view. --Obi-Wan Kenobi Return of the Jedi Life is a journey, Enjoy the ride. --Nissan commercial The future is now. --Wearing Hudsucker The Hudsucker Proxy
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