Some of My Favorite Quotes!

My All Time Favorite Quotes !!!

"If Stupidity got us into this mess, then why can't it get us out?" "

- Will Rogers (1879-1935)

"I'm not a member of any organized political party, I'm a Democrat!"

- Will Rogers (1879-1935)

"640K ought to be enough for anybody. "

- Bill Gates (1955-), in 1981

"The concept is interesting and well-formed, but in order to earn better than a 'C', the idea must be feasible. "

- A Yale University management professor in response to student Fred Smith's paper proposing reliable overnight delivery service (Smith went on to found Federal Express Corp.)

"Who the hell wants to hear actors talk?"

- H. M. Warner (1881-1958), founder of Warner Brothers, in 1927

"A pint of sweat, saves a gallon of blood. "

- General George S. Patton (1885-1945)

"Don't let it end like this. Tell them I said something. "

- last words of Pancho Villa (1877-1923)

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

"Half this game is ninety percent mental. "

"There's many a bestseller that could have been prevented by a good teacher. "

- Flannery O'Connor (1925-1964)

"I choose a block of marble and chop off whatever I don't need. "

- Francois-Auguste Rodin (1840-1917), when asked how he managed to make his remarkable statues

"The truth is more important than the facts. "

- Frank Lloyd Wright (1868-1959)

"Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing. "

- Wernher Von Braun (1912-1977)

"There are only two tragedies in life: one is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it. "

- Oscar Wilde (1854-1900)

"There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle. "

- Albert Einstein (1879-1955)

"Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted. "

- Albert Einstein (1879-1955)

"Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former. "

- Albert Einstein (1879-1955)

"A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on. "

- Sir Winston Churchill (1874-1965)

"The full use of your powers along lines of excellence. "

- definition of "happiness" by John F. Kennedy (1917-1963)

"Give me a museum and I'll fill it. "

- Pablo Picasso (1881-1973)

"In theory, there is no difference between theory and practice. But, in practice, there is. "

- Jan L.A. van de Snepscheut

"Each problem that I solved became a rule which served afterwards to solve other problems. "

- Rene Descartes (1596-1650), "Discours de la Methode"

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

- Ludwig Wittgenstein (1889-1951)

"The use of COBOL cripples the mind; its teaching should, therefore, be regarded as a criminal offense."

"C makes it easy to shoot yourself in the foot; C++ makes it harder, but when you do, it blows away your whole leg"

"A mathematician is a device for turning coffee into thereoms."

"Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way around the laws."

"Whenever I climb I am followed by a dog called 'Ego'."

- Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900)

"Talent does what it can; genius does what it must."

"The difference between 'involvement' and 'commitment' is like an eggs-and-ham breakfast: the chicken was 'involved' - the pig was 'committed'."

"All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident."

- Arthur Schopenhauer (1788-1860)

"Some scientists claim that hydrogen, because it is so plentyful, is the basic building block of the universe. I dispute that. I say there is more stupidity than hydrogen, and that is the basic building block of the universe."

"There are people in the world so hungry, that God cannot appear to them except in the form of bread."

- Mahatma Gandhi (1869-1948)

"The instinct of nearly all societies is to lock up anybody who is truly free. First, society begins by trying to beat you up. If this fails, they try to poison you. If this fails too, the finish by loading honors on your head."

- Jean Cocteau (1889-1963)

"Most people would sooner die than think; in fact, they do so. "

- Bertrand Russell (1872-1970)

"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 (470-399 B.C.)

"Egotist: a person more interested in himself than in me. "

- Ambrose Bierce (1842-1914)

"A narcissist is someone better looking than you are. "

"Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing left to add, but when there is nothing left to take away. "

- Antoine de St. Exupery

"Wise men make proverbs, but fools repeat them. "

- Samuel Palmer (1805-80)

"It has become appallingly obvious that our technology has exceeded our humanity. "

- Albert Einstein (1879-1955)

"The secret of success is to know something nobody else knows. "

- Aristotle Onassis (1906-1975)

"When you have to kill a man, it costs nothing to be polite. "

- Sir Winston Churchill (1874-1965)

"Any man who is under 30, and is not a liberal, has not heart; and any man who is over 30, and is not a conservative, has no brains. "

- Sir Winston Churchill (1874-1965)

"The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. The opposite of a profound truth may well be another profound truth. "

- Niels Bohr (1885-1962)

"When I am working on a problem I never think about beauty. I only think about how to solve the problem. But when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong. "

- Buckminster Fuller (1895-1983)

"In science one tries to tell people, in such a way as to be understood by everyone, something that no one ever knew before. But in poetry, it's the exact opposite. "

- Paul Dirac (1902-1984)

"Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one. "

- Albert Einstein (1879-1955)

"One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is terribly important. "

- Bertrand Russell (1872-1970)

"Three o'clock is always too late or too early for anything you want to do. "

- Jean-Paul Sartre (1905-1980)

"A doctor can bury his mistakes but an architect can only advise his clients to plant vines. "

- Frank Lloyd Wright (1868-1959)

"Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names. "

- John F. Kennedy (1917-1963)

"No one can earn a million dollars honestly. "

- William Jennings Bryan (1860-1925)

"Everything has been figured out, except how to live. "

- Jean-Paul Sartre (1905-1980)

"Thank you for sending me a copy of your book - I'll waste no time reading it. "

- Moses Hadas (1900-1966)

"When ideas fail, words come in very handy. "

- Goethe (1749-1832)

"The nice thing about egotists is that they don't talk about other people. "

"I love Mickey Mouse more than any woman I have ever known. "

- Walt Disney (1901-1966)

"Behind every great fortune there is a crime. "

- Honore de Balzac (1799-1850)

"If women didn't exist, all the money in the world would have no meaning. "

- Aristotle Onassis (1906-1975)

"No Sane man will dance. "

- Cicero (106-43 B.C.)

"If I were two-faced, would I be wearing this one?"

- Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865)

"Few things are harder to put up with than a good example. "

- Mark Twain (1835-1910)

"It is time I stepped aside for a less experienced and less able man. "

- Professor Scott Elledge on his retirement from Cornell

"Every day I get up and look through the Forbes list of the richest people in America. If I'm not there, I go to work. "

"Attention to health is life greatest hindrance. "

- Plato (427-347 B.C.)

"Plato was a bore. "

- Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900)

"Nietzsche was stupid and abnormal. "

- Leo Tolstoy (1828-1910)

"I'm not going to get into the ring with Tolstoy. "

- Ernest Hemingway (1899-1961)

"Hemingway was a jerk. "

"Not only is there no God, but try finding a plumber on Sunday. "

- Woody Allen (1935-)

"I don't feel good. "

- The last words of Luther Burbank (1849-1926)

"In America, anybody can be president. That's one of the risks you take. "

- Adlai Stevenson (1900-1965)

"Copy from one, it's plagiarism; copy from two, it's research. "

- Wilson Mizner (1876-1933)

"It is better to be quotable than to be honest. "

"Never mistake motion for action. "

- Ernest Hemingway (1899-1961)

"The average person thinks he isn't. "

- Father Larry Lorenzoni

"Ask her to wait a moment - I am almost done. "

- Carl Friedrich Gauss (1777-1855), while working, when informed that his wife is dying

"A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty. "

- Sir Winston Churchill (1874-1965)

"I think there is a world market for maybe five computers. "

- Thomas Watson (1874-1956), Chairman of IBM, 1943

"I think it would be a good idea. "

- Mahatma Gandhi (1869-1948), when asked what he thought of Western civilization

�The only reason we live is for happiness, don�t waste the time that you were given with being sad�

- Notorious_Tiz, Yahoo chat buddies

�Reality is fun if you look at it in a humorous way�

- Foxdraw, Yahoo chat buddies

�If I died and could come back as anything, I wish I could come back as one of your tears, because what man wouldn't want to be conceived in your heart, born in your eyes, live on your cheek, and die on your lips"****

� Don�t ever under estimate the power of stupid people in large groups�

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	"If Stupidity got us into this mess, then why can't it get us out?" " - Will Rogers (1879-1935) "I'm not a member of any organized political party, I'm a Democrat!" - Will Rogers (1879-1935) "640K ought to be enough for anybody. " - Bill Gates (1955-), in 1981 "The concept is interesting and well-formed, but in order to earn better than a 'C', the idea must be feasible. " - A Yale University management professor in response to student Fred Smith's paper proposing reliable overnight delivery service (Smith went on to found Federal Express Corp.) "Who the hell wants to hear actors talk?" - H. M. Warner (1881-1958), founder of Warner Brothers, in 1927 "A pint of sweat, saves a gallon of blood. " - General George S. Patton (1885-1945) "Don't let it end like this. Tell them I said something. " - last words of Pancho Villa (1877-1923) "The difference between fiction and reality? Fiction has to make sense. " - Tom Clancy "Half this game is ninety percent mental. " - Yogi Berra "There's many a bestseller that could have been prevented by a good teacher. " - Flannery O'Connor (1925-1964) "I choose a block of marble and chop off whatever I don't need. " - Francois-Auguste Rodin (1840-1917), when asked how he managed to make his remarkable statues "The truth is more important than the facts. " - Frank Lloyd Wright (1868-1959) "Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing. " - Wernher Von Braun (1912-1977) "There are only two tragedies in life: one is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it. " - Oscar Wilde (1854-1900) "There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle. " - Albert Einstein (1879-1955) "Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted. " - Albert Einstein (1879-1955) "Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former. " - Albert Einstein (1879-1955) "A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on. " - Sir Winston Churchill (1874-1965) "The full use of your powers along lines of excellence. " - definition of "happiness" by John F. Kennedy (1917-1963) "Give me a museum and I'll fill it. " - Pablo Picasso (1881-1973) "In theory, there is no difference between theory and practice. But, in practice, there is. " - Jan L.A. van de Snepscheut "Each problem that I solved became a rule which served afterwards to solve other problems. " - Rene Descartes (1596-1650), "Discours de la Methode" "I don't know why we are here, but I'm pretty sure that it is not in order to enjoy ourselves." - Ludwig Wittgenstein (1889-1951) "The use of COBOL cripples the mind; its teaching should, therefore, be regarded as a criminal offense." - Edsgar Dijkstra "C makes it easy to shoot yourself in the foot; C++ makes it harder, but when you do, it blows away your whole leg" - Bjarne Stroustrup "A mathematician is a device for turning coffee into thereoms." - Paul Erdos "Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way around the laws." "Whenever I climb I am followed by a dog called 'Ego'." - Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900) "Talent does what it can; genius does what it must." - unknown "The difference between 'involvement' and 'commitment' is like an eggs-and-ham breakfast: the chicken was 'involved' - the pig was 'committed'." - unknown "All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident." - Arthur Schopenhauer (1788-1860) "Some scientists claim that hydrogen, because it is so plentyful, is the basic building block of the universe. I dispute that. I say there is more stupidity than hydrogen, and that is the basic building block of the universe." - Frank Zappa "There are people in the world so hungry, that God cannot appear to them except in the form of bread." - Mahatma Gandhi (1869-1948) "The instinct of nearly all societies is to lock up anybody who is truly free. First, society begins by trying to beat you up. If this fails, they try to poison you. If this fails too, the finish by loading honors on your head." - Jean Cocteau (1889-1963) "Most people would sooner die than think; in fact, they do so. " - Bertrand Russell (1872-1970) "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 (470-399 B.C.) "Egotist: a person more interested in himself than in me. " - Ambrose Bierce (1842-1914) "A narcissist is someone better looking than you are. " - Gore Vidal "Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing left to add, but when there is nothing left to take away. " - Antoine de St. Exupery "Wise men make proverbs, but fools repeat them. " - Samuel Palmer (1805-80) "It has become appallingly obvious that our technology has exceeded our humanity. " - Albert Einstein (1879-1955) "The secret of success is to know something nobody else knows. " - Aristotle Onassis (1906-1975) "When you have to kill a man, it costs nothing to be polite. " - Sir Winston Churchill (1874-1965) "Any man who is under 30, and is not a liberal, has not heart; and any man who is over 30, and is not a conservative, has no brains. " - Sir Winston Churchill (1874-1965) "The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. The opposite of a profound truth may well be another profound truth. " - Niels Bohr (1885-1962) "When I am working on a problem I never think about beauty. I only think about how to solve the problem. But when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong. " - Buckminster Fuller (1895-1983) "In science one tries to tell people, in such a way as to be understood by everyone, something that no one ever knew before. But in poetry, it's the exact opposite. " - Paul Dirac (1902-1984) "Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one. " - Albert Einstein (1879-1955) "One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is terribly important. " - Bertrand Russell (1872-1970) "Three o'clock is always too late or too early for anything you want to do. " - Jean-Paul Sartre (1905-1980) "A doctor can bury his mistakes but an architect can only advise his clients to plant vines. " - Frank Lloyd Wright (1868-1959) "Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names. " - John F. Kennedy (1917-1963) "No one can earn a million dollars honestly. " - William Jennings Bryan (1860-1925) "Everything has been figured out, except how to live. " - Jean-Paul Sartre (1905-1980) "Thank you for sending me a copy of your book - I'll waste no time reading it. " - Moses Hadas (1900-1966) "When ideas fail, words come in very handy. " - Goethe (1749-1832) "The nice thing about egotists is that they don't talk about other people. " - Lucille S. Harper "I love Mickey Mouse more than any woman I have ever known. " - Walt Disney (1901-1966) "Behind every great fortune there is a crime. " - Honore de Balzac (1799-1850) "If women didn't exist, all the money in the world would have no meaning. " - Aristotle Onassis (1906-1975) "No Sane man will dance. " - Cicero (106-43 B.C.) "If I were two-faced, would I be wearing this one?" - Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865) "Few things are harder to put up with than a good example. " - Mark Twain (1835-1910) "It is time I stepped aside for a less experienced and less able man. " - Professor Scott Elledge on his retirement from Cornell "Every day I get up and look through the Forbes list of the richest people in America. If I'm not there, I go to work. " - Robert Orben "Attention to health is life greatest hindrance. " - Plato (427-347 B.C.) "Plato was a bore. " - Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900) "Nietzsche was stupid and abnormal. " - Leo Tolstoy (1828-1910) "I'm not going to get into the ring with Tolstoy. " - Ernest Hemingway (1899-1961) "Hemingway was a jerk. " - Harold Robbins "Not only is there no God, but try finding a plumber on Sunday. " - Woody Allen (1935-) "I don't feel good. " - The last words of Luther Burbank (1849-1926) "In America, anybody can be president. That's one of the risks you take. " - Adlai Stevenson (1900-1965) "Copy from one, it's plagiarism; copy from two, it's research. " - Wilson Mizner (1876-1933) "It is better to be quotable than to be honest. " - Tom Stoppard "Never mistake motion for action. " - Ernest Hemingway (1899-1961) "The average person thinks he isn't. " - Father Larry Lorenzoni "Ask her to wait a moment - I am almost done. " - Carl Friedrich Gauss (1777-1855), while working, when informed that his wife is dying "A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty. " - Sir Winston Churchill (1874-1965) "I think there is a world market for maybe five computers. " - Thomas Watson (1874-1956), Chairman of IBM, 1943 "I think it would be a good idea. " - Mahatma Gandhi (1869-1948), when asked what he thought of Western civilization - . �The only reason we live is for happiness, don�t waste the time that you were given with being sad� - Notorious_Tiz, Yahoo chat buddies �Reality is fun if you look at it in a humorous way� - Foxdraw, Yahoo chat buddies �If I died and could come back as anything, I wish I could come back as one of your tears, because what man wouldn't want to be conceived in your heart, born in your eyes, live on your cheek, and die on your lips"**** Who knows � Don�t ever under estimate the power of stupid people in large groups� Hosted by www.Geocities.ws