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| First off I would like to thank all the people whose pages I raided for a lot ofthe quotes here. Without your hard work in searching out these I'd neverhave been able to post them here. Thanks! ;-) |
"If you are not actively involved in what you want, you don't really want it." -- John Roger and Peter McWilliams. "Life is something like a trumpet. If you don't put anything in, you wont get anything out." -- W.C. Handy "The cruelest thing a man can do to a woman is to portray her as perfection."-- D. H. Lawrence "My God, these folks don't know how to love...that's why they love so easily."-- D. H. Lawrence "Glory is fleeting; obscurity is forever" -- Napoleon Bonaparte "We judge ourselves by what we feel capable of doing, while others judge us by what we've already done." -- HenryWadsworth Longfellow "He who steals my purse, steals my money; He who steals my time, steals my life." -- Andrew Fuller "A life is not important except for the impact it has on other lives." -- Jackie Robinson "Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work." -- Thomas Edison "Acquaintance, n. A person whom we know wellenough to borrow from, but not well enough tolend to." -- Ambrose Beirce "Those who lack the courage will always find aphilosophy to justify it." -- Albert Camus "Millions long for immortality who do not know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday afternoon." -- Susan Ertz "The only thing worse than being talked about is not being talked about." -- Oscar Wilde "I can resist everything but temptation. -- Oscar Wilde" "Hope in reality is the worst of all evils, because it prolongs the torments of man." -- Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche "It is not enough to succeed; others must fail." -- Gore Vidal "Where are all the good men dead...in the heart? Or in the head..."-- From the movie Grosse Pointe Blank "Life I embrace you, I will honor and disgrace you, please forgive if I replace you you see I'm going through some pain..." -- Blue Travelers "If you think education is expensive, try ignorance." -Derek Bok "Computers are useless. They can only give you answers." -- Pablo Picasso "If we don't succeed, we run the risk of failure." -- Dan Quayle "Don't take life too seriously; you won't get out of it alive" -- Elbert Hubbard "Age is a very high price to pay for maturity." -- Tom Stoppard "Awards are like hemorrhoids; in the end, every asshole gets one." -- Frederic Raphael "The cure for boredom is curiousity. There is no cure for curiousity"-- Ellen Parr "When you have to make a choice and don't make it, that is in itself a choice." -- William James "God must love the common man; He made so many of them." -- Abe Lincoln "I drink to make other people more interesting." -- George Jean Nathan "Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there." -- Will Rogers "Man will occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of the time he will pick himself up and continue on." -- Winston Churchill "Knowledge that a thing is false is a truth." -- Arthur Schopenauer "You can't shake the Devil's hand, and say you're only kidding." -- They Might Be Giants "I haven't spoken to my wife for 18 months...I don't like to interrupt her." -- Henny Youngman "To be adult is to be alone." -- Jean Rostand "Kill one man and you are a murderer. Kill millions and you are a conqueror. Kill all and you are a God." -- Jean Rostand "He who knows not and knows not that he knows not is a fool. Shun him. He who knows not and knows that he knows not is a child. Teach him. He who knows and knows not that he knows is asleep. Wake him. He who knows and knows that he knows is a wise man. Follow him." -- Arab Proverb
"Who the hell wants to hear actors talk?" -- H.M. Warner, Warner Brothers, 1927 "The abdomen, the chest, and the brain will forever be shut from the intrusion of the wise and humane surgeon." -- Sir John Eric Ericksen, British surgeon, appointed Surgeon-Extraordinary to Queen Victoria, 1873 "Everything that can be invented has been invented." -- Charles M. Duel "We don't like their sound and guitar music is on the way out." -- Decca Recording Co. rejecting the Beatles, 1962 "I think there is a world market for maybe five computers." -- Thomas Watson, chairman of IBM, 1943 "Computers in the future may weigh no more than 1.5 tons." -- Popular Mechanics,1949, forecasting the relentless march of science "but what....is it good for?" -- engineer at the Advanced Computing Systems Division of IBM, 1968, commenting on the microchip "There is no reason anyone would want a computer in their home." --Ken Olson, president, chairman and founder of Digital Equipment Corp, 1977 "640K ought to be enough for anybody." -- Bill Gates, 1981
"I don't suffer from insanity. I enjoy every waking minute of it." -- anon. "Follow your dreams, for no one else will do it for you." -- anon. "Only 2 groups of people fall for flattery; men & women." -- anon. "Subtlety is saying what you want to say & getting out of range before it's understood." -- anon. "Where ever you go, there you are." -- Unknown "The problem with the rat race is when it's over, you're still a rat." -- Unknown "The believer is happy, the doubter is wise." -- Unknown "Courage is the fear of being thought a coward." -- Unknown "If you always do what you've always done, you'll always get what you've always had!" -- Unknown "Quotes are like assholes, everybody's got one and everybody thinks everyone elses' stinks..." -- Unknown (modified from 'Opinions are like assholes...') "A person soon learns how little he knows when a child begins to ask questions." -- Unknown "It's not true that married men live longer than single men. It only seems longer." -- Unknown "A man is incomplete until he is married. After that, he's finished." -- Unknown "...I am in shape...round's a shape isn't it?" -- Unknown "Yield to temptation...it may not come your way again!" -- Unknown "I know that you believe you understand what you think I said, but I'm not sure that you realize what you heard was not what I meant..." -- Unknown (at least to me) "If you worry what people think of you, you'd be surprised how seldom they do." -- Unknown "I plan to live forever or die trying." -- Unknown "Beauty is in the eye of the beer holder..." -- Unknown "There are 3 kinds of people in this world, those who can count and those who can't." -- Unknown "The beatings will continue until morale improves." -- Unknown "Madness takes its toll. Please have exact change." -- Unknown "A conclusion is simply the place where you got tired of thinking." -- Unknown "Don't be so open-minded your brains will fall out." -- Unknown "If one synchronized swimmer drowns, do the rest have to drown too?" -- Unknown "Error, no keyboard, press F1 to continue." -- Unknown "If at first you don't succeed, destroy all evidence you tried." -- Unknown "If you're happy, you're not thinking hard enough." -- Unknown "Do not adjust your mind, there is a fault in reality" -- on a wall many years ago in Oxford. |
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