Quotings
A note about the quotes. I may or may not like the person I am quoting, but the quote, to me, is either intrinsically true or humorous. I put the authors names because it is proper and I do my level best to not plagiarise.
I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I needed to be.
- Douglas Adams
I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I needed to be.
- Douglas Adams
A book of quotations . . . can never be complete.
- Robert M. Hamilton
The most overlooked advantage to owning a computer is that if they foul up there's no law against wacking them around a little.
- Joe Martin
Programming today is a race between software engineers striving to build bigger and better idiot-proof programs, and the Universe trying to produce bigger and better idiots. So far, the Universe is winning.
- Rick Cook
We don't know a millionth of one percent about anything.
- Thomas A. Edison
The three great essentials to achieve anything worthwhile are, first, hard work; second, stick-to-itiveness; third, common sense.
- Thomas A. Edison
“Never miss a chance to shut up”
- Will Rogers
Don't let yesterday use up too much of today.
- Will Rogers
When we remember we are all mad, the mysteries disappear and life stands explained.
- Mark Twain
It is better to keep your mouth shut and be thought a fool than to open it and remove all doubt.
- Mark Twain
I can remember when the air was clean and sex was dirty.
- George Burns
If your parents never had children, chances are you won't, either.
- Dick Cavett
Did your parents have any children that lived?
- Gunnery Sergeant Hartman
Each morning when I open my eyes I say to myself: I, not events, have the power to make me happy or unhappy today. I can choose which it shall be. Yesterday is dead, tomorrow hasn't arrived yet. I have just one day, today, and I'm going to be happy in it.
- Groucho Marx
Nature is trying very hard to make us succeed, but nature does not depend on us. We are not the only experiment.
- R. Buckminster Fuller
There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval.
- George Santayana
Strange as it seems, no amount of learning can cure stupidity, and higher education positively fortifies it.
-Unknown
If you can't dazzle them with brilliance then baffle them with bullshit
- W C Fields
You must learn from the mistakes of others. You can't possibly live long enough to make them all yourself.
- Sam Levenson
Genius may have its limitations, but stupidity is not thus handicapped.
- Elbert Hubbard
Never be afraid to laugh at yourself, after all, you could be missing out on the joke of the century.
- Dame Edna Everage
The only reason some people get lost in thought is because it's unfamiliar territory.
- Paul Fix
Not a shred of evidence exists in favor of the idea that life is serious.
- Brendan Gill
The end of the human race will be that it will eventually die of civilization.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
America is another name for opportunity. Our whole history appears like a last effort of divine providence on behalf of the human race.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The gods too are fond of a joke.
- Aristotle
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
Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body.
- Sir Richard Steele
To have a right to do a thing is not at all the same as to be right in doing it.
- GK Chesterton
Believe those who are seeking the truth. Doubt those who find it.
- Andre Gide
If you make people think they're thinking, they'll love you; But if you really make them think, they'll hate you.
- Don Marquis
To put the world right in order, we must first put the nation in order; to put the nation in order, we must first put the family in order; to put the family in order, we must first cultivate our personal life; we must first set our hearts right.
- Confucius:
Every man is wise when attacked by a mad dog; fewer when pursued by a mad woman; only the wisest survive when attacked by a mad notion.
- Robertson Davies
Talking with you is sort of the conversational equivalent of an out of body experience.
- Bill Watterson
Anger is the feeling that makes your mouth work faster than your mind.
- Evan Esar
If history repeats itself, and the unexpected always happens, how incapable must Man be of learning from experience.
- George Bernard Shaw
It is good to be without vices, but it is not good to be without temptations.
- Walter Bagehot
Read over your compositions, and wherever you meet with a passage which you think is particularly fine, strike it out.
- Samuel Johnson
Until you've lost your reputation, you never realize what a burden it was.
- Margaret Mitchell
A wise man gets more use from his enemies than a fool from his friends.
- Baltasar Gracian
Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.
- Arthur C. Clarke
No one really listens to anyone else, and if you try it for a while you'll see why.
- Mignon McLaughlin
The nice thing about egotists is that they don't talk about other people.
- Lucille S. Harper
The crux... is that the vast majority of the mass of the universe seems to be missing.
- William J. Br
- Robert M. Hamilton
The most overlooked advantage to owning a computer is that if they foul up there's no law against wacking them around a little.
- Joe Martin
Programming today is a race between software engineers striving to build bigger and better idiot-proof programs, and the Universe trying to produce bigger and better idiots. So far, the Universe is winning.
- Rick Cook
We don't know a millionth of one percent about anything.
- Thomas A. Edison
The three great essentials to achieve anything worthwhile are, first, hard work; second, stick-to-itiveness; third, common sense.
- Thomas A. Edison
“Never miss a chance to shut up”
- Will Rogers
Don't let yesterday use up too much of today.
- Will Rogers
When we remember we are all mad, the mysteries disappear and life stands explained.
- Mark Twain
It is better to keep your mouth shut and be thought a fool than to open it and remove all doubt.
- Mark Twain
I can remember when the air was clean and sex was dirty.
- George Burns
If your parents never had children, chances are you won't, either.
- Dick Cavett
Did your parents have any children that lived?
- Gunnery Sergeant Hartman
Each morning when I open my eyes I say to myself: I, not events, have the power to make me happy or unhappy today. I can choose which it shall be. Yesterday is dead, tomorrow hasn't arrived yet. I have just one day, today, and I'm going to be happy in it.
- Groucho Marx
Nature is trying very hard to make us succeed, but nature does not depend on us. We are not the only experiment.
- R. Buckminster Fuller
There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval.
- George Santayana
Strange as it seems, no amount of learning can cure stupidity, and higher education positively fortifies it.
-Unknown
If you can't dazzle them with brilliance then baffle them with bullshit
- W C Fields
You must learn from the mistakes of others. You can't possibly live long enough to make them all yourself.
- Sam Levenson
Genius may have its limitations, but stupidity is not thus handicapped.
- Elbert Hubbard
Never be afraid to laugh at yourself, after all, you could be missing out on the joke of the century.
- Dame Edna Everage
The only reason some people get lost in thought is because it's unfamiliar territory.
- Paul Fix
Not a shred of evidence exists in favor of the idea that life is serious.
- Brendan Gill
The end of the human race will be that it will eventually die of civilization.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
America is another name for opportunity. Our whole history appears like a last effort of divine providence on behalf of the human race.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The gods too are fond of a joke.
- Aristotle
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
Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body.
- Sir Richard Steele
To have a right to do a thing is not at all the same as to be right in doing it.
- GK Chesterton
Believe those who are seeking the truth. Doubt those who find it.
- Andre Gide
If you make people think they're thinking, they'll love you; But if you really make them think, they'll hate you.
- Don Marquis
To put the world right in order, we must first put the nation in order; to put the nation in order, we must first put the family in order; to put the family in order, we must first cultivate our personal life; we must first set our hearts right.
- Confucius:
Every man is wise when attacked by a mad dog; fewer when pursued by a mad woman; only the wisest survive when attacked by a mad notion.
- Robertson Davies
Talking with you is sort of the conversational equivalent of an out of body experience.
- Bill Watterson
Anger is the feeling that makes your mouth work faster than your mind.
- Evan Esar
If history repeats itself, and the unexpected always happens, how incapable must Man be of learning from experience.
- George Bernard Shaw
It is good to be without vices, but it is not good to be without temptations.
- Walter Bagehot
Read over your compositions, and wherever you meet with a passage which you think is particularly fine, strike it out.
- Samuel Johnson
Until you've lost your reputation, you never realize what a burden it was.
- Margaret Mitchell
A wise man gets more use from his enemies than a fool from his friends.
- Baltasar Gracian
Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.
- Arthur C. Clarke
No one really listens to anyone else, and if you try it for a while you'll see why.
- Mignon McLaughlin
The nice thing about egotists is that they don't talk about other people.
- Lucille S. Harper
The crux... is that the vast majority of the mass of the universe seems to be missing.
- William J. Br