Some Quotes
"If you believe everything you read, you better not
read." – Japanese Proverb
“Beware of any profession for which you must buy new
clothes” – Henry David Thoreau (my paraphrasing)
“In heaven all the interesting people are missing” - Nietzsche
“If you can't convince them, confuse them” – Harry S. Truman
“Never let your sense of morals get in the way of doing
what's right” – Isaac Asimov
“No one ever went broke underestimating the taste of the
American public” – Henry L. Mencken
"Small minds discuss people, average minds discuss
events, great minds discuss ideas." - Anonymous
"If everything appears to be going well, you don't
know what the hell is going on." – Anonymous
“I think you should defend to the death their right
to march, and then go down and meet them with baseball bats” – Woody Allen on
the KKK
“I don't want to achieve immortality through my work. I
want to achieve it through not dying” – Woody Allen
“Those that can give up essential liberty to obtain a
little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety” – Benjamin Franklin
"Let us be thankful for the fools. But for them the rest of us could not succeed" - Mark Twain
"Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds. - Albert Einstein
"Laziness is nothing more than the habit of resting before you get tired" - Jules Renard
"For every problem, there is a solution that is simple, neat, and wrong" - Henry L. Mencken
"You will have time to rest when you are dead" - Robert DeNiro
"If you hold a cat by the tail you learn things you cannot learn any other way" - Mark Twain
“They always say time changes things, but you actually have
to change them yourself” – Andy Warhol
“Most people don't realize that large pieces of coral,
which have been painted brown and attached to the skull by common wood screws,
can make a child look like a deer” – Jack Handey
"If it doesn't matter who wins or loses, then why do
they keep score?" - Vince Lombardi
"I want to die like my grandfather; peacefully in my
sleep. Not screaming like his passengers." – anonymous
"Somewhere, there is a very fat and very naked hairy man
jumping up and down in the shower singing a country song. Think about that the
next time you ask to be omniscient." – anonymous
"The difference between genius and stupidity is that
genius has its limits." – Albert Einstein
"If you light a man a fire, he will be warm for a day;
if you light a man on fire, he will be warm for the rest of his
life." – anonymous
"Man who say it cannot be done should not interrupt
man doing it." – Chinese proverb
"Thanks to my solid academic training, today I can
write hundreds of words on virtually any topic without possessing a shred of
information, which is how I got a good job in journalism." – Dave
Barry
"A common mistake that people make when trying to
design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of
complete fools." – Douglas Adams
"Television is the first truly democratic culture, the
first culture available to everybody and entirely governed by what the people
want. The most terrifying thing is what people do want." – Clive
Barnes
"He who asks is a fool for five minutes, but he who
does not ask remains a fool forever." – Chinese Proverb
"You can lead a man to Congress, but you can't make
him think." – Milton Berle
"Dad always thought laughter was the best medicine,
which I guess is why several of us died of tuberculosis." - Jack Handey
“I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that
won't work” – Thomas Edison
“The harder you work, the harder it is to surrender” –
Vince Lombardi
“Be careful never to take moderation to excess” – ME!
(probably someone else first)
“I think we consider too much the good luck of the early
bird, and not enough the bad luck of the early worm” - FDR
"Put your hand on a hot stove for a minute, and it seems
like an hour. Sit with a pretty girl for an hour, and it seems like a minute.
That's relativity." - Albert Einstein
"You miss 100% of the shots you never
take." – Wayne Gretzky
"I hate quotations, tell me what you know." –
Ralph Waldo Emerson
And finally... the motto of this page….
“When all is said and done, a lot more is said than done” –
anonymous