Quotes, December 1999
01. Convent: A place of retirement for women who wish for leisure to meditate upon the sin of idleness.
- Ambrose Bierce
02. Heresy is only another word for freedom of thought.
- Graham Greene
03. Good advice is something a man gives when he is too old to set a bad example.
- La Rochefoucauld
04. The old believe everything, the middle-aged suspect everything and the young know everything.
- Oscar Wilde
05. Be thankful for problems. If they were less difficult, someone with less ability might have your job.
- Unknown
06. A cucumber should be well sliced, and dressed with pepper and vinegar, and then thrown out, as good for nothing.
- Samuel Johnson
07. The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his.
- General George Patton
08. I know you, you know me
One thing I can tell you is
You've got to be free
- John Lennon in the song "Come together"
09. I'm completely in favor of the separation of Church and State. My idea is that these two institutions screw us up enough on their own, so both of them together is certain death.
- George Carlin, American stand-up comedian
10. The whole country is one vast insane asylum and they're letting the worst patients run the place.
- Robert Welch
11. "If you can read this, the bitch fell off"
- Back of a motorcycle jacket
12. You see things; and you say "Why?" But I dream things that never were; and I say "Why not?"
- George Bernard Shaw
13. There's only one basic human right, the right to do as you damn well please. And with it comes the only basic human duty, the duty to take the consequences.
- P.J. O'Rourke
14. When men yield up the privilege of thinking, the last shadow of liberty quits the horizon.
- Thomas Paine
15. If you want creative workers, give them enough time to play.
- John Cleese
16. I will call no being good, who is not what I mean when I apply that epithet to my fellow-creatures; and if such a being can sentence me to hell for not so calling him, to hell I will go.
- John Stuart Mill, English philosopher
17. Large increases in cost with questionable increases in performance can be tolerated only in race horses and women.
- Lord Kelvin
18. What does an agnostic, dyslexic insomniac do?
Lies awake all night wondering if there really is a dog.
- Unknown
19. Boy, n.: A noise with dirt on it.
- Unknown
20. Before you criticize someone, walk a mile in their shoes. That way you're a mile away and you have their shoes, too.
- Unknown
21. Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
- Werner von Braun
22. An informal survey shows that what most people want for Christmas is two more weeks to prepare for it.
- Bob Stanley
23. The ultimate result of shielding men from the results of folly is to fill the world with fools.
- Unknown
24. Religious bondage shackles and debilitates the mind and unfits it for every noble enterprise.
- James Madison, 4th U.S. President
25. The day will come when the mystical generation of Jesus, by the Supreme Being of His Father, in the womb of a virgin will be classed with the fable of the generation of Minerva in the brain of Jupiter.
- Thomas Jefferson
26. Fairy tales: Horror stories for children to get them used to reality.
- Unknown
27. Work is the curse of the drinking classes.
- Oscar Wilde
28. An ignorant person is one who doesn't know what you have just found out.
- Will Rogers
29. Egotism is the anesthetic given by a kindly nature to relieve the pain of being a damned fool.
- Bellamy Brooks
30. The early bird catches the worm, this is true. But the early worm gets eaten…
- Unknown
31. Grattez le Russe, vous trouverez le tartare
[Scrub the Russian and you will find the Tartar]
- Napoleon
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